Graze to Great Desert

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

graze, v. (1)

    Exp 3.71 20 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon flocks graze...

grazier, n. (2)

    Cour 7.263 27 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves, nor the grazier by his bull...
    Mem 12.105 22 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.

Greard, Octave, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 19 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...

greasy, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.189 21 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to make the world a greasy hotel...

great, adj. (1248)

    Nat 1.4 7 Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.
    Nat 1.7 11 Seen in the streets of cities, how great [the stars] are!
    Nat 1.11 7 It is necessary to use these pleasures [of nature] with great temperance.
    Nat 1.20 2 We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
    Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.21 9 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.
    Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
    Nat 1.37 20 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Nat 1.40 1 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes...
    Nat 1.43 20 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Nat 1.44 21 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere...
    Nat 1.61 14 [Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
    Nat 1.68 11 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself in every great and small thing...
    Nat 1.76 16 ...your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's]...
    Nat 1.76 19 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    AmS 1.87 11 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past...
    AmS 1.91 27 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...
    AmS 1.92 2 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.
    AmS 1.92 22 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    AmS 1.98 18 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    AmS 1.99 9 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    AmS 1.102 16 Some great decorum...is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...which lies no great way back;...
    AmS 1.105 13 Not he is great who can alter matter...
    AmS 1.105 21 The great man makes the great thing.
    AmS 1.105 27 The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.
    AmS 1.107 2 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    AmS 1.107 5 [The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's light...
    AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
    AmS 1.111 4 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride.
    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.120 9 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.125 15 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great...
    DSA 1.125 22 ...when he chooses...the good and great deed; then, deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    DSA 1.128 12 As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
    DSA 1.131 26 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    DSA 1.132 21 ...a great and rich soul...names the world.
    DSA 1.136 11 This great and perpetual office of the preacher is not discharged.
    DSA 1.141 6 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who, sometimes accepting with too great tenderness the tenet of the elders, have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...
    DSA 1.147 20 There are...persons too great for fame...
    LE 1.156 4 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    LE 1.161 12 I console myself...in the paucity of great men...by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    LE 1.161 25 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...
    LE 1.163 9 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.165 13 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    LE 1.165 22 ...to be simple is to be great.
    LE 1.171 10 ...[French Eclecticism] avows great pretensions.
    LE 1.172 23 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other;...
    LE 1.172 26 ...nothing is great...beside the infinite Reason.
    LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age...
    LE 1.178 19 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution...
    LE 1.179 20 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    LE 1.182 11 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    LE 1.182 25 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit.
    MN 1.192 25 ...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience and pride, nor to that of a great class of such as me.
    MN 1.195 17 Great men do not content us.
    MN 1.196 2 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line...
    MN 1.202 18 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.203 4 ...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    MN 1.203 19 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MN 1.205 19 The great Pan of old...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MN 1.207 4 A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great phenomenon.
    MN 1.207 6 Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at heart in these ages.
    MN 1.208 25 Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MN 1.215 21 Tell me not how great your project is...
    MN 1.220 27 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea...
    MN 1.221 25 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow.
    MN 1.223 7 I praise with wonder this great reality...
    MR 1.235 27 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ... This would be great action...
    MR 1.242 10 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy, their too great fineness...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    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 8 We shall be rich to great purposes; poor only for selfish ones.
    MR 1.245 18 It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to have them at too great a cost.
    MR 1.246 23 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform...
    MR 1.248 12 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all...
    MR 1.250 11 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are, and I see...what one great thought executed might effect.
    MR 1.251 3 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
    MR 1.255 1 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.
    MR 1.255 4 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
    MR 1.255 12 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
    MR 1.256 12 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    LT 1.259 8 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
    LT 1.260 8 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...
    LT 1.265 22 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men of great heart...
    LT 1.266 3 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    LT 1.267 2 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.
    LT 1.267 3 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions!...
    LT 1.267 23 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
    LT 1.268 26 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who... compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    LT 1.269 21 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.275 1 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.275 11 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    LT 1.275 20 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism...
    LT 1.278 15 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    LT 1.282 11 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    LT 1.283 14 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne, if it were great and involuntary;...
    LT 1.283 26 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    LT 1.285 20 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    LT 1.286 3 There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of men as now.
    LT 1.287 6 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.
    LT 1.287 10 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;...
    LT 1.287 24 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them...
    Con 1.296 8 Saturn grew weary of sitting...with none but the great Uranus or Heaven beholding him...
    Con 1.296 16 Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
    Con 1.299 4 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
    Con 1.306 3 ...when this great tendency [conservatism] comes to practical encounters, and is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    Con 1.313 10 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
    Con 1.315 23 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices made...by great and not mean persons;...
    Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
    Tran 1.329 7 The light...falls on a great variety of objects...
    Tran 1.343 4 ...[Transcendentalists] have even more than others a great wish to be loved.
    Tran 1.346 10 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...
    Tran 1.347 7 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    Tran 1.349 2 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    Tran 1.349 3 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    Tran 1.349 11 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    Tran 1.349 19 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
    Tran 1.350 8 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    Tran 1.355 25 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.363 17 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...
    YA 1.364 22 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    YA 1.365 17 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    YA 1.371 1 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.377 25 [Trade] is a new agent in the world, and one of great function;...
    YA 1.380 25 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    YA 1.381 18 [The farmer's condition] seemed a great deal worse, because the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    YA 1.382 27 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
    YA 1.388 21 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
    YA 1.391 7 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    YA 1.391 10 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals, who, like the Roman or the Spartan, lent his own spirit to the State and made it great.
    Hist 2.1 1 There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/...
    Hist 2.4 13 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature...
    Hist 2.4 23 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    Hist 2.5 16 This [identification with history] remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves.
    Hist 2.6 4 Property...covers great spiritual facts...
    Hist 2.6 23 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.6 24 We sympathize...in the great discoveries...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.6 25 We sympathize...in the great resistances, the great prosperities of men; because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.25 15 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys...
    Hist 2.25 16 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have?
    Hist 2.25 21 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    Hist 2.29 15 A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
    Hist 2.34 9 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    SR 2.46 1 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
    SR 2.47 15 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...the connection of events. Great men have always done so...
    SR 2.54 2 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    SR 2.54 10 If you...vote with a great party...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    SR 2.57 19 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    SR 2.58 3 To be great is to be misunderstood.
    SR 2.59 22 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.
    SR 2.60 14 A great man is coming to eat at my house.
    SR 2.60 23 ...there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works;...
    SR 2.63 4 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    SR 2.63 14 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered... the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.67 25 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts...
    SR 2.75 14 Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
    SR 2.83 17 Every great man is a unique.
    SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    SR 2.86 8 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
    SR 2.86 25 The great genius returns to essential man.
    Comp 2.99 20 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    Comp 2.100 20 The true life and satisfactions of man seem...to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances.
    Comp 2.104 19 Men seek to be great;...
    Comp 2.104 20 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Comp 2.106 4 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God...
    Comp 2.111 22 Fear is an instructor of great sagacity...
    Comp 2.112 4 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
    Comp 2.113 17 He is great who confers the most benefits.
    Comp 2.117 24 A great man is always willing to be little.
