Great Mind to Grottoes

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

Great Mind, n. (1)

    Mem 12.110 12 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...

great, n. (52)

    Nat 1.53 26 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    AmS 1.111 8 I ask not for the great...
    AmS 1.115 6 ...with the shades of all the good and great for company;...
    DSA 1.121 8 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...in great, in small..then...God is well pleased.
    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...
    Fdsp 2.213 19 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    Fdsp 2.213 24 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    Fdsp 2.216 20 ...the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited.
    Hsm1 2.243 9 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And head-winds right for royal sails./
    Hsm1 2.251 12 Heroism works...in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good.
    Hsm1 2.256 14 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;...
    Exp 3.64 8 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
    Exp 3.73 11 This vigor is supremely great...
    Mrs1 3.128 3 [Fashion] does not often caress the great, but the children of the great...
    Mrs1 3.128 4 [Fashion] does not often caress the great, but the children of the great...
    Mrs1 3.128 5 [Fashion] usually sets its face against the great of this hour.
    NR 3.238 27 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts himself already the fellow of the great.
    UGM 4.7 10 ...the great are near;...
    UGM 4.25 8 ...with the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great.
    UGM 4.26 16 The great...are saviors from these federal errors...
    UGM 4.29 17 Serve the great.
    MoS 4.179 3 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little...
    ShP 4.213 1 ...the great [Shakespeare] tells greatly;...
    ShP 4.213 19 ...[Shakespeare] could paint...the great with compass...
    ET17 5.293 26 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    Wsp 6.233 23 [The faithful student] learns that adversity is the prosperity of the great.
    SS 7.11 17 ...it is so easy with the great to be great;...
    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...
    DL 7.115 22 The great depend on their heart, not on their purse.
    DL 7.118 13 The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances.
    WD 7.170 5 There are days when the great are near us...
    WD 7.175 23 'T is the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.
    QO 8.203 24 The great deal always with the nearest.
    PC 8.231 23 The great are not tender at being obscure...
    PPo 8.245 12 In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful.
    Aris 10.55 17 The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference.
    Aris 10.60 2 We...see that if the ignorant are around us, the great are much more near;...
    Aris 10.61 22 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
    Prch 10.237 24 The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
    Schr 10.287 21 I invite you [scholars]...to the society of the great...
    EWI 11.138 22 Up to this day...we bow low to [statesmen] as to the great.
    FSLN 11.220 9 I saw plainly that the great show their legitimate power in nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
    JBB 11.269 11 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of...the intelligent, the so-called great...it would all have been right.
    SHC 11.435 13 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...the good, the wise and great will have left their names and virtues on the trees;...
    PLT 12.52 21 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
    Milt1 12.259 16 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...where...he received social and academical honors from the learned and the great.
    MLit 12.314 24 The great always introduce us to facts;...
    MLit 12.315 4 The great never with their own consent become a load on the minds they instruct.
    MLit 12.315 10 The great never hinder us;...
    MLit 12.315 15 The great lead us to Nature...
    MLit 12.326 14 [Goethe] differs from all the great in the total want of frankness.

Great Spirit, n. (2)

    PPh 4.50 14 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...

greatcoat, n. (1)

    HDC 11.38 4 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...

greater, adj. (116)

    Nat 1.19 1 By water-courses, the variety is greater.
    Nat 1.33 5 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...
    Nat 1.39 1 Man is greater that he can see [that the beauty of nature shines in his own breast]...
    AmS 1.108 11 ...waxing greater by all these supplies, we crave a better and more abundant food.
    DSA 1.135 20 ...the need was never greater of new revelation than now.
    DSA 1.142 17 ...there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    DSA 1.143 18 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
    MN 1.193 15 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
    MN 1.209 24 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    MN 1.224 2 Nothing can be greater than [the soul].
    MR 1.256 15 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    MR 1.256 20 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.
    LT 1.285 6 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief;...
    Tran 1.350 25 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
    Tran 1.353 27 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    Tran 1.357 14 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    Tran 1.357 19 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel, when the soul has greater health and prowess.
    YA 1.380 24 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    Hist 2.8 20 [Each man] must...know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world;...
    SR 2.77 3 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SR 2.81 15 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
    SR 2.85 27 No greater men are now than ever were.
    SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SR 2.88 19 ...the greater the concourse...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    Comp 2.122 18 ...the brave man is greater than the coward;...
    Fdsp 2.214 4 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature...though it seem to rob us of some joy, will repay us with a greater.
    Fdsp 2.214 23 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...and the harbinger of a greater friend.
    Prd1 2.240 11 We are...too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
    Hsm1 2.250 27 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
    Cir 2.306 17 ...every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
    Pt1 3.23 25 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...
    Pt1 3.33 25 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it, as it must come from greater depth and scope of thought, is a measure of intellect.
    Gts 3.163 16 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Nat2 3.194 9 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
    Pol1 3.212 10 Lynch-law prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
    NR 3.233 16 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
    NER 3.272 3 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat.
    UGM 4.23 13 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes...
    UGM 4.29 23 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    UGM 4.32 11 Ask the great man if there be none greater.
    UGM 4.35 6 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    SwM 4.129 16 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
    SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    GoW 4.280 25 In France there is even a greater delight in intellectual brilliancy for its own sake.
    ET1 5.7 22 ...[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; and Philip he calls the greater man.
    ET1 5.11 25 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
    ET2 5.27 26 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater;...
    ET5 5.85 25 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET5 5.98 26 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET10 5.154 26 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET16 5.280 6 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers;...
    Pow 6.62 9 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    Wth 6.97 13 They should own who can administer...not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars...
    Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars...
    Bhr 6.188 3 ...the thought of the present moment has a greater value than all the past.
    Bhr 6.194 26 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve. But his feelings toward you have greater truth and strength.
    CbW 6.278 14 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Elo1 7.77 21 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would accomplish anything...
    Elo1 7.77 23 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Elo1 7.81 12 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day...
    DL 7.128 14 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth...
    Farm 7.146 11 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    Boks 7.205 26 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.
    Cour 7.260 7 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs, and dissuading all resistance, as if to make this strength greater.
    Cour 7.260 8 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's?
    Suc 7.294 2 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Suc 7.305 23 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    OA 7.334 21 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem...
    PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    PI 8.50 25 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Elo2 8.131 6 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    PC 8.234 15 I read the promise of better times and of greater men.
    Insp 8.283 20 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    Grts 8.313 2 Where were your own intellect, if greater had not lived?
    Grts 8.314 2 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...
    Imtl 8.348 24 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is rising to greater heights...
    Imtl 8.351 25 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
    Schr 10.266 14 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    Schr 10.279 6 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief and misleading;...
    Schr 10.281 19 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    Schr 10.284 27 These questions [of life] speak to Genius, to that power which is underneath and greater than all talent...
    Plu 10.307 25 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
    Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    LLNE 10.335 15 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is acquiring greater importance every day...
    MMEm 10.407 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] had the misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops.
    HDC 11.40 21 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    HDC 11.42 17 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.62 21 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.68 27 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    EWI 11.119 15 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to withstand.
    FSLC 11.195 17 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.195 19 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    EPro 11.316 10 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.
    FRO1 11.478 13 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm...which makes the romance of history. For that enthusiasm you must have something greater than yourselves, and not less.
    CPL 11.499 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    PLT 12.58 19 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop, and the greater it grows the more is the mischief and the misleading...
    Mem 12.98 24 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report...of no greater wealth of mind.
    CInt 12.114 19 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people, or the greater part, more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.123 19 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading...
    Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    Bost 12.209 7 Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston]...
    MAng1 12.222 27 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    MAng1 12.227 27 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
    MAng1 12.230 10 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.
    Milt1 12.256 27 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes had come down from a greater distance of time...would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    WSL 12.339 4 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    WSL 12.346 16 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age, yet he discriminates his faults with the greater freedom.
    Pray 12.356 15 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind...
    Pray 12.356 16 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.
    PPr 12.381 13 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...
    Trag 12.412 19 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is an equilibrium...

