Habeas Corpus to Handling

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

habeas corpus, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 24 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...

habeas-corpus, n. (1)

    ET5 5.87 24 Magna-charta, jury-trial, habeas-corpus...are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

haberdashers, n. (1)

    II 12.81 17 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists...

habit, n. (130)

    Nat 1.28 7 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts, the habit of a plant... applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    DSA 1.146 24 ...for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts;...
    YA 1.366 5 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    YA 1.366 7 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative; and this habit...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.369 17 Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it...generates the feeling of patriotism.
    Hist 2.24 25 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    Hist 2.25 22 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind.
    Hist 2.25 23 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind.
    SR 2.56 20 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.83 2 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him, considering...the habit...of the government, he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Prd1 2.234 6 Let [a man] control the habit of expense.
    Int 2.333 13 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise.
    Art1 2.354 21 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Pt1 3.24 15 [The sculptor] rose one day, according to his habit, before dawn...
    Pt1 3.29 12 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Pt1 3.31 25 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Exp 3.65 17 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit require that thou do this or avoid that...
    Chr1 3.92 15 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact...
    Chr1 3.92 25 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
    Mrs1 3.131 11 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Pol1 3.207 8 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation, and to its habit of thought...
    NR 3.228 15 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system: we do not try a solitary word or act, but his habit.
    NR 3.238 1 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    NR 3.248 4 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought...
    UGM 4.13 17 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    UGM 4.17 14 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit.
    UGM 4.17 27 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought.
    PPh 4.52 4 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates] was plain as a Quaker in habit and speech...
    SwM 4.101 12 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...
    SwM 4.129 20 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.
    SwM 4.136 4 My learning is such as God gave me in my birth and habit...
    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    MoS 4.181 13 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...
    NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit...
    NMW 4.255 24 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
    ET1 5.3 13 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET4 5.49 6 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
    ET5 5.85 7 ...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilization.
    ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.108 26 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET6 5.111 9 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET8 5.136 3 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
    ET9 5.150 8 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]...
    ET12 5.211 3 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    ET12 5.211 7 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET12 5.212 10 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    ET18 5.305 8 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...
    ET19 5.311 15 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that habit of friendship...running through all classes...
    F 6.7 3 The habit of snake and spider...these are in the system...
    F 6.16 12 We like the nervous and victorious habit of our own branch of the family.
    Pow 6.54 27 ...the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Pow 6.74 3 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...friends and a social habit...or music, or feasting.
    Wth 6.90 20 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man must take care of himself...
    Wth 6.91 6 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Ctr 6.133 19 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it...
    Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Wsp 6.203 6 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who, from long habit of thinking and feeling together, it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.229 4 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.
    CbW 6.269 19 What is incurable but a frivolous habit?
    CbW 6.271 2 Our habit of thought...is not satisfying;...
    CbW 6.274 26 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    Bty 6.286 18 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Bty 6.298 9 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Ill 6.310 5 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    SS 7.13 9 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit of the people, show what it aims at.
    Elo1 7.75 11 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
    WD 7.177 26 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
    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.
    Boks 7.212 12 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit...
    Boks 7.215 21 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
    Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
    Clbs 7.242 7 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out others of retiring habit;...
    Cour 7.269 19 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...
    Cour 7.275 24 Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit...
    PI 8.32 26 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    PI 8.46 4 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    PI 8.72 9 The habit of saliency...is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    SA 8.79 19 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.87 1 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    Elo2 8.112 18 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Elo2 8.119 18 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat...
    Res 8.141 12 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the power and habit of invention in their brain.
    Insp 8.288 10 ...the solitude of Nature is not so essential as solitude of habit.
    Grts 8.303 17 They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim;...
    Grts 8.314 11 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes...
    Imtl 8.341 26 Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of facing labor and danger...
    Aris 10.43 5 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
    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...
    Aris 10.64 16 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests...
    Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.
    Aris 10.65 14 ...it suffices...that...[the man of generous spirit] has an elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and to remember.
    Chr2 10.101 18 I am in the habit of thinking...that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.120 1 Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth.
    Edc1 10.140 22 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.142 5 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
    Supl 10.169 14 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    SovE 10.193 16 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.198 2 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will. Character is the habit of this obedience...
    MoL 10.243 4 All the distinctions of profession and habit ended at the mines [of California].
    Plu 10.306 5 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally, coming from the habit of writing for one sex only, has a great gain for brevity...
    LLNE 10.363 7 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius, puny in body and habit as a girl...
    MMEm 10.402 1 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.
    MMEm 10.408 18 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    Thor 10.453 14 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.456 9 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections;...
    Thor 10.479 5 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    Thor 10.479 7 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...
    EWI 11.117 9 ...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
    EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    FSLN 11.227 6 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    FSLN 11.237 21 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes...
    FSLN 11.238 4 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
    JBS 11.279 18 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and reproachfully, but simply as unfit for his habit;...
    EdAd 11.388 2 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.
    SHC 11.430 8 In these times we see the defects of our old theology; its inferiority to our habit of thoughts.
    PLT 12.36 1 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...
    PLT 12.57 22 There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.
    PLT 12.59 14 The habit of saliency...is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    II 12.67 9 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.
    II 12.67 17 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the mind as the measure;...
    Mem 12.98 10 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the habit of seeing better than other people;...
    Bost 12.196 22 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Bost 12.197 18 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.198 10 ...no habit of command...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    MLit 12.314 8 ...this habit of intellectual selfishness has acquired in our day the fine name of subjectiveness.
    MLit 12.325 3 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...
    PPr 12.391 16 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.
    Trag 12.410 27 A querulous habit is not tragedy.

habit, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 6 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./

habitable, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.125 4 By [the religious sentiment] is the universe made safe and habitable...
    ET5 5.92 20 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
    EPro 11.322 15 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    SHC 11.431 8 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable;...

habitat, n. (4)

    F 6.16 21 Every race has its own habitat.
    F 6.37 3 The web of relation is shown in habitat...
    Ctr 6.138 25 Each animal out of its habitat would starve.
    Bost 12.184 25 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...as the habitat of rare plants and minerals...were preferred before others.

habitation, n. (2)

    SL 2.143 6 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.
    ET3 5.34 14 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...

habitations, n. (2)

    GoW 4.277 7 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil] which had hovered in shadow about the habitations of men ever since there were men, was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little account...

habits, n. (62)

