Harness to Heaps

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

harness, n. (4)

    MR 1.231 9 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he...must take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness.
    Lov1 2.186 3 [The soul]...at last...puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
    ET6 5.105 22 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners, and never put off the harness.
    FSLN 11.242 17 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.

harness, v. (5)

    Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    Farm 7.135 4 [Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;/...
    MoL 10.251 7 Learn to harness a horse...
    II 12.75 6 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must...not too exactly task and harness it.
    CL 12.149 5 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters)...harness your car!

harnessed, v. (2)

    MR 1.250 6 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is...not yet harnessed in the team of society...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    CL 12.148 18 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;...

harnessing, v. (2)

    AmS 1.110 25 That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    FSLC 11.201 12 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly...harnessing himself to the chariot of the planters.

Harold I, of England, n. (2)

    ET4 5.61 20 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    ET4 5.61 25 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country, nor especially such a leader as King Harold was for wisdom and bravery.

Harold, Norway [Sturluson, (1)

    ET8 5.140 1 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...

harp, n. (10)

    Nat2 3.175 4 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
    GoW 4.272 22 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    Insp 8.273 26 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window...
    Insp 8.287 18 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
    Insp 8.287 27 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp?
    Edc1 10.129 19 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    MMEm 10.424 23 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.
    CInt 12.130 2 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    Trag 12.406 11 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.

Harp, n. (1)

    AmS 1.82 6 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...

harp, v. (1)

    ShP 4.212 16 ...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an ostentation, nor did he harp on one string.

Harper's Ferry Invasion, C (1)

    GSt 10.504 5 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

Harper's Ferry, West Virgi (1)

    JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.

harping, v. (2)

    F 6.4 12 ...by harping...on each string, we learn at last its power.
    Ctr 6.132 17 ...worse than the harping on one string, nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.

harpit, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.71 9 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./

harpoon, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...

harpoon, n. (4)

    Comp 2.110 13 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    Comp 2.110 15 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by lasso...all the game that is in nature.
    War 11.166 13 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the cannon would become street-posts; the pikes, a fisher's harpoon;...

harpoons, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 20 ...oars, scythes, harpoons...are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

harps, n. (1)

    Plu 10.320 6 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...

harp-strings, n. (1)

    Boks 7.198 17 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it, and with some harp-strings fetched from a higher heaven.

harried, adj. (1)

    DL 7.125 17 ...[the men we see] are harried, wrinkled, anxious;...

harried, v. (2)

    ET4 5.60 27 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed...
    ET5 5.75 6 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom.

Harrington, James, n. (1)

    ET14 5.253 1 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.

Harrington's Club, London, (1)

    Clbs 7.243 26 Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.

Harrington's, James, n. (1)

    ET14 5.242 7 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land...

Harrison, George, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 22 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

Harrison's Landing, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 7 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service at Harrison' s Landing...

Harrow [School], England, n (1)

    ET12 5.208 5 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

Harry Fifth, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 6 There are...no Bolingbrokes, no Cardinals, no Harry Fifth, in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].

harsh, adj. (11)

    SR 2.73 23 Does this sound harsh to-day?
    GoW 4.281 26 What signifies...that [the writer's] voice is harsh or hissing;...
    ET6 5.107 11 Born in a harsh and wet climate...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    Elo1 7.67 26 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...
    Elo2 8.120 22 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    Prch 10.226 16 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    EWI 11.133 4 ...I am loath to say harsh things...
    TPar 11.289 3 ...it was complained that [Theodore Parker] was bitter and harsh...
    ACiv 11.307 9 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;...because Slavery will again speak through [sensible Southerners] its harsh necessity.
    SMC 11.356 19 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who liked harsh play and violence...
    Milt1 12.261 7 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.

harsher, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.340 7 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor]. Possibly his writings are open to harsher censure;...

harshly, adv. (1)

    Bty 6.293 18 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.

harshness, n. (1)

    TPar 11.287 8 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...

Harte, Bret, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 10 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.

Hartford, Connecticut, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.299 21 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate, whose value is covered by the Hartford insurance?

Hartford, Connecticut, n. (1)

    Civ 7.32 4 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.

Hartley, David, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.330 4 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham...

Hartlib, Samuel, Letter to (1)

    Milt1 12.256 19 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.

Harvard College, n. (15)

    Elo2 8.123 1 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Elo2 8.127 20 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he prayed for Harvard College...
    Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837...
    Thor 10.458 26 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
    Thor 10.459 2 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and College useless, on the terms of his rules...
    Thor 10.459 4 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College was its library...
    HDC 11.57 9 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    HCom 11.343 19 ...standing here in Harvard College...in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    CInt 12.126 6 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
    CInt 12.126 7 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
    Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.

Harvard Hall, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.330 25 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.

Harvard University Library, (1)

    Thor 10.458 19 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.

Harvard University, n. (7)

    ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society, as well as senior alumnus of the University, was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    OA 7.330 25 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the University and read the authors.
    Elo2 8.123 17 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams]...resigned his chair in the University.
    EzRy 10.382 12 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    SlHr 10.439 15 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.451 14 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...

harvest, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.244 10 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

harvest, n. (18)

    AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now...inviting nations to the harvest.
    MR 1.256 22 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice. It is the conversion of our harvest into seed.
    LT 1.269 5 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    Pt1 3.25 25 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Mrs1 3.128 25 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    NER 3.253 19 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
    CbW 6.254 15 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    Civ 7.21 20 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather; and fine faculties begin to yield their fine harvest.
    Art2 7.57 1 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Boks 7.198 25 Every new crop in the fertile harvest of reform...is there [in Plato].
    Suc 7.307 5 The plenty of the poorest place is too great: the harvest cannot be gathered.
    QO 8.204 20 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    PerF 10.75 4 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in the harvest grown on what was shingle and pine-barren.
    MoL 10.248 6 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest;...
    Thor 10.483 26 How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
    HDC 11.52 8 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?- which questions were accounted of by some, as part of the whitenings of the harvest toward.
    PLT 12.13 17 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.

harvest, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.205 7 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    Bost 12.204 15 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.

harvest-home, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 21 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home...

harvesting, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 14 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns...

harvestings, n. (1)

    Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.

harvests, n. (10)

    AmS 1.82 3 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
    UGM 4.7 19 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome,-- harvests for food...
    ET2 5.33 18 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests;...
    ET3 5.41 19 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent...
    ET5 5.92 19 [The English] have approved...their British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
    Wth 6.105 15 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved.
    CbW 6.254 15 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    PerF 10.76 12 ...[man] exhausts by his use all the harvests...
    Prch 10.232 2 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to good harvests, new resources...
    CL 12.145 7 In October, the country is covered with [the apple's] ornamental harvests.

Harvey, William, n. (3)

    SwM 4.104 10 Harvey had shown the circulation of the blood;...
    ET5 5.100 23 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels;...
    MoL 10.248 20 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Harvey, with his circulation;...

