Gracchi to Gray-Headed

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

Gracchi, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.89 7 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.

Gracchus, n. (1)

    UGM 4.15 11 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to Pitt...

Grace Bay, Antigua, n. (1)

    EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...

Grace Hill, Antigua, n. (1)

    EWI 11.116 8 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.

grace, n. (107)

    Nat 1.16 2 ...besides this general grace diffused over nature, almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
    Nat 1.24 6 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.50 1 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    DSA 1.151 18 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see their rounding complete grace;...
    LE 1.157 2 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.169 9 ...the pines, bearded with savage moss, yet touched with grace by the violets at their feet;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.194 23 ...the wit of man...his grace...is the grace and presence of God.
    MN 1.194 24 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace and presence of God.
    Tran 1.337 14 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    Tran 1.355 11 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere;...their rectitude is not yet a grace.
    Tran 1.355 24 [Transcendentalists]...find an indemnity in the inviolable order of the world for the violated order and grace of man.
    Tran 1.357 2 This is no time for gaiety and grace.
    Hist 2.7 5 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    Hist 2.14 5 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace;...
    Hist 2.26 2 [Greek] Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children.
    SR 2.51 15 ...have that grace;...
    SL 2.131 11 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...have a grace in the past.
    Lov1 2.172 20 [Love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic.
    Hsm1 2.254 15 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
    OS 2.276 1 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands...action and grace.
    Art1 2.349 2 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
    Art1 2.356 24 When [dancing] has educated the frame...to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Pt1 3.14 7 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Exp 3.69 11 All writing comes by the grace of God...
    Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness and eloquence to him;...
    Mrs1 3.133 14 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. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...
    Mrs1 3.140 16 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover sense, grace and good-will...
    Mrs1 3.145 1 ...these fineries [of fashion] may have grace and wit.
    Mrs1 3.151 15 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She... astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after day radiating, every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her?
    NER 3.271 13 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    UGM 4.10 5 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind,--a form of grace... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    ShP 4.215 25 [The poet] loves virtue, not for its obligation but for its grace...
    GoW 4.272 23 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    ET5 5.97 1 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
    ET8 5.135 18 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth...
    ET12 5.200 8 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    ET13 5.219 15 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.
    ET13 5.223 13 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
    ET13 5.223 15 The Anglican Church is marked...by the manly grace of its clergy.
    ET15 5.262 1 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET17 5.297 26 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry, want of grace and variety...
    F 6.48 19 ...I cannot look without seeing splendor and grace.
    Wth 6.92 7 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Ctr 6.149 15 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Bhr 6.185 19 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...
    Bty 6.279 2 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    Bty 6.281 7 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    Bty 6.286 26 ...not less does nature furnish us with every sign of grace and goodness.
    Bty 6.290 23 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.290 24 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.299 21 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
    Bty 6.305 18 ...the fact is familiar that...a grace of manners...plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Boks 7.215 4 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    OA 7.334 13 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house... and he had the grace of a dancing-master...
    PI 8.1 1 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 8.1 9 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
    PI 8.3 11 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...
    PI 8.31 8 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    PI 8.53 22 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.
    SA 8.79 13 ...grace is more beautiful than beauty.
    SA 8.81 20 Who teaches manners...of grace...
    SA 8.89 8 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity and grace...
    SA 8.102 26 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Elo2 8.133 3 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    QO 8.182 2 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...
    Insp 8.283 2 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only in his constitution, but in his fancy and his facility and grace in writing verse;...
    Dem1 10.23 5 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted... to act with grace or with understanding to great ends...relies on his instincts...
    Aris 10.30 5 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
    Aris 10.62 6 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    PerF 10.80 2 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...the dancer in grace.
    Chr2 10.107 7 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families; grace was said at table;...
    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.
    Schr 10.287 12 [The scholar] shall not submit to degradation, but shall bear these crosses with what grace he can.
    Plu 10.304 12 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    Plu 10.319 18 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship...and has set them down with such candor and grace as to make them good reading to-day.
    LLNE 10.330 18 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    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.
    LLNE 10.351 15 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more. Genius, grace, art, shall abound...
    SlHr 10.443 20 [Samuel Hoar's] head, with singular grace in its lines, had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    HDC 11.40 13 [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. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    ALin 11.328 17 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    Wom 11.409 24 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating life...with properties, order and grace.
    Wom 11.411 11 There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master...but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Wom 11.412 26 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it.
    SHC 11.428 10 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    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.
    CPL 11.498 14 [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. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    FRep 11.537 15 The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment...
    II 12.78 15 ...all writing is by the grace of God;...
    CL 12.153 4 What freedom of grace has the sea with all this might!
    CL 12.154 4 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life, and every sparkle is a fish. What freedom and grace with all this might!
    Bost 12.196 22 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    MAng1 12.222 16 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    MAng1 12.231 6 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    MAng1 12.233 5 Grace in living forms, except in very rare instances, did not satisfy [Michelangelo].
    MAng1 12.233 13 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    MAng1 12.233 19 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
    MAng1 12.242 24 ...[Michelangelo's] was a soul so enamoured of grace that it could not stoop to meanness or depravity;...
    MAng1 12.243 4 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    Milt1 12.254 20 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.279 10 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    Pray 12.352 14 ...I thirst for thy grace and spirit.
    EurB 12.371 18 [Jonson's beauty] is a natural manly grace of a robust workman.
    EurB 12.373 11 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.

Grace, n. (2)

    MN 1.204 16 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    Bhr 6.167 1 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this golden portal/...

graced, v. (1)

    MoL 10.245 19 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...

graceful, adj. (38)

    Nat 1.19 27 Every natural action is graceful.
    DSA 1.149 11 There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    MN 1.200 9 ...in graceful succession...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Comp 2.126 1 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
    SL 2.133 27 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 2.150 5 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
    Fdsp 2.192 26 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Fdsp 2.206 2 [Friendship] is fit for...graceful gifts...
    Fdsp 2.212 2 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland.
    Prd1 2.224 2 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Mrs1 3.126 22 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent...everything graceful is renewed.
    Mrs1 3.136 21 The complement of this graceful self-respect, and that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.
    Pol1 3.217 25 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
    NR 3.227 6 [A person who makes a good public appearance] is a graceful cloak or lay-figure for holidays.
    PPh 4.64 20 [Plato] delighted...in every graceful and useful and truthful performance;...
    ET5 5.79 7 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would have made himself respected;...
    F 6.7 10 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity...
    F 6.32 11 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Wth 6.97 9 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful;...
    Bhr 6.167 3 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal/...
    Bty 6.302 26 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    DL 7.130 10 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    SA 8.82 6 An awkward man is graceful when asleep...
    SA 8.85 12 ...we all wish to be graceful...
    Aris 10.65 22 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles;...
    SovE 10.195 21 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem;...
    EWI 11.134 19 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have no graceful hospitalities to offer...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    TPar 11.284 7 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...
    TPar 11.287 19 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions. Perhaps more tenderness would have been graceful;...
    FRep 11.535 6 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions, which are graceful enough at home...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    CL 12.149 12 The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose countenance is turned on all sides.
    Bost 12.196 24 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    MAng1 12.230 16 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MAng1 12.233 18 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...
    Milt1 12.262 21 ...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather talents than labors.
    Milt1 12.268 22 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    ACri 12.288 13 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    ACri 12.291 15 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...