greatest, adj. (103)

    Nat 1.10 21 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.29 13 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.
    Nat 1.33 7 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest...
    LE 1.179 15 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament...
    MN 1.205 12 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.
    MR 1.253 22 Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions.
    LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
    LT 1.278 11 ...the greatest action of man [leaves] no mark in the vast idea.
    LT 1.284 24 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    Con 1.300 10 ...the superior beauty is with...greatest of all, the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
    Prd1 2.230 16 The men we call greatest are least in this kingdom [of prudence].
    OS 2.277 24 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    Int 2.328 4 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...
    Exp 3.60 7 ...to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
    Mrs1 3.146 24 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
    Pol1 3.204 21 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.
    NER 3.277 16 ...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...
    UGM 4.33 8 This is the key to the power of the greatest men,--their spirit diffuses itself.
    PPh 4.70 15 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods are produced to us through mania...
    PNR 4.85 24 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.85 25 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    SwM 4.94 4 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    MoS 4.152 24 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.
    ShP 4.189 11 The greatest genius is the most indebted man.
    ShP 4.194 19 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.198 10 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    NMW 4.230 23 Nature must have far the greatest share in every success, and so in [Bonaparte's].
    NMW 4.249 2 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops, after having made the greatest efforts, feel inclined to run.
    GoW 4.268 6 The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
    ET1 5.8 17 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
    ET4 5.45 16 [The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life... has reached the greatest value.
    ET5 5.100 17 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit out of both.
    ET15 5.265 24 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    Wth 6.87 25 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
    Wth 6.89 9 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Bhr 6.179 12 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    Bhr 6.192 17 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is confidence...
    Wsp 6.234 9 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    CbW 6.257 2 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    CbW 6.260 10 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    CbW 6.273 20 ...we do not provide for the greatest good of life.
    Bty 6.294 24 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Civ 7.29 20 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Civ 7.34 23 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Civ 7.34 24 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Art2 7.46 7 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    Elo1 7.84 14 ...a great man is the greatest of occasions.
    Elo1 7.93 2 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the order of greatest force...
    DL 7.115 25 The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    DL 7.123 25 [Every man] observes...the humility of the expectations of the greatest part of men.
    Farm 7.145 22 Genius even, as it is the greatest good, is the greatest harm.
    Farm 7.145 23 Genius even, as it is the greatest good, is the greatest harm.
    WD 7.166 13 The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
    WD 7.168 11 The days] are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists.
    Clbs 7.233 7 The greatest sufferers are often those who have the most to say...
    Suc 7.287 22 These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They...do not really add to our stature. The greatest men of the world have managed not to want them.
    Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men...
    Suc 7.304 22 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    PI 8.62 7 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world? Rather, said Merlin, the greatest fool;...
    Comc 8.164 21 ...as the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...vitiating this is the greatest lie.
    Imtl 8.340 26 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    Aris 10.29 8 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./
    Aris 10.42 15 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    Chr2 10.91 19 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.91 20 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.105 14 The greatest dominion will be to the deepest thought.
    Chr2 10.109 17 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding...the greatest simplicity, I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Plu 10.312 26 Plutarch thought truth to be the greatest good that man can receive...
    LLNE 10.354 14 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    LLNE 10.357 10 [Thoreau said] It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
    CSC 10.373 23 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    MMEm 10.403 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    MMEm 10.430 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    MMEm 10.431 5 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    GSt 10.502 8 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men, at times of the greatest need.
    LS 11.19 15 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    HDC 11.77 25 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
    EWI 11.104 26 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    EWI 11.108 19 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were the greatest miscreants...
    EWI 11.125 23 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    War 11.173 8 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLC 11.185 27 The greatest prosperity will in vain resist the greatest calamity.
    FSLC 11.186 13 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
    ACiv 11.297 5 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service, the greatest spirit only attaining to humility.
    ALin 11.336 8 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    Koss 11.398 13 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet...a man so truly in love with the greatest future, that he cannot be diverted to any less.
    RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    Humb 11.458 21 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...
    CPL 11.504 26 Montesquieu, one of the greatest minds that France has produced, writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict...of the greatest number.
    CL 12.142 6 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.163 10 [Conversation with Nature] is the greatest use and the greatest beauty.
    CL 12.163 11 [Conversation with Nature] is the greatest use and the greatest beauty.
    Bost 12.205 5 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best.
    MAng1 12.229 13 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
    Milt1 12.253 6 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first, continually decreases...
    Milt1 12.255 25 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...
    Milt1 12.270 27 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    ACri 12.283 10 Writing is the greatest of arts...
    EurB 12.377 26 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women, though the greatest and fairest, are stupid things;...
    Trag 12.413 20 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society-mayhap to what is best and greatest in it...