    Comp 2.121 8 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    Comp 2.123 26 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God. What should they do? It seems a great injustice.
    Comp 2.124 6 If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love;...
    SL 2.131 18 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.133 16 People...take to themselves great airs upon their attainments...
    SL 2.145 3 What your heart thinks great, is great.
    SL 2.145 4 What your heart thinks great, is great.
    SL 2.149 25 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed, and no purchase is too great;...
    SL 2.151 11 Let [the scholar] be great, and love shall follow him.
    SL 2.153 8 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    SL 2.155 7 The great man knew not that he was great.
    SL 2.155 8 The great man knew not that he was great.
    SL 2.160 17 Let us...learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
    SL 2.163 23 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or a great donation...
    SL 2.164 1 Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so.
    SL 2.165 18 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his...
    SL 2.165 27 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    SL 2.166 8 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form...
    Lov1 2.173 26 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
    Fdsp 2.191 1 We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
    Fdsp 2.194 17 My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.
    Fdsp 2.195 14 A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep.
    Fdsp 2.202 1 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Fdsp 2.203 8 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty.
    Fdsp 2.207 21 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Fdsp 2.208 2 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    Fdsp 2.208 26 That high office [friendship] requires great and sublime parts.
    Fdsp 2.209 14 ...friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
    Fdsp 2.209 21 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars...
    Fdsp 2.210 14 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself?
    Fdsp 2.210 19 That great defying eye, that scornful beauty of [your friend' s] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Fdsp 2.211 23 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.
    Fdsp 2.215 2 If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot descend to converse.
    Fdsp 2.215 3 If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot descend to converse.
    Fdsp 2.215 4 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament.
    Prd1 2.223 27 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune, the achievement of a civil or social measure...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Prd1 2.224 1 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune... great personal influence...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Prd1 2.225 6 There revolve...the sun and moon, the great formalists in the sky...
    Prd1 2.226 1 ...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
    Prd1 2.229 11 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.
    Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Prd1 2.233 7 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.
    Prd1 2.237 7 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great...
    Hsm1 2.247 23 We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.
    Hsm1 2.250 23 There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them.
    Hsm1. 2.252 19 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...
    Hsm1. 2.252 25 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense.
    Hsm1 2.253 17 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building...
    Hsm1 2.254 23 A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses;...
    Hsm1 2.255 27 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
    Hsm1 2.257 5 All these great and transcendent properties are ours.
    Hsm1 2.257 9 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    Hsm1 2.258 4 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    Hsm1 2.261 11 We tell our charities...not because we think they have great merit...
    Hsm1 2.261 20 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    OS 2.268 20 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    OS 2.276 21 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    OS 2.281 10 A thrill passes through all men...at the performance of a great action...
    OS 2.287 5 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.288 19 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    OS 2.289 7 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth...
    OS 2.290 20 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
    OS 2.294 7 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    OS 2.294 20 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    OS 2.295 18 Great is the soul, and plain.
    OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
    OS 2.296 18 Behold, [the soul] saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind.
    OS 2.296 20 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul...
    Cir 2.304 14 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep...
    Cir 2.307 21 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech...
    Cir 2.308 7 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday, a great hope...
    Cir 2.308 19 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Cir 2.308 22 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city...
    Cir 2.313 21 Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Cir 2.314 25 The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense;...
    Cir 2.315 4 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...if to a great trust, he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    Cir 2.315 18 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Cir 2.321 11 The great man is not convulsible or tormentable;...
    Cir 2.321 26 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    Cir 2.322 1 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Int 2.328 22 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.332 12 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
    Int 2.333 15 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise. This may hold in the great examples.
    Int 2.333 18 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...of a great equality...
    Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    Int 2.342 23 The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.
    Int 2.343 11 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
    Int 2.346 2 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...
    Art1 2.358 18 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Art1 2.360 26 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Art1 2.362 6 All great actions have been simple...
    Art1 2.362 7 All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
    Art1 2.365 15 A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action.
    Art1 2.368 21 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Pt1 3.5 1 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great...
    Pt1 3.5 22 ...the great majority of men seem to be minors...
    Pt1 3.16 15 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
    Pt1 3.17 22 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.19 6 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    Pt1 3.19 24 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...
    Pt1 3.20 3 ...life is great, and fascinates and absorbs;...
    Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
    Pt1 3.26 23 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
    Pt1 3.28 10 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Pt1 3.28 22 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    Pt1 3.33 2 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective!...
    Pt1 3.41 21 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet]; others shall do the great and resounding actions also.
    Exp 3.47 22 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    Exp 3.49 2 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.61 20 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Exp 3.62 15 The great gifts are not got by analysis.
    Exp 3.68 7 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
    Exp 3.68 18 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    Exp 3.73 26 ...information is given us...that we are very great.
    Exp 3.77 3 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...
    Exp 3.80 3 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Exp 3.83 25 I worship with wonder the great Fortune.
    Exp 3.84 19 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is an august entertainment, and would suffice me a great while.
    Chr1 3.89 11 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    Chr1 3.89 15 The authority of the name of Schiller is too great for his books.
    Chr1 3.90 8 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...
    Chr1 3.99 26 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;--great refreshment for both of us.
    Chr1 3.107 21 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    Chr1 3.108 8 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person...
    Chr1 3.108 18 [Character] needs perspective, as a great building.
    Chr1 3.108 27 ...we are born believers in great men.
    Chr1 3.114 13 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind. This great defeat is hitherto our highest fact.
    Mrs1 3.122 1 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    Mrs1 3.124 19 The rulers of society must be...men of the right Caesarian pattern, who have great range of affinity.
    Mrs1 3.128 6 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...
    Mrs1 3.134 4 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, to identify and signalize each other. It is a great satisfaction.
    Mrs1 3.134 11 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.135 8 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens, which are of eminent convenience, whether the guest is too great or too little.
    Mrs1 3.135 22 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
    Mrs1 3.142 17 ...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Mrs1 3.148 13 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Mrs1 3.148 22 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle, the dialogue is easily great...
    Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    Mrs1 3.152 20 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative: it is great by their allowance;...
    Mrs1 3.154 22 ...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to his side.
    Gts 3.160 21 ...as it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors, so it is always a great satisfaction to supply these first wants.
    Gts 3.160 26 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
    Gts 3.163 21 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.
    Nat2 3.169 12 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave The rounded world is fair to see/...
    Nat2 3.169 12 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave The rounded world is fair to see/...
    Nat2 3.169 12 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    Nat2 3.176 16 The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders.
    Nat2 3.182 17 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.
    Nat2 3.184 19 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
    Nat2 3.187 16 Great causes are never tried on their merits;...
    Nat2 3.192 3 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    Pol1 3.197 6 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    Pol1 3.206 24 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of all the property, not merely of the great estates.
    Pol1 3.209 23 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.214 20 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    NR 3.226 15 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find...
    NR 3.226 16 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find...
    NR 3.227 17 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.
    NR 3.227 18 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.
    NR 3.229 4 If they say [a personal influence] is great, it is great;...
    NR 3.229 11 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no?
    NR 3.229 13 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame?
    NR 3.230 5 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    NR 3.230 20 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...
    NR 3.235 1 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
    NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    NR 3.240 22 We want the great genius only for joy;...
    NR 3.248 25 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.251 7 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
    NER 3.272 21 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    NER 3.274 4 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so...those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    NER 3.276 20 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    NER 3.277 13 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
    NER 3.277 21 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
    NER 3.278 1 We desire to be made great;...
    NER 3.279 7 ...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    NER 3.280 14 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    UGM 4.3 1 It is natural to believe in great men.