gracefully, adv. (5)

    MN 1.207 18 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    DL 7.133 17 He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    OA 7.315 7 [Josiah Quincy]...gracefully claiming the privileges of a literary society, entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
    PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion, always gracefully...
    Edc1 10.142 10 Let [the solitary man]...yield as gracefully as he can to his destiny.

graceless, adj. (1)

    SR 2.51 19 Rough and graceless would be such greeting...

graces, n. (17)

    Nat 1.18 10 I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery...
    YA 1.369 14 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
    YA 1.393 15 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop, who, by the magic of title... plucks from him half the graces and rights of a man, is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    SL 2.147 24 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    Pt1 3.41 11 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    ET14 5.251 6 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    Bhr 6.197 25 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
    Elo1 7.94 1 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts, no graces...will make any amends for want of this.
    WD 7.176 15 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all...
    SovE 10.198 11 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    LLNE 10.334 23 ...[Everett's power] was in the graces of manner;...
    SlHr 10.441 17 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric...
    Thor 10.475 3 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.
    TPar 11.292 18 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights, with perverted learning and disgraced graces, rot and are forgotten...
    EPro 11.318 15 ...[Lincoln] has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
    Scot 11.465 21 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    EurB 12.376 1 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...

Graces, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.178 16 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.

gracious, adj. (17)

    LT 1.267 9 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    Con 1.314 19 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    SR 2.48 15 So God has...made [youth, puberty, and manhood] enviable and gracious...
    Exp 3.53 18 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    NER 3.271 26 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    UGM 4.32 16 One gracious fact emerges from these studies,--that there is true ascension in our love.
    Pow 6.57 16 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    SA 8.105 9 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it, makes all its acts and words gracious and interesting.
    Res 8.137 14 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Imtl 8.333 6 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed.
    Prch 10.218 12 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find. The gracious motions of the soul...I do not find.
    EzRy 10.384 19 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. Blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    FRep 11.525 18 The gracious lesson taught by science to this country is that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    ACri 12.302 1 'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...
    Pray 12.351 13 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    PPr 12.388 18 ...[Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.

gracious, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.255 23 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/

graciously, adv. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...

gradated, v. (1)

    ET1 5.6 21 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...

gradation, n. (11)

    Nat 1.38 16 The wise man shows his wisdom...in gradation...
    OS 2.274 18 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...
    PNR 4.87 14 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer... gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    ET4 5.50 1 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races...
    ET13 5.217 12 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    Wsp 6.207 15 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. We think and speak with more temperance and gradation,--but is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    Bty 6.292 27 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Ill 6.325 8 All is system and gradation.
    Aris 10.46 6 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe;...
    Chr2 10.100 3 ...there is degree and gradation throughout Nature;...
    CInt 12.113 11 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

gradations, n. (3)

    DSA 1.148 7 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence...
    Bhr 6.175 2 A keen eye...will see nice gradations of rank...
    Bty 6.293 16 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.

grade, n. (1)

    Bost 12.186 4 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...

graded, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.235 11 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...

graded, v. (2)

    Civ 7.22 4 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    PPr 12.390 19 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe, tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

gradual, adj. (10)

    AmS 1.107 20 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    YA 1.385 16 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by the gradual contempt into which official government falls...
    NER 3.255 3 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    NER 3.260 16 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    Bty 6.292 25 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and angular but by gradual and curving movements.
    CSC 10.376 22 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
    EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the Minister, with such modification as it received in the legislature, proposed gradual emancipation [in the West Indies];...
    FSLC 11.207 18 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery...
    ACiv 11.310 12 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    ACiv 11.311 2 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation; but we think it will always be too late to make it gradual.

gradually, adv. (11)

    Nat 1.77 11 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    LT 1.270 9 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
    PPh 4.47 9 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.
    ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.
    CbW 6.274 19 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Civ 7.20 3 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    PI 8.5 23 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.
    LLNE 10.341 16 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...
    LS 11.15 12 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men, to be extended gradually over the whole world.
    FSLN 11.237 24 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed.
    PLT 12.27 5 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.

graduate, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.96 9 ...[the sturdy countryman] is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bushwhacker;...
    WD 7.169 6 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...

graduated, adj. (2)

    SL 2.137 6 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire...
    MLit 12.333 15 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?

graduated, v. (5)

    NER 3.259 10 Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year...
    Ill 6.313 24 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure...are graduated in refinement to the quality of the dupe.
    Thor 10.451 8 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837...
    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    CPL 11.498 25 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...

graduates, n. (6)

    LE 1.155 11 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    NER 3.260 3 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    ET12 5.213 17 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    Thor 10.458 24 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    ACri 12.291 22 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

graduation, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.130 21 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    PPh 4.61 16 [Plato] omits never this graduation, but slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    SwM 4.132 16 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein, with much pomp and graduation, the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    Dem1 10.13 2 Nature...works...by infinite graduation;...
    MMEm 10.407 21 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...

Gradus ad Parnassum, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus...

graft, n. (1)

    Wth 6.115 25 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way... when he would go out of his gate.

graft, v. (1)

    Pow 6.60 8 Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or whether with clay;...

grafted, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.206 2 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest.
    PerF 10.75 15 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees... loaded with grafted fruit.

grafted, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.214 12 ...[religion] cannot be grafted and keep its wild beauty.
    FRO2 11.489 6 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the teachings.

grafting, v. (2)

    Thor 10.453 5 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as...planting, grafting, surveying or other short work...
    AgMs 12.358 2 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...

grafts, n. (1)

    NR 3.223 3 In thousand far-transplanted grafts/ The parent fruit survives;/...

Graham House, n. (1)

    Thor 10.463 13 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.

Graham, John [Lord Claverh (1)

    Bhr 6.175 11 Claverhouse is a fop...