great-eyed, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.79 7 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

great-grandchildren, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.381 8 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving...one hundred and two grandchildren and ninety-six great-grandchildren.

great-grandfather, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.387 24 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you. Madam, I condole with you. Sir, I knew your great-grandfather.
    EzRy 10.387 26 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...

great-hearted, adj. (7)

    ET11 5.187 14 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    Edc1 10.134 9 If [a man] is jovial...if he is great-hearted...society has need of all these.
    Edc1 10.135 5 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great-hearted men.
    Schr 10.270 17 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    EWI 11.131 22 The great-hearted Puritans have left no posterity.
    Scot 11.467 8 [Scott] was a thoroughly upright, wise and great-hearted man...
    MAng1 12.244 7 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb...of Galileo, the great-hearted astronomer;...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.

greatly, adv. (22)

    Nat 1.67 15 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details...
    LT 1.279 16 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of... fraudulent persons. Then they are greatly moved;...
    Fdsp 2.216 8 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Prd1 2.237 6 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great...
    Hsm1 2.260 1 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
    OS 2.294 23 [Man] must greatly listen to himself...
    Exp 3.82 6 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    NR 3.226 1 We are greatly too liberal in our construction of each other's faculty and promise.
    NR 3.240 26 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us. He greatly mistakes us.
    ShP 4.213 1 ...the great [Shakespeare] tells greatly;...
    ET7 5.125 20 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    EzRy 10.382 14 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
    Carl 10.490 5 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected by all sorts of people...
    HDC 11.83 6 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    FSLC 11.205 16 The destiny of this country...is to be greatly administered.
    Wom 11.425 1 ...let us deal with [new opinions] greatly;...
    FRO2 11.490 14 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother...who could thus think and thus greatly feel.
    II 12.79 21 I am sorry that we do not receive the higher gifts justly and greatly.
    CL 12.143 17 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    ACri 12.289 9 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...
    Pray 12.354 11 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    EurB 12.375 6 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both...

greatly-destined, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.105 19 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...

greatness, n. (88)

    Nat 1.21 24 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
    AmS 1.113 19 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.128 24 Alone in all history [Jesus Christ] estimated the greatness of man.
    DSA 1.134 5 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...is not explored...
    LE 1.158 12 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth, yet can never be his unless claimed by him with an equal greatness of mind.
    LE 1.163 16 I am tasting the self-same life...its greatness...which I so admire in other men.
    LE 1.165 21 Nothing is more simple than greatness;...
    LE 1.176 7 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    MN 1.210 6 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    LT 1.285 15 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is the love of greatness...
    Con 1.317 18 All this costly culture of yours is not necessary. Greatness does not need it.
    Con 1.324 2 [The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end...
    YA 1.391 20 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    SR 2.53 23 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.59 12 Greatness appeals to the future.
    SL 2.142 26 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    SL 2.158 18 Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness.
    Fdsp 2.209 7 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is sure that greatness and goodness are always economy;...
    Fdsp 2.216 14 Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
    Hsm1. 2.252 17 There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness.
    Hsm1 2.253 1 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense. Indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with greatness.
    Hsm1 2.255 15 The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Hsm1 2.255 26 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by...the show of sorrow, but wear their own habitual greatness.
    Hsm1 2.261 8 Greatness once and for ever has done with opinion.
    OS 2.279 25 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.290 2 When we see those whom [the soul] inhabits, we are apprised of new degrees of greatness.
    Cir 2.310 24 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Int 2.335 12 [The thought] is...a piece of genuine and immeasurable greatness.
    Int 2.340 12 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
    Exp 3.73 27 ...in particulars, our greatness is always in a tendency or direction...
    Chr1 3.90 10 ...character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
    Chr1 3.112 26 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back...
    Chr1 3.114 2 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction.
    Chr1 3.115 13 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...I am aware, if I alone, of the greatness of the fact.
    NER 3.281 14 ...[lovers of truth] know...what a price of greatness the power of expression too often pays.
    UGM 4.22 22 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
    UGM 4.26 21 A foreign greatness is the antidote for cabalism.
    UGM 4.27 9 We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness.
    MoS 4.179 19 ...all the ways of culture and greatness lead to solitary imprisonment.
    ET5 5.94 8 The foundations of [England's] greatness are the rolling waves;...
    ET5 5.101 18 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
    ET10 5.170 12 ...being in the fault, [England] has the misfortune of greatness to be held as the chief offender.
    ET11 5.186 14 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
    ET14 5.246 3 ...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the greatness of Shakspeare...
    Wth 6.88 21 ...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few...
    Ctr 6.154 22 A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
    Bhr 6.192 13 ...the victories of character are instant, and victories for all. Its greatness enlarges all.
    Wsp 6.233 23 [The faithful student] learns the greatness of humility.
    CbW 6.259 7 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    WD 7.166 10 Here is greatness begotten of paltriness.
    WD 7.181 9 There can be no greatness without abandonment.
    Cour 7.260 5 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs...
    PC 8.233 27 ...[the educated class here] believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect, and draw greatness from its inspirations.
    Grts 8.301 18 Our aim is no less than greatness;...
    Grts 8.302 7 Greatness,-what is it?
    Grts 8.302 9 What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience.
    Grts 8.303 3 Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.
    Grts 8.308 15 ...another trait of greatness is facility.
    Grts 8.310 12 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Grts 8.310 18 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment. And the path of each, pursued, leads to greatness.
    Grts 8.312 27 All greatness is in degree...
    Grts 8.313 6 [Fame] is...that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Grts 8.314 4 Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character...
    Grts 8.315 11 It is difficult to find greatness pure.
    Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power.
    Grts 8.319 10 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense...
    Grts 8.319 11 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
    Grts 8.319 24 It is not examples of greatness, but sensibility to see them, that is wanting.
    Supl 10.174 20 ...Nature measures her greatness by what she can spare...
    Schr 10.279 10 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...ambition for greatness...
    LLNE 10.340 10 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    HDC 11.42 7 ...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, and, in respect of the greatness of their charge thereabout, and in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    EWI 11.135 24 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness...
    War 11.171 16 Everything great must be done in the spirit of greatness.
    JBS 11.279 7 [John Brown] grew up...having that force of thought and that sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.
    ChiE 11.473 9 [Confucius's] ideal of greatness predicts Marcus Antoninus.
    MAng1 12.215 8 ...in [Michelangelo's] greatness was so little eccentricity... that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.228 14 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    Milt1 12.266 13 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.269 13 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.
    ACri 12.301 6 I passed at one time through a place called New City, then supposed...to be destined to greatness.
    MLit 12.324 15 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...
    MLit 12.326 1 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's journal]...is thought and written with the greatness peculiar to him.
    MLit 12.327 18 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...with uniform cheerfulness and greatness of mind.
    WSL 12.340 3 ...[Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness
    WSL 12.345 1 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
    Pray 12.356 17 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.