    Nat 1.29 1 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits...admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LE 1.174 6 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...
    MR 1.242 12 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    MR 1.242 26 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    YA 1.388 6 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    Hist 2.31 19 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    Hist 2.32 18 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    Comp 2.117 18 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help;...
    SL 2.148 26 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself...in his trade and habits and gestures and meats and drinks...
    Lov1 2.184 3 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    Fdsp 2.212 16 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Cir 2.312 27 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits...
    Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...
    NER 3.266 14 ...when [the individuals's] faith is traversed by his habits;... what concert can be?
    SwM 4.101 4 [Swedenborg's] habits were simple;...
    MoS 4.164 8 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    MoS 4.177 15 What can I do against hereditary and constitutional habits;...
    GoW 4.279 2 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] quit the society and habits of their rank...
    ET7 5.124 5 This [English] dulness makes...their adherence in all foreign countries to home habits.
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits...
    ET8 5.130 11 [Englishmen's] habits and instincts cleave to nature.
    ET12 5.200 1 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
    ET14 5.259 14 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    ET15 5.263 1 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    F 6.7 7 ...our habits are like [the snake's, the spider's, the tiger's, the anaconda's].
    Pow 6.71 12 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Wth 6.89 23 ...animals of all habits;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.145 13 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
    Ctr 6.155 23 ...the habits should be formed to retirement.
    Ctr 6.156 18 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Bhr 6.172 20 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...
    Wsp 6.222 5 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    SS 7.7 11 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Civ 7.20 17 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Elo1 7.64 23 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.89 22 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    DL 7.107 27 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    DL 7.118 16 [The great]...subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury;...
    DL 7.118 18 ...only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
    SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    Imtl 8.328 6 Sixty years ago...the habits and thought of religious persons, were all directed on death.
    MoL 10.250 22 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed...
    Schr 10.261 19 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    SlHr 10.440 4 [Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds, and attentive to their manners and habits;...
    Thor 10.453 7 With his hardy habits and few wants...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.469 12 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...
    GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man...of retiring and affectionate habits;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.75 17 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It...might have been calculated on by any one acquainted with the spirits and habits of our community.
    EWI 11.119 2 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...
    EWI 11.123 17 The national aim and employment streams into...our habits and our manners.
    SMC 11.361 24 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits...
    FRep 11.516 17 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us...
    CL 12.136 2 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture. Other impulses hold us to other habits.
    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.
    MAng1 12.232 13 A man of such habits and such deeds [as Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to delineation of external beauty.
    Milt1 12.263 6 [Milton's] habits of living were austere.
    Milt1 12.263 26 When [Milton] was charged with loose habits of living, he declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem... and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    MLit 12.314 12 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.314 21 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    PPr 12.383 27 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
    Let 12.403 19 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land; which has rewarded them not only with wheat but with habits of labor.

habitual, adj. (34)

    MR 1.254 3 Let us begin by habitual imparting.
    Hsm1 2.255 25 ...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.
    OS 2.267 4 ...our vice is habitual.
    OS 2.278 23 In their habitual and mean service to the world...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Exp 3.67 13 To-morrow again...the habitual standards are reinstated...
    Chr1 3.98 23 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
    Mrs1 3.151 5 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
    NR 3.234 3 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    SwM 4.123 19 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth, the habitual proceeding of the mind from inmost to outmost.
    GoW 4.280 20 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is...a habitual reference to interior truth.
    ET7 5.121 11 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
    Ctr 6.164 27 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found...to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his administration...
    Civ 7.32 12 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies, societies...of habitual hospitality...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.38 18 A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done...
    Clbs 7.237 3 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.253 10 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    SA 8.99 11 The way to have large occasional views...to have large habitual views.
    SA 8.99 13 When men consult you, it is...that they wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question...
    PPo 8.259 13 ...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
    Chr2 10.101 26 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these...elevate by sentiment and by their habitual grandeur of view.
    Chr2 10.102 14 Character denotes habitual self-possession...
    Chr2 10.102 15 Character denotes...habitual regard to interior and constitutional motives...
    Chr2 10.106 6 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country!
    SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    Thor 10.477 1 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    FSLN 11.217 21 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars.
    EPro 11.324 5 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.
    PLT 12.47 24 Talent is habitual facility of execution.
    PLT 12.49 23 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.
    II 12.66 2 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    Bost 12.184 7 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.
    MAng1 12.241 22 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    Milt1 12.273 26 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton]...by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    PPr 12.386 3 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates.

habitually, adv. (11)

    SL 2.143 16 To make habitually a new estimate,--that is elevation.
    OS 2.273 21 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Art1 2.364 23 I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    NR 3.241 14 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    SwM 4.117 11 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement, because it was habitually present to him, and never not seen.
    ET9 5.145 27 This [English] arrogance habitually exhibits itself in allusions to the French.
    Bhr 6.197 22 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself.
    Farm 7.146 19 ...[the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    OA 7.318 15 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
    Grts 8.304 7 A sensible man...omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse...
    LLNE 10.344 21 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.

habituated, v. (1)

    Wom 11.409 20 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around...when we have become habituated to them, cannot be dispensed with.

habitude, n. (1)

    ET10 5.164 4 [The English] have...drowsy habitude...

hack, adj. (1)

    AsSu 11.249 2 [Charles Sumner] had not taken his degrees in the caucus and in hack politics.

hack, n. (5)

    SL 2.131 24 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.
    Pow 6.77 8 The hack is a better roadster than the Arab barb.
    Insp 8.276 1 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    Insp 8.276 2 The result of the [literary] hack is inconceivable to the type-setter who waits for it.
    FSLN 11.238 3 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it...to a political hack...

hacked, v. (1)

    WD 7.168 27 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch, somewhat hacked by jack-knives...

hackney, adj. (1)

    ChiE 11.472 8 ...China...had codes, journals, clubs, hackney coaches...

hacks, n. (3)

    MoS 4.156 22 [The skeptic says] I tire of these hacks of routine...
    Pow 6.80 4 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    DL 7.125 18 ...[the men we see] all seem the hacks of some invisible riders.

Haddon Hall, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.172 7 Many of the [English] halls, like Haddon or Kedleston, are beautiful desolations.

Hades, n. (1)

    PNR 4.83 10 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the visions of Hades and the Fates...

Haemony, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 22 Plant...Haemony, Moly, Spikenard, Amomum.

