Hand-Looms to Harms

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

hand-looms, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...

hand-mill, n. (1)

    SR 2.87 9 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn, grind it in his hand-mill and bake his bread himself.

hand-organs, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 17 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs]...

hands, n. (242)

    Nat 1.13 10 All the parts [of nature] incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man.
    Nat 1.32 6 ...with these forms...the keys of power are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat 1.61 18 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with...hands folded upon the breast.
    Nat 1.75 18 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
    AmS 1.95 10 I grasp the hands of those next me...
    AmS 1.100 7 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands.
    AmS 1.104 23 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side...
    AmS 1.105 7 ...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
    AmS 1.111 7 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.
    AmS 1.115 20 ...we will work with our own hands;...
    DSA 1.137 3 ...the laws of nature control the activity of the hands...
    LE 1.176 9 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths...
    LE 1.181 26 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with the soil by which he is fed...
    MN 1.203 7 ...tendency appears on all hands...
    MR 1.235 7 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part, with his own hands...
    MR 1.236 21 We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
    MR 1.237 5 ...I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    MR 1.237 23 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent...then should I be sure of my hands and feet;...
    MR 1.239 2 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.239 14 ...instead of those strong and learned hands...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.245 13 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands.
    LT 1.272 23 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    Con 1.296 18 ...if I put forth my hands, I shall not do, but undo.
    Con 1.321 17 ...religion in such hands loses its essence.
    Tran 1.338 17 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew not how, and yet it was done by his own hands.
    Tran 1.353 10 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with some plaything, until his hour comes again.
    YA 1.379 4 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    YA 1.385 22 The currency threatens to fall entirely into private hands.
    Hist 2.30 9 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...and verifies them with his own head and hands.
    SR 2.44 4 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    SR 2.47 20 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was...working through their hands...
    SR 2.78 19 The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
    Comp 2.93 9 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...
    Comp 2.106 13 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
    SL 2.135 10 ...there is no need...of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth;...
    SL 2.139 8 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...
    SL 2.140 9 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice of the hands...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
    SL 2.159 7 There is confession...in salutations, and the grasp of hands.
    Fdsp 2.213 12 We may congratulate ourselves that...when we are finished men we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands.
    Prd1 2.226 25 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle;...
    Prd1 2.228 23 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    Prd1 2.229 18 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet, making the hands grasp...
    Hsm1 2.256 2 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands...
    OS 2.270 20 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function...of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet;...
    OS 2.283 5 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist, what their hands shall do...
    Cir 2.301 21 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...around which the hands of man can never meet...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Art1 2.355 1 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    Art1 2.360 9 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands...
    Art1 2.363 17 ...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Pt1 3.11 14 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble...a new person, may put the key into our hands.
    Pt1 3.22 17 ...nature does all things by her own hands...
    Pt1 3.29 7 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    Pt1 3.32 25 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty, which puts the world like a ball in our hands.
    Pt1 3.35 25 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
    Exp 3.60 19 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    Exp 3.67 15 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;...
    Exp 3.71 24 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    Chr1 3.105 17 This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
    Chr1 3.107 16 ...Nature keeps these sovereignties in her own hands...
    Chr1 3.115 25 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Mrs1 3.120 13 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Gts 3.162 14 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    Nat2 3.171 8 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.173 6 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty; we dip our hands in this painted element;...
    NR 3.237 23 ...[Nature] is full of work, and [the wheelright and the groom] are her hands.
    NER 3.255 11 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.
    NER 3.257 16 We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms.
    NER 3.272 6 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    NER 3.272 7 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done; all which human hands have ever done.
    UGM 4.6 9 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    PPh 4.41 20 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus...write, or paint or act, by many hands;...
    PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
    SwM 4.93 4 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their hands;...
    SwM 4.108 4 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands;...
    SwM 4.108 9 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw...
    SwM 4.144 1 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...
    MoS 4.184 20 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    MoS 4.185 17 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    MoS 4.185 18 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ShP 4.190 12 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way, and their hands all point in the direction in which he should go.
    NMW 4.223 23 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.228 24 Napoleon...would help himself with his hands and his head.
    NMW 4.229 11 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily...are like hands without a head.
    NMW 4.255 17 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...
    ET4 5.66 2 The French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands.
    ET5 5.76 8 These Saxons are the hands of mankind.
    ET5 5.78 18 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    ET5 5.94 3 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions.
    ET5 5.99 1 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET6 5.112 9 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET10 5.163 7 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.165 16 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands of Lord Byron.
    ET10 5.170 18 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth.
    ET11 5.174 25 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors...
    ET15 5.267 1 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.
    ET15 5.267 15 The daily paper [London Times] is the work of many hands...
    ET15 5.271 12 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by masterly hands...
    ET16 5.275 24 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country, in the hands of the same race;...
    ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...
    F 6.11 1 Let [a man] value his hands and feet...
    F 6.43 24 The granite was reluctant, but [man's] hands were stronger...
    Pow 6.56 1 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others have cold hands and remain bystanders;...
    Pow 6.65 4 Our politics fall into bad hands...
    Pow 6.66 18 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs;...
    Pow 6.72 22 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands...
    Pow 6.79 16 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Pow 6.82 2 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight.
    Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
    Wth 6.97 4 Whilst it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere, it need not be in his hands.
    Wth 6.106 2 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
    Wth 6.115 2 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming (I mean, with one's own hands) could be united.
    Wth 6.116 16 An engraver, whose hands must be of an exquisite delicacy of stroke, should not lay stone walls.
    Wth 6.119 13 A master in each art is required, because the practice is never with still or dead subjects, but they change in your hands.
    Ctr 6.141 16 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away. Nature takes the matter into her own hands...
    Bhr 6.169 15 What are [manners] but thought entering the hands and feet...
    Bhr 6.176 3 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he...held on to his chair with both hands...
    Bhr 6.197 14 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    Wsp 6.216 16 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities with as strict a grasp as that of the hands on the sword...
    Wsp 6.221 14 Law it is, which is without name, or color, or hands, or feet;...
    Wsp 6.221 18 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Wsp 6.236 3 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict]. It should, as it ought, go into my hands and feet;...
    Wsp 6.236 26 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands.
    Wsp 6.238 8 The great class...the men who could not make their hands meet around their objects...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.271 25 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves.
    Bty 6.284 2 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...
    SS 7.15 16 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.
    SS 7.15 19 These wonderful horses [independence and sympathy] need to be driven by fine hands.
    Civ 7.22 3 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Civ 7.25 19 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed; no hands, no feet, no fins, no wings.
    Civ 7.27 10 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    Civ 7.28 9 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...no hands...
    Civ 7.34 10 ...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Elo1 7.79 5 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    Farm 7.136 2 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/...
    Farm 7.137 13 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling...that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance which made him delegate it for a time to other hands.
    WD 7.155 4 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    WD 7.171 13 This miracle [of Nature] is hurled into every beggar's hands.
    WD 7.175 9 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands...
    WD 7.185 7 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
    Boks 7.205 20 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses; for here are trusty hands waiting for him.
    Boks 7.217 5 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
    Clbs 7.234 9 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails?
    Cour 7.254 26 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands;...
    Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    Suc 7.284 16 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands.
    Suc 7.291 18 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands...
    OA 7.321 23 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...
    PI 8.1 6 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    PI 8.34 11 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.53 19 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...
    SA 8.82 14 Give me a thought, and my hands and legs and voice and face will all go right.
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    Comc 8.166 16 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours,/ For which he craved the saints to render/ Into his hands, or hang the offender;/...
    Comc 8.167 25 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen; face and hands livid...
    Comc 8.167 27 ...[the physician] rubbed his hands with delight...
    QO 8.198 21 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism, and carried it with her own hands to the post-office!
    PC 8.209 10 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all... teaching nations the taking of government into their own hands...
    PC 8.234 13 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    PPo 8.242 10 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like the clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.
    Imtl 8.332 7 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.
    Imtl 8.338 1 Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
    Imtl 8.344 18 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    Imtl 8.348 15 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day; an hour hangs heavy on their hands;...
    Dem1 10.12 23 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Dem1 10.25 9 [Animal Magnetism] becomes in such hands a black art.
    Chr2 10.89 1 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Chr2 10.106 2 ...in the hands of hot Africans...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    Chr2 10.119 2 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
    Edc1 10.133 11 [If I have renounced the search of truth] I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just...tied his hands...
    Edc1 10.143 1 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    Edc1 10.157 25 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it, and let all the children clap their hands.
    Supl 10.172 21 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    SovE 10.189 6 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to be the very hands of this guiding sentiment...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Prch 10.226 19 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our hands work in a small knot of affairs.
    Schr 10.273 5 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.
    Schr 10.274 22 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
    Schr 10.276 24 ...I love talents and accomplishments; the feet and hands of genius.
    Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    LLNE 10.355 6 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    MMEm 10.406 23 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    MMEm 10.421 6 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    Thor 10.459 12 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Thor 10.461 14 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools.
    Thor 10.461 25 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    Thor 10.464 7 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    GSt 10.502 18 Mr. [George] Stearns...had the magnanimity to trust [John Brown] entirely, and to arm his hands with all needed help.
    LS 11.24 25 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    HDC 11.33 3 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    LVB 11.96 10 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    EWI 11.116 7 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...shook hands with them...
    EWI 11.134 21 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no valuable business to throw into any man's hands...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    War 11.169 3 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation; I shall not find them defenceless, with idle hands swinging at their sides.
    FSLC 11.197 26 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FSLC 11.200 15 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.
    FSLC 11.207 9 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
    AsSu 11.249 6 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    JBB 11.272 10 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use than idiots. After the mischance they wring their hands, but they had better never have been born.
    ACiv 11.299 3 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.303 22 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...
    ACiv 11.309 5 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily. The weapon is slipping out of our hands.
    ALin 11.336 23 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...
    HCom 11.340 6 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
    SMC 11.348 6 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    Wom 11.408 18 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    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...
    FRep 11.513 8 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man...
    FRep 11.520 10 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians]. In this innocence you are puzzled how to meet them; must shake hands with them, under protest.
    PLT 12.9 22 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.11 2 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus...
    PLT 12.28 15 [Each man] holds the keys of the world in his hands.
    PLT 12.35 4 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
    PLT 12.48 26 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
    PLT 12.49 4 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.
    PLT 12.57 4 If a man show cleverness...people clap their hands without asking more.
    CInt 12.119 21 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people, and drive their hands and feet in the way he wishes them to go...
    CInt 12.119 25 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that...they serve him with a million hands...
    CInt 12.132 3 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.148 21 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations. I hear the cracking of the whips in their hands.
    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 12.232 19 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    MAng1 12.232 22 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.
    MAng1 12.232 26 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    MAng1 12.237 27 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle, that his work might be lighted and his hands at liberty.
    Milt1 12.251 8 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
    Milt1 12.260 17 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
    ACri 12.290 17 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes. In good hands it will never become sterility.
    MLit 12.322 8 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.
    MLit 12.327 15 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    WSL 12.339 25 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands...
    Pray 12.353 12 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands...
    AgMs 12.360 17 ...it was by accident that this volume [the Agricultural Survey] came into [Edmund Hosmer's] hands for a few days.
    Let 12.400 1 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field, where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away into the sand?
    Let 12.401 7 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave...nothing holy which they do not defile with their fumbling hands;...
    Trag 12.411 22 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands...
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.