Greatness, n. (1)

    Grts 8.301 11 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages. I prefer to call it Greatness.

Grecian, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.24 5 ...every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
    Hist 2.24 5 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature...
    Elo1 7.71 20 Helen is pointing out to Priam, from a tower, the different Grecian chiefs.
    WD 7.167 17 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life...
    LLNE 10.334 24 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new perception of Grecian beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.

Grecian States, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.79 9 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.

Grecians, n. (2)

    ET12 5.207 14 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    CInt 12.120 18 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you, and you become little among the Grecians;...

Greco, Torre del, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 11 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...

Greece, Ancient [J. A. St (1)

    Boks 7.201 27 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...

Greece, Isles of, n. (1)

    Art2 7.57 12 ...[beauty, truth and goodness] are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece.

Greece, n. (50)

    Nat 1.22 6 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    AmS 1.97 24 Authors we have, in numbers...who...sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    DSA 1.129 17 Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before.
    LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
    LE 1.160 4 ...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command any longer.
    LE 1.171 27 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    Con 1.304 20 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.9 18 This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece...as with so many flowers...
    Hist 2.9 22 I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands...in my own mind.
    SR 2.80 26 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...
    Art1 2.368 7 Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece.
    PPh 4.40 26 This citizen of a town in Greece [Plato] is no villager nor patriot.
    PPh 4.52 26 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    ShP 4.194 11 Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece grew up in subordination to architecture.
    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];...
    ET5 5.96 22 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET18 5.299 20 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
    CbW 6.250 9 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians; would it have been all the same to Greece, and to history?
    CbW 6.254 3 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    Bty 6.288 26 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
    Civ 7.33 2 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Art2 7.56 19 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
    DL 7.115 27 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it with the captains and sages of Greece and Rome...
    DL 7.116 2 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece...
    WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America, studious of Greece and Rome...will take off its dusty shoes...
    Boks 7.197 13 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece...
    Boks 7.200 13 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games, where all that was excellent in Greece was assembled;...
    Cour 7.253 19 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...
    Cour 7.272 19 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...
    Suc 7.285 27 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
    OA 7.329 23 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    QO 8.182 20 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    QO 8.187 2 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    PC 8.218 4 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    PC 8.219 9 ...in every wise and genial soul we have England, Greece, Italy, walking...
    PC 8.220 15 How much more are...the wise and good souls, the Stoics in Greece and Rome...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    Imtl 8.330 2 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Aris 10.48 24 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    Chr2 10.104 12 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...are examples of this perversion.
    Schr 10.278 5 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    Plu 10.293 15 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece.
    Plu 10.293 20 ...[Plutarch]...was not consul in Rome, nor governor of Greece;...
    War 11.153 18 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...
    FSLC 11.211 5 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLC 11.211 10 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    FSLN 11.239 21 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...
    FSLN 11.239 24 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece; against Hungary;...
    FSLN 11.242 6 [Scholars and literary men] are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth...

greedy, adj. (6)

    ET4 5.60 24 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons...
    ET4 5.60 25 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.
    MoL 10.245 14 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life...greedy, careful anxious;...
    MMEm 10.420 18 ...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
    EWI 11.103 18 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest.
    FSLC 11.183 7 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...

Greek, adj. (87)

    AmS 1.111 9 I ask not for...what is Greek art...
    DSA 1.151 11 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    LE 1.170 12 Greek history is one thing to me;...
    LE 1.170 14 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
    LT 1.265 21 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...
    LT 1.282 16 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods;...
    Hist 2.14 17 Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius.
    Hist 2.16 9 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...
    SL 2.164 7 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
    Hsm1 2.257 7 If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy...it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
    Cir 2.302 9 The Greek sculpture is all melted away...
    Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer...
    Cir 2.312 6 We...install ourselves the best we can in Greek...houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Chr1 3.112 12 ...there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown./
    NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men,--Greek men, and Roman men...
    PPh 4.41 2 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English!...an Italian,--how Roman and how Greek!
    PPh 4.59 4 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent is his Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
    PNR 4.87 12 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    GoW 4.271 4 We conceive Greek or Roman life...to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    GoW 4.282 20 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET1 5.8 2 The Greek histories [Landor] thought the only good;...
    ET3 5.37 3 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental...
    ET4 5.67 20 This union of qualities [in the English] is fabled...long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite.
    ET5 5.91 15 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...
    ET8 5.136 14 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
    ET9 5.151 18 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    ET12 5.204 12 Oxford is a Greek factory...
    ET12 5.206 27 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...
    ET12 5.207 4 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning;...
    ET12 5.207 9 The English nature takes culture kindly. So Milton thought. It refines the Norseman. Access to the Greek mind lifts his standard of taste.
    ET12 5.210 14 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...(copies of which were kindly given me by a Greek professor)...
    ET14 5.235 16 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET14 5.237 7 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets, like the Greek artists, heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    F 6.6 10 The Greek Tragedy expressed the same sense [of Fate].
    Pow 6.62 8 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    Wth 6.98 22 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
    Ctr 6.159 21 The Greek battle-pieces are calm;...
    Wsp 6.205 15 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Bty 6.290 14 The lesson taught by the study of Greek...art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Bty 6.299 25 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
    Ill 6.324 4 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    Elo1 7.71 7 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie...
    WD 7.167 12 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days, in which he marked the changes of the Greek year...
    WD 7.172 7 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone. The Greek Kosmos did;...
    WD 7.176 3 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus...
    WD 7.184 21 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
    Boks 7.201 11 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    Boks 7.202 8 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian...book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Boks 7.217 25 The Greek fables, the Persian history...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Boks 7.218 13 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
    Suc 7.303 20 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as...Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven.
    PI 8.14 4 ...the Greek mythology called the sea the tear of Saturn.
    PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets...
    Elo2 8.121 5 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Comc 8.163 2 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.
    Insp 8.295 6 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.
    Grts 8.318 8 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans, when Roman character prevails over Greek genius.
    Chr2 10.114 4 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends...
    Edc1 10.146 4 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
    MoL 10.256 12 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    Plu 10.294 20 ...[Plutarch's] books were never known to the world in their own Greek tongue...
    Plu 10.294 27 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.
    Plu 10.297 3 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    Plu 10.297 7 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to...the Greek wine...
    Plu 10.307 1 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists, whether Greek or French, fills us with disgust.
    Plu 10.309 4 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    LLNE 10.332 13 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...with their unripe Latin and Greek reading...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    Carl 10.491 6 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    War 11.154 2 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...
    War 11.172 12 What makes to us the attractiveness of the Greek heroes? of the Roman?
    FSLC 11.193 13 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra, in the Greek tragedy, 'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.
    TPar 11.287 8 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...
    FRep 11.511 23 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    PLT 12.42 27 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    Milt1 12.259 10 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    ACri 12.298 25 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch, now that we have exhausted the Greek and Roman and British biography...
    ACri 12.304 22 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    PPr 12.382 3 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...
    Trag 12.407 4 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...
    Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...