Hafiz, n. (49)

    Hist 2.30 7 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable...of Hafiz...
    Mrs1 3.151 11 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...
    ET14 5.258 9 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    F 6.29 11 One of these [sallies of freedom] is the verse of the Persian Hafiz...
    F 6.40 10 We learn that the soul of Fate is the soul of us, as Hafiz sings...
    Pow 6.57 16 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    Wsp 6.233 27 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    CbW 6.273 6 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...
    Boks 7.194 14 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians...
    PI 8.10 2 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of Hafiz.
    PI 8.29 19 Homer, Milton, Hafiz...are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    QO 8.186 12 Hafiz furnished Burns with the song of John Barleycorn...
    PC 8.218 18 Some...Rabelais, Hafiz, Cervantes...is always allowed.
    PPo 8.237 4 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German, besides the Divan of Hafiz, specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.237 9 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.244 11 Hafiz is the prince of Persian poets...
    PPo 8.247 9 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
    PPo 8.248 5 The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty...
    PPo 8.248 25 Wrong shall not be wrong to Hafiz for the name's sake.
    PPo 8.249 19 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
    PPo 8.249 19 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical interpretation...
    PPo 8.249 24 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.251 1 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets...
    PPo 8.251 4 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...
    PPo 8.251 16 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    PPo 8.251 22 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...
    PPo 8.251 24 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations. Hafiz replied, Alas, my lord, if I had not been so prodigal, I had not been so poor!
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    PPo 8.252 16 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay. But it is easy to Hafiz.
    PPo 8.252 23 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    PPo 8.253 2 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
    PPo 8.253 6 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings, the angels hearken...
    PPo 8.253 11 No one has unvailed thoughts like Hafiz, since the locks of the World-bride were first curled.
    PPo 8.253 13 Only he despises the verse of Hafiz who is not himself by nature noble.
    PPo 8.253 24 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    PPo 8.253 26 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.254 4 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./
    PPo 8.255 3 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...
    PPo 8.256 28 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    PPo 8.258 7 This picture of the first days of Spring, from Enweri, seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    PPo 8.258 15 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    PPo 8.259 6 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations...
    PPo 8.261 15 We add to these fragments of Hafiz a few specimens from other poets.
    Insp 8.289 7 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Insp 8.295 15 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs;...

haft, n. (1)

    Schr 10.274 9 Is a man only the breech of a gun or the haft of a bowie-knife?

haggard, adj. (4)

    LE 1.169 15 ...this beauty,-haggard and desert beauty, which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    Exp 3.66 11 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find... themselves victims of partiality, very hollow and haggard...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Suc 7.289 11 Our success takes from all what it gives to one. 'T is a haggard, malignant, careworn running for luck.
    Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...

hagiology, n. (2)

    ET13 5.216 4 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground.
    Clbs 7.235 24 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue...

haglets, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 27 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...

Hague, The, Netherlands, n. (1)

    GoW 4.274 2 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.

Hahnemann, Samuel Christian (1)

    WD 7.176 10 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius; and, in modern times, of Swedenborg and of Hahnemann.

Hahnemann, Samuel Christian (1)

    ET14 5.250 14 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...

hail, n. (1)

    SMC 11.374 5 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold...

hail, v. (7)

    ET14 5.246 9 How can [English genius] discern and hail the new forms that are looming up on the horizon...
    ET19 5.313 20 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes...
    Civ 7.17 9 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Dem1 10.27 12 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    MMEm 10.424 10 Hail requiem of departed Time!
    FRO2 11.490 11 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight...
    ACri 12.301 1 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:- Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./

hailed, v. (2)

    CbW 6.249 21 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Plu 10.303 3 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...

hailstones, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 10 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking, soft sunshine and hailstones...

hail-storm, n. (1)

    SwM 4.137 10 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...

hair, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.213 22 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details, to a hair point;...

hair, n. (20)

    YA 1.373 20 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred...
    Lov1 2.185 16 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head, not one hair of which shall be harmed.
    ET4 5.66 20 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, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
    F 6.9 13 ...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
    F 6.40 23 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...
    Bty 6.299 8 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the hair unequally distributed, etc.
    DL 7.105 2 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides, and pulls the hair of laurelled heads.
    Clbs 7.234 10 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails?
    Suc 7.309 3 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...snowy hair...
    PI 8.28 26 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    PPo 8.242 18 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
    PPo 8.261 10 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    LLNE 10.327 7 [The new race] have a neck of unspeakable tenderness; it winces at a hair.
    JBS 11.280 26 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
    Wom 11.411 25 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./
    ChiE 11.472 1 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation...
    PLT 12.47 24 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    Mem 12.106 12 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...

hair-bird, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 5 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.

hair-breadth, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.68 20 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for hair-breadth adventures...

hair-line, n. (1)

    WD 7.157 22 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...

hair-moss, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 20 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...hemlock bark for his roof, hair-moss or fern for his bed.

hair-point, n. (1)

    PC 8.224 3 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.

hairs, n. (4)

    ET5 5.82 21 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world. If a man in England had as many enemies as hairs on his head, no harm would happen to him.
    ET16 5.275 1 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    Bty 6.306 7 ...character gives...awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    HDC 11.76 26 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...

hair's, n. (1)

    Exp 3.66 26 The line [a man] must walk is a hair's breadth.

hair-splitting, adj. (2)

    LT 1.264 13 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Pow 6.76 20 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation...

hair-tube, n. (1)

    PLT 12.51 23 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.

hair-worm, n. (1)

    SwM 4.107 27 A poetic anatomist, in our own day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type or prediction of the spine.

hairy, adj. (4)

    ET8 5.134 27 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again...
    Pow 6.71 2 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
    LLNE 10.345 9 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods, rude, hairy, careless of dress...
    FSLC 11.194 5 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...

Hake, of Sweden, n. (2)

    ET4 5.59 17 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
    ET4 5.59 26 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.

Hal, Prince [Shakespeare, (1)

    Comc 8.161 7 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding...

halcyons, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.169 12 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.

Haldor [Sturluson, Heimskri (2)

    ET8 5.139 26 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.
    ET8 5.140 8 Haldor was not a man of many words...

Haldor [Sturluson, Keimskri (1)

    ET8 5.140 12 Haldor remained a short time with the king...

hale, adj. (1)

    JBS 11.278 3 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...not one his own master, hale and hearty, and the other watched and whipped.