hand-sawyers, n. (1)

    Civ 7.27 20 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...

handsome, adj. (29)

    LE 1.167 24 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    MR 1.244 10 Why must [any man] have...handsome apartments...
    Hsm1 2.258 2 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...
    UGM 4.23 8 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well-born, rich, handsome, eloquent...
    UGM 4.30 19 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    ET1 5.5 18 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET4 5.57 14 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons...
    ET4 5.65 13 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...
    ET4 5.66 3 ...in all ages [the English] are a handsome race.
    ET4 5.66 16 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET4 5.69 7 The old [English] men are...still handsome.
    ET5 5.74 23 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
    ET5 5.79 6 [Kenelm Digby's] person was handsome and gigantic...
    ET8 5.139 27 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.
    ET9 5.145 15 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman...
    ET11 5.187 14 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    ET16 5.275 15 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people; they are as good as they are handsome;...
    Wth 6.114 2 Pride is handsome, economical;...
    Wsp 6.211 6 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it...
    Bty 6.298 12 Mirabeau had an ugly face on a handsome ground;...
    Bty 6.301 2 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    Bty 6.302 26 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    PPo 8.251 17 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.
    Thor 10.483 12 No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.
    SHC 11.434 27 ...every part of Nature is handsome when not deformed by bad Art.
    CL 12.147 5 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites against the Pequots, and if the handsome savages win, we shall not be losers.
    Bost 12.201 6 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    Milt1 12.257 6 Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was called the lady of his college.

handsomer, adj. (2)

    SR 2.51 20 ...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
    NER 3.261 20 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment...than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

hand-work, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 9 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...

handwriting, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.223 18 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...

handy, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.63 15 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...we are all handy with our fists.
    FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.

hang, v. (23)