    UGM 4.3 20 The search after the great man is the dream of youth...
    UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.
    UGM 4.5 5 [Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
    UGM 4.6 7 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    UGM 4.6 9 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...
    UGM 4.6 21 He is great who is what he is from nature...
    UGM 4.14 2 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution.
    UGM 4.15 18 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal inward force to guide the great machine!
    UGM 4.16 26 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...great power of abstraction...
    UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor;...
    UGM 4.19 19 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...
    UGM 4.20 3 Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.
    UGM 4.20 25 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.
    UGM 4.22 12 Here is great competition of rich and poor.
    UGM 4.22 26 I admire great men of all classes...
    UGM 4.23 17 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing.
    UGM 4.25 9 ...with the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great.
    UGM 4.25 13 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
    UGM 4.26 27 What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies!
    UGM 4.27 4 ...a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.
    UGM 4.27 7 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men...
    UGM 4.30 15 ...great men:--the word is injurious.
    UGM 4.31 14 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
    UGM 4.32 5 The heroes of the hour are relatively great;...
    UGM 4.32 11 Ask the great man if there be none greater.
    UGM 4.32 12 Ask the great man if there be none greater. His companions are; and not the less great but the more that society cannot see them.
    UGM 4.32 14 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.
    UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    PPh 4.39 13 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities.
    PPh 4.40 14 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.41 18 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus live in several bodies...
    PPh 4.41 23 Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
    PPh 4.41 24 What is a great man but one of great affinities...
    PPh 4.41 25 What is a great man but one of great affinities...
    PPh 4.43 11 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
    PPh 4.50 1 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...
    PPh 4.54 11 It is as easy to be great as to be small.
    PPh 4.55 17 Every great artist has been such by synthesis.
    PPh 4.57 8 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    PPh 4.61 4 [Plato] is a great average man;...
    PPh 4.61 8 A great common-sense is [Plato's] warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter.
    PPh 4.67 6 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
    PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was, with his great ears...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    PPh 4.75 21 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great;...
    PPh 4.78 6 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato].
    SwM 4.98 20 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.98 26 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    SwM 4.101 3 [Swedenborg] had great modesty and gentleness of bearing.
    SwM 4.102 15 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries, since he was too great to care to be original;...
    SwM 4.103 27 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas.
    SwM 4.135 8 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence...
    SwM 4.143 1 'T is a great difference [between Swedenborg and Behmen].
    SwM 4.143 7 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
    SwM 4.144 15 [Swedenborg's] great name will turn a sentence.
    SwM 4.146 7 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
    MoS 4.152 25 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    MoS 4.157 26 ...great numbers dislike [the State]...
    MoS 4.159 10 Men...like trees, receive a great part of their nourishment from the air.
    MoS 4.162 9 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...
    MoS 4.163 26 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    MoS 4.178 15 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    MoS 4.179 14 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    MoS 4.181 17 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...
    MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ShP 4.189 1 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.189 22 The Genius of our life...will not have any individual great, except through the general.
    ShP 4.190 2 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.191 10 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    ShP 4.192 7 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    ShP 4.192 22 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.196 16 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    ShP 4.203 23 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];...
    ShP 4.207 23 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ShP 4.209 22 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    NMW 4.227 25 Bonaparte wrought, in common with that great class he represented, for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.231 18 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    NMW 4.231 25 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte].
    NMW 4.237 13 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great, but was of a cold nature.
    NMW 4.238 13 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
    NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    NMW 4.244 8 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    NMW 4.248 9 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    NMW 4.251 16 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value...
    NMW 4.253 24 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
    NMW 4.254 15 To make a great noise is [Napoleon's] favorite design.
    NMW 4.254 16 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.
    NMW 4.254 17 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.
    GoW 4.268 3 ...great action must draw on the spiritual nature.
    GoW 4.273 14 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    GoW 4.274 16 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone, omitting a great deal more than he writes...
    GoW 4.279 4 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants of great ideas...
    GoW 4.282 6 It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it
    GoW 4.287 26 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate...
    GoW 4.288 1 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place.
    GoW 4.290 15 ...the former great men call to us affectionately.
    ET1 5.7 20 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
    ET1 5.8 22 A great man, [Landor] said, should make great sacrifices...
    ET1 5.8 23 A great man, [Landor] said, should make great sacrifices...
    ET1 5.16 8 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    ET1 5.19 8 [Wordsworth] sat down, and talked with great simplicity.
    ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET1 5.24 15 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...and finally parted from me with great kindness and returned across the fields.
    ET2 5.30 4 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET2 5.31 9 A great mind is a good sailor...
    ET2 5.31 10 A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
    ET3 5.37 21 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET3 5.43 14 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets...
    ET4 5.45 26 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    ET4 5.53 26 Only a hardy and wise people could have made this small territory [England] great.
    ET4 5.65 5 The English at the present day have great vigor of body and endurance.
    ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises...
    ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders...are soon worked to death.
    ET5 5.96 4 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET5 5.100 6 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET5 5.100 27 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind...
    ET6 5.114 7 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    ET8 5.129 16 ...[the English] have great range and variety of character.
    ET8 5.134 10 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...great range and many moods...
    ET8 5.136 2 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    ET8 5.136 12 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.
    ET8 5.136 24 [The English] have great range of scale...
    ET8 5.136 26 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power.
    ET9 5.145 12 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET9 5.145 17 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman;...
    ET9 5.146 23 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    ET9 5.147 17 The English have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance...
    ET9 5.149 9 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    ET10 5.158 12 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years.
    ET10 5.165 18 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    ET11 5.176 2 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    ET11 5.176 4 Great estates are not sinecures, if they are to be kept great.
    ET11 5.176 5 Great estates are not sinecures, if they are to be kept great.
    ET11 5.176 25 How came the Duke of Bedford by his great landed estates?
    ET11 5.178 13 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity, than with any great lustre.
    ET11 5.183 2 The great [English] estates are absorbing the small freeholds.
    ET11 5.185 25 You cannot wield great agencies without lending yourself to them...
    ET11 5.187 16 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET11 5.189 16 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great...
    ET11 5.190 24 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
    ET11 5.193 2 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses...
    ET11 5.193 24 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants...
    ET11 5.194 15 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    ET11 5.196 5 The great powers of industrial art have no exclusion of name or blood.
    ET12 5.201 1 ...[Oxford] is, in British story, rich with great names...
    ET12 5.206 16 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.207 13 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    ET12 5.212 8 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET13 5.214 21 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    ET13 5.215 12 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England]...
    ET13 5.220 8 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which...great virtues and talents appear...
    ET13 5.221 6 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    ET13 5.221 10 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
    ET14 5.236 10 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find not only the great masters out of all rivalry and reach, but the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    ET14 5.237 23 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.
    ET14 5.240 17 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.241 7 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius.
    ET14 5.244 2 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives. Shakspeare is supreme in that, as in all the great mental energies.
    ET14 5.245 10 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition...
    ET14 5.253 20 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...
    ET14 5.256 17 Where is great design in modern English poetry?
    ET16 5.274 9 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    ET16 5.274 10 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    ET16 5.287 16 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship,-- though great men be musket-worshippers;...
    ET16 5.288 21 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET16 5.288 24 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET17 5.295 14 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the world for a great capital city.
    ET18 5.307 8 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET19 5.309 21 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    F 6.5 5 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...
    F 6.6 12 The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
    F 6.16 24 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.
    F 6.25 15 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    F 6.28 20 All great force is real and elemental.
    F 6.44 22 ...the great man...is the impressionable man;...
    F 6.46 22 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    Pow 6.54 16 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Pow 6.55 15 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.
    Pow 6.60 23 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.64 15 ...natures with great impulses have great resources...
    Pow 6.64 16 ...natures with great impulses have great resources...
    Pow 6.70 27 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...