Greek Age, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.

Greek, n. (34)

    AmS 1.109 10 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.
    Hist 2.26 15 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...
    Hist 2.26 22 The Greek had, it seems, the same fellow-beings as I.
    Hist 2.26 25 ...the vaunted distinction between Greek and English...seems superficial and pedantic.
    Fdsp 2.197 15 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
    OS 2.279 7 In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek...stead me nothing;...
    NER 3.258 19 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.258 27 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NER 3.259 6 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...
    NER 3.259 12 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.259 19 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...
    NER 3.259 26 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    ET12 5.206 20 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    ET14 5.237 24 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    DL 7.128 21 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains...
    Boks 7.197 17 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry. It is so in Hebrew, in Sanskrit and in Greek.
    Boks 7.202 3 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
    QO 8.184 24 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham! he knows politics, Greek, history, science;...
    Imtl 8.325 12 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Chr2 10.105 5 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.256 8 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature.
    Plu 10.295 2 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    Plu 10.319 22 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    Plu 10.321 4 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men, some of them imperfect in their Greek, it is a monument of the English language...
    HCom 11.341 13 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.
    FRO2 11.489 27 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men, whether Jew or Indian, or Greek or Persian, only for friendship...
    PLT 12.36 16 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to the unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    PLT 12.37 18 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek.
    II 12.88 9 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    CInt 12.128 19 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children...
    Milt1 12.257 16 [Milton] had the senses of a Greek.
    ACri 12.286 6 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...
    Trag 12.411 27 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat when the Greek came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Greek Professor, n. (1)

    OA 7.330 20 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...

Greek Tragedy, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 3 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was the meaning and soul of the Greek Tragedy;...

Greeks, n. (44)

    Nat 1.15 3 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, beauty.
    AmS 1.81 6 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks;...
    DSA 1.131 6 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod, as the Orientals or the Greeks would describe Osiris or Apollo.
    MN 1.211 10 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.
    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks...
    Hist 2.19 6 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.25 25 The Greeks are not reflective...
    Hist 2.30 10 The beautiful fables of the Greeks...are universal verities.
    Comp 2.106 10 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind;...
    Art1 2.359 4 In the sculptures of the Greeks...the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Pol1 3.206 5 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as the Greeks...have done.
    SwM 4.124 22 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    GoW 4.273 2 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
    ET1 5.5 25 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities...
    ET1 5.6 10 [Greenough] was a votary of the Greeks...
    ET1 5.7 23 In art, [Landor] loves the Greeks...
    ET3 5.40 16 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth...
    ET4 5.55 3 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory. Where are the Greeks?
    ET14 5.241 23 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks.
    F 6.21 12 The doer must suffer, said the Greeks;...
    Bty 6.292 2 The Greeks fabled that Venus was born of the foam of the sea.
    Bty 6.299 13 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Art2 7.56 4 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    DL 7.130 3 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum. Rather let the noble practice of the Greeks find place in our society...
    PI 8.34 19 'T is easy to repaint the mythology of the Greeks...
    SA 8.104 5 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as the Jews, the Greeks...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    PC 8.209 6 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve...the suffering Greeks;...
    PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
    Grts 8.318 6 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans,
    Imtl 8.326 2 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Dem1 10.14 18 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians, a very skilful archer.
    Aris 10.46 20 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    Edc1 10.138 7 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art which the Greeks left on their temple walls.
    SovE 10.185 1 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day. The Greeks called it Psyche, a manifest emblem of the soul.
    Plu 10.315 6 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa, and the Greeks theirs against Persia.
    Thor 10.475 11 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    War 11.153 22 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    Wom 11.414 17 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    SHC 11.433 9 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games,-not such as the Greeks honored the dead with, but for games of education;...
    FRep 11.513 17 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
    CL 12.150 27 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    Bost 12.187 25 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.
    MAng1 12.216 24 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty;...
    ACri 12.304 24 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.

green, adj. (28)

    Nat 1.12 16 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball...
    Nat 1.44 2 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also; as the green grass.
    Nat 1.77 1 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    AmS 1.106 19 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    LT 1.274 8 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
    Hist 2.20 13 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
    Lov1 2.176 25 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Int 2.342 14 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.
    Mrs1 3.135 19 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Pol1 3.197 19 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    ET1 5.19 7 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man...disfigured by green goggles.
    ET2 5.33 16 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
    ET9 5.147 26 If one of [the English] have a bald, or a red, or a green head... he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET16 5.276 14 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows, which rose like green bosses about the plain...
    F 6.17 1 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Bhr 6.167 11 ...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits are found./
    Wsp 6.232 13 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.
    PPo 8.240 27 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    LLNE 10.332 10 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    Thor 10.483 2 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.
    HDC 11.32 15 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...
    War 11.176 1 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...
    SHC 11.428 3 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    Mem 12.103 19 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.145 9 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves...
    CL 12.150 12 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
    Bost 12.205 15 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.

green, n. (2)

    Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies, draped in red and green and blue and gray;...
    HDC 11.85 25 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps of Winthrop and Dudley;...