    Hist 2.9 13 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?
    Comp 2.125 3 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him...
    Hsm1 2.256 10 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Cir 2.303 19 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will...these leaves hang so individually considerable?
    Pt1 3.31 27 ...the gypsies say of themselves it is in vain to hang them, they cannot die.
    ET4 5.53 1 The portraits that hang on the walls in the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...
    ET12 5.200 5 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls;...
    F 6.8 3 Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Bhr 6.175 14 ...Nature and Destiny...never fail...to hang out a sign for each and for every quality.
    Farm 7.148 3 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Suc 7.309 9 Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall...
    SA 8.83 6 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures;...
    Res 8.152 19 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    Comc 8.165 26 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/...
    Comc 8.166 16 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours,/ For which he craved the saints to render/ Into his hands, or hang the offender;/...
    Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
    PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    LLNE 10.366 24 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...
    MMEm 10.420 23 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out. Yet how independent, how better than to hang on friends!
    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...
    JBB 11.269 26 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.
    FRO2 11.487 23 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent...not to hang on the world as a pensioner...
    MAng1 12.231 3 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air;...

hanged, v. (6)

    Hsm1 2.256 12 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Chr1 3.114 8 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who was hanged at the Tyburn of his nation...
    Carl 10.492 15 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    HDC 11.58 23 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged...
    War 11.173 27 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    Wom 11.420 14 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be hanged for stealing, or hanged at all;...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

hanging, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 24 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a...Salem hanging of witches;...

hanging, v. (10)

    MR 1.251 25 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel, with a wooden platter hanging at his saddle...
    Int 2.334 1 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...
    MoS 4.165 14 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    ET4 5.59 4 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...
    ET6 5.109 20 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...
    Elo1 7.78 18 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...
    Boks 7.216 9 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    PI 8.53 12 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
    LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on hanging the Quaker...these were gentle souls...
    HDC 11.84 2 I find [in Concord annals]...no hanging of witches...

hanging-gardens, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.174 3 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens...to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
    WD 7.174 15 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.

hangings, n. (1)

    DL 7.112 18 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.

hangman, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.192 10 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLC 11.198 14 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...

hangs, v. (11)

    AmS 1.94 23 ...the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty...
    LT 1.282 11 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    Exp 3.46 24 Embark, and the romance quits our vessel and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
    ET4 5.50 16 A child blends in his face...some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall.
    CbW 6.257 2 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    WD 7.174 13 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.
    PPo 8.238 18 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    Imtl 8.348 14 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day; an hour hangs heavy on their hands;...
    MAng1 12.243 11 There [in Florence], [Michelangelo's] picture hangs in every window;...
    ACri 12.304 4 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    MLit 12.312 18 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...

hankering, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.137 14 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    PLT 12.45 11 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they have a hankering to play Providence...

hankering, v. (3)

    AmS 1.109 17 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    LE 1.174 1 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    Exp 3.84 9 ...that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.

Hannah, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...

Hansard, Luke, n. (2)

    ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
    ET15 5.268 22 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.

Hansard's, Luke, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 21 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.

hap, n. (1)

    MN 1.199 2 How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate spiritual facts?

haphazard, n. (1)

    ACri 12.304 1 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.

hapless, adj. (3)

    Prch 10.222 4 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation? To him, it is no creation; to him, these fair creatures are hapless spectres...
    LLNE 10.368 1 ...in [Brook] Farm...each was master or mistress of his or her actions; happy, hapless anarchists.
    EWI 11.98 5 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./

happen, v. (24)

    SR 2.80 1 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.
    Mrs1 3.142 10 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show.
    UGM 4.5 14 We must not...deny the substantial existence of other people. I know not what would happen to us.
    PPh 4.67 11 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    MoS 4.150 3 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that men will be found devoted to one or the other.
    ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
    ET5 5.82 22 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.
    ET8 5.133 1 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    F 6.8 20 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day? Aye, but what happens once may happen again...
    Pow 6.56 17 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things; can predict it. Whatever befalls, befalls him first; so that he is equal to whatever shall happen.
    Bhr 6.180 15 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
    Suc 7.302 24 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    PI 8.61 1 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart, for everything which must happen will come to pass.
    PI 8.62 6 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen...
    PI 8.63 1 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
    SA 8.91 2 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions, though they happen at this moment to thwart his wishes.
    SA 8.91 26 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either.
    Supl 10.164 3 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
    Thor 10.463 23 ...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players happened to [Thoreau].
    AKan 11.260 21 It must happen, in the variety of human opinions, that there are dissenters.
    SMC 11.354 16 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    PLT 12.50 14 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost.
    CInt 12.125 6 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    Let 12.402 22 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...

happened, v. (30)

    Hsm1 2.262 27 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again;...
    Chr1 3.109 9 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
    NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
    PPh 4.45 16 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a sound, sincere and catholic man...
    PPh 4.71 17 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    PPh 4.73 15 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    PNR 4.88 1 ...it has happened that a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
    MoS 4.162 24 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...
    ET6 5.102 7 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET6 5.106 16 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis.
    ET7 5.120 16 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal, where I happened to be a guest since my return home, I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET16 5.279 16 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    F 6.3 6 It so happened that the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    Wsp 6.210 14 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.220 8 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time...
    Elo1 7.68 15 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    Clbs 7.238 25 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Suc 7.304 14 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
    OA 7.325 21 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    SA 8.89 21 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    Elo2 8.115 11 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Comc 8.166 1 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    Thor 10.463 23 ...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players happened to [Thoreau].
    LS 11.6 23 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have...dwelt in the mind of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    EWI 11.104 19 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...the stomach rises with disgust, and curses slavery. Well, so it happened;...
    EWI 11.130 19 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too...as it happened, very dear to him, as having saved his own life, working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.138 27 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
    SMC 11.365 14 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.
    Wom 11.425 26 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
    CInt 12.125 6 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.

happens, v. (46)