Grail, Holy, n. (1)

    Cour 7.273 14 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...

grain, n. (28)

    Nat 1.42 15 ...this moral sentiment which...grows in the grain...is caught by man...
    MR 1.256 23 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...
    LT 1.288 18 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that whilst we shed the dust of which we are built, grain by grain...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    YA 1.373 14 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand...
    YA 1.394 4 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    Comp 2.98 12 For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
    Comp 2.98 13 For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
    SL 2.159 17 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see.
    OS 2.296 4 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
    Mrs1 3.122 19 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    NER 3.252 17 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain...
    UGM 4.9 14 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    ET1 5.9 5 Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the sublime was in a grain of dust.
    F 6.6 26 We must see that the world...swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
    F 6.32 4 The water drowns ship and sailor like a grain of dust.
    Bty 6.291 4 ...our taste in building...shows the original grain of the wood...
    Ill 6.314 25 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    Farm 7.135 10 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain/...
    Grts 8.310 4 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...it is too simple to be described, it is but a grain of mustard-seed...
    PerF 10.70 21 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    Supl 10.175 16 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    Supl 10.176 25 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust, as toys and words of the mind;...
    HDC 11.55 18 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
    HDC 11.60 5 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...225 bushels of grain;...
    JBS 11.276 23 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    ChiE 11.470 4 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust...
    PPr 12.384 19 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm...

grains, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.171 27 We nestle in nature, and draw our living as parasites from her roots and grains...
    SwM 4.114 1 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    ShP 4.200 14 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ, in the Rabbinical forms. He picked out the grains of gold.
    Boks 7.221 13 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...
    II 12.66 6 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.

grain's, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.19 13 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.

grammar, adj. (2)

    EzRy 10.381 15 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school...
    ACri 12.288 7 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...though clean contrary to our grammar rules...

Grammar, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.57 4 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...

grammar, n. (18)

    Nat 1.32 13 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    AmS 1.98 13 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar.
    Mrs1 3.151 27 [Lilla] did not study the Persian grammar...
    SwM 4.142 20 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg] a grammar of hieroglyphs...
    SwM 4.143 22 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    MoS 4.166 15 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere.
    Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus...
    Bty 6.304 13 All the facts in nature...make the grammar of the eternal language.
    Civ 7.21 25 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar...
    Elo2 8.128 27 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Edc1 10.146 4 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
    Edc1 10.147 11 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Edc1 10.157 15 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
    Supl 10.163 23 [Those with the superlative temperament] use the superlative of grammar...
    PLT 12.13 13 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    Bost 12.196 8 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Milt1 12.250 18 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his blunders of grammar...to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
    Milt1 12.268 5 ...[Milton] wrote a grammar;...

Grammar School, n. (1)

    Bost 12.195 20 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

grammarian, n. (1)

    Int 2.339 11 How wearisome the grammarian...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.

grammarians, n. (2)

    NMW 4.229 10 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    Schr 10.266 20 ...the Alexandrian grammarians...have not much helped us.

grammar-inflections, n. (1)

    NR 3.231 2 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.

grammar-rules, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.190 5 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior]...

grammars, n. (3)

    ET14 5.237 26 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...without dictionaries, grammars, or indexes...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Edc1 10.153 15 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.

grammar-schools, n. (1)

    SMC 11.357 7 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools.

grammatical, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.310 7 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light. That is not in their grammatical construction which they give me.

Gramont [Grammont], Philibe (1)

    ET11 5.191 8 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.

grampus, n. (1)

    F 6.8 8 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

Gran Duca, Piazza del, Flo (1)

    MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...

Granacci, Francisco, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 15 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

granaries, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 26 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of...her granaries...

granary, n. (2)

    YA 1.374 10 ...we would have a common granary for the poor;...
    Chr1 3.103 10 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted, its granary emptied, still cheers and enriches...

grand, adj. (125)

    Nat 1.5 14 ...in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, [man's operations] do not vary the result.
    Nat 1.11 17 The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
    Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
    DSA 1.121 2 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word...
    DSA 1.148 11 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    LE 1.158 26 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind...the grand events of history...
    MN 1.200 21 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
    MN 1.219 10 Has anything grand and lasting been done?
    MR 1.242 27 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament, when its aim is grand;...
    LT 1.259 9 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable...behind it in silence.
    LT 1.278 21 A patience which is grand;...is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.289 19 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...of the race.
    Tran 1.337 15 ...if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.348 19 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    SR 2.83 23 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    Comp 2.97 16 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    OS 2.279 24 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    Cir 2.309 22 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand...
    Int 2.337 1 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Int 2.337 7 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean;...
    Int 2.346 1 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers]...
    Pt1 3.24 16 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break, grand as the eternity out of which it came...
    Exp 3.67 27 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.
    Chr1 3.101 15 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit.
    Nat2 3.183 7 ...we think we shall be as grand as [natural objects] if we camp out and eat roots;...
    NER 3.264 26 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    PPh 4.74 1 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.
    SwM 4.110 12 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.115 3 God is the grand man.
    SwM 4.118 6 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...a science of such grand presage would absorb all faculties;...
    SwM 4.127 11 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
    SwM 4.128 17 The Eden of God is bare and grand...
    NMW 4.235 25 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.240 8 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    NMW 4.245 17 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
    ET11 5.178 17 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET11 5.189 17 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET14 5.258 26 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET16 5.278 1 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast...
    ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    ET19 5.312 25 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.
    F 6.29 22 As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens c'est qu'ils sont des laches.
    Wth 6.89 26 ...all grand and subtile things...are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.256 10 The agencies by which events so grand as the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are paltry...
    CbW 6.278 3 ...to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.
    CbW 6.278 15 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked. Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    Bty 6.285 25 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they... grand aims...which we demand in man...
    Art2 7.39 27 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...
    Elo1 7.99 12 [Eloquence] may well stand as the exponent of all that is grand and immortal in the mind.
    DL 7.130 10 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    DL 7.131 5 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    Farm 7.144 22 ...the sea is the grand receptacle of all rivers...
    Farm 7.146 17 Whilst these grand energies [of Nature] have wrought for him...[the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    WD 7.160 13 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...
    WD 7.178 18 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify.
    Boks 7.203 5 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Clbs 7.241 15 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    Suc 7.301 23 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    OA 7.321 18 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.34 2 No matter what [your subject] is, grand or gay, national or private, if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    PI 8.38 8 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;...
    PI 8.49 7 ...the elemental forces have their...their own grand strains of harmony...
    PI 8.50 6 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    Elo2 8.117 15 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will...
    QO 8.185 13 Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see the great Perhaps (le grand Peutetre), only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    QO 8.199 25 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
    PC 8.211 15 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand results.
    PC 8.214 10 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of the Indian Vedas...
    PC 8.223 9 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...the grand reactions.
    Insp 8.271 2 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions...to clear and grand conclusions.
    Insp 8.279 12 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
    Grts 8.314 3 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared, Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    Imtl 8.334 22 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which... receives [his discoveries] as private tokens of the grand good will of the Creator.
    Imtl 8.346 10 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...
    Dem1 10.7 14 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
    Dem1 10.20 16 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of...
    Aris 10.35 25 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.59 1 ...to the grand interests, a superficial success is of no account.
    Aris 10.59 20 A grand style of culture...does not exist...
    Chr2 10.115 1 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    SovE 10.198 19 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    Prch 10.236 2 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
    Schr 10.268 13 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives...
    Schr 10.283 15 ...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand No are more musical than all eloquence.
    Schr 10.283 16 ...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand No are more musical than all eloquence.
    Schr 10.286 11 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    Plu 10.314 17 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to his stern delight in heroism;...
    MMEm 10.409 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
    MMEm 10.425 26 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions...
    MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
    Carl 10.494 25 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    EWI 11.143 8 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    EWI 11.146 19 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes...those whose attention should be nailed to the grand objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    FSLN 11.221 6 [Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    FSLN 11.221 21 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them...
    AKan 11.259 17 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.
    JBB 11.266 18 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    EPro 11.316 19 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    SMC 11.351 19 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...having no reference to utilities, but only to the grand instincts of the civil and moral man, mixes with surrounding nature...
    SMC 11.374 13 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge...
    EdAd 11.392 5 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    FRep 11.535 14 What this country longs for is...grand persons...
    PLT 12.12 1 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows a system also,-a system as grand as any other...
    PLT 12.56 18 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular.
    PLT 12.62 25 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...
    CL 12.153 12 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful;...
    CL 12.164 1 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style...
    Bost 12.193 10 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
    Bost 12.197 4 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which is not grand and enlarging...
    MAng1 12.216 4 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.230 2 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.
    MAng1 12.232 4 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.
    MAng1 12.232 27 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    MAng1 12.233 18 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...
    ACri 12.301 26 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
    MLit 12.317 11 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    MLit 12.331 2 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses...or armed with a grand trust.
    MLit 12.333 9 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    EurB 12.369 26 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    PPr 12.382 5 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
    PPr 12.391 19 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.