Hales, John, n. (2)

    PPh 4.40 18 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...John Hales...
    ShP 4.203 16 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...John Hales, Kepler...

half, adj. (15)

    DSA 1.143 1 In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
    SR 2.83 10 ...of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears extorted, hoarse, and half witness.
    Cir 2.317 6 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./
    SwM 4.131 4 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth, the half part of heaven, is denied...
    MoS 4.168 20 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
    Pow 6.63 5 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends, half orator, half assassin...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Wth 6.119 1 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work, or a half day;...
    Elo1 7.64 22 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.76 17 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    SovE 10.202 15 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    War 11.165 1 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    FSLN 11.231 14 We are all conservatives, half Whig , half Democrat, in our essences...
    Wom 11.422 16 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    PLT 12.52 11 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you.

half, adv. (17)

    MN 1.213 19 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...
    Hist 2.32 10 ...men and women are only half human.
    SR 2.46 27 We but half express ourselves...
    Fdsp 2.196 7 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    OS 2.287 12 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic, prophesying half insane under the infinitude of his thought,--is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Pt1 3.39 13 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen, which flies before him.
    Exp 3.48 9 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
    Chr1 3.90 24 Man, ordinarily...only half attached...to the world he lives in, in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    ET12 5.205 16 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    Ctr 6.165 19 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Wsp 6.207 11 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    Elo1 7.90 19 Put the argument...into an image...and the cause is half won.
    DL 7.133 11 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained...can the labor of many for one, yield anything better, or half as good?
    Chr2 10.103 3 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Wom 11.420 26 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...
    MAng1 12.237 15 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    Milt1 12.267 8 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...

half, n. (90)

    Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.
    Nat 1.72 9 At present, man applies to nature but half his force.
    AmS 1.102 18 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    AmS 1.102 19 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    Con 1.299 24 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    YA 1.369 2 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is to remain half the year on their estates...
    YA 1.393 15 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop, who, by the magic of title... plucks from him half the graces and rights of a man, is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Comp 2.97 5 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole;...
    SL 2.153 25 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise, and half the people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
    Lov1 2.173 8 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.
    Pt1 3.5 18 The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
    Chr1 3.90 12 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism. Half his strength he put not forth.
    Chr1 3.104 14 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money, the fortune I inherited...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Mrs1 3.119 1 Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live.
    Mrs1 3.119 2 Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live.
    Mrs1 3.120 25 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    SwM 4.110 25 ...[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number;...
    MoS 4.178 27 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    NMW 4.238 7 This [Austrian] cavalry was half a league off...
    GoW 4.270 9 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe...
    ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET2 5.28 19 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    ET4 5.45 12 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.
    ET4 5.58 1 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their food from the sea and half from the land.
    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET5 5.86 25 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them; and from constant practice they came to do it in three minutes and a half.
    ET6 5.113 24 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET8 5.140 22 Half [the Englishmen's] strength they put not forth.
    ET9 5.152 24 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name.
    ET11 5.184 13 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    ET11 5.184 15 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet; and their weight of property and station gives them a virtual nomination of the other half;...
    ET12 5.205 8 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET16 5.283 20 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    ET16 5.288 16 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious, too much by half for man in the picture...
    F 6.15 5 Now we learn that negative power, or circumstance, is half.
    Ctr 6.135 17 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with... perhaps with half a dozen personalities that are famous in his neighborhood.
    Bty 6.303 16 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
    Civ 7.23 24 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    Elo1 7.73 13 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    WD 7.158 8 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate.
    WD 7.158 22 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    WD 7.172 2 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
    Clbs 7.230 10 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Cour 7.273 4 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    Suc 7.300 8 The world is not made up to the eye of figures, that is, only half;...
    Res 8.151 12 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
    PC 8.225 4 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    PPo 8.237 6 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    PPo 8.262 18 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    PPo 8.262 25 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Insp 8.271 26 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    PerF 10.69 4 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour;...
    PerF 10.70 9 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    PerF 10.86 22 Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
    LLNE 10.365 12 A hen without her chickens was but half a hen.
    MMEm 10.419 21 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life...
    Thor 10.462 14 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    Thor 10.471 1 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    HDC 11.31 9 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy, in the course of two years and a half.
    HDC 11.54 9 Such was, for half a century, the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.65 9 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...
    HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen, about half a mile from this spot, the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    EWI 11.119 25 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a population of half a million...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.133 13 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons, and each senator with near half a million, if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.154 15 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of half the world...
    War 11.165 10 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets; it will carry over half Spain and half England;...
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    War 11.168 14 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    SMC 11.348 15 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    SMC 11.368 1 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right.
    SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun, eight and a half days ago...
    Wom 11.409 27 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they lose half their weight...
    Wom 11.416 23 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights of all kinds,-in short, to one half of the world;...
    Wom 11.422 18 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    CPL 11.500 17 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country, and which, I am persuaded, have not yet gathered half their fame.
    FRep 11.521 8 ...we can all count the few cases-half a dozen in our time- when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    PLT 12.13 17 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.
    PLT 12.43 20 ...sensibility does not exhaust our idea of [genius]. That is only half.
    PLT 12.48 18 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
    CL 12.147 1 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
    CL 12.165 24 External Nature is only a half.
    CL 12.165 26 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half...
    CL 12.165 27 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never so far-remains a half.
    CL 12.166 12 ...of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half.
    CL 12.167 2 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.
    MAng1 12.222 23 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.
    ACri 12.290 10 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    Trag 12.405 1 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

half-artful, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 5 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...

half-artless, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 6 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...

half-awake, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.285 27 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./

half-brutal, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.423 2 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote through the hands of a half-brutal intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...

half-century, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.306 21 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.

half-converted, adj. (1)

    LS 11.13 16 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...

half-dislike, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.

half-dollar, n. (1)

    F 6.6 22 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.

half-education, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.128 11 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

half-great, n. (1)

    Aris 10.43 17 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...

half-hid, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.310 23 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.

half-hour, n. (1)

    Exp 3.67 9 ...presently comes a day, or is it only a half-hour...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!

half-hour's, n. (1)

    Schr 10.282 19 ...it is the end of eloquence in a half-hour's discourse...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.

half-imbedded, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 20 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone...comes forth to the poor and hungry...

half-knowledge, n. (1)

    Trag 12.409 14 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

half-lights, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.231 16 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...

half-mad, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.390 4 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...

half-man, n. (2)

    Nat 1.72 13 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man...
    Comc 8.173 10 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.

half-mast, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.296 6 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!/

half-measures, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...

half-men, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 13 It must be conceded that these are half-views of half-men.

half-mile, n. (1)

    SMC 11.351 27 The old [Concord] Monument, a short half-mile from this house, stands to signalize the first Revolution...

half-military, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.44 14 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military officers.

halfness, n. (7)

    Comp 2.111 14 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
    ShP 4.216 22 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    Comc 8.157 19 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...
    Comc 8.158 5 ...there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
    Comc 8.159 12 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness, and exposes by contrast any halfness or imperfection.
    Comc 8.162 10 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    Comc 8.169 1 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.

half-ounce, n. (1)

    Wth 6.87 4 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...

half-shut, adj. (1)

    WD 7.182 8 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./

half-sight, n. (1)

    Nat 1.69 25 In view of this half-sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

half-thought, adj. (1)

    OA 7.330 14 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...

half-translated, adj. (1)

    PI 8.10 1 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of Hafiz.

half-truths, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 8 Let us not be pestered with assertions and half-truths...

half-view, n. (1)

    SS 7.10 9 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature, such a half-view, that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.

half-views, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 12 It must be conceded that these are half-views of half-men.

half-wise, adj. (1)

    OA 7.330 14 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...