    Nat 1.14 7 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
    LE 1.171 19 ...[the light] is gone before you can cry, Hold. And so it happens with our philosophy.
    MR 1.233 12 It happens therefore that all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    MR 1.240 7 ...it happens that the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    MR 1.241 17 I know it often, perhaps usually, happens that where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    LT 1.283 9 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still. This happens to the best.
    Hist 2.22 22 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
    Prd1 2.226 17 ...it happens that not one stroke can labor lay to without some new acquaintance with nature...
    OS 2.270 8 If we consider what happens in conversation...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Pt1 3.34 22 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen...
    Pol1 3.206 25 When the rich are outvoted, as frequently happens, it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    Pol1 3.215 15 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy.
    NR 3.226 7 That happens in the world, which we often witness in a public debate.
    PPh 4.44 17 We are to account for...how it happens that in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...
    SwM 4.98 19 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    ET8 5.129 27 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner...
    ET11 5.185 26 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
    ET12 5.207 26 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    F 6.8 20 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day? Aye, but what happens once may happen again...
    Pow 6.59 6 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wth 6.106 13 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Ctr 6.147 15 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Bhr 6.184 3 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
    CbW 6.257 4 What happens thus to nations befalls every day in private houses.
    Boks 7.192 13 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
    PC 8.228 27 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry;...
    Insp 8.282 8 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Grts 8.319 18 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town.
    Aris 10.37 7 Whatever happens is too much for [the common man]...
    Chr2 10.100 14 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
    Edc1 10.158 10 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Schr 10.281 18 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    Thor 10.461 7 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world, as happens often to men of abstract intellect.
    EWI 11.139 4 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
    War 11.164 27 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.
    FSLC 11.195 5 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment. And thus it happens here [with the Fugitive Slave Law]: Statute fights against Statute.
    AKan 11.260 16 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
    JBS 11.279 19 ...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
    PLT 12.24 16 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.
    PLT 12.24 17 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.
    PLT 12.25 10 The fine tree continues to grow. The same thing happens in the man.
    PLT 12.47 1 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right.
    II 12.83 21 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some failure.
    CInt 12.122 3 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    Bost 12.196 5 To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained which prove a college for the young rustic. Hence it happens that the young farmers and mechanics...often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    MAng1 12.239 1 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.

happier, adj. (25)

    LT 1.262 1 We do not think the sky will be bluer...but only that our relation to our fellows will be simpler and happier.
    YA 1.385 7 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved.
    SR 2.73 10 If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
    Comp 2.125 1 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant...
    SL 2.135 8 ...the world might be a happier place than it is;...
    Fdsp 2.201 25 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Hsm1 2.253 25 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals, and is never happier than when they tarry for some time.
    NER 3.272 10 ...we are all the children of genius, the children of virtue,-- and feel their inspirations in our happier hours.
    PPh 4.66 18 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    ET8 5.134 5 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET18 5.305 22 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    Ctr 6.156 26 ...if [solitude] can be shared between two or more than two, it is happier and not less noble.
    Bhr 6.172 23 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
    CbW 6.265 23 A man should make life and nature happier to us...
    Bty 6.279 25 [Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/ To die for Beauty, than live for bread./
    Suc 7.298 21 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    Suc 7.308 6 A man is a man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.
    PPo 8.252 26 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    MMEm 10.430 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.
    ALin 11.336 2 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away;...
    CPL 11.495 13 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
    FRep 11.542 25 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...as if dressing the globe for happier races.
    CL 12.139 10 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    CW 12.173 1 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has...so ordered [my fate] that I live happier than the king of the Persians.

happier, adv. (1)

    Tran 1.359 23 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...

happiest, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.61 18 The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
    LE 1.155 16 ...a scholar is...the happiest of men.
    Hsm1 2.259 15 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed.
    Mrs1 3.126 20 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.
    Nat2 3.169 8 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    NER 3.260 22 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy]...is reaching forward at this very hour to the happiest conclusions.
    ET2 5.31 18 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    Ill 6.315 21 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune...
    SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    Farm 7.147 22 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    WD 7.171 18 Could our happiest dream come to pass in solid fact,--could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    OA 7.315 23 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm;...
    PI 8.13 25 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.
    QO 8.194 2 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour;...
    Insp 8.296 14 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    MMEm 10.404 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you. 'T was so in my happiest early days, when you were at my side.
    ACiv 11.310 14 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year.
    Shak1 11.450 15 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.

happily, adv. (23)

    Nat 1.73 17 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    DSA 1.119 14 The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
    Hist 2.23 1 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys.
    Fdsp 2.206 14 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Pt1 3.30 7 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
    ShP 4.193 16 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to.
    ET12 5.206 7 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    Wth 6.88 5 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...
    Comc 8.163 15 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    QO 8.188 10 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily...
    QO 8.193 19 Every word in the language has once been used happily.
    QO 8.202 21 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.
    Plu 10.311 22 [Seneca] is not happily living.
    LLNE 10.361 20 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.363 27 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think;...
    MMEm 10.407 23 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    HDC 11.65 6 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master; happily, the Court refused;...
    FSLC 11.204 7 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    JBB 11.267 16 [John Brown] was happily a representative of the American Republic.
    ALin 11.330 18 How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, [Lincoln] came to his place.
    SHC 11.433 1 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    FRO1 11.477 6 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...where I should happily and humbly learn my lesson;...
    FRep 11.543 2 Happily we are under better guidance than of statesmen.

Happiness, Lucas on, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 7 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to Lucas on Happiness...

happiness, n. (57)

    DSA 1.124 24 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment...which makes our highest happiness.
    MN 1.215 13 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still...as far from happiness in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?
    Con 1.326 3 ...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.343 23 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.357 13 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    Lov1 2.176 1 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Lov1 2.188 16 There are moments when the affections...make [the man's] happiness dependent on a person or persons.
    Art1 2.354 15 Our happiness and unhappiness are unproductive.
    Exp 3.59 23 To fill the hour,--that is happiness;...
    Chr1 3.111 14 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications...
    Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Gts 3.163 21 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.
    Nat2 3.187 7 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end...
    NER 3.269 10 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    SwM 4.128 8 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness...
    SwM 4.139 12 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous spirit and obtaineth eternal happiness.
    ET1 5.4 17 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    Bhr 6.191 3 We parade our nobilities in poems and orations, instead of working them up into happiness.
    Wsp 6.214 9 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    Wsp 6.231 1 ...the happiness of one cannot consist with the misery of any other.
    CbW 6.265 1 ...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained.
    CbW 6.267 8 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
    CbW 6.267 23 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...
    Ill 6.316 13 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    DL 7.129 1 [Friendship] is the happiness which...postpones all other satisfactions...
    WD 7.173 7 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...
    WD 7.179 1 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    WD 7.181 18 Just to fill the hour,--that is happiness.
    Suc 7.298 22 All this happiness [the city boy in the October woods] owes only to his finer perception.
    Suc 7.306 2 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high acquaintances.
    Suc 7.307 1 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    OA 7.332 16 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    PI 8.56 16 ...I honor the geometer, but he has before him higher power and happiness than he knows.
    SA 8.83 11 What happiness [accurate mates] give...
    SA 8.83 17 Nature made us all intelligent of these signs, for our safety and our happiness.
    PPo 8.244 18 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Insp 8.297 14 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints...
    Imtl 8.323 16 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    Imtl 8.351 13 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient...
    Edc1 10.159 4 The beautiful nature of the world has here blended your happiness with your power.
    SovE 10.214 3 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Prch 10.217 22 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    Prch 10.228 7 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    Prch 10.228 8 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness...
    Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    MMEm 10.431 8 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    HDC 11.45 3 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
    FSLN 11.239 8 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    ACiv 11.299 21 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    PLT 12.3 8 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    II 12.82 12 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias, in obeying which his power, opportunity and happiness reside.
    CW 12.173 20 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    MAng1 12.216 18 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    MAng1 12.238 26 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked one of the richest sources of happiness...
    Milt1 12.270 27 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills the heart and brain...
    MLit 12.316 8 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the character, and can thus minister to the vanity but not to the happiness of the possessor;...