Grand Duke, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.104 3 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a post under the Grand Duke for Herder...
    MLit 12.325 23 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...

Grand Duke of Weimar [Karl (1)

    Prd1 2.229 9 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.

Grand Dukes, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 9 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Grand Dukes of Tuscany...or whatever great proprietors.

Grand Mind, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.135 13 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives.

Grand, Mr., n. (1)

    SL 2.152 13 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...

grand, n. (2)

    DL 7.121 8 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has...made them...reverers of the grand, the beautiful and the good.
    PI 8.72 21 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.

Grand Turk, n. (1)

    OS 2.291 25 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.

grandame, n. (1)

    UGM 4.24 18 Not the feeblest grandame...but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.

grandames, n. (1)

    SR 2.67 27 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...

grandams, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 25 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...

grandchildren, n. (2)

    Farm 7.141 1 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    EzRy 10.381 7 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving...one hundred and two grandchildren and ninety-six great-grandchildren.

Grand-duke of Weimar [Karl (1)

    Grts 8.317 25 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.

grandee, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 8 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.

grandees, n. (8)

    Int 2.346 7 This band of grandees, Hermes...and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    GoW 4.287 8 ...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;...
    ET11 5.194 20 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    Ctr 6.152 24 The English have a plain taste. The equipages of the grandees are plain.
    Bhr 6.175 6 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Bhr 6.175 10 English grandees affect to be farmers.
    PPo 8.251 8 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees?
    Bost 12.187 19 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.

grander, adj. (18)

    MN 1.195 4 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought.
    Fdsp 2.198 2 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...
    NER 3.275 24 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.
    PPh 4.39 22 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    SwM 4.109 15 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into particles...
    OA 7.325 8 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    PI 8.49 12 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations...
    PI 8.56 21 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry...
    PI 8.56 24 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;...
    Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PC 8.228 15 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
    Insp 8.297 16 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints, which ever become clearer and grander as they are obeyed.
    Grts 8.309 9 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands...adds to him a grander personality...
    LLNE 10.336 16 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws, which were far grander than we knew;...
    MMEm 10.421 22 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    CInt 12.130 18 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments.
    CL 12.164 12 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an instinct that they express a grander law.
    MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.

grandest, adj. (8)

    LE 1.178 12 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    Hist 2.6 20 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
    Pol1 3.221 26 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    SwM 4.124 20 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it...lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind.
    Civ 7.26 6 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions...
    Boks 7.198 4 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus, the grandest of the three tragedians...
    Elo2 8.132 21 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion on the grandest theatre...
    SovE 10.183 17 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

grandeur, n. (71)

    Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
    Nat 1.28 22 ...do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy [with man's life]?
    Nat 1.65 15 Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of [God]?
    AmS 1.99 14 Let the grandeur of justice shine in [the great soul's] affairs.
    AmS 1.106 22 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    DSA 1.136 8 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    LE 1.157 3 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.176 14 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    Hist 2.6 11 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self-reliance.
    SR 2.82 23 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any...
    Comp 2.99 18 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    Comp 2.124 8 ...he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
    Fdsp 2.211 24 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.
    Prd1 2.219 5 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the atoms that cohere./
    OS 2.290 1 ...[the energy of the soul] comes as serenity and grandeur.
    Cir 2.314 27 ...all [the great man's] prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.
    Int 2.346 17 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...
    Art1 2.352 24 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Chr1 3.113 27 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark...
    Mrs1 3.138 8 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall, however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny.
    Mrs1 3.152 19 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...
    Mrs1 3.153 21 [Love] impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.
    Pol1 3.217 23 We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character...
    PNR 4.89 12 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    SwM 4.94 19 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    SwM 4.106 6 The grandeur of the topics makes the grandeur of [Swedenborg's] style.
    SwM 4.106 7 The grandeur of the topics makes the grandeur of [Swedenborg's] style.
    NMW 4.244 16 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET4 5.53 12 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners;...
    ET8 5.136 21 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for, and dies with grandeur.
    ET11 5.181 1 The English go to their estates for grandeur.
    ET11 5.196 12 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    F 6.4 7 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the grandeur of duty...
    F 6.35 2 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down,-with what grandeur of hope...he is fired,-into a selfish...animal?
    Ctr 6.153 9 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
    Wsp 6.230 23 If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
    Wsp 6.230 24 If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
    Bty 6.304 5 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...
    Elo1 7.61 13 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than the grandeur of absolute ideas...
    DL 7.127 22 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    WD 7.160 26 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    Cour 7.251 1 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    PI 8.75 2 The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
    SA 8.90 11 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment... full of grandeur...
    PPo 8.239 10 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their ethical statement.
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which...gave grandeur to the passing hour.
    PerF 10.83 7 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees the grandeur of justice...
    Chr2 10.101 26 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these...elevate by sentiment and by their habitual grandeur of view.
    SovE 10.194 12 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...
    SovE 10.212 19 ...what deeps of grandeur and beauty are known to us in ethical truth...
    SovE 10.213 2 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception...
    MoL 10.252 18 Thought...is the prolific source of all arts, of all wealth, of all delight, of all grandeur.
    MoL 10.257 15 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives...
    LLNE 10.341 24 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...with rare simplicity and grandeur of perception...
    MMEm 10.404 26 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    MMEm 10.421 19 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    HDC 11.59 16 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    FSLC 11.208 3 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design, the vast stake we hold;...all join to demand it.
    Shak1 11.450 21 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons, but he that gave grandeur and prestige to them.
    Shak1 11.451 12 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    FRep 11.539 21 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    FRep 11.539 23 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    PLT 12.15 26 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    CInt 12.114 25 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    CL 12.147 26 ...[the man growing old against his will] may draw a moral from the fact that 't is the old trees that have all the beauty and grandeur.
    CL 12.153 11 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.
    Bost 12.198 14 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    MAng1 12.216 15 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MAng1 12.243 4 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    MLit 12.309 21 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand...
    WSL 12.346 8 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer...