Harz Mountains, Germany, n. (1)

    ET11 5.183 19 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...in the Harz Mountains...

hasheesh, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 15 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases;...

hashish, n. (1)

    OA 7.319 2 ...alcohol, hashish...are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.

haste, n. (22)

    LE 1.155 3 The invitation to address you this day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
    LE 1.162 4 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
    PPh 4.76 27 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought;...
    SwM 4.94 22 Almost with a fierce haste [the moral sentiment] lays its empire on the man.
    NMW 4.231 7 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by any pretences of others, or any superstition or any heat or haste of his own.
    ET1 5.23 11 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...
    ET6 5.110 23 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET13 5.214 9 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET14 5.235 11 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    Bhr 6.187 14 ...nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Clbs 7.232 22 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    SA 8.102 24 With all our haste, and slipshod ways and flippant self-assertion, I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    QO 8.198 16 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
    Insp 8.277 22 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit, which often went on haste...
    Plu 10.310 1 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
    FSLC 11.181 1 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    FSLC 11.181 10 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    AKan 11.257 9 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    PLT 12.9 25 ...what we really want is not a haste to act...
    PPr 12.391 1 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.

haste, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.246 6 My Dorigen,/ Yonder, above, 'bout Ariadne's crown,/ My spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste./

hasten, v. (11)

    YA 1.364 7 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.
    Wsp 6.230 12 Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me?
    Art2 7.40 13 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    DL 7.125 24 ...the multitude do not hasten to be divine.
    Res 8.152 18 ...in the first relentings of March [the willow] hasten...
    PC 8.227 15 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    Insp 8.277 27 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
    Plu 10.322 14 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    MMEm 10.424 5 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work...
    PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...

hastened, v. (6)

    Nat 1.43 8 Xenophanes complained...that...all things hastened back to Unity.
    Wsp 6.228 6 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    EzRy 10.389 26 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing...
    HDC 11.75 3 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers, whom the noise of the firing had hastened to the spot.
    EWI 11.119 21 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded that the emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened...
    EWI 11.127 7 ...[British merchants] hastened to make the best of their position, and accepted the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies].

hastening, v. (4)

    DL 7.120 1 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...hastening into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson...
    Res 8.144 2 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Comc 8.167 18 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend...
    CPL 11.504 18 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

hastens, v. (5)

    AmS 1.85 14 ...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    MN 1.199 11 The bird hastens to lay her egg: the egg hastens to be a bird.
    MN 1.199 12 The bird hastens to lay her egg: the egg hastens to be a bird.
    UGM 4.25 24 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations.
    PLT 12.8 11 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...

hastily, adv. (3)

    PNR 4.80 5 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    WD 7.155 8 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    Suc 7.294 22 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect, hastily, and for the market, you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.

hasting, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.301 7 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts, in order to keep up with the hasting history.

hasting, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.269 5 Questions that involve all social and personal rights were hasting to be decided by the sword...

Hastings, England, n. (1)

    ET4 5.60 23 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.

Hastings, Warren, n. (3)

    ET14 5.258 25 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    Elo1 7.73 11 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo2 8.113 8 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.

hasty, adj. (8)

    ET15 5.266 7 ...I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times], in which they redact their hasty stenographs...
    OA 7.319 25 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    Imtl 8.336 8 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
    Imtl 8.345 26 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.
    Chr2 10.94 27 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...and we take part with hasty shame against ourselves...
    HDC 11.73 20 This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    FSLN 11.240 6 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    FRep 11.539 19 ...liberty, like religion, is a short and hasty fruit...

hat, n. (17)

    Fdsp 2.197 22 Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately, and already thou art seizing thy hat and cloak.
    Nat2 3.188 5 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred.
    ET13 5.220 27 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    Ctr 6.149 18 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Ctr 6.151 12 There are advantages in the old hat and box-coat.
    WD 7.170 23 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat;...
    Cour 7.274 22 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, This is God's hat.
    Comc 8.169 13 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll.
    Comc 8.169 15 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    Comc 8.169 16 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    Aris 10.53 12 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows, and his hat on his feet, if he will.
    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
    JBS 11.277 23 [John Brown] said that he...could not see a seedy hat without wishing to pull it off.
    CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
    WSL 12.337 3 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man, with fresh complexion and a smooth hat, whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    AgMs 12.362 5 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them...

hatched, v. (2)

    ET16 5.277 20 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    LLNE 10.365 10 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.

hatchet, n. (2)

    Pow 6.68 17 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    CW 12.174 2 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.

hatchets, n. (2)

    HDC 11.37 27 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
    HDC 11.58 1 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind their hatchets...

hate, n. (4)

    Comp 2.111 18 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him...there is hate in [my neighbor] and fear in me.
    Fdsp 2.204 16 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by hate...
    F 6.6 7 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./
    War 11.160 17 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?

hate, v. (42)

    Nat 1.4 15 ...religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    Nat 1.37 19 Debt...whose iron face...the sons of genius fear and hate;...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    LE 1.173 5 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not hate...his ancestors;...
    Comp 2.99 26 [The man of genius] must hate father and mother, wife and child.
    Comp 2.118 11 I hate to be defended in a newspaper.
    Fdsp 2.200 7 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum...
    Fdsp 2.205 17 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
    Fdsp 2.208 21 I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance...to find a mush of concession.
    Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate lubricity...
    Prd1 2.239 2 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Pt1 3.17 1 The people fancy they hate poetry...
    Exp 3.81 1 ...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...
    Exp 3.85 6 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny.
    Chr1 3.100 10 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...whom [society] cannot let pass in silence but must either worship or hate...he helps;...
    Gts 3.162 10 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat...
    Gts 3.163 14 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    GoW 4.285 16 [Goethe] can not hate anybody;...
    ET5 5.78 15 [The English] hate craft and subtlety.
    ET6 5.102 21 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
    ET6 5.111 5 [The English] hate innovation.
    ET6 5.113 2 [The English] hate nonsense, sentimentalism and highflown expression;...
    ET7 5.118 10 [The English] hate shuffling and equivocation...
    ET7 5.121 20 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    ET7 5.122 13 [Englishmen] hate the French, as frivolous;...
    ET7 5.122 14 ...[Englishmen] hate the Irish, as aimless;...
    ET7 5.122 15 ...[Englishmen] hate the Germans, as professors.
    CbW 6.265 15 I know those miserable fellows, and I hate them, who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    WD 7.175 13 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich poverty which men hate;...
    WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    Suc 7.290 9 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...
    Grts 8.316 3 Meantime we hate snivelling.
    Grts 8.317 7 It is noted of some scholars...that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    Chr2 10.120 13 That which I hate and fear is really in myself...
    SovE 10.201 22 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt.
    Prch 10.218 11 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant;...
    LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks...
    War 11.156 22 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    Mem 12.98 14 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory...
    Mem 12.105 2 We remember those things which we love and those things which we hate.
    CInt 12.119 8 I love results and hate abortions.
    MLit 12.314 8 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness, until we hate their being.
    MLit 12.329 21 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] Fierce churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate my name, but every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...