Happiness, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 9 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness, or Lucas on Holiness...

happy, adj. (137)

    Nat 1.22 9 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    AmS 1.103 3 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time, - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
    LE 1.156 11 ...the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LT 1.264 3 ...I find the Age walking about in happy and hopeful natures...
    LT 1.267 23 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
    LT 1.272 23 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...in some happy hour, be executed by the hands.
    Tran 1.345 15 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    Tran 1.350 23 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition...
    YA 1.366 21 ...this [inclination to cultivate the soil] seemed a happy tendency.
    YA 1.368 18 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    SR 2.67 18 [Man] cannot be happy and strong...
    Comp 2.96 13 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
    Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
    Lov1 2.176 2 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Fdsp 2.192 1 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one...happy expression;...
    Fdsp 2.201 22 Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
    Hsm1. 2.252 24 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
    Hsm1 2.260 26 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.
    Int 2.336 3 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Int 2.342 18 Happy is the hearing man;...
    Art1 2.358 15 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art;...
    Pt1 3.24 13 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Chr1 3.102 17 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them...
    Mrs1 3.141 8 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    Mrs1 3.141 11 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Mrs1 3.146 9 ...there is still...some just man happy in an ill fame;...
    Mrs1 3.149 20 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
    NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl, a piece of life, gay and happy...
    UGM 4.34 14 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...
    SwM 4.128 8 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness...
    SwM 4.130 12 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    ShP 4.197 7 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps;...
    NMW 4.227 16 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures... and not these alone, but on every happy and memorable expression.
    GoW 4.271 10 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences...
    GoW 4.288 24 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world.
    ET5 5.93 19 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET6 5.114 10 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection: the stories are so good that one is sure they must have been often told before, to have got such happy turns.
    ET17 5.291 15 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    Pow 6.75 21 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Bhr 6.169 20 Manners are the happy way of doing things;...
    Bhr 6.189 24 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is deep-founded...
    Wsp 6.224 20 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike. Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in his energy and constancy.
    Wsp 6.225 15 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    Wsp 6.225 27 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers.
    CbW 6.266 14 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.
    CbW 6.277 2 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted, which nature never pardons. The happy conditions of life may be had on the same terms.
    Bty 6.285 3 See how happy, [Tisso] said, these browsing elks are!
    Civ 7.23 7 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Art2 7.47 14 Our arts are happy hits.
    Elo1 7.82 10 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    DL 7.103 8 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    DL 7.121 11 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man! too happy, could they know their advantages.
    DL 7.127 26 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character;...
    WD 7.181 4 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Boks 7.192 18 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Clbs 7.230 20 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Suc 7.294 17 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
    Suc 7.296 15 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present...
    Suc 7.302 1 Ah! if one could...live in the happy sufficing present...
    Suc 7.306 11 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to that top of condition...that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    OA 7.331 8 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    OA 7.332 18 [John Adams]...said: I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy.
    OA 7.335 25 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    PI 8.13 14 A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just.
    PI 8.32 23 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    SA 8.91 22 ...sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    SA 8.104 22 The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
    Elo2 8.129 20 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].
    Res 8.145 8 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    PC 8.207 1 We meet to-day under happy omens to our ancient society...
    PC 8.212 7 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    Insp 8.270 27 In happy moments [thought] is reinforced...
    Insp 8.279 16 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...
    Insp 8.281 19 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Grts 8.307 20 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he finds [his bias], keeps it;...
    Grts 8.310 13 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Aris 10.60 12 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
    PerF 10.82 19 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle...of happy relations to all men.
    Chr2 10.117 23 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Chr2 10.121 7 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Edc1 10.140 1 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.145 12 Happy this child with a bias...
    Edc1 10.149 22 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...
    SovE 10.194 25 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    SovE 10.208 25 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and, with happy heart and a bias for theism, bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
    SovE 10.212 9 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power;...
    Prch 10.234 9 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched;...
    Schr 10.270 27 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
    Schr 10.283 23 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit] becomes active and salient...
    Schr 10.284 19 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!
    Schr 10.284 20 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
    Plu 10.304 3 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
    Plu 10.313 25 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    LLNE 10.331 23 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    LLNE 10.368 1 ...in [Brook] Farm...each was master or mistress of his or her actions; happy, hapless anarchists.
    MMEm 10.397 12 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    MMEm 10.403 27 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy...
    MMEm 10.414 9 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...
    MMEm 10.418 3 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.
    Thor 10.481 25 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well, was so happy in her solitude, that he became very jealous of cities...
    GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man... happy in his domestic relations,-[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.507 6 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    HDC 11.69 7 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    HDC 11.69 20 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    HDC 11.70 19 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.
    EWI 11.120 19 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EWI 11.120 23 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    EWI 11.124 14 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the brandy made nations happy;...
    EWI 11.130 1 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men, not surrounded by happy friends...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    War 11.160 16 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    FSLN 11.233 22 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States,-if they are so happy as to get out with their lives...
    EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... suddenly, lending himself to some happy inspiration, announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EPro 11.325 27 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth...
    EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart.
    Wom 11.426 7 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    Shak1 11.448 17 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    ChiE 11.474 14 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    CPL 11.508 22 ...I am happy in the assurance that the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    PLT 12.46 16 He alone is strong and happy who has a will.
    II 12.82 23 [A man] is strong by his genius, and happy also by the same.
    Mem 12.102 13 There are more inventions in the thoughts of one happy day than ages could execute...
    CInt 12.128 4 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...
    CL 12.157 1 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.
    CW 12.169 10 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../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./
    CW 12.176 9 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
    Bost 12.195 5 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Bost 12.199 27 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have its happy ports...
    Milt1 12.259 7 [Milton's] endowments received the benefit of a careful and happy discipline.
    Milt1 12.268 23 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    Milt1 12.277 20 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./
    MLit 12.316 2 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love?
    Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
    Pray 12.353 1 My Father, when I cannot be cheerful or happy, I can be true and obedient...

haps, n. (1)

    MLit 12.335 6 The world does not run smoother than of old,/ There are sad haps that must be told./

harangue, n. (3)

    NMW 4.226 17 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly.
    Art2 7.45 18 ...how much is there that is not original...in every tune, painting, poem or harangue!...
    Elo1 7.68 3 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue...

harangues, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.222 10 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.

harassed, adj. (1)

    OA 7.332 23 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life.

harbinger, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.214 22 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...and the harbinger of a greater friend.
    ACri 12.293 13 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers: asphodel, harbinger, chalice, flamboyant...

harbingered, v. (1)

    Comc 8.163 5 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.

harbingers, n. (1)

    Tran 1.338 8 We have had many harbingers and forerunners;...