grandeurs, n. (4)

    SL 2.138 20 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again,--not in the low circumstance, but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul.
    Chr1 3.114 21 If we cannot attain at a bound to these grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
    SwM 4.136 26 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    MMEm 10.414 26 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter...

grandfather, n. (4)

    ET6 5.110 17 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    EzRy 10.388 1 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...and an excellent citizen. Your grandfather followed him, and was a virtuous man.
    EzRy 10.394 10 [Ezra Ripley] knew everybody's grandfather...
    JBB 11.267 21 [John Brown's] grandfather...was a captain in the Revolution.

grandfatherly, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.65 18 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures...

grandfathers, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.106 20 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
    FSLN 11.243 15 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...

grandfather's, n. (1)

    JBB 11.268 17 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.

grandiose, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.391 5 This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his imagination.

grand-junctioners, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 16 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...grand-junctioners... etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

grandly, adv. (2)

    OS 2.291 1 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
    PPr 12.387 22 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?

grand-marshal, n. (1)

    LE 1.164 8 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...be a grand-marshal,- and he will not seem to himself depreciated.

grandmother, n. (3)

    SwM 4.109 25 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 27 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    MMEm 10.400 10 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother...

grand-nephew, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 20 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

grandsires, n. (2)

    ET4 5.65 21 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and grandsires.
    DL 7.104 24 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...

grandsons, n. (2)

    SA 8.101 18 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons, and still less surely heroic grandsons;...
    Imtl 8.350 9 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...

granite, adj. (9)

    MN 1.205 9 Confine [the ocean] by granite rocks...and it is filled with expression;...
    Wth 6.83 16 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
    Wth 6.119 21 So is it with granite streets or timber townships as with fruit or flowers.
    Bty 6.281 13 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf?...
    Art2 7.44 19 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    PerF 10.69 2 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...
    MMEm 10.401 19 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
    FSLC 11.192 21 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
    MLit 12.324 27 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

granite, n. (22)

    Nat 1.44 4 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...
    LT 1.289 13 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains...
    LT 1.289 21 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Hist 2.21 5 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
    Comp 2.99 7 Thus [Nature] contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar...
    Cir 2.302 26 You admire this tower of granite...
    Nat2 3.180 12 It is a long way from granite to the oyster;...
    ET16 5.278 13 The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at Stonehenge] are of granite.
    ET16 5.283 13 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...
    F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...
    F 6.22 22 On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite...and on the other part thought...
    F 6.43 23 The granite was reluctant, but [man's] hands were stronger...
    CbW 6.276 24 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water...
    Art2 7.44 11 In sculpture and in architecture the material, as marble or granite, and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.54 13 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    QO 8.201 6 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
    Supl 10.175 10 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one;...
    Schr 10.275 26 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen.
    SMC 11.350 17 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite...
    Bost 12.211 12 ...here let [Boston] stand forever, on the man-bearing granite of the North!

granny, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 22 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... prig, granny, lubber...

grant, n. (3)

    HDC 11.32 5 [The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a township...
    HDC 11.32 14 The grant of the General Court was but a preliminary step.
    HDC 11.48 11 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.

Grant, Ulysses S., n. (1)

    HCom 11.341 23 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.

grant, v. (12)

    MR 1.227 19 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world. Grant all this...
    LT 1.283 18 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel and grant them for a time this privilege of sabbath.
    OS 2.267 12 We grant that human life is mean...
    Exp 3.65 10 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;...
    NER 3.270 22 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    ET3 5.36 17 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    Ill 6.315 13 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly...
    Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    EzRy 10.384 14 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings. The Lord grant it may be a comfort and blessing to my family.
    FSLC 11.210 10 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    Pray 12.351 14 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...

granted, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.45 4 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights...were united by personal affection.

granted, v. (31)

    DSA 1.148 21 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    MR 1.227 6 Let it be granted that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
    Tran 1.331 14 The materialist...believes...that he at least takes nothing for granted...
    Tran 1.355 3 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation. If they granted restitution, it was prudence which granted it.
    Tran 1.355 4 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation. If they granted restitution, it was prudence which granted it.
    Prd1 2.239 25 ...assume a consent [in a dispute] and it shall presently be granted...
    PPh 4.53 17 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of...new mills at Lowell. These things are in course, and may be taken for granted.
    SwM 4.118 26 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
    NMW 4.225 1 God has granted, says the Koran, to every people a prophet in its own tongue.
    F 6.40 6 ...what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
    Wsp 6.236 9 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship or favor. When I come to my own, we shall both know it. Nothing will be to be asked or to be granted.
    Clbs 7.245 18 [A club] requires people...who take a great deal for granted.
    SA 8.91 12 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Elo2 8.128 5 ...[Dr. Charles Chauncy] so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent; and, it appears, his prayer was granted.
    Insp 8.273 18 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    Insp 8.292 24 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul;...
    Imtl 8.340 27 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    Aris 10.56 24 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    Aris 10.57 1 The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view.
    Schr 10.265 26 ...if [the poet's] wild prayers are granted...his achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    Schr 10.266 22 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us. Granted, freely granted.
    Schr 10.266 23 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us. Granted, freely granted.
    LS 11.8 14 ...it should be granted us that, taken alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually thought...
    HDC 11.41 10 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...
    HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.54 2 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    Wom 11.406 9 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    Bost 12.208 9 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city; infinite meanness, scarlet crime. Granted.
    Pray 12.353 4 If there is no hour of solitude granted me, still I will commune with thee [My Father].
    EurB 12.375 21 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...

granting, v. (4)

    MR 1.242 17 ...granting that for ends so sacred and dear some relaxation must be had...
    F 6.47 1 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age, too often cursed with the granting of our prayer...
    FSLC 11.210 13 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    EPro 11.324 22 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...

grants, n. (2)

    HDC 11.43 12 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.62 19 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...

grants, v. (1)

    Mem 12.102 21 The memory is one of the compensations which Nature grants to those who have used their days well;...

granulation, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 17 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.

grape, n. (3)

    Nat 1.16 5 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the grape...
    PPo 8.239 27 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight. The excitement they produce exceeds that of the grape.
    EdAd 11.387 9 ...the grape on two sides of the same fence has new flavors;...

grapes, n. (11)

    Pt1 3.35 23 The figs become grapes whilst [Swedenborg] eats them.
    ET16 5.285 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    Ill 6.309 20 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;--icicle, orange-flower, acanthus, grapes and snowball.
    Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.
    Thor 10.456 25 ...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead...a search for chestnuts or grapes.
    Shak1 11.452 10 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
    CL 12.160 17 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    CL 12.162 4 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks? Where the white grapes?
    Bost 12.192 7 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.
    EurB 12.371 23 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with grapes and plumbs...