hated, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.41 23 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    PC 8.217 3 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour... and as lonely and as hated as Dante before them.
    Edc1 10.128 17 Here [in the household] is poverty and all the wisdom its hated necessities can teach...
    Let 12.394 15 [The correspondents] do not wish to force society into hated reforms...

hated, v. [:/hated,] (7)

    SR 2.78 27 The gods love [the self-helping man] because men hated him.
    Cir 2.305 23 The new statement is always hated by the old...
    , v/. Art1 2.356 11 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
    PPh 4.71 22 [Socrates]...hated trees...
    ET7 5.117 26 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    Ill 6.307 1 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
    WD 7.177 26 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

hateful, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.38 21 ...what is not hateful, [the foolish] call the best.
    LT 1.271 25 Why should [the manner of life we lead] be hateful?
    SA 8.105 20 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise.
    Plu 10.314 1 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful...
    FSLC 11.190 1 ...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual element]; hateful as they deny or resist it.

Hatem Tai's, n. (1)

    Cour 7.253 21 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Hatem Tai's hospitality;...

hater, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.144 9 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...
    CInt 12.119 3 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...

haters, n. (4)

    NER 3.272 24 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these haters will begin to love...
    ET8 5.130 8 [The English] are good lovers, good haters...
    ET19 5.312 20 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters...
    SA 8.99 1 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.

hates, v. (22)

    MN 1.215 5 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...hates the enterprise which lately seemed so fair...
    Con 1.318 19 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
    SR 2.69 19 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes;...
    SR 2.88 3 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it is accidental...
    Comp 2.98 19 Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
    Exp 3.59 19 Nature hates peeping...
    Exp 3.68 7 Nature hates calculators;...
    Mrs1 3.131 7 ...[fashion]...hates nothing so much as pretenders;...
    Mrs1 3.139 24 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    Mrs1 3.139 25 [Society]...hates quarrelsome, egotistical, solitary and gloomy people;...
    Mrs1 3.139 26 [Society]...hates whatever can interfere with total blending of parties;...
    GoW 4.275 26 [Goethe] hates to be trifled with...
    Ctr 6.142 19 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus...
    Bty 6.284 15 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose.
    Suc 7.312 6 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
    PC 8.231 21 A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
    Supl 10.165 27 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...hates birds and flowers.
    Schr 10.281 9 Everybody hates imbecility and shortcoming, not new methods.
    Carl 10.494 11 [Carlyle] hates a literary trifler...
    WSL 12.344 7 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.
    WSL 12.347 21 [Landor] hates false words...
    Trag 12.414 12 ...the world...hates all manner of exaggeration.

Hathaway, Ann, n. (1)

    ShP 4.202 5 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.

hating, adj. (1)

    War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

hating, v. (6)

    Art1 2.366 19 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely...to do up the work as unavoidable, and, hating it, pass on to enjoyment.
    PNR 4.85 6 This eldest Goethe [Plato], hating varnish and falsehood, delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    PNR 4.85 9 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted...in discovering connection, continuity and representation everywhere, hating insulation;...
    NMW 4.224 6 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal, hating innovation...
    ET14 5.258 19 For a self-conceited modish life...hating ideas, there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    LLNE 10.363 11 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...hating intellect with the ferocity of a Swedenborg.

hatred, n. (23)

    LE 1.177 27 Out of love and hatred...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Con 1.297 3 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred.
    SR 2.49 12 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds...
    SR 2.51 22 The doctrine of hatred must be preached...
    Hsm1 2.251 7 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent...of hatred...
    OS 2.276 26 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion; of love, hatred, fear, admiration, pity;...
    Pol1 3.210 14 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism]...is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    NR 3.239 25 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... not hurled into aphelion by hatred, could not have seen.
    SwM 4.139 7 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. There is not one who is worthy of my love or hatred.
    MoS 4.172 24 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred;...
    MoS 4.180 14 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    NMW 4.255 13 [Napoleon] had no generosity, but mere vulgar hatred;...
    SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...without love or hatred in the matter...
    Cour 7.275 12 ...the rack, the fire, the hatred and execrations of our fellow men, appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...sex, hatred, suicide...
    Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
    Carl 10.493 4 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    War 11.165 24 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred;...
    FSLC 11.186 10 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Germany its hatred of classes;...
    FSLN 11.242 3 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy, from which I only reap invectives and hatred.
    AsSu 11.249 18 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the hatred of his enemies...
    AsSu 11.251 10 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.

hatreds, n. (4)

    UGM 4.22 23 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
    Ctr 6.162 19 [The finished man of the world] must hold his hatreds...at arm' s length...
    PI 8.65 21 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.
    Trag 12.412 17 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few; loves, hatreds, or any emissions of the soul.

hats, n. (6)

    ET5 5.84 20 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...vamp your old coats and hats...
    Clbs 7.232 27 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them; rather, as soon as their own speech is done, they take their hats.
    Supl 10.167 22 The people of English stock...are a solid people, wearing good hats and shoes...
    SovE 10.206 6 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    CL 12.137 5 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession, with flowers in their hats...

haughtily, adv. (3)

    Nat2 3.175 7 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!
    Ctr 6.155 21 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities; they must be used, yet cautiously and haughtily...
    EdAd 11.382 14 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./

haughtiness, n. (3)

    Wth 6.92 11 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Grts 8.313 9 Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
    Milt1 12.264 1 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.

haughty, adj. (12)

    Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    Nat2 3.175 24 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians...
    MoS 4.150 13 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    ET1 5.7 12 ...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that haughty mind...
    Bty 6.305 23 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
    QO 8.202 23 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    Prch 10.217 16 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    Prch 10.236 10 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    MMEm 10.404 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
    War 11.172 22 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    TPar 11.286 3 Theodore Parker was...upright, of a haughty independence...
    ACiv 11.306 26 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely, leaving their haughty dictation.