Halifax, England, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 19 America is provincial. It is an immense Halifax.

hall, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.280 1 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense. And this passage is not made in any mean or creeping way, but through the hall door.

Hall, Basil, n. (2)

    ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.
    Pow 6.78 2 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.

Hall, Faneuil, Boston, Mas (5)

    CbW ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Elo1 7.89 8 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall;...
    PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...
    TPar 11.288 14 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...in Faneuil Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.

Hall, Free-Trade, Manchest (1)

    ET19 5.309 4 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall.

Hall, Haddon, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.172 7 Many of the [English] halls, like Haddon or Kedleston, are beautiful desolations.

Hall, Harvard, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.330 26 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.

Hall, James, n. (1)

    CW 12.177 5 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines;...

Hall, Kedleston, England, n (1)

    ET11 5.172 8 Many of the [English] halls, like Haddon or Kedleston, are beautiful desolations.

Hall, Locksley [Alfred, Lo (1)

    EurB 12.372 13 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

Hall, Merton, Oxford, Engl (1)

    ET12 5.199 19 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...Merton Hall and the rest.

Hall, Music, Boston, Massa (1)

    TPar 11.288 14 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.

hall, n. (32)

    Art1 2.349 9 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Mrs1 3.125 3 My gentleman...will...outshine all courtesy in the hall.
    Mrs1 3.128 4 ...[fashion] is a hall of the Past.
    Mrs1 3.137 3 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Mrs1 3.150 5 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    ET4 5.59 9 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET6 5.107 15 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
    ET11 5.180 21 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET12 5.200 14 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET12 5.202 14 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    ET12 5.206 13 ...[the young men at Oxford] pointed out to me a paralytic old man, who was assisted into the hall.
    Wth 6.84 9 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Ill 6.325 10 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone...
    SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    DL 7.117 22 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with sincerity...
    Clbs 7.223 3 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/ In bower and hall/ He wants them all;/...
    Clbs 7.237 18 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall...
    SA 8.85 24 Why have you statues in your hall, but to teach you that, when the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.
    Elo2 8.123 3 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806... the hall was crowded by the Professors and by unusual visitors.
    Res 8.135 2 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Comc 8.173 26 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    CSC 10.377 3 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations, in the hall, in the lobbies or around the doors.
    SlHr 10.438 15 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    Thor 10.460 18 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.460 25 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    EWI 11.133 16 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;- perhaps to gentlemen sitting by them in the hall?
    FRO1 11.477 3 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.
    CPL 11.495 9 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...
    PLT 12.28 23 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar.
    Mem 12.102 2 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...
    Let 12.400 21 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall...

Hall, Tammany, n. (1)

    FRep 11.538 2 Ours is the age...of Tammany Hall.

Hall, Westminster, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.91 15 ...we go...to Westminster Hall...to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...

Hall, Wilton, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...

Hallam, Henry, n. (11)

    ET1 5.4 1 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review,--to Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Hallam...
    ET14 5.245 8 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    ET14 5.245 17 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy;...
    ET14 5.245 27 Hallam inspires respect by his knowledge and fidelity...
    ET14 5.246 5 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
    ET17 5.292 22 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw Rogers, Hallam, Macaulay...
    QO 8.195 18 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature.
    QO 8.195 21 Hallam, though never profound, is a fair mind...
    QO 8.195 26 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
    QO 8.197 10 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    Milt1 12.250 23 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...

Hallam's, Henry, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.

Hallams, n. (1)

    ET8 5.139 1 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the Dugdales, Gibbons, Hallams, Eldons and Peels, one should see how English day-laborers hold out.

Halle, Germany, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.157 1 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, n. (1)

    RBur 11.438 9 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.

Hallelujah, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 24 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung...in every note of Old Hundred and Hallelujah and Short Particular Metre.

hallelujahs, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 6 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.

Halles, Les, Paris, France (1)

    Elo2 8.125 1 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.

Halletts, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.201 7 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.

Halley, Edmund, n. (1)

    ET14 5.248 21 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.

hallow, v. (2)

    Schr 10.283 3 ...[men's] religion should go with their thought and hallow it.
    LS 11.7 19 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...

hallowed, adj. (5)

    Lov1 2.182 8 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
    Wsp 6.231 21 Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
    WD 7.169 14 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Koss 11.397 11 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...

hallowing, adj. (1)

    OS 2.288 7 Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no hallowing presence;...

halls, n. (16)

    AmS 1.93 23 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
    Hist 2.20 6 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Comp 2.91 10 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Mrs1 3.128 6 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...
    ET11 5.172 5 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
    ET11 5.172 7 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations.
    ET11 5.189 17 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET12 5.200 4 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling.
    Ctr 6.160 13 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    DL 7.124 20 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals, ten, twenty years after they had left the halls, returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Edc1 10.126 7 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    SlHr 10.444 3 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    AKan 11.258 5 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...
    CInt 12.115 19 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country...every family has a representative in their halls...
    CW 12.169 5 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

hallucinations, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 6 We live amid hallucinations;...

halo, n. (2)

    Supl 10.166 21 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.
    MMEm 10.422 15 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.

halos, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.26 7 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.

halt, adj. (1)

    F 6.13 19 [Conservatives] have been...born halt and blind...

halt, n. (1)

    SMC 11.357 12 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...

halt, v. (1)

    War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...how his affections halt;...

halter, n. (2)

    War 11.162 12 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    War 11.166 19 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves, as the sheriff's halter does now...

halting, v. (2)

    ET4 5.55 27 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    Dem1 10.14 21 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still, and this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of their halting.

halts, v. (1)

    EPro 11.314 20 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./

halve, v. (1)

    Comp 2.105 3 We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...

halves, n. (1)

    Mem 12.110 17 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future...

halwes, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 11 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

ham, n. (1)

    FRep 11.526 25 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty,-ham and corn-cakes...enough have been attained;...

Hamelin [Hameln], Prussia, (1)

    Elo1 7.65 22 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...

Hameln [Hamelin], Prussia, (1)

    Elo1 7.65 22 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...

Hamilton, Alexander, n. (1)

    SA 8.102 19 Our gentlemen of the old school, that is, the school of Washington, Adams and Hamilton, were bred after English types...

Hamilton, Colonel, n. (1)

    ET1 5.20 17 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...

Hamilton, Duchess of [Eliza (4)

    Bty 6.297 5 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton...
    Bty 6.297 8 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Bty 6.297 16 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Bty 6.297 21 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos...or the Duchess of Hamilton?