grape-shot, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron,-- shells, balls, grape-shot...

grapestone, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 21 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not, if I hold it dear at one grapestone.

graphic, adj. (4)

    ACri 12.292 3 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written, graphic arts and oral arts...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.292 6 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive; Minerva's graphic thread.
    ACri 12.292 12 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

grapples, v. (2)

    PI 8.30 23 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    PPr 12.379 6 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...

grasp, n. (16)

    Nat 1.73 12 These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre;...
    DSA 1.142 26 [Public worship] has lost its grasp on the affection of the good...
    LT 1.287 9 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    SL 2.159 7 There is confession...in salutations, and the grasp of hands.
    PPh 4.57 16 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    ET14 5.233 5 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end, and there is no slipperiness in his grasp.
    Wsp 6.216 16 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities with as strict a grasp as that of the hands on the sword...
    Elo1 7.91 4 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Clbs 7.231 12 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    PI 8.33 10 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought...
    PPo 8.242 15 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem...
    Dem1 10.5 4 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
    SlHr 10.444 24 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession by the grasp of his mind...
    Thor 10.461 26 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    PLT 12.48 19 The grasp is the main thing.
    Milt1 12.266 17 His firm grasp of this truth [of Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.

grasp, v. (13)

    AmS 1.95 10 I grasp the hands of those next me...
    LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
    Fdsp 2.213 12 We may congratulate ourselves that...when we are finished men we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands.
    Prd1 2.229 18 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet, making the hands grasp...
    Mrs1 3.134 3 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...they grasp each other's hand...
    PPh 4.55 16 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
    Suc 7.311 10 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get...
    PPo 8.265 8 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    Imtl 8.344 8 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Dem1 10.20 17 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of and are mad to grasp...
    TPar 11.292 27 ...taking all the duties he could grasp, and more... [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    PLT 12.48 20 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
    CInt 12.119 18 I wish you to be eloquent, to grasp the bolt and to hurl it home to the mark.

grasped, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.193 10 Is it that beauty can never be grasped?...
    Dem1 10.17 13 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception...
    JBB 11.266 13 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...

grasping, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.42 13 ...this grasping inventor [Plato] puts all nations under contribution.
    FRep 11.531 9 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth, grasping, exclusive and narrow...

grasping, v. (6)

    MR 1.254 3 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.
    Prd1 2.232 22 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Pow 6.67 4 [Boniface] was a social, vascular creature, grasping and selfish.
    Pow 6.67 9 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial, grasping his hand.
    Suc 7.289 9 We are great by exclusion, grasping and egotism.
    PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect. 'T is the gnat grasping the world.

grasps, v. (4)

    Hsm1 2.257 2 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Plu 10.300 10 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
    PLT 12.48 27 Webster naturally and always grasps...
    Mem 12.98 11 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go.

grass, n. (52)

    Nat 1.44 2 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also; as the green grass.
    Nat 1.71 2 We are like Nebuchadnezzar...eating grass like an ox.
    AmS 1.85 1 ...ever the grass grows.
    AmS 1.92 20 ...the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass...
    DSA 1.119 2 The grass grows...
    DSA 1.123 15 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    MN 1.206 15 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.
    SR 2.67 4 [Man] is ashamed before the blade of grass...
    Lov1 2.176 21 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Lov1 2.177 10 ...[the lover] accosts the grass and the trees;...
    Fdsp 2.210 17 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
    Hsm1 2.249 12 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels;... insanity that makes him eat grass;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.296 16 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    Int 2.334 3 If you...make hay...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the tasselled grass...
    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    NR 3.235 26 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that they are like grass and trees...
    NER 3.266 2 All the men in the world...cannot make...a blade of grass...
    NER 3.284 24 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we eat grass...
    SwM 4.138 22 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...
    MoS 4.177 7 Fate...grows over us like grass.
    ET5 5.95 17 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
    ET16 5.277 18 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.
    ET16 5.280 15 The grass grows rank and dark in the showery England.
    F 6.17 1 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Wth 6.86 17 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.
    Wth 6.120 18 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed;...
    Wth 6.121 9 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...how to dress, whether to grass or to corn;...
    Bhr 6.167 11 ...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits are found./
    Suc 7.299 4 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
    QO 8.201 2 One leaf, one blade of grass, one meridian, does not resemble another.
    PPo 8.241 18 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass...
    PerF 10.69 3 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks, another who can hear the grass grow...
    PerF 10.86 7 Violets and grass preach [the moral law];...
    Chr2 10.90 5 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    Chr2 10.111 9 Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass;...
    Chr2 10.120 19 The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
    Thor 10.481 9 ...[Thoreau]...never willingly walked in the road, but in the grass, on mountains and in woods.
    HDC 11.29 24 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...mow the grass and reap the corn, shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    FSLC 11.178 11 ...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./
    SMC 11.360 15 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold...
    SHC 11.435 20 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
    SHC 11.436 1 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.
    PLT 12.24 18 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.
    Mem 12.106 14 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs; it grows like grass.
    CL 12.137 20 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    CL 12.144 19 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CL 12.150 4 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills, which have grass on their south and whortleberries on the north; (3) aspens...
    CL 12.163 25 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world, to gravity, the growth of grass, and the angles of crystals.
    MLit 12.320 23 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...we heard the rustle of the wind in the grass...
    Pray 12.354 2 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
    Let 12.401 1 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison, that it will not bear a blade of grass.
    Trag 12.414 19 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

grasses, n. (3)

    MN 1.201 17 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which...festoons the globe with a garland of grasses and vines.
    LT 1.289 23 The granite is curiously concealed...under fertile soils, and grasses, and flowers....
    CL 12.134 4 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./

grasshopper, n. (1)

    FRep 11.520 23 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.

grasshoppers, n. (1)

    LVB 11.94 5 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done by the race of civilized to the race of savage man...

grass-patch, n. (1)

    PI 8.45 16 ...no matter what objects are near [water],--a gray rock, a grass-patch... they become beautiful by being reflected.

grassy, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.302 15 [Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too windy and grassy...