Haukal, Ibn, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.253 14 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.

hauling, v. (1)

    SwM 4.99 18 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...

haunt, n. (1)

    Thor 10.472 11 ...[Thoreau] would carry you to the heron's haunt...

haunt, v. (4)

    DSA 1.143 21 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.
    Insp 8.275 9 ...Swedenborg must solve the problems that haunt him, though he be crazed or killed.
    Dem1 10.27 11 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away...the great presentiments which haunt us.
    SHC 11.431 16 Shadows haunt [trees];...

haunted, v. (8)

    Pol1 3.217 22 We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character...
    NER 3.278 9 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
    SwM 4.132 22 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
    Dem1 10.8 17 A prophetic character in all ages has haunted [dreams].
    Aris 10.58 15 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown; then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall tumble...
    SovE 10.201 18 The house in which we were born...is still haunted by parents and progenitors.
    LLNE 10.324 3 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    Thor 10.479 25 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...

haunts, n. (9)

    OA 7.318 26 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    Edc1 10.155 18 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast, which all wish to return to their haunts, begin to return.
    Edc1 10.155 25 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    MMEm 10.420 19 ...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
    Thor 10.463 22 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    CPL 11.507 22 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    Milt1 12.264 21 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...
    Milt1 12.264 22 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...
    EurB 12.368 16 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

haunts, v. (5)

    Cir 2.305 6 The result of to-day, which haunts the mind...will presently be abridged into a word...
    WD 7.178 14 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    OA 7.330 4 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
    Trag 12.407 12 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
    Trag 12.409 3 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts the afternoon and the night...

Havana, Cuba, n. (1)

    EWI 11.110 13 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.

Have, n. (2)

    Comp 2.91 6 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./
    Wth 6.117 20 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Haven, New, Connecticut, n. (2)

    Civ 7.32 3 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.
    Grts 8.319 16 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...New Haven...there might be fit society;...

havings, n. (2)

    SL 2.149 22 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
    Wom 11.409 2 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.

havoc, n. (3)

    PPh 4.39 13 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities.
    FSLN 11.217 6 ...I see what havoc it makes with any good mind, a dissipated philanthropy.
    SMC 11.360 10 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.

Havoc, n. (1)

    War 11.170 25 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way, and cries, Havoc and war!

Hawk, Black, Indians, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

Hawk, Black, War, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 15 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...

hawk, n. (4)

    SR 2.44 3 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    Exp 3.63 23 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man...
    WD 7.164 25 I saw a brave man...hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    Res 8.140 21 By his machines man...can fly like a hawk in the air;...

Hawker, Peter, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 3 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope, Murray...

hawk's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 26 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest.

Hawthornden, Scotland, n. (1)

    Boks 7.207 26 ...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, n. (3)

    LLNE 10.363 16 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne, with his cold yet gentle genius...
    LLNE 10.363 27 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think;...
    Shak1 11.447 11 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...

Hawthorne's, Nathaniel, n. (1)

    CPL 11.501 6 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house...

hay, n. (18)

    Nat 1.33 19 ...Make hay while the sun shines;...
    DSA 1.119 6 The air is...sweet with the breath of...the new hay.
    Prd1 2.229 2 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Int 2.333 26 If you...make hay...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the tasselled grass....
    Exp 3.58 22 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...
    MoS 4.154 14 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    MoS 4.154 15 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him; he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.
    Wth 6.119 3 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...mowed his hay...
    Wth 6.120 3 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Farm 7.137 24 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care of hay...all men acknowledge.
    PerF 10.75 12 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.
    EzRy 10.386 26 One August afternoon, when I was in [Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him...to rake up his hay, I well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    EzRy 10.387 2 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.78 20 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried. A similar order is taken respecting hay.
    CL 12.137 24 [Linneaus] found the plant [water-hemlock] also dried in [the people of Tornea's] cut hay.
    AgMs 12.361 15 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
    AgMs 12.361 20 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...

Haydn's, Franz Joseph, n. (1)

    Nat 1.43 26 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, n. (4)

    ET5 5.91 21 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
    ET10 5.153 11 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET13 5.224 18 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.

Haydon's, Benjamin Robert, (1)

    Boks 7.208 12 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.

hayfield, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.386 25 One August afternoon, when I was in [Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him with his man to rake up his hay, I well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.

hay-fork, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 6 If a [Norse] farmer has so much as a hay-fork, he sticks it into a King Dag.

hay-forks, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 21 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

haying, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.169 25 The common people diminish: a cold snap; it rains easy; good haying weather.

haymaker, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.235 2 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can...

hay-makers, n. (1)

    Bty 6.291 9 ...the labors of hay-makers in the field...is becoming to the wise eye.

hayricks, n. (1)

    ET16 5.276 15 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows...and a few hayricks.

hay-scales, n. (2)

    F 6.14 6 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance, as they passed the hay-scales, you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    F 6.14 10 ...it would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at the hay-scales.

Haytian, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.144 9 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

hazard, n. (3)

    Cour 7.255 11 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme;...
    FSLC 11.186 22 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it, at every hazard.
    SMC 11.375 3 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...

hazard, v. (7)

    Fdsp 2.196 26 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries...
    Mrs1 3.142 5 Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard the story.
    F 6.23 3 To hazard the contradiction,-freedom is necessary.
    Cour 7.260 15 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    SlHr 10.442 17 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    FRep 11.515 12 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for, and the mainspring that works daily urges them to hazard all...the better code of laws at last records the victory.

hazarded, v. (1)

    GoW 4.273 5 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.

hazardous, adj. (4)

    Ctr 6.141 13 ...all success is hazardous and rare;...
    PPo 8.238 4 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    FSLC 11.192 14 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be...
    II 12.75 21 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare.

hazards, n. (5)

    Tran 1.345 9 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    ET5 5.80 22 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger, to save that at all hazards.
    Wth 6.96 4 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Ctr 6.134 8 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    Bost 12.206 6 When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.

haze, n. (3)

    PI 8.41 13 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.
    CL 12.152 8 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    Bost 12.190 26 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

hazel-nuts, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 2 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks?

hazing, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 13 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.

Hazlitt, William, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 13 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

Hazlitt's, Henry, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 21 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Hazlitt's Life of Northcote.

Hazlitt's, William, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.136 8 I have just been reading, in Mr. Hazlitt's translation, Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...

hazy, adj. (1)

    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.

head, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.360 1 William Allen was at first and for some time the head farmer [at Brook Farm]...

Head, Hilton, South Caroli (1)

    Chr2 10.118 8 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton Head and Charleston missions...

head, n. (194)