Hamilton, Duke of [James D (1)

    Bty 6.297 5 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton...

Hamilton, James (?) [Lord (1)

    CW 12.178 16 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!

Hamilton, William, n. (1)

    Scot 11.467 24 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Leslie, Sir William Hamilton, Wilson...

hamlet, n. (2)

    Ill 6.324 26 ...in the obscurest hamlet in Maine or California, the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    Civ 7.31 5 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself and to every city, village and hamlet in the states, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!

Hamlet [Shakespeare, Hamlet (5)

    PNR 4.88 15 Hamlet is a pure Platonist...
    ShP 4.204 12 It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    ShP 4.206 25 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    Art2 7.47 10 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    PI 8.67 25 We must...ask whether, if we...do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...

Hamlet [William Shakespeare (13)

    OS 2.289 18 The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
    OS 2.289 21 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from the tongue?
    Int 2.333 22 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    Exp 3.63 10 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet...
    NR 3.233 5 Shakspeare's passages of passion (for example, in Lear and Hamlet) are in the very dialect of the present year.
    NER 3.271 21 The Iliad, the Hamlet...when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    ShP 4.204 13 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    GoW 4.278 1 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight. It is preferred by some such to Hamlet, as a work of genius.
    WD 7.182 4 Shakspeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
    PI 8.66 26 A good poem--say Shakspeare's...Hamlet...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    PLT 12.52 20 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece...a Hamlet, a Midsummer Night's Dream,-this continuity is for the great.
    II 12.72 8 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    Bost 12.204 6 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no Hamlet;...have we yet contributed.

hamlets, n. (1)

    Let 12.403 7 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides, and long intervals between hamlets and houses.

Hamlets, n. (1)

    Tran 1.341 16 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.

Hamlet's [Shakespeare, Haml (2)

    AmS 1.109 20 ...the time is infected with Hamlet's unhappiness...
    ShP 4.207 1 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...

hammer, n. (11)

    ET5 5.80 13 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a logic that brings...hammer to nail...
    ET5 5.101 11 The chancellor carries England on his mace...the smith on his hammer...
    ET16 5.278 11 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
    Pow 6.77 19 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.
    Wsp 6.225 12 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Boks 7.210 18 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused;...
    Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell.
    Boks 7.210 22 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
    Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should...forge his hammer...
    Carl 10.493 16 ...this man [Carlyle] is a hammer that crushes mediocrity and pretension.
    MAng1 12.228 17 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.

hammer, v. (1)

    PLT 12.48 16 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths;...

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph vo (2)

    QO 8.195 17 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Von Hammer-Purgstall...or other historian of literature.
    PPo 8.237 1 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall...we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.

hammers, v. (1)

    Con 1.312 12 The king on the throne governs for thee...the joiner hammers...

hammock, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 17 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas;...

Hampden, John, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    UGM 4.14 7 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland...
    HDC 11.50 16 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].

Hampden's, John, n. (1)

    LE 1.163 12 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Hampden' s...day...

hamper, n. (1)

    Mem 12.106 16 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper...

hamper, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.115 11 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with limitations of person and text.

Hampshire County, Massachus (1)

    HDC 11.81 5 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...

Hampshire, England, n. (2)

    ET16 5.273 18 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...
    ET16 5.273 21 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.

Hampshire, New, Adj. [Hampshire,] (4)

    Art1 2.360 1 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    F 6.13 22 ...strong natures...New Hampshire giants...are inevitable patriots...
    Wth 6.109 1 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...

Hampshire, New, n. [Hampshire] (6)

    SR 2.76 6 A sturdy lad from New Hampshire...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.88 22 ...with each new uproar of announcement...The Democrats from New Hampshire!...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    LLNE 10.332 11 [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...
    SlHr 10.446 6 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...which are found in Acworth, New Hampshire, not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...
    CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...

hams, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.183 12 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering-tubs.

hamstrings, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.234 20 There is no help but in the head and heart and hamstrings of a man.

Hancock, John, n. (2)

    HDC 11.71 25 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord. John Hancock was President.
    HDC 11.86 3 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...

Hand, Mr., n. (1)

    SL 2.152 14 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July, and Mr. Hand before the Mechanics' Association...

hand, n. (257)