Greene, Robert, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

greenhouses, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 17 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their greenhouses, conservatories, palm-houses...

Greenland, n. (1)

    Pow 6.55 18 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.

Greenough, Horatio, n. (8)

    ET1 5.5 17 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough...
    ET1 5.5 22 Greenough was a superior man...
    ET1 5.6 27 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET1 5.8 12 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday. On Friday I did not fail to go, and this time with Greenough.
    Ctr 6.135 21 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
    Art2 7.47 12 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
    Suc 7.293 24 Horatio Greenough the sculptor said to me of Robert Fulton's visit to Paris: Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    CL 12.157 24 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...

green-room, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 11 These tricks of [Shakespeare's] magic spoil for us the illusions of the green-room.

Greenwich, England, adj. (2)

    SR 2.85 9 A Greenwich nautical almanac [the civilized man] has...
    ET5 5.100 20 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...

greet, v. (13)

    AmS 1.81 1 I greet you on the recommencement of our literary year.
    MR 1.252 21 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...
    SR 2.78 21 ...[the self-helping man] all tongues greet...
    SL 2.159 1 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
    ET5 5.79 26 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall...
    Elo1 7.67 7 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    DL 7.120 21 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    Cour 7.256 13 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    PC 8.231 25 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    Edc1 10.157 24 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it...
    EPro 11.316 12 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new public were created to greet the new event.
    CInt 12.128 12 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher...
    CW 12.172 10 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...

greeted, v. (14)

    Con 1.315 4 ...[Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    Con 1.325 4 Wherever there is worth, I shall be greeted.
    YA 1.386 26 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    Mrs1 3.154 6 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness; to make such feel that they were greeted with a voice which made them both remember and hope?
    Wsp 6.199 17 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own,/ Yet greeted in another's eyes,/ Disconcerts with glad surprise./
    DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    Prch 10.226 10 The poet Wordsworth greeted even the steam-engine and railroads;...
    LLNE 10.338 2 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    SlHr 10.446 29 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as one of themselves...
    EWI 11.116 6 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled, greeted them...
    ACiv 11.308 7 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EPro 11.316 20 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...
    EPro 11.325 21 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has greeted it in all generous hearts...
    CInt 12.126 26 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...

greeting, n. (2)

    SR 2.51 19 Rough and graceless would be such greeting...
    LLNE 10.340 23 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished; there was mutual greeting and introduction...

greetings, n. (2)

    Comp 2.93 11 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...greetings, relations, debts and credits...
    Comc 8.163 6 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.

greets, v. (4)

    Boks 7.219 25 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...greets him on his arrival...
    PC 8.222 20 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    Koss 11.400 4 This country of workingmen greets in you [Kossuth] a worker.
    Koss 11.400 5 This republic greets in you [Kossuth] a republican.

gregarious, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.199 23 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...

Gregorian, adj. (1)

    F 6.18 16 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know...of the Gregorian calendar...

Gregory, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.134 1 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...

Gregory, St., n. (1)

    ET4 5.66 16 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...

Grenadier tricolore, Le, n. (1)

    Comc 8.171 20 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...

grenadiers, n. (3)

    NMW 4.238 5 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers...
    MoL 10.253 11 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    HDC 11.75 2 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers...

Grenville, William Wyndham, (1)

    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...

Greville, Fulke [Lord Broo (4)

    ET11 5.190 13 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville...
    ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Sidney, Lord Brooke, Herbert...
    ET16 5.284 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...
    ET16 5.284 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

grew, v. (58)

    MR 1.231 16 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    Con 1.296 7 Saturn grew weary of sitting alone...
    Con 1.326 11 [Man's hope]...grew here on the wild crab of conservatism.
    YA 1.377 4 Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand.
    SL 2.138 8 One sees very well how Pyrrhonism grew up.
    SL 2.155 11 ...[what the great man did]...grew out of the circumstances of the moment.
    Art1 2.353 7 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    Nat2 3.184 12 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
    PPh 4.66 24 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him; but, simply, whilst they were with him they grew wise, not because of him;...
    SwM 4.129 21 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    MoS 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    MoS 4.164 8 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    ShP 4.194 11 Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece grew up in subordination to architecture.
    NMW 4.241 4 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops]...
    GoW 4.288 7 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture.
    ET10 5.155 27 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET11 5.187 9 Politeness is...a gentle blessing to the age in which it grew.
    ET11 5.191 7 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET16 5.285 1 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn, on which grew the finest cedars in England.
    ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    F 6.25 25 ...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its dimensions, as if we grew to worlds.
    Wth 6.87 12 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.102 16 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy?
    Wth 6.110 2 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.
    Farm 7.148 11 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons...
    WD 7.157 2 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools. They grew out of our structure.
    Boks 7.211 16 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
    Cour 7.253 18 Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.
    Suc 7.299 7 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that his eyes opened as he grew older...
    QO 8.192 1 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    LLNE 10.325 2 There grew a certain tenderness on the people...
    LLNE 10.326 5 Men grew reflective and intellectual.
    MMEm 10.400 11 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up...
    Thor 10.450 4 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.467 17 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...
    Thor 10.472 26 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen...
    LS 11.13 3 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also. In this way religious feasts grew up among the early Christians.
    HDC 11.35 4 All kinds of garden fruits grew well...
    HDC 11.39 7 As the season grew later, [the settlers of Concord] felt its inconveniences.
    HDC 11.42 24 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.
    EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
    AKan 11.261 12 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
    JBB 11.266 6 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    JBS 11.279 3 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person...
    ALin 11.334 14 This man [Lincoln] grew according to the need.
    ALin 11.334 16 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it.
    SMC 11.359 21 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal, however stern and terrible the occasion grew...
    SMC 11.367 9 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    SHC 11.431 13 ...[trees] grow when we sleep, they grew when we were unborn.
    RBur 11.442 11 [Burns] grew up in a rural district...
    FRO1 11.480 11 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.
    PLT 12.26 18 We say the book grew in the author's mind.
    PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he releases himself from the traditions in which he grew...
    CL 12.137 22 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass, and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance...
    CW 12.172 7 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
    Bost 12.190 14 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    Bost 12.202 25 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Bost 12.207 13 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

Grey, Charles Edward, n. (1)

    EWI 11.137 2 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...