    Pow 6.72 5 [The affirmative class] originate and execute all the great feats.
    Pow 6.75 22 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Pow 6.75 23 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Pow 6.76 2 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.
    Pow 6.77 26 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.
    Pow 6.78 5 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
    Wth 6.96 11 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Townleys, Vernons and Peels, in England; or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.98 27 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.102 23 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Wth 6.106 23 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...
    Wth 6.110 3 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.
    Wth 6.110 22 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Wth 6.112 22 ...nothing is great or desirable if it is off from [the direction of your life].
    Wth 6.114 5 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Wth 6.117 16 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Wth 6.121 27 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Ctr 6.133 22 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Ctr 6.139 25 A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ctr 6.142 1 We look that a great man should be a good reader...
    Ctr 6.149 3 ...the want of good conversation [at the Earl of Devon's] was a very great inconvenience...
    Ctr 6.149 6 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Ctr 6.149 12 A great part of our education is sympathetic and social.
    Ctr 6.149 21 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.151 1 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...
    Ctr 6.155 8 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Ctr 6.160 4 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Ctr 6.162 27 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
    Ctr 6.163 7 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
    Bhr 6.174 26 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
    Bhr 6.184 18 ...to youths or maidens who have great objects at heart, we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures...
    Bhr 6.188 8 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    Bhr 6.188 13 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers...
    Bhr 6.191 6 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone, has always very great value.
    Wsp 6.208 4 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    Wsp 6.212 10 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.214 9 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    Wsp 6.216 9 All the great ages have been ages of belief.
    Wsp 6.216 11 ...when great national movements began...the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.231 12 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
    Wsp 6.231 16 A great man cannot be hindered of the effect of his act...
    Wsp 6.234 15 Benedict was always great in the present time.
    Wsp 6.238 6 The great class...suggest what they cannot execute.
    Wsp 6.239 14 ...he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Wsp 6.239 15 [Immortality] is a doctrine too great to rest on any legend...
    Wsp 6.242 4 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty...
    Wsp 6.242 7 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    CbW 6.246 24 We have a debt to every great heart...
    CbW 6.256 14 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
    CbW 6.256 17 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
    CbW 6.258 22 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers...mainly rely on this stuff...
    CbW 6.259 26 ...all great men come out of the middle classes.
    CbW 6.263 12 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...heedless of what is good and great...
    CbW 6.264 18 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things...is animated to great desires and endeavors.
    CbW 6.268 17 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...
    CbW 6.271 21 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then we come out of our egg-shell existence into the great dome...
    CbW 6.272 22 Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
    CbW 6.274 25 ...there is a great deal of good in us that does not know itself...
    CbW 6.277 16 The race is great...but the men whiffling and unsure.
    CbW 6.278 11 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...
    CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    Bty 6.283 19 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Bty 6.283 21 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Bty 6.297 7 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Bty 6.300 12 We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
    Bty 6.300 16 The great orator was an emaciated, insignificant person, but he was all brain.
    Bty 6.301 3 If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.313 4 Great is paint;...
    Ill 6.315 2 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage...some great joys.
    Ill 6.321 6 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.
    Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
    Ill 6.323 14 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    SS 7.5 5 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot...
    SS 7.6 9 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
    SS 7.11 17 ...it is so easy with the great to be great;...
    Civ 7.27 9 Everything good in man leans on what is higher. This rule holds in small as in great.
    Civ 7.30 12 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
    Civ 7.32 21 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue...I see what cubic values America has...
    Civ 7.32 25 ...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
    Art2 7.38 10 Speech is a great pleasure...
    Art2 7.38 11 ...action [is] a great pleasure;...
    Art2 7.40 26 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.43 4 A great deduction is to be made before we can know [a man's] proper contribution to [his work of art].
    Art2 7.44 12 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Art2 7.47 3 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    Art2 7.49 19 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
    Art2 7.49 26 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Art2 7.50 7 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this.
    Art2 7.51 16 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Art2 7.51 20 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Elo1 7.64 6 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    Elo1 7.66 1 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring in the orator a great range of faculty and experience...
    Elo1 7.67 19 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
    Elo1 7.72 23 ...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Elo1 7.84 14 ...a great man is the greatest of occasions.
    Elo1 7.88 1 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality...
    Elo1 7.88 9 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being in all great masters one and the same thing...
    Elo1 7.91 18 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.98 20 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...
    Elo1 7.98 25 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great...
    Elo1 7.99 19 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    Elo1 7.99 21 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they...thought no pains too great which contributed in any manner to further it,--resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm...
    DL 7.108 23 The great facts are the near ones.
    DL 7.112 26 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great.
    DL 7.113 13 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    DL 7.118 26 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
    DL 7.126 16 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
    DL 7.127 15 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    DL 7.127 19 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him, or that he has made great strides.
    DL 7.128 18 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Farm 7.138 20 It is the beauty of the great economy of the world that makes [the farmer's] comeliness.
    Farm 7.140 6 The farmer has a great health...
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has...wood to burn great fires...
    Farm 7.140 13 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...
    Farm 7.142 8 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...the farmer is the minder.
    Farm 7.143 5 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    Farm 7.146 21 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements;...
    Farm 7.147 7 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    Farm 7.147 10 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    Farm 7.152 14 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    Farm 7.152 26 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him unaffected...
    WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
    WD 7.163 24 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...
    WD 7.166 10 Here are great arts and little men.
    WD 7.166 19 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain...you shall not find.
    WD 7.166 20 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain, fed from a great heart, you shall not find.
    WD 7.172 8 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    WD 7.184 10 There are people...who are great in the present;...
    WD 7.185 20 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which...makes us great in all conditions...
    Boks 7.192 16 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.192 23 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...
    Boks 7.194 4 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Boks 7.204 13 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech...
    Boks 7.204 20 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Boks 7.205 26 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.
    Boks 7.209 8 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Boks 7.211 3 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning.
    Boks 7.212 16 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination, the great awakening power, nor the Morals...are addressed.
    Boks 7.213 6 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Boks 7.214 13 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination...
    Boks 7.216 24 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions.
    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...
    Clbs 7.231 22 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding impulse: great was the dazzle, but the gain was small.
    Clbs 7.235 1 All that man can do for man is to be found in that market [of right company]. There are great prizes in this game.
    Clbs 7.237 6 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.242 12 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity...
    Clbs 7.244 6 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities...
    Clbs 7.245 18 [A club] requires people...who take a great deal for granted.
    Clbs 7.250 12 ...[Nature's] great gifts have something serious and stern.
    Cour 7.253 16 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West, who have led the religion of great nations.
    Cour 7.256 26 ...the animals have great advantage of us in precocity.
    Cour 7.259 9 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys...
    Cour 7.261 15 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    Cour 7.267 16 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men...
    Cour 7.271 14 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
    Cour 7.273 10 A great aim aggrandizes the means.
    Cour 7.273 23 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Suc 7.287 24 Newton was a great man, without telegraph, or gas...
    Suc 7.288 10 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit...
    Suc 7.289 9 We are great by exclusion...
    Suc 7.292 10 ...we are tickled by great names;...
    Suc 7.296 2 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great.
    Suc 7.296 6 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
    Suc 7.297 1 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Suc 7.298 9 We bask in the day, and the mind finds somewhat as great as itself.
    Suc 7.300 17 The hues of sunset make life great;...
    Suc 7.301 14 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Suc 7.302 19 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men...
    Suc 7.305 4 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...
    Suc 7.305 6 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
    Suc 7.306 2 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high acquaintances.
    Suc 7.307 4 The plenty of the poorest place is too great...
    Suc 7.307 17 The day is great and final.
    Suc 7.311 25 [The inner life] lives in the great present;...
    Suc 7.311 26 ...[the inner life] makes the present great.
    OA 7.321 1 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    OA 7.326 7 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark and achieve somewhat great and extraordinary, that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    OA 7.327 5 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
    OA 7.333 20 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see him...
    OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    PI 8.5 4 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PI 8.10 25 Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty [of imagination].
    PI 8.12 4 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.13 11 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope...
    PI 8.15 26 The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life...
    PI 8.22 10 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind...
    PI 8.25 27 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis...or Kossuth, or Phillips, what great hearts they have...
    PI 8.28 24 Fancy relates to surface, in which a great part of life lies.
    PI 8.29 9 Fancy...is silent in the presence of great passion and action.
    PI 8.33 18 Great design belongs to a poem...
    PI 8.36 15 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;...
    PI 8.58 10 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./ Great God! how the sea whitens when it comes?/
    PI 8.66 3 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...
    SA 8.83 5 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures;...
    SA 8.92 12 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate.
    SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We... see the great dome arching over us;...
    SA 8.95 23 The great gain is, not to shine...
    SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts of life;...
    SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom...
    Elo2 8.109 2 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Elo2 8.111 12 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded.
    Elo2 8.117 19 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Elo2 8.118 7 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    Elo2 8.118 11 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Elo2 8.119 17 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat...
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Elo2 8.120 6 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Elo2 8.128 20 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
    Elo2 8.126 22 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
    Elo2 8.129 20 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].
    Elo2 8.130 27 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    Elo2 8.131 26 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add the great eras not only of painters but of orators.
    Elo2 8.132 2 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    Elo2 8.132 7 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Elo2 8.132 9 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Elo2 8.132 12 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Res 8.139 3 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power...
    Res 8.139 18 Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature.
    Res 8.146 4 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians] that he was a great medicine-man...
    Res 8.146 4 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him...
    Res 8.151 19 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can;...
    Res 8.152 16 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in great spirits...
    QO 8.178 5 We expect a great man to be a good reader;...
    QO 8.179 26 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    QO 8.183 2 A great man quotes bravely...
    QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.184 18 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.184 19 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.185 13 Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see the great Perhaps... only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    QO 8.191 19 ...there are great ways of borrowing.
    QO 8.196 23 ...it is not rare to find great powers of recitation, without the least original eloquence...
    PC 8.209 12 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].
    PC 8.211 12 Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the present century.
    PC 8.216 11 Probably the men [early geniuses] were so great...that the recognition of them by others was not necessary to them.
    PC 8.216 15 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PC 8.218 1 ...a sentence, has played its part in great events.
    PC 8.218 14 Wit has a great charter.
    PC 8.220 21 ...wherever a true man appears, everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...
    PC 8.220 22 ...[the true man] is the only great event...
    PC 8.226 7 The benefactors we have indicated were exceptional men, and great because exceptional.
    PC 8.226 24 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man;...
    PC 8.227 2 Great men shall not impoverish, but enrich us.
    PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their credit;...
    PC 8.228 22 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers...
    PC 8.228 27 It was the conviction of Plato...that great thoughts come from the heart.
    PC 8.229 3 ...great men are sincere.
    PC 8.229 3 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force...
    PC 8.231 12 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies.
    PC 8.231 15 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PC 8.234 11 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs, with great leisure and few books, are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    PPo 8.247 23 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life, at once tender and bold, with great arteries,-this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.255 4 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...
    Insp 8.271 11 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except by inspiration...
    Insp 8.277 2 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
    Insp 8.279 8 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/ Both serve to make our poverty our pride./
    Insp 8.279 10 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness...
    Insp 8.281 12 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Insp 8.289 22 ...in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
    Insp 8.291 2 These indulgences [in favorite places of retirement] are to be used with great caution.
    Insp 8.297 3 ...great hospitalities, would have been impediments to [scholars].
    Grts 8.308 10 Montluc, the great marshal of France, says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Grts 8.309 12 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
    Grts 8.312 16 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him...
    Grts 8.313 27 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
    Grts 8.315 19 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Grts 8.317 17 ...[morals and intellect]...always beckon to each other, until at last they meet in the man, if he is to be truly great.
    Grts 8.318 13 ...there are always men who...are really great as men...
    Grts 8.318 14 A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
    Grts 8.319 1 [Lincoln's] heart was as great as the world...
    Imtl 8.324 26 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
    Imtl 8.328 14 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom. A great change has occurred.
    Imtl 8.331 1 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Imtl 8.333 27 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence...
    Imtl 8.338 3 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous...
    Imtl 8.338 5 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be...in the great style of his works.
    Imtl 8.338 14 We wish to live for what is great...
    Imtl 8.347 24 A great integrity makes us immortal...
    Imtl 8.351 26 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    Dem1 10.12 26 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it...
    Dem1 10.21 9 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
    Dem1 10.21 23 Great men feel that they are so by sacrificing their selfishness...
    Dem1 10.22 19 We may make great eyes if we like, and say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    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...
    Dem1 10.23 25 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
    Dem1 10.27 10 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away...the great presentiments which haunt us.
    Dem1 10.27 24 [Man] is sure the great Instinct...has not been searched.
    Aris 10.40 24 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...
    Aris 10.50 19 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great satisfaction what a good thing they have done.
    Aris 10.53 10 Like a great general...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    Aris 10.53 11 Like a great general, or a great poet...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    Aris 10.57 26 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Aris 10.61 13 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    Aris 10.61 27 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    Aris 10.64 7 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    PerF 10.77 12 My conviction of principles,-that is great part of my possessions.
    PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power...
    PerF 10.82 3 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater.
    Chr2 10.95 10 The moral element invites man to great enlargements...
    Chr2 10.102 1 Great men serve us as insurrections do in bad governments.
    Chr2 10.113 11 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty...
    Chr2 10.116 12 To their great honor, the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.127 1 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...
    Edc1 10.127 12 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...
    Edc1 10.133 19 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    Edc1 10.135 5 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    Edc1 10.137 4 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see...of what new organ the great Spirit had need when it incarnated this new Will.
    Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
    Edc1 10.142 16 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Edc1 10.142 17 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Edc1 10.148 15 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.
    Edc1 10.150 25 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character?
    Edc1 10.154 14 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God;...
    Edc1 10.154 18 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great.
    Edc1 10.156 14 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    Supl 10.163 3 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform, but one of great necessity...
    Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    Supl 10.170 13 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great man in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
    Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
    Supl 10.171 12 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    Supl 10.171 17 ...rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    Supl 10.171 18 ...rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    Supl 10.175 27 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence, the simple and great characters, are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    Supl 10.176 12 ...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    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, great or minute...as toys and words of the mind;...
    SovE 10.183 6 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    SovE 10.193 16 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.204 11 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man.
    SovE 10.206 14 All ages of belief have been great;...
    SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is great, and gives a great air to the people.
    SovE 10.206 20 We in America are charged with a great deficiency in worship;...
    SovE 10.207 18 ...there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence.
    Prch 10.218 23 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning;...
    Prch 10.225 8 [The moral sentiment] teaches a great peace.
    Prch 10.232 2 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to war and peace...great personages...
    Prch 10.234 26 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...
    Prch 10.235 3 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!
    Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see...the great lines of our destiny...
    Prch 10.238 6 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.245 1 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...
    MoL 10.246 2 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. After some time the question was, to know how many great cattle it would feed.
    MoL 10.253 19 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon...
    MoL 10.255 21 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist...
    MoL 10.256 4 I distrust all the legends of great accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.
    MoL 10.256 7 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    Schr 10.268 11 Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the great opportunity.
    Schr 10.273 20 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the delving in great fields of thought...
    Schr 10.275 1 The great English patriot Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Schr 10.276 2 There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe...
    Schr 10.278 10 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...