Harbingers, The [George He (1)

    Insp 8.282 26 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...

Harbor, Boston, Massachuset (1)

    CbW 6.259 1 A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.

harbor, n. (4)

    Ctr 6.163 11 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    OA 7.323 13 The insurance of a ship expires as she enters the harbor at home.
    HDC 11.70 27 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor of Boston be repealed;...
    ACri 12.301 17 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank.

harbor, v. (2)

    Exp 3.64 13 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences...
    Wsp 6.230 22 If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

harbored, v. (3)

    Nat 1.61 6 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging wherein man is harbored...
    Mrs1 3.154 25 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side. And the madness which he harbored he did not share.
    EurB 12.368 16 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

harbors, n. (1)

    CL 12.153 19 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.

harbors, v. (2)

    MN 1.208 14 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom...
    SwM 4.137 27 He who loves goodness, harbors angels...

harbours, n. (1)

    Bost 12.189 25 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.

hard, adj. (95)

    Nat 1.33 20 ...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...
    LE 1.159 16 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning,
    LE 1.183 6 They whom [the student's] thoughts have entertained or inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard conditions of thought.
    MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head?
    Con 1.315 26 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    YA 1.373 18 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    Hist 2.13 2 ...why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.28 20 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.37 20 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
    SR 2.57 22 Speak what you think now in hard words...
    SR 2.57 23 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again...
    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for...country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare...
    Prd1 2.226 6 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    Pt1 3.41 8 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer. The conditions are hard, but equal.
    Exp 3.82 12 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer, and leaves no appeal and no hard thoughts.
    Chr1 3.93 10 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning...
    Nat2 3.173 19 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please.
    Pol1 3.218 19 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    UGM 4.14 21 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...
    SwM 4.103 27 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas. It is hard to say what was his own...
    SwM 4.109 5 We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
    SwM 4.112 11 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
    SwM 4.121 16 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.
    SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    SwM 4.130 18 It is hard to carry a full cup;...
    ET1 5.24 19 ...[Wordsworth] surprised by the hard limits of his thought.
    ET4 5.55 21 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET5 5.77 14 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane...
    ET5 5.88 15 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    ET6 5.111 16 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET6 5.111 19 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.
    ET8 5.140 10 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard...
    ET11 5.174 11 ...the terms of admission to this club [English aristocracy] are hard and high.
    ET12 5.204 17 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    ET14 5.233 15 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.234 7 Hudibras has the same hard mentality...
    ET14 5.234 10 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.
    ET15 5.270 20 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
    ET17 5.297 25 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...
    ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous.
    F 6.17 20 'T is hard to find the right Homer, Zoroaster, or Menu;...
    Pow 6.63 4 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...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 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm, with its hard fare still fresh in his remembrance, boards at a first-class hotel...
    Bhr 6.187 25 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how.
    Wsp 6.224 3 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast? 'T is as hard to hide as fire.
    CbW 6.268 18 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends; hard to find, and hard to have when found...
    CbW 6.275 14 Do not make life hard to any.
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    SS 7.1 9 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please/...
    SS 7.11 12 'T is hard to mesmerize ourselves...
    Elo1 7.87 10 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum...
    Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...and the cause is half won.
    Elo1 7.96 5 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor hard words...make any impression.
    Elo1 7.96 13 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...
    Farm 7.137 8 Men do not like hard work...
    Farm 7.138 25 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...
    Farm 7.140 1 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man;...
    WD 7.164 4 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard...
    Cour 7.279 24 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./
    Suc 7.303 4 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the secret of it is hard to detect...
    SA 8.82 6 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at work...
    SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.127 5 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...
    PC 8.215 21 It is always hard to go beyond your public.
    PC 8.231 16 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PC 8.231 26 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    PC 8.232 1 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
    Imtl 8.327 6 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Imtl 8.329 14 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Imtl 8.351 17 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Aris 10.47 4 ...while each [exerts his faculty], he excludes hard thoughts from the spectator.
    Edc1 10.136 19 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Plu 10.319 26 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation, since it is hard to break the custom of the place, I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    MMEm 10.409 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard...
    MMEm 10.420 26 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    Thor 10.483 17 Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.
    GSt 10.503 27 ...for himself [George Stearns] asked only to do the hard work.
    HDC 11.39 26 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...
    LVB 11.94 2 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    FSLC 11.196 8 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions.
    JBS 11.279 26 [John Brown] made his hard bed on the mountains with [animals];...
    TPar 11.288 25 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch...
    SMC 11.366 8 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.
    SMC 11.367 6 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    SMC 11.371 2 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...
    SMC 11.371 12 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    FRep 11.526 12 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    II 12.69 17 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself, though now dim and hard to read.
    Bost 12.186 17 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why.
    ACri 12.297 9 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time.
    EurB 12.371 14 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
    Let 12.402 15 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.
    Let 12.403 15 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...

hard, adv. (26)

    Nat 1.65 19 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
    MR 1.230 4 We thought...that such as [the money-catcher] at least would die hard;...
    MR 1.245 2 We shall eat hard and lie hard...
    MR 1.245 3 We shall eat hard and lie hard...
    Exp 3.81 9 We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous...
    Nat2 3.187 15 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    NR 3.248 17 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    NER 3.274 13 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    ET18 5.305 10 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
    ET18 5.305 20 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
    Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to...lie hard.
    Wsp 6.202 15 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
    CbW 6.250 19 Nature works very hard...
    Elo1 7.87 3 When hard pressed, [the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    DL 7.119 7 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.
    OA 7.318 19 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    PI 8.18 9 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
    PI 8.18 12 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious.
    PC 8.213 12 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy, working as hard and as successfully as Newton...
    Supl 10.169 27 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    Supl 10.176 4 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men, who have held themselves hard to the poverty of Nature.
    Schr 10.264 22 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    FRep 11.517 14 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    Bost 12.193 22 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.199 6 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England], sitting down hard and fast where they came...
    Milt1 12.257 15 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.

hard-by, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.257 14 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./

hard-earned, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.121 23 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.

harden, v. (1)

    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;...