    Nat 1.10 6 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
    Nat 1.25 20 We say...the head to denote thought;...
    Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...
    Nat 1.68 9 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he is its head and heart...
    Nat 1.68 23 ...head with foot hath private amity/...
    Nat 1.69 12 Music and light attend our head./
    AmS 1.92 25 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
    AmS 1.104 13 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an ostrich...
    AmS 1.105 22 Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
    DSA 1.138 11 ...[this man's] head aches...
    MN 1.209 12 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
    MR 1.254 26 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?
    LT 1.267 13 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    Con 1.317 21 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Con 1.323 13 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates, as well as those who, accepting its rude conditions, keep their own head by their own sword.
    Tran 1.354 21 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    YA 1.375 23 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    Hist 2.16 2 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.24 18 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that, but they must turn the whole head.
    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.
    Hist 2.34 26 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...
    SR 2.57 1 ...why should you keep your head over your shoulder?
    SR 2.89 17 ...a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    Comp 2.97 23 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    Comp 2.105 27 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail...
    Comp 2.109 23 Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.
    Comp 2.123 1 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for...by labor which the heart and the head allow.
    Comp 2.127 1 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with...too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    SL 2.159 13 [A man's] vice...sets the mark of the beast on the back of the head...
    SL 2.161 2 Common men are apologies for men; they bow the head...
    SL 2.166 11 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form and done some other deed, and that is now the flower and head of all living nature.
    Lov1 2.176 8 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    Lov1 2.185 15 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Fdsp 2.203 27 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
    Hsm1 2.243 6 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons,/ Drooping oft in wreaths of dread/ Lightning-knotted round his head/...
    Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.286 17 Character teaches over our head.
    Cir 2.318 8 ...lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my own whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    Int 2.336 8 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head...
    Int 2.337 15 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
    Pt1 3.9 5 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...
    Pt1 3.31 6 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree, growing with his root, which is his head, upward;...
    Exp 3.53 20 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    Mrs1 3.131 22 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.132 8 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stand on their head, or what else soever, in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Gts 3.159 12 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
    Nat2 3.183 15 Man carries the world in his head...
    Nat2 3.187 14 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head...
    NER 3.282 2 We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits which contradicts what we say.
    UGM 4.15 9 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    UGM 4.15 15 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk!
    PPh 4.41 12 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.59 8 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head...
    PPh 4.71 16 [Socrates] can drink, too; has the strongest head in Athens;...
    SwM 4.126 23 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
    MoS 4.149 20 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...
    MoS 4.155 8 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...
    MoS 4.168 2 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...
    ShP 4.194 15 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall;...
    ShP 4.203 26 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];--yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe.
    NMW 4.228 24 Napoleon...would help himself with his hands and his head.
    NMW 4.229 12 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily...are like hands without a head.
    NMW 4.230 20 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.231 10 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said...was immediately connected with my head.
    NMW 4.232 11 [Bonaparte]...won his battles in his head before he won them on the field.
    NMW 4.246 3 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    GoW 4.268 10 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    GoW 4.273 2 What new mythologies sail through [Goethe's] head!
    GoW 4.275 12 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton: the head was only the uttermost vertebrae transformed.
    GoW 4.275 16 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.275 19 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.283 13 ...Goethe, the head and body of the German nation, does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET1 5.7 25 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything else, and after that, the head of Alexander, in the gallery here [in Florence].
    ET1 5.22 8 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can, their head bent forward...
    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.
    ET6 5.105 12 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    ET7 5.121 9 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour. They are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about...
    ET8 5.132 20 ...[young Englishmen] saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks;...
    ET9 5.147 27 If one of [the English] have a bald, or a red, or a green head... he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET11 5.175 1 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
    ET11 5.178 2 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    ET11 5.191 16 No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.
    F 6.14 26 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped, head and foot...
    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 6.111 22 That is the good head, which serves the end and commands the means.
    Ctr 6.138 17 [Your man of genius's] head runs up into a spire...
    Ctr 6.149 26 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
    CbW 6.258 26 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.
    CbW 6.259 27 ...all great men come out of the middle classes. 'T is better for the head; 't is better for the heart.
    CbW 6.265 26 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    Bty 6.287 19 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed; on an evil man, resting on his head; in a good man, mixed with his substance.
    Bty 6.302 5 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    SS 7.8 14 'T is no wonder, when each has his whole head, our societies should be so small.
    SS 7.15 15 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.
    Civ 7.21 7 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Elo1 7.71 22 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.88 3 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head...
    Elo1 7.96 13 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...
    Elo1 7.96 21 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions, but he has the eternal reason in his head.
    Cour 7.257 2 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    Cour 7.273 3 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Cour 7.273 4 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    Cour 7.274 21 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
    Suc 7.286 6 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...
    Suc 7.296 17 ...a good head cannot read amiss...
    Suc 7.302 5 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating to be at the head of your class and the head of society...
    OA 7.316 18 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    OA 7.316 25 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    OA 7.326 26 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    OA 7.327 5 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
    OA 7.332 14 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
    PI 8.6 25 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.58 7 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    PI 8.66 7 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
    Comc 8.165 2 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it...makes the mistake of the wig for the head...
    Comc 8.167 8 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters...
    Comc 8.167 10 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.
    Comc 8.170 22 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    Comc 8.172 5 One day when Chodscha was with him, Timur scratched his head...
    PC 8.219 27 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    PPo 8.249 22 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...
    PPo 8.258 13 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets, and they have matched on this head the absoluteness of Montaigne.
    PPo 8.260 17 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Insp 8.268 1 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Insp 8.268 5 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.281 2 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Insp 8.291 23 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
    Dem1 10.11 12 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./
    Aris 10.42 20 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe.
    Aris 10.44 25 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.
    Aris 10.44 26 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Aris 10.57 9 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order...
    Aris 10.64 21 ...a good head soon grows wise, and does not govern too much.
    Edc1 10.158 3 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Edc1 10.158 9 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Supl 10.168 15 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Supl 10.169 19 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    Supl 10.169 22 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he sees...whether your head is addled by this mixture of wines.
    SovE 10.199 6 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    Schr 10.276 20 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons; a little pure, and not too much, to every head.
    LLNE 10.331 4 [Everett] had an inspiration which did not go beyond his head...
    LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
    LLNE 10.367 24 In Brook Farm was this peculiarity, that there was no head.
    MMEm 10.398 4 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    SlHr 10.438 9 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    SlHr 10.442 6 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
    SlHr 10.443 20 [Samuel Hoar's] head...had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    Carl 10.496 16 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water, sixty gallons to every head...
    Carl 10.497 3 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.60 10 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
    HDC 11.84 22 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...
    EWI 11.105 12 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head...
    EWI 11.125 4 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
    War 11.170 25 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    FSLC 11.182 3 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate, and the hiding of the head.
    FSLC 11.187 9 ...that is the head and body of this discontent, that [the Fugitive Slave] law is immoral.
    FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLC 11.205 4 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
    FSLN 11.218 20 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...
    FSLN 11.219 25 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did...if he stood on his head, they did.
    FSLN 11.223 7 ...[Webster's] head distributed things in their right places...
    FSLN 11.234 20 There is no help but in the head and heart and hamstrings of a man.
    AsSu 11.251 14 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
    JBS 11.277 11 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all.
    ACiv 11.298 6 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
    ALin 11.331 22 ...[Lincoln] had what farmers call a long head;...
    SMC 11.372 24 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    RBur 11.443 10 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    Humb 11.459 5 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class, with a clear head and an inflexible will [Humboldt].
    FRep 11.517 11 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    FRep 11.536 17 ...every man must have glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the walls.
    PLT 12.47 24 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    PLT 12.48 13 ...idea and execution are not often intrusted to the same head.
    II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
    Mem 12.98 13 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
    Mem 12.106 26 ...we remember best when the head is clear...
    CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
    CL 12.158 3 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CW 12.172 21 It requires some geometry in the head to lay [a good garden] out rightly...
    CW 12.176 20 A man should carry Nature in his head...
    MAng1 12.228 7 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    MAng1 12.228 16 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    MAng1 12.237 26 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    MAng1 12.239 16 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    Milt1 12.255 21 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
    Milt1 12.268 26 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
    ACri 12.298 16 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...
    WSL 12.344 13 [Landor]...is not insensible to the beauty of...the Turk's head on his umbrella;...