    Schr 10.278 14 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...and how little thought operates how great an effect, one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Schr 10.282 8 Truth alone is great.
    Schr 10.283 24 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit]... makes new means for its great ends.
    Schr 10.285 21 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature...
    Schr 10.286 9 [The scholar] must have a great patience...
    Schr 10.287 2 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron...
    Plu 10.291 3 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.293 13 [Plutarch] has been represented...as living long in Rome in great esteem...
    Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    Plu 10.296 6 Saint-Evremond read Plutarch to the great Conde under a tent.
    Plu 10.305 8 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.306 6 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
    Plu 10.308 22 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    Plu 10.312 4 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business and emulating their address in affairs by great accumulation of his own property, learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    Plu 10.315 12 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.
    LLNE 10.331 17 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts...
    LLNE 10.338 10 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton...
    LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.340 26 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation...
    LLNE 10.347 11 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of the Holy Alliance...
    LLNE 10.348 3 Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
    LLNE 10.351 18 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    LLNE 10.354 11 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin.
    LLNE 10.356 2 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    LLNE 10.358 9 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence, as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had done.
    LLNE 10.360 26 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time...
    CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
    CSC 10.374 16 A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    CSC 10.374 17 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    CSC 10.376 1 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    CSC 10.376 16 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    CSC 10.376 27 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    EzRy 10.382 10 [Ezra Ripley] had to encounter great difficulties, but, through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, he entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    EzRy 10.383 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans...
    EzRy 10.390 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    MMEm 10.409 26 ...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 10.414 2 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.421 3 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    MMEm 10.429 2 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    MMEm 10.431 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...
    SlHr 10.439 11 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding, precise and methodical, which gave him great eminence in the legal profession.
    Thor 10.469 20 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great.
    Thor 10.474 7 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...
    Thor 10.478 11 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who...knew the deep value of his mind and great heart.
    Thor 10.478 12 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
    Thor 10.480 15 ...[Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...
    Thor 10.484 25 The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].
    Carl 10.490 23 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging... and, as in companies here (in England) no man is named or introduced, great is the effect and great the inquiry.
    Carl 10.492 1 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...
    Carl 10.492 27 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    Carl 10.493 3 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    Carl 10.493 8 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    Carl 10.494 17 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence for realities...
    Carl 10.496 1 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
    Carl 10.496 23 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
    Carl 10.496 25 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
    GSt 10.499 1 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    GSt 10.503 12 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau,-a department which has since grown to great proportions.
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill...
    LS 11.9 18 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
    HDC 11.28 2 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./
    HDC 11.29 21 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.34 10 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through, to their great disturbance in the night season.
    HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    HDC 11.35 9 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.35 12 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.37 22 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.42 6 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...
    HDC 11.46 26 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...
    HDC 11.51 11 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet, the great Sachem of Concord and Mystic, with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.55 2 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    HDC 11.59 23 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    HDC 11.60 18 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.61 11 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians...
    HDC 11.62 23 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated...
    HDC 11.64 13 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
    HDC 11.66 10 Mr. Bliss heard that great orator [George Whitefield] with delight...
    HDC 11.68 18 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
    HDC 11.75 6 The militia and minute-men...ran...across the great fields, into the east quarter of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.78 8 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great.
    HDC 11.79 22 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord]...
    HDC 11.80 9 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    HDC 11.82 18 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    HDC 11.83 24 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners...
    HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    HDC 11.86 3 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...
    LVB 11.90 9 In common with the great body of the American people, we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    LVB 11.93 22 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    LVB 11.94 18 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.
    LVB 11.96 1 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    LVB 11.96 14 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
    EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    EWI 11.104 24 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true...
    EWI 11.106 15 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    EWI 11.115 21 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches and chapels.
    EWI 11.119 24 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.122 21 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments.
    EWI 11.124 2 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off;...
    EWI 11.129 24 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
    EWI 11.130 19 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too, of great personal worth... working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.136 20 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...
    EWI 11.136 27 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    EWI 11.137 22 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion, or to that great principle which comprehended them all.
    EWI 11.139 10 What great masses of men wish done, will be done;...
    EWI 11.143 9 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    EWI 11.145 4 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    War 11.153 17 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...
    War 11.154 27 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle...
    War 11.156 12 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    War 11.158 20 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils.
    War 11.158 21 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great.
    War 11.158 24 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure.
    War 11.158 26 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's...
    War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
    War 11.161 23 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
    War 11.164 22 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    War 11.164 26 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.171 15 Everything great must be done in the spirit of greatness.
    FSLC 11.179 2 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    FSLC 11.181 7 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    FSLC 11.190 13 ...the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLC 11.196 27 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
    FSLC 11.197 15 Great is the mischief of a legal crime.
    FSLC 11.205 15 The destiny of this country is great and liberal...
    FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    FSLC 11.210 27 ...countries have been great by ideas.
    FSLC 11.211 23 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
    FSLC 11.212 1 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.212 21 We must make a small state great, by making every man in it true.
    FSLN 11.215 5 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.219 11 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
    FSLN 11.219 24 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did...
    FSLN 11.220 3 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    FSLN 11.220 11 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.
    FSLN 11.222 20 [Webster's] power, like that of all great masters...was total.
    FSLN 11.222 22 [Webster] had a great and everywhere equal propriety.
    FSLN 11.223 9 Great is the privilege of eloquence.
    FSLN 11.223 15 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
    FSLN 11.223 21 It is a law of our nature that great thoughts come from the heart.
    FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history when great issues are determined...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.226 4 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.226 27 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    FSLN 11.240 11 All the great cities...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    JBB 11.268 5 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father...
    JBB 11.271 1 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    TPar 11.290 23 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party. It was his great service to freedom.
    TPar 11.291 18 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great ability by several of its leading advocates.
    ACiv 11.307 25 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer. Now, in the name of all that is simple and generous, why should not this great right be done?
    ACiv 11.309 6 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
    EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts of great scope...
    EPro 11.317 12 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.318 4 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.326 16 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness...
    ALin 11.331 26 ...it turned out that [Lincoln] was a great worker;...
    ALin 11.333 27 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    SMC 11.349 8 ...the facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree personal and local here;...
    SMC 11.358 21 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might. Yet it is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed.
    SMC 11.359 22 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...great fertility of resource...
    SMC 11.360 19 These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil] war.
    SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.372 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.
    EdAd 11.385 2 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys. Has it generated, as some great interests do, any intellectual power?
    EdAd 11.385 14 Where is the great breath of the New World...
    EdAd 11.390 16 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    EdAd 11.391 10 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    EdAd 11.391 13 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
    Koss 11.399 1 We [people of Concord] have seen, with great pleasure, that there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
    Koss 11.399 19 ...everything great and excellent in the world is in minorities.