Hardenberg, Friedrich von [ (2)

    GoW 4.280 7 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    GoW 4.280 15 ...Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...

hardened, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.169 21 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    Carl 10.496 5 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men, as the Styx hardened Achilles...

hardening, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.262 24 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    Aris 10.34 7 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day, which is hardening to an immortal picture.

hardens, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.200 19 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which hardens the ruby in a million years...
    Pow 6.61 20 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin.

harder, adj. (7)

    SR 2.53 24 [Self-reliance] is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
    ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    F 6.17 21 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...
    Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    DL 7.108 6 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted? These facts are, to be sure, harder to read.
    PerF 10.69 6 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; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    AKan 11.262 23 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.

harder, adv. (2)

    NER 3.284 14 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    EzRy 10.392 14 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances...

hardest, adj. (10)

    Int 2.331 11 What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
    Pt1 3.27 18 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest...
    Exp 3.84 13 Hardest roughest action is visionary also.
    ET11 5.183 25 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.
    PI 8.7 22 The hardest chemist...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    Aris 10.35 21 ...not the hardest utilitarian will question the value of an aristocracy if he love himself.
    EWI 11.100 23 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. The hardest selfishness is to be borne with.
    EWI 11.119 11 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica]; they should not be made to dig the cane-holes (which is the very hardest of the field work);...
    SMC 11.371 22 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew.
    SMC 11.372 8 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third. On the night of the thirtieth,-The hardest day we ever had.

hardest, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.49 21 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

hard-eyed, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.47 10 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands...

hard-featured, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.114 9 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...

hard-fisted, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 9 The most hard-fisted...companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.

hard-fought, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 21 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer, after how many and many a hard-fought summer's day and winter's day;...

hard-headed, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.74 8 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...

hardier, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.211 6 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...
    CL 12.146 13 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself, and whilst some of its trees decay, the hardier have held their own.

hardiest, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.139 10 The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken...will not deny the validity of education.

hardihood, n. (5)

    LE 1.176 2 ...we have need of...such an asceticism...as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
    Pol1 3.212 10 Lynch-law prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
    SwM 4.115 4 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    PPo 8.247 3 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz...
    HDC 11.35 27 ...the pilgrims had the preparation of an armed mind, better than any hardihood of body.

Hardiknute, n. (2)

    MLit 12.312 20 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...of Hardiknute, Stately stept he east the wa,/ And stately stept he west,/...
    MLit 12.312 25 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I?

hardiness, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.265 4 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

hardly, adv. (61)

    MN 1.202 11 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
    MR 1.227 16 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    YA 1.372 9 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit; so slight as to be hardly observable, yet it is there.
    Fdsp 2.217 1 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.221 20 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    Mrs1 3.120 8 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Nat2 3.176 25 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess.
    Nat2 3.188 17 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...too good for the world, and hardly yet to be shown to the dearest friend.
    Pol1 3.217 5 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    NR 3.231 18 Money...which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    UGM 4.26 15 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. ... But we stop where they stop. Very hardly can we take another step.
    MoS 4.154 18 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    ShP 4.195 16 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    ET5 5.79 26 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall...
    ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England], and hardly even thought is free.
    ET6 5.106 2 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
    ET8 5.130 10 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep sleep, which they enjoy.
    ET10 5.170 27 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects. Hardly the bravest among them have the manliness to resist it successfully.
    ET16 5.287 5 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions, hardly enough for health;...
    F 6.22 17 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...quadruped ill-disguised, hardly escaped into biped...
    Pow 6.81 14 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Ctr 6.150 4 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
    Wsp 6.232 14 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...
    CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation.
    CbW 6.276 7 If you are proposing only your own, the other party must deal a little hardly by you.
    Bty 6.301 20 There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
    SS 7.7 14 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry;...
    DL 7.120 4 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    Farm 7.146 23 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles and hardly find a stick or a stone.
    Clbs 7.247 18 The use of the hospitality of the club hardly needs explanation.
    Insp 8.285 21 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
    Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe they were all such speedy shadows as we;...
    PerF 10.88 2 Every new asserter of the right surprises us...and we hardly dare believe he is in earnest.
    Chr2 10.105 4 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Supl 10.163 5 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...and its importance cannot be denied and hardly exaggerated.
    Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.
    Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    MMEm 10.399 4 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life, such as could hardly have appeared out of New England;...
    MMEm 10.399 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate.
    MMEm 10.417 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.
    Thor 10.484 12 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture...
    GSt 10.507 17 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    HDC 11.68 2 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold from the first as hardly to admit of increase.
    TPar 11.286 25 ...we can hardly ascribe to [Theodore Parker's] mind the poetic element...
    EPro 11.318 10 ...when it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln],-one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    SMC 11.349 11 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
    SMC 11.375 18 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.
    SMC 11.375 21 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
    Shak1 11.447 23 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary].
    FRO1 11.477 1 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.
    CPL 11.497 15 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    Bost 12.211 2 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...
    ACri 12.290 22 There is hardly danger in America of excess of condensation;...
    ACri 12.299 14 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it in any newspaper or journal...
    MLit 12.310 19 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book...
    EurB 12.372 11 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other.
    PPr 12.386 13 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...
    Let 12.396 3 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.

hardness, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.170 4 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    ET14 5.257 2 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or hardness...
    War 11.167 19 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.

hardship, n. (3)

    Wth 6.116 4 Long marches are no hardship to [the land-owner].
    DL 7.119 11 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship...
    RBur 11.441 18 ...[Burns] has endeared...hardship; the fear of debt;...

hardships, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.325 7 I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered the hardships of his own youth;...
    HDC 11.35 16 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...

hardware, n. (2)

    MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...hardware...the son finds his hands full...
    EWI 11.126 11 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses, would fill them with tools, with pottery, with crockery, with hardware;...

Hardwicke, Lord [Philip Yo (3)

    EWI 11.106 5 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    FSLC 11.191 14 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLN 11.225 22 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.

hard-worked, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.90 6 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons, but these are hard-worked.

hard-working, adj. (1)

    TPar 11.284 3 There 's a background of God to each hard-working feature,/ Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...

hardy, adj. (13)

    Exp 3.82 1 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    Mrs1 3.126 11 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    PPh 4.72 18 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier...
    ET4 5.53 24 Only a hardy and wise people could have made this small territory [England] great.
    ET4 5.64 19 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
    Pow 6.57 20 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Pow 6.71 19 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
    Farm 7.141 2 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    Thor 10.453 7 With his hardy habits and few wants...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.461 14 [Thoreau's] senses were acute, his frame well-knit and hardy...
    CL 12.145 25 [The pear] is hardy, and almost immortal.
    CL 12.151 4 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds...
    Bost 12.191 20 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men...

Hardy, n. (1)

    ET4 5.68 4 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.

Hare, Julius Charles, n. (1)

    ET1 5.9 13 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...

hare, n. (2)

    ET4 5.73 13 It is a proverb in England that it is safer to shoot a man than a hare.
    Let 12.392 18 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

harebells, n. (1)

    SS 7.1 3 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock/...

Harefield, England, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.275 8 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...

harem, n. (1)

    Boks 7.209 7 ...a man's library is a sort of harem...

harems, n. (1)

    PPo 8.246 9 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation...

hares, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 1 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather...