Head of the State, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.310 22 All thanks and honor to the Head of the State!

head, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 27 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might head any party...

headache, n. (6)

    Tran 1.332 11 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain, and does not give me the headache, that figures do not lie;...
    Prd1 2.225 21 ...I have a headache;...
    Exp 3.59 4 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree. So does culture with us; it ends in headache.
    Nat2 3.191 11 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue sometimes had the headache...
    Bhr 6.196 20 ...if you have headache, or sciatica...I beseech you...to hold your peace...
    OA 7.326 10 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say, O, he had headache...

headaches, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 15 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.

headiness, n. (1)

    GoW 4.266 26 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action must pay.

headland, n. (2)

    ET13 5.217 4 [The English Church]...names every day of the year, every town and market and headland and monument...
    PI 8.1 5 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...

headlong, adj. (5)

    ET10 5.156 11 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.
    ET10 5.157 4 The headlong bias to utility [in England] will let no talent lie in a napkin...
    PPo 8.245 18 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at headlong speed.
    Prch 10.236 22 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to check this headlong racing...
    FRep 11.531 18 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion to trade...

headlong, adv. (2)

    Hsm1. 2.252 20 ...the little man...works in [the world] so headlong and believing...
    Chr1 3.113 4 Life goes headlong.

Headriggs, Cuddie, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 13 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Cuddie Headriggs, Dominies...

heads, n. (69)

    MR 1.253 20 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    OS 2.271 25 ...there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens...
    Cir 2.308 13 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    Exp 3.48 6 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
    Exp 3.54 4 Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads?
    Chr1 3.100 19 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads which are not clear...
    Mrs1 3.143 8 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Pol1 3.211 27 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    NER 3.283 10 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful which works over our heads and under our feet.
    UGM 4.12 13 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    UGM 4.17 17 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies...
    MoS 4.149 9 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails.
    MoS 4.155 22 The studious class are their own victims;...their feet are cold, their heads are hot...
    NMW 4.227 13 All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to [a man of Napoleon's stamp]: so likewise do all good heads in every kind...
    GoW 4.263 18 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    ET4 5.59 2 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET4 5.66 8 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET5 5.78 3 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.
    ET5 5.90 9 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
    ET5 5.91 22 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova, and all the good heads in all the world, were to be his applauders.
    ET8 5.130 22 [The English]...shake their heads if [a man] is particularly chaste.
    ET10 5.164 13 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    ET13 5.228 15 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe;...
    F 6.40 18 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Pow 6.57 21 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.
    Pow 6.58 24 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.
    Ctr 6.141 22 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.161 4 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Bhr 6.174 27 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
    Wsp 6.234 2 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    CbW 6.250 18 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.251 16 All the feats which make our civility were the thoughts of a few good heads.
    Ill 6.310 16 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads...
    Art2 7.51 27 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    DL 7.105 2 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides, and pulls the hair of laurelled heads.
    DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies, bald heads...
    DL 7.127 10 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the spine,--no more;...
    DL 7.127 11 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world...
    Suc 7.293 10 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.303 9 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    Suc 7.306 5 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    Suc 7.306 6 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    Suc 7.310 5 The painter Giotto...renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    PI 8.26 15 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    PI 8.64 8 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
    Elo2 8.109 3 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Dem1 10.26 23 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
    Aris 10.52 3 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury. These are the heads of party, who can do no wrong...
    LLNE 10.334 14 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    LLNE 10.365 25 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    Thor 10.475 16 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    HDC 11.66 2 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    EWI 11.101 13 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...their turbaned heads...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.106 8 ...[Granville Sharpe] so filled the heads and hearts of his advocates that when he brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    War 11.167 20 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.
    FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    SHC 11.431 10 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses; their heads expand to feed the atmosphere.
    FRep 11.514 21 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
    FRep 11.539 10 It is not by heads reverted to the dying Demosthenes...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.
    PLT 12.43 25 Our thoughts at first possess us. Later, if we have good heads, we come to possess them.
    Mem 12.106 13 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...
    CInt 12.121 15 The whole battle is fought in a few heads.
    MAng1 12.228 19 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...
    MLit 12.325 6 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...
    WSL 12.343 4 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.
    WSL 12.344 24 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.
    EurB 12.373 13 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    Trag 12.414 17 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

head's, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 2 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

head-stone, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 24 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.

headstrong, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.131 3 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion...
    ET8 5.137 25 [The English] are testy and headstrong through an excess of will and bias;...

head-winds, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.243 10 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And head-winds right for royal sails./

heady, adj. (4)

    CbW 6.257 26 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man...
    Clbs 7.233 2 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...then the heady men...
    LLNE 10.327 3 The new race is stiff, heady and rebellious;...
    PLT 12.55 24 The right partisan is a heady man...

heal, v. (9)

    LT 1.279 24 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    SR 2.85 2 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Nat2 3.171 2 These enchantments [of nature]...sober and heal us.
    CbW 6.245 13 ...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
    Bty 6.283 18 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal;...
    Bty 6.298 1 [Women] heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks.
    PI 8.33 6 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/ and again,--They heal their griefs, for curable are the hearts of the noble./
    SA 8.105 25 ...heal the insane...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...sing, heal or compute...

Heald, Lt., n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 16 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital under Lieutenant Heald...

healed, v. (7)

    UGM 4.22 10 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am healed of my hurts.
    F 6.32 26 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice...
    MoL 10.249 10 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault. But I think it is a schism which must be healed.
    EWI 11.105 17 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of the poor. In process of time, he was healed.
    FSLN 11.240 24 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
    EPro 11.320 1 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats. Our hurts are healed;...
    Shak1 11.449 2 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.

healer, n. (1)

    Aris 10.40 8 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver of the safety-lamp... should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

healing, adj. (3)

    Con 1.324 14 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    CPL 11.502 3 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?
    CL 12.152 18 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...

healing, n. (2)

    SR 2.76 21 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man is...born to shed healing to the nations;...
    NER 3.277 3 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop in his thought...

healing, v. (6)

    NR 3.234 27 Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing...
    UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    ET13 5.217 21 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service...in cheering and refining men. feeding, healing and educating.
    Bty 6.281 8 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    FRO1 11.480 19 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...
    II 12.88 18 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.

heals, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.215 24 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life, which heals and exalts.