    Nat 1.33 17 ...A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;...
    Nat 1.43 18 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...
    Nat 1.52 17 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...
    AmS 1.82 21 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers...
    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.
    AmS 1.96 9 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand.
    AmS 1.96 12 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel... the hand...
    DSA 1.127 2 [The moral sentiment] cannot be received at second hand.
    DSA 1.130 5 Boldly, with hand, with heart, and life, [Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    DSA 1.146 7 ...acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
    LE 1.159 19 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand.
    MN 1.197 10 ...we no longer hold [nature] by the hand;...
    MR 1.231 3 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...he cannot move hand or foot in them.
    LT 1.265 23 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men...of strong hand...
    LT 1.278 9 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
    Con 1.306 14 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Con 1.309 26 On the other hand, precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.320 23 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...
    Con 1.325 2 On the other hand, these dispositions establish their relations to me.
    YA 1.383 16 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
    YA 1.383 17 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
    Hist 2.2 3 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain/...
    Hist 2.19 7 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit, on the other hand, is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Hist 2.34 6 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...
    SR 2.57 15 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot...
    Comp 2.102 23 If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
    Comp 2.104 26 The parted water reunites behind our hand.
    Comp 2.113 26 Beware of too much good staying in your hand.
    Comp 2.116 14 On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
    Comp 2.122 1 Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    SL 2.136 15 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...laborers will lend a hand;...
    SL 2.148 9 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant, so that every gesture of his hand is terrific.
    SL 2.154 23 ...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...as if God brought them in his hand.
    SL 2.159 26 On the other hand, the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    Fdsp 2.192 4 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.
    Fdsp 2.205 13 ...we cannot find the god under this disguise of a sutler, yet on the other hand we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    Prd1 2.228 5 On the other hand, nature punishes any neglect of prudence.
    Prd1 2.234 11 The laws of the world are written out for [a man] on every piece of money in his hand.
    Prd1 2.238 15 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
    Hsm1 2.247 4 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Hsm1 2.249 26 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    OS 2.269 4 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
    OS 2.272 11 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    OS 2.273 25 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    Cir 2.303 2 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.
    Cir 2.303 4 Better than the hand and nimbler was the invisible thought which wrought through it;...
    Int 2.334 1 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Int 2.335 21 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Int 2.336 9 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.
    Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
    Art1 2.367 1 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
    Exp 3.43 17 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/ Him by the hand dear Nature took;/...
    Exp 3.53 25 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...
    Exp 3.57 4 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle;...
    Chr1 3.88 1 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Chr1 3.92 5 Our frank countrymen of the west and south...like to know whether the New Englander is a substantial man, or whether the hand can pass through him.
    Chr1 3.92 17 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact, and not dealing with it at second hand...
    Chr1 3.101 25 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand.
    Mrs1 3.129 12 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.134 3 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...they grasp each other's hand...
    Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his mouth ate, his hand paid for...
    Gts 3.162 6 The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
    Nat2 3.184 11 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
    Nat2 3.193 4 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are, or lay his hand or plant his foot thereon?
    Nat2 3.194 10 We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents...
    Pol1 3.220 5 On the other hand, let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    NER 3.259 13 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.263 12 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.266 16 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
    NER 3.276 15 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    NER 3.285 2 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
    UGM 4.13 2 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition. These road-makers on every hand enrich us.
    MoS 4.159 15 A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    MoS 4.160 18 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems, on the other hand, too thin and aerial.
    MoS 4.184 17 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds; he could lay his hand on the morning star;...
    ShP 4.190 27 All is done to [the master's] hand.
    ShP 4.194 7 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.196 5 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    ShP 4.210 17 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
    ShP 4.217 17 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    NMW 4.231 8 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said, was not at the extremity of my arm, it was immediately connected with my head.
    NMW 4.233 7 Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth...
    NMW 4.258 3 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    GoW 4.278 13 ...those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed. On the other hand, those who begin it with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    GoW 4.284 24 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
    ET1 5.6 2 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    ET1 5.14 8 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
    ET1 5.21 5 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him (laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat).
    ET3 5.34 14 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    ET4 5.44 7 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he on the other hand count with precision the existing races...
    ET5 5.87 2 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
    ET5 5.87 21 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages... he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET6 5.105 23 [The Englishman] does not give his hand.
    ET10 5.158 7 Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
    ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.
    ET14 5.236 15 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET15 5.267 2 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET16 5.284 25 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary,--to which Carlyle, catalogue in hand, did all too much justice,--yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET17 5.297 12 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company...
    F 6.12 1 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... a good hand for drawing...
    F 6.49 1 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.51 2 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/...
    Pow 6.61 18 A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities, ballot in one hand and rifle in the other,-- might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age. On the other hand, conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Pow 6.66 23 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the malignants.
    Pow 6.67 9 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial, grasping his hand.
    Pow 6.71 11 Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Pow 6.72 12 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Wth 6.115 10 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a third; he reaches out his hand to a fourth...
    Wth 6.115 19 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wth 6.119 21 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.
    Wth 6.121 1 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law. Nobody need stir hand or foot.
    Ctr 6.140 7 On the other hand, poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.
    Ctr 6.154 1 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Bhr 6.171 4 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room... where they may learn address, and see it near at hand.
    Bhr 6.178 21 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
    Wsp 6.212 5 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty; a bird in the hand is better.
    Wsp 6.236 12 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way; but he expressed no surprise at any coincidences. On the other hand, if he called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
    Bty 6.303 7 If I could put my hand on the North Star, would it be as beautiful?
    Ill 6.320 21 The cloud is now as big as your hand, and now it covers a county.
    SS 7.7 5 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
    Civ 7.17 13 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.23 6 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man...to live by his better hand,--fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    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, like a hired hand...
    Art2 7.35 2 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    DL 7.129 23 ...what educates [the dweller's] eye, or ear, or hand...may well find place [in the household].
    WD 7.157 4 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle; the hand is the instrument of instruments...
    WD 7.157 19 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    WD 7.170 7 There are days when the great are near us...when they take us by the hand...
    Cour 7.254 19 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    Cour 7.262 10 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball...took hold of my hand and whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Suc 7.287 14 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/...
    OA 7.315 10 [Josiah Quincy]...aiding himself by notes in his hand, made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
    PI 8.14 17 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    PI 8.14 18 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    PI 8.21 13 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
    PI 8.23 17 The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.
    PI 8.35 15 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
    PI 8.37 2 [The poet] does not give his hand, but in sign of giving his heart;...
    PI 8.48 9 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    PI 8.58 12 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
    PI 8.60 21 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand;...
    PI 8.71 18 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.
    SA 8.85 9 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand;...
    SA 8.100 17 ...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.
    SA 8.103 14 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts (and one detected continually that he had a hand in everything that has been done)...
    Elo2 8.119 20 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop...
    Elo2 8.128 6 On the other hand, it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Elo2 8.129 3 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education, and of high importance to the matter in hand.
    Comc 8.172 8 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber gave him a looking-glass in his hand.
    QO 8.197 14 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    QO 8.198 11 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
    QO 8.201 8 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
    PC 8.211 6 Here the tongue is free, and the hand;...
    PC 8.222 12 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PC 8.224 4 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
    PC 8.224 21 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand...not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PC 8.226 22 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it, and the hand obeys the same lesson.
    PC 8.233 8 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood not face to face and hand in hand...
    PPo 8.241 2 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left.
    PPo 8.242 19 The gripe of [Rustem's] hand cracked the sinews of an enemy.
    PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    PPo 8.261 23 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.262 8 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    Insp 8.273 15 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand,-tantalizes us.
    Insp 8.277 22 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit, which often went on haste,- so that the penman's hand...did often shake.
    Insp 8.277 27 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Insp 8.280 14 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life;...
    Grts 8.302 13 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but wisdom and civility...
    Grts 8.316 17 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.
    Imtl 8.329 27 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    Imtl 8.332 12 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held...
    Dem1 10.4 10 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    Dem1 10.5 1 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
    Dem1 10.6 16 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie, on the other hand, may well remind us of our dreams.
    Dem1 10.10 21 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Dem1 10.15 22 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Dem1 10.23 13 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
    Dem1 10.23 14 Just as [the so-called fortunate man's] eye and hand work exactly together...so the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within his sphere will follow.
    Aris 10.44 9 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right classifier;...
    Aris 10.44 21 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    PerF 10.78 17 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    PerF 10.84 11 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand...
    Chr2 10.96 10 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Chr2 10.122 7 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.134 27 We do not train the eye and the hand.
    Edc1 10.138 27 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes, how to work it, and are swift to try their hand at every part;...
    Edc1 10.154 9 On the other hand, total abstinence from this drug [of emulation and display]...involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Supl 10.177 16 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.
    Supl 10.178 1 On the other hand...the European nations...understand the manufacture of iron.
    SovE 10.204 16 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    SovE 10.213 25 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.224 19 Now every man...with one hand rows, and with the other backs water.
    Prch 10.229 8 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred, and not...the loving heart and serving hand.
    MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show a skilful hand...
    Schr 10.270 9 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting, the eye is so wise, and the hand so clumsy, that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.277 26 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy; Jove, and the thunderbolt launched from his hand.
    Plu 10.297 16 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand...
    Plu 10.300 11 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
    LLNE 10.329 1 In science the French savant...with barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all nooks and islands...
    LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
    EzRy 10.387 4 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    EzRy 10.387 5 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.
    SlHr 10.448 29 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Thor 10.465 4 [Thoreau] understood the matter in hand at a glance...
    Thor 10.472 6 ...the fishes swam into [Thoreau's] hand, and he took them out of the water;...
    Thor 10.473 21 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids.
    Thor 10.484 17 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand.
    GSt 10.503 5 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
    GSt 10.504 14 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    LS 11.23 6 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God? Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?
    HDC 11.76 14 We hold by the hand the last of the invincible men of old...
    War 11.159 12 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    War 11.166 7 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right.
    War 11.174 14 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand...
    FSLC 11.196 3 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost, and so it brings a bribe in its hand.
    FSLN 11.222 24 [Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
    FSLN 11.231 21 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    FSLN 11.231 24 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
    AKan 11.262 11 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    JBS 11.276 2 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    TPar 11.289 2 ...on the other hand, it was complained that [Theodore Parker] was bitter and harsh...
    SMC 11.359 22 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...the helping hand...
    SMC 11.369 6 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand.
    Wom 11.416 18 One truth leads in another by the hand;...
    Wom 11.422 18 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    SHC 11.434 10 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley, as in the palm of Nature's hand, we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    FRep 11.517 11 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers-each with a vote in his hand-to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    PLT 12.7 2 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him. He from whose hand it came will guide and direct it.
    PLT 12.52 7 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine. 'T is like a withered hand or leg on a Hercules.
    PLT 12.54 24 [A man] rows with one hand and with the other backs water...
    PLT 12.58 12 Present power, on the other hand, requires concentration on the moment...
    PLT 12.63 13 Socrates kept all his virtues as well as his faculties well in hand.
    II 12.81 8 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
    CInt 12.115 12 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand...
    CInt 12.125 18 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CL 12.138 22 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part...
    MAng1 12.213 4 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.
    MAng1 12.227 13 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand the wimbles... and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...
    MAng1 12.228 23 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.
    MAng1 12.230 13 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...every hand and foot and finger, is a study of anatomy and design.
    MAng1 12.232 7 Every stroke of [Michelangelo's] pencil moved the pencil in Raphael's hand.
    MAng1 12.232 17 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    MAng1 12.243 4 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    Milt1 12.245 2 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    MLit 12.310 1 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand...
    MLit 12.317 6 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.
    MLit 12.319 3 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency; their poetry is objective. In Byron, on the other hand, it predominates;...
    Pray 12.354 14 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Pray 12.355 21 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand...
    PPr 12.384 3 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...