Grey, Charles, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 25 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals.

Grey, George, n. (1)

    EWI 11.117 1 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...

Grey, Vivian [Benjamin Dis (2)

    EurB 12.377 13 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
    EurB 12.377 15 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.

Greylock, Mount, Massachuse (1)

    CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?

Greys, Vivian, n. (1)

    EurB 12.377 16 One can distinguish the Vivians [Vivian Greys] in all companies.

grief, n. (27)

    YA 1.392 25 Would [our youths and maidens] like...grief when a child is born...
    Lov1 2.171 26 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
    Prd1 2.232 15 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    Prd1 2.232 23 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Int 2.338 1 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us...with desire and with grief.
    Exp 3.48 14 The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Exp 3.48 23 Grief too will make us idealists.
    Exp 3.49 10 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing...
    SwM 4.118 9 ...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this centre?
    SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
    MoS 4.184 4 ...the incompetency of power is the universal grief of young and ardent minds.
    DL 7.103 17 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief...soften all hearts to pity...
    OA 7.324 26 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct, at the risk of disorder, grief and pain.
    PI 8.59 13 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities.
    Comc 8.164 13 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief.
    PPo 8.256 10 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./
    Imtl 8.351 18 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Imtl 8.352 2 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Aris 10.50 4 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.
    MoL 10.257 25 I learn with grief...that you have had your sufferers in the battle...
    GSt 10.507 8 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
    ACiv 11.296 7 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/
    PLT 12.44 25 We grieve but are not the grief;...
    Trag 12.409 23 There are people who have an appetite for grief...
    Trag 12.410 17 If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers not, for grief is dumb.
    Trag 12.410 23 Some men are above grief, and some below it.
    Trag 12.411 23 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

griefs, n. (11)

    Nat 1.9 9 Nature says, - [man] is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
    SL 2.131 22 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.
    MoS 4.182 1 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    CbW 6.266 3 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    OA 7.313 17 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    PI 8.33 6 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/ and again,--They heal their griefs, for curable are the hearts of the noble./
    HDC 11.56 4 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing, and admonished them to increase their faith with their griefs.
    MAng1 12.216 19 It is a happiness to find, amid the falsehood and griefs of the human race, a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    Milt1 12.275 15 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...
    Milt1 12.278 15 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition...
    Let 12.404 11 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

grievance, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.201 10 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...
    ET5 5.81 11 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    ET6 5.110 22 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET7 5.116 15 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.
    FRep 11.529 5 A congress...escapes the violence of accumulated grievance.

grievances, n. (3)

    HDC 11.81 11 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
    HDC 11.81 16 The grievances [in Concord] ceased with the adoption of the Federal Constitution.
    EdAd 11.387 18 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the direct roads by which grievances are reached and redressed...

grieve, v. (8)

    LE 1.184 12 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
    Hsm1 2.246 25 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../
    Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
    Exp 3.49 9 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing...
    Gts 3.162 23 Some violence I think is done, some degradation borne, when I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
    War 11.157 8 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we; who laugh and grieve... as we do.
    PLT 12.44 25 We grieve but are not the grief;...
    MAng1 12.242 5 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.

grieved, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.246 24 Val. But art not grieved nor vexed to leave thy life thus?/
    Comc 8.172 20 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved...

grieves, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.88 2 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    PI 8.61 18 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more, and that grieves me...
    MMEm 10.397 12 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./

grieving, v. (1)

    PPo 8.246 5 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./

grievous, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.7 19 There is really a grievous amount of unavailableness about men of wit.

griffin, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 1 Every favorite is not a cherub, nor every cat a griffin...

Griffin, Richard, n. (1)

    HDC 11.54 24 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord], Mr. Flint, Lieutenant Willard, and Richard Griffin were appointed.

Griffins, n. (1)

    Hist 2.33 16 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

grim, adj. (10)

    Comp 2.99 6 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy.
    Art1 2.357 27 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself improvising, grim and glad, at his block.
    Exp 3.43 5 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ Like and unlike,/ Portly and grim/...
    Exp 3.49 17 We look to [death] with a grim satisfaction...
    ET16 5.274 19 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
    Ill 6.315 18 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
    SS 7.11 20 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    Cour 7.276 1 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...
    Suc 7.297 27 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening, grim and wintry...was enough for us;...
    Carl 10.487 2 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./

Grim, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 7 You are afraid of Grim; but Grim also is afraid of you.

grimace, n. (3)

    Supl 10.163 15 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation. Their aspect is grimace.
    MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy...
    Milt1 12.263 12 ...in [Milton's] severity is no grimace or effort.

grimaces, n. (1)

    Plu 10.304 15 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...

grimacing, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.189 24 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 leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.

grimacing, v. (1)

    FRep 11.526 9 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities, pretending to be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...

grimly, adv. (2)

    LT 1.274 26 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform] looks into the law of Property...
    Elo1 7.87 14 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.

Grimm, Friedrich Melchior v (3)

    cbW 6.253 6 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...
    QO 8.184 21 ...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. But this speech is also D'Argenson's, and is reported by Grimm.
    QO 8.184 26 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything. You may find the original of this gibe in Grimm...

Grimm, Herman, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 5 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read, with his Life by Vasari, or, in our day, by Herman Grimm.

Grimm, Jakob Ludwig, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 17 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.

grimmest, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.9 14 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight.