    Wom 11.413 17 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./
    Wom 11.416 7 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar.
    SHC 11.431 7 A grove of trees,-what benefit or ornament is so fair and great?...
    SHC 11.436 10 All great natures delight in stability;...
    SHC 11.436 11 ...all great men find eternity affirmed in the promise of their faculties.
    RBur 11.439 16 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    RBur 11.440 5 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    Shak1 11.451 16 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy...where [Shakespeare's] speech is a Delphi,-the great Nemesis that he is and utters.
    Shak1 11.451 17 What a great heart of equity is [Shakespeare]!
    Shak1 11.452 1 There are periods fruitful of great men;...
    Shak1 11.452 5 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...
    Shak1 11.452 10 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    Humb 11.456 4 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves...
    Humb 11.457 7 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical...
    Humb 11.457 14 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature, great or minute...
    FRO1 11.476 7 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    FRO1 11.477 9 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
    FRO1 11.477 13 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    FRO1 11.477 19 ...I think the necessity [of the Free Religious Association] very great...
    CPL 11.504 4 We expect a great man to be a good reader...
    CPL 11.504 15 The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without his Shakspeare.
    FRep 11.511 21 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works...
    FRep 11.516 8 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history...
    FRep 11.517 19 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection. They have made great strides in that direction since.
    FRep 11.519 16 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
    FRep 11.519 24 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    FRep 11.526 23 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.526 24 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.530 4 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature,-of great rivers and prairies,- yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    FRep 11.530 15 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    FRep 11.530 23 We have...a great deal of lying vanity.
    FRep 11.531 17 In this country...there is, at present, a great sensualism...
    FRep 11.538 20 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.540 4 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    FRep 11.543 20 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.
    FRep 11.543 25 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...
    PLT 12.7 24 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PLT 12.9 6 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped. Great is the dazzle, but the gain is small.
    PLT 12.9 10 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...
    PLT 12.15 4 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it...
    PLT 12.21 15 The life of the All must stream through us to make the man and the moment great.
    PLT 12.25 20 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.34 15 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night.
    PLT 12.45 22 There are men of great apprehension...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
    PLT 12.46 12 To a great genius there must be a great will.
    PLT 12.46 13 To a great genius there must be a great will.
    PLT 12.50 26 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
    PLT 12.52 23 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
    PLT 12.60 18 ...not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.
    PLT 12.61 17 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.
    II 12.65 18 Consciousness is but a taper in the great night;...
    II 12.70 9 Even those we call great men build substructures...
    II 12.72 11 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.72 24 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    II 12.84 10 ...men...always work in society with great loss of power.
    II 12.84 14 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.
    Mem 12.90 15 ...most of all we like a great memory.
    Mem 12.95 16 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.
    Mem 12.99 26 As deep as the thought, so great is the attraction.
    Mem 12.100 6 ...men of great presence of mind...do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...
    Mem 12.102 6 We learn early that there is great disparity of value between our experiences;...
    Mem 12.108 24 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed...
    Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CInt 12.120 17 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
    CInt 12.120 22 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates...
    CInt 12.120 27 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office...
    CInt 12.126 3 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.127 6 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CInt 12.131 15 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    CL 12.135 16 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    CL 12.153 13 [The sea] is great and formidable, when you lie down in it, among the rocks.
    CL 12.153 24 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...
    CL 12.156 9 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.
    CL 12.164 21 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
    CL 12.166 26 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements...
    CW 12.176 5 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes; if they be of great discernment, you will learn wonderful secrets.
    Bost 12.184 27 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.186 15 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.
    Bost 12.187 9 Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.
    Bost 12.187 23 Each great city gathers these values and delights for mankind...
    Bost 12.188 18 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...
    Bost 12.189 27 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along...great troops of well-proportioned people.
    Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men, like great gardens with great banks of flowers, send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    Bost 12.194 27 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    Bost 12.195 7 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.198 23 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme...
    Bost 12.201 10 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    Bost 12.207 26 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    Bost 12.210 21 It is almost a proverb that a great man has not a great son.
    Bost 12.210 22 It is almost a proverb that a great man has not a great son.
    Bost 12.211 13 [Boston] has grown great. She is filled with strangers, but she can only prosper by adhering to her faith.
    MAng1 12.216 22 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of morn and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want observers.
    MAng1 12.217 27 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 4 This great Whole the understanding cannot embrace.
    MAng1 12.218 15 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
    MAng1 12.227 24 [Michelangelo's] diligence was so great that it is wonderful how he endured its fatigues.
    MAng1 12.230 9 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...
    MAng1 12.233 3 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
    MAng1 12.235 8 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.236 20 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
    MAng1 12.238 23 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...
    MAng1 12.244 17 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church; for the great name of Michael Angelo sounds hospitably in his ear.
    Milt1 12.247 18 The fame of a great man is not rigid and stony like his bust.
    Milt1 12.248 16 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    Milt1 12.251 2 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary [Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.
    Milt1 12.253 11 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.
    Milt1 12.253 13 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.254 16 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...
    Milt1 12.255 7 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of...a great man of the vulgar sort.
    Milt1 12.259 25 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    Milt1 12.267 21 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    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.
    Milt1 12.270 19 ...drawn into the great controversies of the times, [Milton] is never lost in a party.
    Milt1 12.273 25 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    Milt1 12.274 5 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    Milt1 12.276 8 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men] were too passive in their great service;...
    ACri 12.287 11 ...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!
    ACri 12.293 18 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    ACri 12.295 10 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.
    ACri 12.299 8 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...
    ACri 12.300 6 The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature, however great and stable, as a fluent symbol...
    ACri 12.302 22 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    ACri 12.303 12 [Writing] brings man into alliance with what is great and eternal.
    MLit 12.312 1 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.312 12 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America.
    MLit 12.314 25 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    MLit 12.320 15 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.
    MLit 12.320 24 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was a great joy.
    MLit 12.321 11 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself. Add to this, however, the great praise of Wordsworth, that more than any other contemporary bard he is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.321 15 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    MLit 12.326 23 ...[Goethe's] thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    MLit 12.327 1 ...the great felicities, the miracles of poetry, [Goethe] has never.
    MLit 12.328 12 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    MLit 12.329 1 All great men have written proudly...
    MLit 12.329 19 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    MLit 12.330 20 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.
    MLit 12.335 8 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
    WSL 12.338 6 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
    WSL 12.338 16 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...
    WSL 12.338 17 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...
    WSL 12.346 7 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    WSL 12.346 15 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...
    WSL 12.349 1 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.
    Pray 12.354 6 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    Pray 12.355 14 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.
    Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    EurB 12.368 19 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show, with great deference to the superior judgment of dukes and earls, that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    EurB 12.368 21 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    EurB 12.369 27 ...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;...
    EurB 12.370 2 ...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; it was a great pleasure to receive them.
    EurB 12.373 20 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked with great energy...
    PPr 12.379 17 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...
    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.381 4 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.
    PPr 12.382 4 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book. Truly in these things is great reward.
    PPr 12.383 1 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...
    PPr 12.383 10 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great...
    PPr 12.384 14 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    PPr 12.387 19 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.
    PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.
    PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits...
    PPr 12.391 2 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.
    Let 12.395 13 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life...
    Let 12.395 17 We do a great many selfish things every day;...
    Let 12.401 19 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great...
    Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.
    Let 12.404 25 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Trag 12.416 14 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.
    Trag 12.416 17 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me...