Grassy Brook, Massachusetts (1)

    HDC 11.32 16 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...

grate, n. (1)

    PerF 10.71 3 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.

grateful, adj. (10)

    SA 8.96 14 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence.
    Res 8.153 9 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...
    Grts 8.310 18 How grateful to find in man or woman a new emphasis of their own.
    Imtl 8.323 9 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around...
    SovE 10.206 12 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves; it is very grateful to see those who hold an opinion the reverse of this.
    EzRy 10.379 3 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./
    MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.
    SMC 11.348 23 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
    CPL 11.500 4 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory...
    EurB 12.371 17 ...Jonson's beauty is more grateful than Tennyson's.

gratification, n. (2)

    PPo 8.247 26 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies, and we should be willing to die when our time comes, having had our swing and gratification.
    Imtl 8.336 27 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...

gratifications, n. (4)

    Comp 2.94 23 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
    Chr1 3.111 14 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications...
    CbW 6.257 17 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging...
    Trag 12.415 20 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold. They have gratifications which would be none to the civilized girl.

gratified, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.287 18 I invite you [scholars] not...to the flutter of gratified vanity...

gratified, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.134 25 ...we are not often gratified by this hospitality.
    ET16 5.286 1 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    ET16 5.289 19 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
    Bty 6.303 11 ...the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
    SA 8.101 15 That method [of hereditary nobility]...gratified the ear with preserving historic names...
    CPL 11.499 23 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark...

gratifies, v. (2)

    Nat 1.51 10 ...a portrait of a well-known face gratifies us.
    HDC 11.76 10 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.

gratify, v. (8)

    Tran 1.344 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Comp 2.103 21 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Mrs1 3.148 2 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    Wth 6.88 19 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
    Imtl 8.348 7 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    PerF 10.87 4 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties. But we must not gratify the rogues so deeply.
    EWI 11.117 21 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...

gratifying, adj. (2)

    Grts 8.305 27 'T is gratifying to see this adaptation of man to the world...
    ChiE 11.473 27 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.

gratifying, v. (1)

    GoW 4.278 4 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many and so solid thoughts...

gratis, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.226 15 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts, vera pro gratis;...

gratitude, n. (24)

    Con 1.299 3 Reform has no gratitude...
    SR 2.69 4 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude...
    Hsm1 2.247 9 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Art1 2.364 5 [Sculpture] was originally...a savage's record of gratitude or devotion...
    Gts 3.163 19 ...the expectation of gratitude is mean...
    PPh 4.42 6 ...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect, and reserves all its gratitude for him.
    SwM 4.120 17 A man is in general and in particular an organized... selfishness or gratitude.
    NMW 4.228 16 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    GoW 4.288 10 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar, who loved the world out of gratitude;...
    CbW 6.259 8 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude.
    Boks 7.203 1 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
    Res 8.138 23 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.
    Chr2 10.115 6 Jesus has immense claims on the gratitude of mankind...
    SlHr 10.448 24 ...[Samuel Hoar's] heart was all gentleness, gratitude and bounty.
    LS 11.17 20 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority. It is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ.
    HDC 11.77 2 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...for the esteem and gratitude of the human race.
    HDC 11.83 2 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley] with whom is wisdom, our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    EWI 11.120 18 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.223 10 What gratitude does every man feel to him who speaks well for the right...
    HCom 11.344 26 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you...
    SMC 11.375 10 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].
    PLT 12.8 23 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    II 12.85 7 Is there only one courage, one gratitude, one benevolence?
    Pray 12.354 26 I cannot express my gratitude for what thou hast been and continuest to be to me.

gratuitous, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.75 14 ...scepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless...
    Farm 7.144 10 ...the earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
    WSL 12.339 13 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...

gratuitously, adv. (1)

    ET14 5.245 3 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.

gratulation, n. (1)

    OA 7.332 18 [John Adams said] The time of gratulation and congratulations is nearly over with me;...

gratulor, v. (1)

    PC 8.208 9 Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum/ Gratulor./

grave, adj. (39)

    AmS 1.88 20 Yet hence arises a grave mischief.
    Tran 1.356 11 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect to this institution and that usage;...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Tran 1.357 10 Grave seniors talk to the deaf...
    Hist 2.9 20 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay.
    Hist 2.34 13 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    Nat2 3.171 13 Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Pol1 3.199 24 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population...may be voted in or out;...
    SwM 4.123 5 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings, their merits are so commanding, yet such grave deductions must be made.
    ET10 5.154 3 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET13 5.222 20 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET13 5.228 5 ...this succumbing [to conformity] has grave penalties.
    ET14 5.256 22 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    CbW 6.265 9 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    Art2 7.53 20 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made not for sport but in grave earnest...
    Elo1 7.99 2 All the chief orators of the world have been grave men...
    Elo1 7.100 1 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men...
    DL 7.113 5 ...is there any calamity more grave...than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    Farm 7.140 12 [The farmer] has grave trusts confided to him.
    QO 8.189 12 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    Dem1 10.13 21 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Aris 10.62 11 ...to every gentleman grave and dangerous duties are proposed.
    Aris 10.65 20 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Supl 10.174 11 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    LLNE 10.361 19 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 9 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    EzRy 10.383 21 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    SlHr 10.439 19 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had a grave and almost military air.
    Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect...
    Thor 10.465 24 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    Carl 10.492 2 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat...grave as an ecumenical council...
    Carl 10.495 20 [Carlyle]...will not look grave even at dulness or tragedy.
    HDC 11.45 10 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness.
    HDC 11.66 13 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people. Party and mutual councils were called, but no grave charge was made good against him.
    ALin 11.331 4 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    SMC 11.359 1 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... grave, but social...
    FRep 11.523 23 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    ACri 12.287 14 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!

grave, n. (17)

    MN 1.223 21 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave;...
    SR 2.85 4 ...the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
    Hsm1 2.263 17 ...Let them rave:/ Thou art quiet in thy grave./
    Hsm1 2.263 25 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave...
    NMW 4.224 1 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
    ET1 5.16 3 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    F 6.5 15 On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave/...
    Imtl 8.338 22 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    PerF 10.87 9 If I have not my own respect, I...had better creep into my grave.
    EzRy 10.388 3 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.
    MMEm 10.429 12 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    EWI 11.100 18 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!
    EWI 11.126 21 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market, with an appetite like the grave, cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    War 11.161 25 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.
    AKan 11.260 23 [Dissenters in Carolina] are silent as the grave.
    TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...
    TPar 11.293 2 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...

Grave, Rob Roy's [William (1)

    LLNE 10.323 5 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.

gravel, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.22 3 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.

gravel, n. (3)

    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Thor 10.481 8 ...[Thoreau] could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps, the grit of gravel;...
    MAng1 12.226 10 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.

gravelled, v. (1)

    Int 2.325 16 ...the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

graver, adj. (8)

    NER 3.267 26 ...[our system of education] is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members...
    GoW 4.269 1 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
    ET11 5.195 3 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
    Elo1 7.66 14 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede;...
    DL 7.129 15 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...
    OA 7.324 15 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.
    Let 12.404 1 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

graves, n. (9)

    LT 1.282 1 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...
    Chr1 3.110 20 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead;...
    ShP 4.219 15 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle...nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner;...
    ET10 5.168 22 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    MMEm 10.423 25 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves.
    HDC 11.56 26 The General Court, in 1647, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    FSLN 11.216 7 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    Koss 11.397 23 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...
    Bost 12.195 14 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

gravest, adj. (11)