Hargreaves, James, n. (1)

    ET10 5.158 17 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse.

Hari, n. (1)

    WD 7.176 2 In the Hindoo legends, Hari dwells a peasant among peasants.

haridan, n. (1)

    CbW 6.276 3 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house and a haridan in the other.

hark, v. (2)

    SR 2.48 18 Hark! in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    Trag 12.409 9 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...

harken, v. (1)

    PLT 12.8 3 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...

Harleian Miscellany, The, n (1)

    Hsm1 2.248 5 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.

harlot, n. (1)

    SR 2.57 15 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot...

harlots, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 8 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots...

harm, n. (32)

    YA 1.378 19 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    SR 2.86 13 The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.
    Comp 2.109 22 Harm watch, harm catch.
    Comp 2.116 20 ...you cannot do [the good man] any harm;...
    Comp 2.121 13 [Nothing, Falsehood] cannot work any good; it cannot work any harm.
    Comp 2.121 13 [Nothing, Falsehood] is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.
    Comp 2.123 14 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me...
    Exp 3.84 22 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    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.
    ET7 5.124 12 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET11 5.183 25 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England...will suffer before they come to harm?
    F 6.24 22 If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your good.
    Ctr 6.165 1 ...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 7.31 14 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Elo1 7.75 4 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.
    DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm...
    Farm 7.145 23 Genius even, as it is the greatest good, is the greatest harm.
    Clbs 7.225 18 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating, with the least harm, is society;...
    Elo2 8.128 25 A few bruises and scratches will do [a boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.
    QO 8.177 14 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    Imtl 8.340 11 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better, and preserves from harm until another period.
    Aris 10.42 25 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper, and share his bed without harm.
    SovE 10.197 22 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?
    SovE 10.212 25 What armor [innocence] is to protect the good from outward or inward harm...
    LS 11.16 16 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
    FSLN 11.227 11 Here [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was the question, Are you for man and for the good of man; or are you for the hurt and harm of man?
    FSLN 11.237 17 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for harm;...
    JBS 11.276 21 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    Scot 11.465 23 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor escaped its harm.
    FRep 11.523 7 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good! Or they take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm!...
    PLT 12.29 18 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm...
    Pray 12.355 22 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.

harm, v. (1)

    Res 8.146 5 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him...

Harman, Jacob [Jacobus Arm (1)

    ShP 4.203 17 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius...

harmed, v. (2)

    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.
    Cir 2.315 9 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril. In many years neither is harmed by such an accident.

harming, v. (1)

    Suc 7.290 21 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that; these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.

harmless, adj. (7)

    F 6.34 21 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most harmless and energetic form of a State.
    Wsp 6.199 2 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
    CbW 6.244 3 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    Cour 7.254 21 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; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make the earthquake harmless...
    Prch 10.228 11 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
    War 11.155 15 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...
    CPL 11.501 13 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons...

harmonic, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.44 2 The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors.
    Nat 1.44 3 The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors.
    Hist 2.37 17 Does not...the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
    ET14 5.242 17 ...the very announcement...of Kepler's three harmonic laws...finds a sudden response in the mind...

harmonical, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 7 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.

harmonies, n. (3)

    SwM 4.145 25 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    PI 8.56 24 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;...
    MAng1 12.219 19 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies...

Harmonies, New, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.352 20 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
    Bost 12.198 27 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the Zoars, New Harmonies and Brook Farms...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

harmonious, adj. (6)

    YA 1.382 16 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    SR 2.59 2 ...of one will, the actions will be harmonious...
    MAng1 12.215 1 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious;...
    MAng1 12.217 26 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 4 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    Milt1 12.257 21 ...[Milton's] voice, we are told, was delicately sweet and harmonious.

harmoniously, adv. (1)

    SovE 10.200 7 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.

harmonize, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 27 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.

harmonized, v. (2)

    Art2 7.44 9 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    MAng1 12.218 24 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...

harmonizing, v. (1)

    F 6.4 16 By the same obedience to other thoughts we learn [their power], and then comes some reasonable hope of harmonizing them.

harmony, n. (47)

    Nat 1.11 6 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both.
    Nat 1.23 26 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all - that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.
    Nat 1.35 13 A life in harmony with Nature...will purge the eyes to understand her text.
    Nat 1.55 25 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognized itself in their harmony...
    AmS 1.92 11 ...we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    DSA 1.123 1 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere... bringing up facts to a harmony with thoughts.
    DSA 1.128 21 Drawn by [the soul's] severe harmony...[Jesus Christ] lived in it...
    LE 1.173 17 ...[the scholar] must possess [the world] by putting himself into harmony with the constitution of things.
    MN 1.219 6 ...astronomy is thought and harmony in masses of matter.
    LT 1.271 10 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.285 16 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the need of harmony...
    Tran 1.335 8 Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you just and commanding.
    YA 1.365 16 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    Hist 2.21 4 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
    SR 2.46 25 This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.
    Lov1 2.184 5 Cause and effect...the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance...predominate later...
    Hsm1 2.245 10 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Art1 2.368 27 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    Pt1 3.13 24 All form is an effect of character; all condition, of the quality of the life; all harmony, of health;...
    Pt1 3.36 25 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Nat2 3.169 5 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony...
    Nat2 3.184 9 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    SwM 4.103 18 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature...
    SwM 4.120 18 A man is in general and in particular an organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony [Swedenborg] assigned in the Arcana...
    ET16 5.283 4 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    F 6.48 23 ...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of Nature to be harmony and joy.
    Pow 6.60 25 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Wsp 6.204 7 Nature has...certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine, and not less a harmony in faculties...
    Suc 7.295 23 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself in harmony...
    PI 8.49 7 ...the elemental forces have their...their own grand strains of harmony...
    PI 8.52 16 ...when we rise into the world of thought...speech refines into order and harmony.
    PI 8.57 4 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will...set him into concert and harmony.
    Insp 8.295 8 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.
    Dem1 10.12 20 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the agents.
    Dem1 10.12 27 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it, look for completeness and harmony.
    MMEm 10.423 5 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.
    EWI 11.125 3 Unhappily...for the planter, the laws of nature are in harmony with each other...
    EWI 11.143 12 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature;...
    PLT 12.40 18 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.
    II 12.89 8 ...the universe understands itself, and all the parts play with a sure harmony.
    CInt 12.120 3 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind.
    MAng1 12.219 4 ...Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature...
    Milt1 12.261 16 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/ Untwisting all the chains that tie/ The hidden soul of harmony./
    WSL 12.345 2 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior, where the circumstances are in harmony with the man.
    PPr 12.383 11 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect harmony to all eyes;...

Harmony, New, Indiana, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 4 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

harms, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.250 12 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.

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