great, adv. (1)

    DL 7.127 13 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world,--so slow, and lazily, and great, they move.

Great Bear, n. (1)

    Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way,--Charles's Wain, Great Bear...every god will leave us.

Great Britain, n. (33)

    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.36 8 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    ET1 5.4 13 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    ET3 5.35 18 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain.
    ET3 5.42 11 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe...
    ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
    ET4 5.51 14 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain?
    ET4 5.55 9 [The Celts] planted Britain...
    ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET5 5.77 3 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET5 5.96 5 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET9 5.150 17 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.159 17 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET10 5.166 12 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
    ET12 5.205 13 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET14 5.238 13 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain.
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
    ET14 5.253 23 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has imported into Britain the German homologies...
    ET14 5.258 17 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    ET16 5.273 8 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.282 17 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...
    Wth 6.110 4 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    MoL 10.242 23 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    Thor 10.459 26 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    HDC 11.31 2 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists, immediately from Great Britain.
    HDC 11.70 26 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    HDC 11.71 2 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...
    HDC 11.84 20 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    EWI 11.109 23 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.126 25 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Britain.
    Bost 12.197 27 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Milt1 12.270 10 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...

Great Cheyne Row, London, (1)

    ACri 12.299 18 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...

Great Commanders, Apothegms (1)

    Plu 10.322 7 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch].

Great Conde , n. (1)

    Cour 7.255 17 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Great Conde...

Great Desert, n. (1)

    LT 1.262 12 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.

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