health, n. (179)

    Nat 1.9 16 In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
    Nat 1.16 24 The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
    Nat 1.17 12 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
    LE 1.182 7 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration,-then he has health;...
    MN 1.203 22 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree...
    MN 1.208 26 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MN 1.210 6 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    MN 1.210 23 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    MN 1.216 7 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god...always giving health.
    MN 1.221 20 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact...
    MR 1.237 2 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health, that 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 5 ...not only health, but education is in the work.
    Con 1.319 14 Sickness gets organized as well as health...
    Con 1.322 23 On which part will each of us find himself in the hour of health and of aspiration?
    Tran 1.357 19 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel, when the soul has greater health and prowess.
    Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    Hist 2.22 23 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    Hist 2.25 26 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health...
    SR 2.59 19 All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this.
    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health...
    SR 2.84 24 ...compare the health of the two men [American and New Zealander]...
    SL 2.132 19 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
    SL 2.155 23 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    Lov1 2.188 17 ...in health the mind is presently seen again...
    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    Prd1 2.222 6 [Prudence] is content to seek...health of mind by the laws of the intellect.
    Prd1 2.222 21 One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good.
    Prd1 2.223 22 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else, as health and bodily life, into means.
    Prd1 2.230 23 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    Prd1 2.231 12 Health or sound organization should be universal.
    Prd1 2.233 27 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
    Prd1 2.236 27 Every violation of truth...is a stab at the health of human society.
    Prd1 2.237 26 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
    Hsm1 2.251 6 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent...of health...
    Hsm1. 2.252 9 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    Hsm1. 2.252 22 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...attending on his own health...
    Hsm1 2.256 14 Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
    Pt1 3.13 24 All form is an effect of character; all condition, of the quality of the life; all harmony, of health;...
    Exp 3.45 22 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that...though we have health and reason, yet we have no superfluity of spirit for new creation?
    Exp 3.55 11 ...health of body consists in circulation...
    Mrs1 3.128 13 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Nat2 3.171 10 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
    Nat2 3.181 20 Plants are...vessels of health and vigor;...
    UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    UGM 4.16 1 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
    UGM 4.27 19 We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.
    PPh 4.47 3 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health...
    PPh 4.53 10 The understanding was in its health and prime [in Greece].
    PPh 4.57 20 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    SwM 4.145 8 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only...
    ShP 4.216 14 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
    GoW 4.284 17 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank, privileges, health, time, Being itself.
    ET1 5.19 9 [Wordsworth's] health was good...
    ET4 5.69 5 [The English] have a vigorous health and last well into middle and old age.
    ET5 5.86 7 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET8 5.132 7 The young [English] men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors.
    ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    ET14 5.239 1 Where [idealism] goes, is poetry, health and progress.
    ET15 5.262 27 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    F 6.12 11 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions, hardly enough for health;...
    F 6.12 12 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
    F 6.13 14 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself, during all his years of health, on the side of progress...
    F 6.35 23 The direction of the whole and of the parts is...in proportion to the health.
    Pow 6.55 15 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.
    Pow 6.55 16 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.56 4 The first wealth is health.
    Pow 6.56 6 ...health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare...
    Pow 6.60 5 Health is good...
    Pow 6.61 11 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    Pow 6.64 4 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...power of mind with physical health;...
    Wth 6.114 12 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Bhr 6.178 23 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Wsp 6.212 24 ...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
    Wsp 6.214 2 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    Wsp 6.216 7 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.217 17 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...
    Wsp 6.218 8 The moral must be the measure of health.
    CbW 6.263 6 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...but I will say, get health.
    CbW 6.264 7 ...the best part of health is fine disposition.
    CbW 6.273 7 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz, who indicates this relation as the test of mental health...
    CbW 6.273 20 We take care of our health;...
    Bty 6.284 27 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent action.
    Bty 6.290 20 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    Ill 6.311 26 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    SS 7.13 9 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    SS 7.14 2 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly... with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not.
    Elo1 7.67 19 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    DL 7.111 11 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness...in health...
    DL 7.115 18 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help.
    DL 7.132 17 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    Farm 7.140 6 The farmer has a great health...
    Farm 7.140 7 The farmer has...the appetite of health, and means to his end;...
    Farm 7.140 21 The farmer is a hoarded capital of health...
    Farm 7.140 22 ...it is from [the farmer] that the health and power, moral and intellectual, of the cities came.
    WD 7.185 18 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another...
    Cour 7.257 12 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.260 14 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    Cour 7.273 7 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as health or wealth... that count, but the aims only.
    Suc 7.282 8 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    Suc 7.297 15 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results? We call it health.
    Suc 7.297 16 What is so admirable as the health of youth?...
    Suc 7.301 1 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    Suc 7.306 13 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    Suc 7.306 14 Health is the condition of wisdom...
    Suc 7.306 21 All beauty...is a sign of health, prosperity and the favor of God.
    PI 8.3 20 ...the universe...is the house of health and life.
    PI 8.40 12 [The writer's] work needs a frolic health;...
    PI 8.56 7 ...the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man...
    PI 8.63 26 The poetic gift we want, as the health and supremacy of man...
    PI 8.73 6 The high poetry which shall...restore youth and health...is deeper hid...
    SA 8.106 4 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health.
    Elo2 8.117 10 No act indicates more universal health than eloquence.
    Comc 8.167 18 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard, that the laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health;...
    QO 8.199 19 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who, with more health or better perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    PC 8.221 23 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and health of things...
    Insp 8.279 25 Health is the first muse...
    Insp 8.280 7 I honor health as the first muse...
    Insp 8.280 8 I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health.
    Insp 8.280 9 Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces;...
    Insp 8.281 11 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses. So of all the particulars of health and exercise and fit nutriment and tonics.
    Insp 8.282 15 [Herbert's] health had broken down early...
    Insp 8.290 5 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Grts 8.315 14 ...I please myself with [greatness's] diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this generous blood.
    Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power.
    Imtl 8.342 19 The health of the mind consists in the perception of law.
    Imtl 8.343 13 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought...
    Aris 10.42 24 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper...
    Aris 10.43 15 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
    Aris 10.43 15 Genius is health and Beauty is health and Virtue is health.
    Aris 10.43 16 Genius is health and Beauty is health and Virtue is health.
    Aris 10.49 27 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    Aris 10.56 8 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have...avails.
    PerF 10.76 23 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet...
    PerF 10.87 20 ...all beauty, all health, all intelligence exist by [our moral sentiment];...
    Chr2 10.93 20 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong] is dormant, as health is in men entranced or drunken;...
    Edc1 10.128 8 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know health and sickness...
    Supl 10.170 15 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries...
    Supl 10.174 19 We are...distrustful of health, of soundness, of pure innocence.
    SovE 10.185 17 The moral is the measure of health...
    SovE 10.185 19 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    Prch 10.222 17 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary.
    Prch 10.224 1 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...
    Plu 10.302 3 ...[Plutarch's] own cheerfulness and rude health are also magnetic.
    Plu 10.306 24 It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.
    Plu 10.307 13 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    LLNE 10.350 5 Attractive Industry...would equalize temperature, give health to the globe...
    MMEm 10.416 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now.
    MMEm 10.420 27 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    MMEm 10.429 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous;...
    MMEm 10.429 17 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late. Ill health and nerves.
    Carl 10.495 19 [Carlyle] feels that the perfection of health is sportiveness...
    War 11.171 26 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible, with goods, health and life, for his behavior;...
    FSLC 11.185 5 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity, and the health and honor of their native State, but canting fanaticism...
    FSLN 11.223 21 ...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect, and the source of its health.
    ACiv 11.297 1 Use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all beings.
    EPro 11.320 1 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats. Our hurts are healed; the health of the nation is repaired.
    EPro 11.320 20 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the generosity of the cities, the health of the country...all rally to its support.
    ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit...
    EdAd 11.392 25 The health which we call Virtue is an equipoise which easily redresses itself...
    FRO2 11.487 14 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is self-respect...
    PLT 12.28 11 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.37 1 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.
    PLT 12.56 26 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.
    PLT 12.62 4 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere...
    PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit...
    II 12.79 14 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence. He needs all his health and the flower of his faculties for that.
    II 12.85 9 Every constitution has its own health and diseases.
    Mem 12.106 25 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory. And yet we have some hints from experience on this subject. And first, health.
    CL 12.155 4 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...
    CL 12.155 12 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
    CL 12.160 2 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...these...persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
    Bost 12.200 2 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode, where all elements were right for the health, power and virtue of man?
    Bost 12.206 13 ...youth and health like a stirring town...
    MAng1 12.229 4 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ, because, he said, to exercise himself with the mallet was good for his health.
    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...
    ACri 12.305 12 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...is always a new and incalculable result, like health.
    MLit 12.332 5 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease;...
    Trag 12.412 7 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose, an expression of health...