Grimm's, Friedrich Melchior (1)

    QO 8.183 17 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson;...

grimness, n. (2)

    NER 3.278 26 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    SwM 4.133 24 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...and all gather one grimness of hue and style.

grind, v. (14)

    LE 1.165 27 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism...
    Con 1.318 26 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    SR 2.87 9 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn, grind it in his hand-mill and bake his bread himself.
    Mrs1 3.119 9 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    NR 3.241 4 Into paint will I grind thee, my bride!/
    ET5 5.96 1 ...now [Steam] must pump, grind, dig and plough for the farmer.
    Pow 6.73 9 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Civ 7.28 19 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Civ 7.28 21 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to grind, and wind, and pump, and saw...
    Art2 7.42 15 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Art2 7.49 4 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    HDC 11.58 1 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind their hatchets...
    ACri 12.290 27 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

grinding, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.37 17 Debt, grinding debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    YA 1.373 12 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...

grindings, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?

grinds, v. (3)

    ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.
    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    Trag 12.407 8 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds or thunders...

grindstone, n. (1)

    Tran 1.353 18 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn a grindstone...or govern the state.

grip, n. (1)

    ET14 5.234 13 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.

gripe, n. (2)

    Hist 2.31 15 Antaeus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules...
    PPo 8.242 19 The gripe of [Rustem's] hand cracked the sinews of an enemy.

griping, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 19 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/...

Griselda [Ballad], n. (1)

    PI 8.25 17 Give [people] Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda...and they like these well enough.

Griselda, n. (1)

    Wom 11.413 10 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility.

Grisi, Julia, n. (1)

    ET11 5.194 18 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.

grisly, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.308 17 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.

grist, n. (1)

    Con 1.318 27 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.

grit, n. (2)

    ET14 5.236 24 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    Thor 10.481 8 ...[Thoreau] could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps, the grit of gravel;...

grizzle, v. (1)

    Cir 2.319 10 We grizzle every day.

grizzled, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.357 9 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...long-haired, grizzled...

grizzly, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.278 17 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./

groan, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.177 5 ...A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    PI 8.55 19 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon/...

groan, v. (2)

    Res 8.148 3 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    MLit 12.311 21 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...

Groaners, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

groaning, v. (1)

    PI 8.60 21 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand;...

groans, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.196 24 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...by corruption and groans.

groans, v. (1)

    MLit 12.317 18 There is that in us which mutters, and that which groans, and that which triumphs, and that which aspires.

groat, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 18 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.

grocer, n. (1)

    ET14 5.247 22 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.

grocers, n. (1)

    DL 7.110 6 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...grocers to stock their shops...

groined, adj. (2)

    Res 8.149 23 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    EurB 12.371 9 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.

groins, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 21 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...

groom, n. (5)

    NR 3.237 21 [Nature] loves better...a groom who is part of his horse;...
    Cour 7.263 5 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.
    SA 8.100 16 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
    PPo 8.249 13 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
    AgMs 12.359 19 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./

grooms, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.15 18 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers...
    Nat2 3.178 12 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    PPh 4.72 2 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers...
    WSL 12.341 27 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame, even as porters and grooms in the courts;...

grooves, n. (2)

    Civ 7.26 26 ...[a highly destined society] must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
    PLT 12.48 21 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...

grope, v. (9)

    Nat 1.3 13 ...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Hist 2.23 23 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers...
    Nat2 3.181 21 ...[plants] grope ever upward towards consciousness;...
    ShP 4.219 15 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle...nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner;...
    Wsp 6.215 4 In our definitions we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible.
    Ill 6.322 18 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.
    Insp 8.268 5 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Dem1 10.24 12 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched. We grope.
    FRep 11.518 21 We...grope after the practicable and available.

groped, v. (1)

    Boks 7.210 25 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.

gropes, v. (1)

    DSA 1.142 3 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law...gropes after it knows not what.

groping, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.174 26 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    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.

groping, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low and mean people are found by the groping of the government.

groping, v. (2)

    ShP 4.190 19 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    F 6.8 4 Without...groping after intestinal parasites or infusory biters...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

gropings, n. (1)

    AmS 1.86 25 ...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.

grosbeaks, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 15 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...

gross, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.41 22 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross...
    LT 1.279 14 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form...
    Lov1 2.181 22 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Art1 2.353 21 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless.
    Exp 3.47 24 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
    ET11 5.192 24 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET12 5.209 24 ...there is gross favoritism [at Oxford];...
    F 6.9 9 The gross lines are legible to the dull;...
    Pow 6.60 23 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life, though gross and peccant, it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Wth 6.110 23 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
    Bty 6.306 4 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...
    SS 7.13 19 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    Aris 10.33 15 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Chr2 10.104 20 Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble and gross minds...
    LLNE 10.336 15 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    LS 11.13 9 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot...
    LVB 11.92 4 We have inquired if this [rumored relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the government...
    EWI 11.99 7 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    CPL 11.499 4 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century, and its representation there increased with its gross population.
    Let 12.401 25 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate, folly increases, and a gross mind with it;...

gross, n. (1)

    AmS 1.115 14 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...

grosser, adj. (4)

    Cir 2.317 4 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices...
    SwM 4.98 8 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    DL 7.122 13 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    Aris 10.63 27 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...

grossest, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.53 8 The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness [of physicians].
    EWI 11.125 5 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.

grossly, adv. (2)

    MoS 4.155 13 You that will have all solid, and a world of pig-lead, deceive yourselves grossly.
    Plu 10.320 20 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...

grossness, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.17 19 The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness.
    MoS 4.164 25 [Montaigne's] French freedom runs into grossness;...
    Art2 7.52 1 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Elo2 8.126 8 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides.
    ACri 12.284 18 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides...

grossnesses, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 12 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.

Grosvenor, Robert, [Marquis (1)

    ET11 5.181 21 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.

Grote's, George, n. (1)

    Boks 7.201 14 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.

grotesque, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.145 2 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    Dem1 10.9 15 However monstrous and grotesque [dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
    Bost 12.193 6 The common eye cannot tell...the pure truth from the grotesque tenet which sheathes it.

grotesques, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.109 22 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics with the quaint grotesques of theology.

Grotius, Hugo, n. (6)

    SwM 4.105 4 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology; whilst Locke and Grotius had drawn the moral argument.
    ShP 4.200 10 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 1 Cicero, Grotius, Coke...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
    Mem 12.106 4 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    Milt1 12.259 17 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted with Grotius;...

Groton, Massachusetts, n. (3)

    HDC 11.58 19 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;...
    HDC 11.58 21 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton...
    AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?

grotto, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 8 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto made of one seamless stalactite...

grottoes, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 18 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their...fish-ponds, sculptured summer-houses and grottoes;...

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