    YA 1.391 26 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Lov1 2.183 11 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering-tubs.
    Nat2 3.171 20 There are all degrees of natural influence, from these quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination and the soul.
    ET1 5.19 25 Sin is what [Wordsworth] fears,--and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source.
    ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET9 5.150 12 In the gravest treatise on political economy...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    Suc 7.292 12 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country shudder to face a new question...
    SovE 10.199 12 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    Thor 10.462 23 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
    Thor 10.467 18 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence, yet appeared in gravest statement...
    ACri 12.302 3 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

graveyards, n. (2)

    ET2 5.29 16 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    PI 8.10 11 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it,--which is hunting for life in graveyards.

gravid, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 2 The gravid old Universe goes spawning on;...

gravitate, v. (4)

    OS 2.293 14 The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee.
    Cir 2.314 14 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you...
    Chr1 3.112 15 ...[friends] gravitate to each other...
    FRep 11.543 5 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.

gravitates, v. (3)

    SwM 4.125 12 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates...
    Elo2 8.131 15 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    MoL 10.257 2 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.

gravitating, adj. (2)

    MN 1.212 22 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.

gravitation, n. (31)

    DSA 1.151 20 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart;...
    MN 1.212 14 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable. Gravitation and chemistry cannot content them.
    MN 1.216 19 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    SR 2.70 5 Round him [who has more obedience] I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits.
    Comp 2.116 12 The laws and substances of nature,--water, snow, wind, gravitation,--become penalties to the thief.
    PPh 4.51 10 [Unity] is the course or gravitation of mind;...
    SwM 4.109 14 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good...
    SwM 4.109 19 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    SwM 4.110 1 What we call gravitation, and fancy ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
    MoS 4.184 18 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...he could try conclusions with gravitation or chemistry;...
    GoW 4.275 24 [Goethe]...has a certain gravitation towards truth.
    ET14 5.242 16 ...the very announcement of the theory of gravitation...finds a sudden response in the mind...
    F 6.24 11 Let [man] hold his purpose as with the tug of gravitation.
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    Wsp 6.219 10 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    CbW 6.270 3 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that nature and gravitation are quite wrong, and he only is right.
    Ill 6.309 24 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    Elo1 7.65 23 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music drew like the power of gravitation,--drew soldiers and priests...
    Farm 7.138 19 ...you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister [the farmer] is.
    Farm 7.143 16 You cannot...strip off from [an atom] the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
    Clbs 7.240 7 You can shut out the light, it may be, but can you shut out gravitation?
    SA 8.92 7 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other:--they were sure to be drawn together as by gravitation.
    SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    Insp 8.275 21 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    PerF 10.76 9 ...[man] walks and works by the aid of gravitation;...
    SovE 10.207 21 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    FSLN 11.236 27 It is of no use to vote down gravitation of morals.
    EPro 11.323 7 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge gravitation.
    PLT 12.11 5 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus, which comes in as secretly as gravitation into and through all barriers.
    PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...of sluggish animal life; as near gravitation as it can go.
    CL 12.163 21 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man. This is that which is the saliency, or principle of levity, the antagonist of matter and gravitation...

Gravitation, n. (1)

    Farm 7.146 5 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...

gravity, n. (53)

    DSA 1.121 18 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of... gravity...
    MN 1.197 12 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
    MR 1.255 23 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...
    Con 1.316 26 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    YA 1.370 25 To men legislating for the area...somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    Comp 2.96 24 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity;...
    SL 2.154 26 The permanence of all books is fixed...by their own specific gravity...
    Prd1 2.229 16 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity.
    Prd1 2.229 23 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Int 2.325 6 ...the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Chr1 3.95 13 The reason why we feel one man's presence and do not feel another's is as simple as gravity.
    Chr1 3.101 4 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.
    Nat2 3.194 21 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.
    NER 3.284 4 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity...
    SwM 4.104 18 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    ET8 5.128 5 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET8 5.132 12 [Young Englishmen]...run into absurd frolics with the gravity of the Eumenides.
    ET8 5.136 11 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours. They are meditating opposition. This gravity is inseparable from minds of great resources.
    ET14 5.248 17 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
    F 6.7 2 ...fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
    Pow 6.54 25 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...victims of gravity, custom and fear.
    Wth 6.89 20 Fire, steam, lightning, gravity...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Bhr 6.195 11 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner...
    Wsp 6.208 21 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
    Wsp 6.219 7 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Wsp 6.219 23 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity...and so forth.
    CbW 6.266 21 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    Civ 7.27 17 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe;...
    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Art2 7.41 25 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.42 22 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    DL 7.104 15 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladio.
    DL 7.104 24 The small enchanter nothing can withstand,--no seniority of age, no gravity of character;...
    Suc 7.300 3 ...the sand floor is held by spheral gravity...
    PI 8.16 13 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
    PC 8.221 15 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...
    PC 8.222 26 Every law in Nature, as gravity...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    PC 8.224 11 ...the mass is like the atom,-the same chemistry, gravity and conditions.
    PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
    PerF 10.71 22 ...gravity is as adhesive...as on the first day.
    PerF 10.73 12 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...
    PerF 10.73 14 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity.
    PerF 10.78 25 I delight in tracing these wonderful [mental] powers, the electricity and gravity of the human world.
    SovE 10.186 20 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity...
    SovE 10.196 8 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident...
    MoL 10.248 20 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Newton, with his gravity;...
    War 11.152 23 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
    JBS 11.281 11 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery. As well complain of gravity...
    Mem 12.90 8 As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    CInt 12.129 10 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?
    CL 12.163 25 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world, to gravity, the growth of grass, and the angles of crystals.
    PPr 12.387 24 ...the gravity of the times, the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

gray, adj. (26)

    LE 1.163 3 ...in the quiet of these gray fields...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.
    Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...
    Art1 2.360 17 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    MoS 4.167 10 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray days, and autumn and winter weather.
    MoS 4.167 11 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray days, and autumn and winter weather. I am gray and autumnal myself...
    ET2 5.28 18 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    ET16 5.276 10 On the broad downs, under the gray sky, not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    Ctr 6.136 24 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws...
    Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes;...
    Bty 6.299 7 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical; have one eye blue and one gray;...
    Bty 6.306 7 ...character gives...awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    OA 7.316 17 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    PI 8.21 22 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...
    PI 8.45 15 ...no matter what objects are near [water],--a gray rock, a grass-patch... they become beautiful by being reflected.
    PPo 8.236 3 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    Prch 10.234 20 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    Thor 10.469 25 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    HDC 11.76 26 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...
    SMC 11.348 2 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/
    RBur 11.441 13 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.
    ChiE 11.472 1 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation...
    Mem 12.103 20 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.150 12 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
    MLit 12.330 21 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.

Gray, Asa, n. (1)

    CW 12.177 2 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...

gray, n. (2)

    Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies, draped in red and green and blue and gray;...
    SlHr 10.448 7 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./

Gray, Thomas, n. (3)

    PI 8.56 11 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
    Insp 8.287 23 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    Insp 8.295 15 ...read Collins and Gray;...

graybeard, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 26 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.

graybeards, n. (1)

    Hist 2.13 7 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.

gray-headed, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 12 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around...

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