Health, n. (2)

    Nat 1.43 2 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    CbW 6.243 17 The richest of all lords is Use,/ And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse./

healthful, adj. (12)

    YA 1.371 12 ...new-born, free, healthful, strong...[America] should speak for the human race.
    SL 2.132 4 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    NER 3.257 1 I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society;...
    Bhr 6.185 7 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are healthful.
    Bty 6.285 20 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death; how can they enter into healthful diversions?
    Res 8.142 14 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    PC 8.211 24 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind...
    EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
    EdAd 11.388 6 We are more solicitous than others to make our politics clear and healthful...
    Wom 11.405 8 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman. And none is more seriously interesting to every healthful and thoughtful mind.
    Milt1 12.274 17 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    Pray 12.354 21 The last of the four orisons is written in a singularly calm and healthful spirit...

health-giving, adj. (1)

    Res 8.153 9 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...

healthier, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.

healthiest, n. (1)

    F 6.14 1 The strongest idea incarnates itself...in the healthiest and strongest.

healthily, adv. (3)

    SwM 4.143 2 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
    QO 8.203 14 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    PLT 12.37 5 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...

healths, n. (1)

    DL 7.108 21 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...puny and precarious healths...

healthy, adj. (50)

    Hist 2.26 3 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    Hist 2.26 6 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages, and are now, wherever a healthy physique exists;...
    SR 2.48 25 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    Int 2.331 2 This instinctive action never ceases in a healthy mind...
    Chr1 3.96 14 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True...
    Pol1 3.211 6 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    PPh 4.60 23 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    SwM 4.119 14 The principal powers continued to maintain a healthy action [in Swedenborg]...
    ET4 5.46 23 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.62 18 ...the children of felons have a healthy conscience.
    ET10 5.166 7 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
    ET17 5.296 9 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look...
    Pow 6.57 2 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Ctr 6.138 10 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
    Ctr 6.138 18 ...instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, [your man of genius] is some mad dominie.
    CbW 6.264 14 All healthy things are sweet-tempered.
    Civ 7.23 27 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Civ 7.33 13 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Clbs 7.225 19 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    Clbs 7.227 13 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind.
    Cour 7.266 5 ...there is no separate essence called courage...but it is the right or healthy state of every man...
    Cour 7.276 9 [The hideous facts in history] are not cheerful facts, but they do not disturb a healthy mind;...
    OA 7.329 4 The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
    PI 8.23 22 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris...
    PI 8.26 25 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man...
    Res 8.137 18 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is an organizer...
    Res 8.154 2 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    PC 8.233 11 ...I draw new hope...from the healthy sentiment of the American people...
    PPo 8.247 15 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    Imtl 8.330 25 The healthy state of mind is the love of life.
    Imtl 8.334 3 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
    Dem1 10.26 16 [Adepts in occult facts] are ignorant of all that is healthy and useful to know...
    Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...
    SovE 10.209 24 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise out of all forms to an absolute justice and healthy perception.
    LLNE 10.350 6 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    Thor 10.452 10 At this time, a strong, healthy youth, fresh from college, whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Thor 10.479 3 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    Thor 10.482 23 Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
    HDC 11.39 10 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg, and some in time of frost and snow, yet they were more healthy than now they are.
    HDC 11.39 11 The land [at Concord] was low but healthy;...
    EWI 11.140 3 ...the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land... fear no competition or superiority.
    ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
    FRO1 11.478 19 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less;...
    CPL 11.495 7 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
    PLT 12.13 1 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.33 16 The healthy mind lies parallel to the currents of Nature...
    PLT 12.40 15 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 12.70 27 In the healthy mind, the thought is not a barren thesis...
    ACri 12.304 11 The classic is healthy, the romantic is sick.
    MLit 12.311 6 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate it with a venom before any healthy result appears.

heap, n. (8)

    NR 3.228 26 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest...
    SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...to the purified, a heap of carrion.
    ET9 5.146 19 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company, who plainly account all the world out of England a heap of rubbish.
    Bty 6.281 23 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Farm 7.135 9 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap/...
    OA 7.328 22 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings.
    PPo 8.255 13 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
    PLT 12.27 6 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.

heap, v. (1)

    Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...

heaped, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.106 2 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

heaped, v. (1)

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

heaping, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.62 14 If we will take the good we find...we shall have heaping measures.

heaping, v. (2)

    Bty 6.292 12 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Aris 10.46 12 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like the freaks of the wind, heaping the snow-drift in gorges, stripping the plain;...

heaps, n. (10)

    Nat 1.39 1 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    Nat 1.74 1 The reason why the world...lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself.
    NMW 4.247 17 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.
    ET14 5.239 17 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
    F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
    Ill 6.312 5 The child walks amid heaps of illusions...
    Farm 7.148 7 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.473 14 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.

heaps, v. (2)

    ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    Prch 10.219 6 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.

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