Hand, n. (1)

    Nat 1.37 12 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest, - and all to form the Hand of the mind;...

hand-book, n. (1)

    PPh 4.40 23 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy, in its hand-book of morals...from [Plato].

handcuff, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 23 Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond?

Handel, Georg Friedrich, n. (3)

    Hist 2.37 16 Does not...the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
    Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it...
    PI 8.56 26 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier strain, up to Handel, up to Beethoven...

Handel's, Georg Friedrich, (2)

    NR 3.233 19 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    ET13 5.218 26 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

handful, n. (11)

    NMW 4.249 10 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    ET1 5.11 13 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET11 5.192 15 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    Wth 6.88 23 ...will a man content himself with a hut and a handful of dried pease?
    CbW 6.248 18 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful.
    Suc 7.299 24 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    HDC 11.73 14 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia...
    LVB 11.91 16 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us;...
    War 11.163 24 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    ACiv 11.308 17 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little (the parties being injured by it being such a handful that they can very easily be indemnified) rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    Koss 11.397 17 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.

handfuls, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 3 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion, detaching that force and reducing it to handfuls...

handicrafts, n. (2)

    MN 1.192 16 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics...
    Pow 6.65 7 Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

handily, adv. (1)

    F 6.33 25 Could [steam] lift pots and roofs and houses so handily?

handiwork, n. (4)

    AmS 1.94 8 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be...as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe.
    F 6.45 11 ...a hump in the shoulder will appear in the speech and handiwork.
    Art2 7.42 19 ...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
    Schr 10.272 17 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any object of Nature, or in any handiwork of man;...

handiworks, n. (1)

    Civ 7.29 27 ...as our handiworks borrow the elements, so all our social and political action leans on principles.

handkerchers, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 21 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table, and no handkerchers in his wardrobe...

handkerchief, n. (2)

    SR 2.55 5 ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief...
    Gts 3.161 16 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

handkerchiefs, n. (1)

    JBS 11.280 26 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...

handle, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.239 22 The thought is not [in dispute] taken hold of by the right handle...
    ACri 12.301 3 Everything has two handles. Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:-Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./ That was the other handle.

handle, v. (9)

    Prd1 2.226 25 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle;...
    PNR 4.84 18 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls...
    ET4 5.70 20 As soon as he can handle a gun, hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    ET11 5.196 9 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    Ctr 6.141 4 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Elo1 7.90 18 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...which [the assembly] can see and handle...and the cause is half won.
    SA 8.102 5 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who...so easily handle the affairs of the town.
    PPr 12.383 2 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...
    Trag 12.410 2 [People with an appetite for grief] handle every nettle and ivy in the hedge...

handled, v. (11)

    LT 1.260 3 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful;...
    Bhr 6.174 10 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
    Bhr 6.184 2 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
    Bty 6.303 3 ...[beauty] cannot be handled.
    Elo1 7.86 17 ...it is the certainty with which, indifferently in any affair that is well handled, the truth stares us in the face...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Res 8.147 25 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Aris 10.64 21 ...affairs themselves show the way in which they should be handled;...
    EWI 11.133 21 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.
    EWI 11.141 6 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt, who saw and handled them with extreme interest.
    HCom 11.342 24 Many of [our young men] had never handled a gun.
    EurB 12.366 16 ...[the poet's] verses must be spheres and cubes, to be seen and smelled and handled.

handles, n. (5)

    AmS 1.84 18 ...All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    WD 7.165 12 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy...to pull up the handles...
    Edc1 10.139 3 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house.
    ACri 12.300 22 Everything has two handles.
    ACri 12.302 5 Everything has two handles.

handles, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 15 The poet is...the man...who sees and handles that which others dream of...

handling, v. (5)

    LE 1.178 27 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    Exp 3.60 2 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment.
    Mrs1 3.138 10 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling...
    ET16 5.283 8 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    Ctr 6.161 2 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted, which will distinguish his handling from that of attorneys and factors.

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