Heat to Hemispheres

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

heat, n. (94)

  • Nat 1.11 13 To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
  • Nat 1.26 24 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love.
  • Nat 1.28 20 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.
  • Nat 1.44 5 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
  • Nat 1.44 9 ...the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
  • Nat 1.49 9 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as of heat...
  • AmS 1.98 22 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in heat and cold;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
  • DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
  • DSA 1.124 6 ...[evil] is like cold, which is the privation of heat.
  • MN 1.193 24 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner...
  • Tran 1.350 19 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
  • Tran 1.354 14 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
  • Hist 2.5 21 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
  • Comp 2.96 18 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in heat and cold;...
  • Chr1 3.95 10 [Character] is a natural power, like light and heat...
  • Chr1 3.113 7 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...
  • Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
  • Mrs1 3.139 11 The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
  • Nat2 3.179 20 A little heat, that is a little motion, is all that differences the... cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
  • Nat2 3.188 8 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words.
  • Pol1 3.197 20 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
  • UGM 4.10 9 ...heat and cold...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
  • SwM 4.107 16 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
  • 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.
  • GoW 4.264 25 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
  • ET1 5.6 2 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
  • ET5 5.90 20 [The English] have a wonderful heat in the pursuit of a public aim.
  • ET5 5.99 25 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
  • ET8 5.137 1 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.
  • ET8 5.140 21 The wrath of London...has a long memory, and, in its hottest heat, a register and rule.
  • ET13 5.215 16 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...
  • ET14 5.234 24 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat.
  • ET15 5.267 19 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns. Hence, too, the heat and gallantry of its onset.
  • Wth 6.86 27 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
  • CbW 6.258 1 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
  • CbW 6.259 12 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which sets our human atoms spinning...
  • CbW 6.264 25 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
  • Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...afraid of heat and cold...has any advantage of them.
  • SS 7.12 16 'T is not new facts that avail, but the heat to dissolve everybody' s facts.
  • SS 7.12 17 Heat puts you in right relation with magazines of facts.
  • SS 7.13 4 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits] is latent in all constitutions...
  • Elo1 7.61 4 Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat...
  • Elo1 7.67 20 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
  • Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be accumulations of heat somewhere...
  • Farm 7.143 1 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land, soaked it with light and heat...
  • Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat...
  • Farm 7.144 22 Air is matter subdued by heat.
  • Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
  • Farm 7.152 4 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth...works for him when he is asleep, when it rains, when heat overcomes him.
  • WD 7.175 7 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was...the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs;...
  • PI 8.9 1 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;...
  • SA 8.85 23 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.
  • SA 8.86 8 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table,--of wrath, and whining, and heat in trifles!
  • SA 8.86 15 A man makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.
  • SA 8.104 3 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
  • Elo2 8.117 15 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...passion, which is the heat;...
  • Elo2 8.119 15 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat...
  • Elo2 8.119 18 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat...
  • Elo2 8.126 21 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
  • Elo2 8.126 22 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
  • Elo2 8.129 27 ...the essential thing [in eloquence] is heat, and heat comes of sincerity.
  • PPo 8.238 15 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
  • PPo 8.238 23 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.
  • Insp 8.276 5 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...
  • Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
  • Insp 8.276 10 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;...
  • Insp 8.288 23 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure. I forget rain, wind, cold and heat.
  • Imtl 8.323 9 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around...
  • PerF 10.71 4 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
  • PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive, heat as expansive...as on the first day.
  • PerF 10.71 26 When the heat is less here it is not lost, but more heat is there.
  • PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
  • PerF 10.82 16 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables, but experiments on the same iron at white heat.
  • Chr2 10.100 6 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
  • Edc1 10.127 25 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
  • Supl 10.167 14 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian...
  • SovE 10.186 19 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move: heat is not separate...
  • LLNE 10.343 8 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships, which of course were exclusive in proportion to their heat...
  • HDC 11.33 16 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
  • HDC 11.63 20 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all tremble to think what would follow;...
  • EWI 11.104 10 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk, in the scorching heat of the sun;...we too should wince.
  • EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
  • FSLC 11.200 20 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
  • SMC 11.350 21 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
  • SMC 11.355 6 ...armies, which are only wandering cities, generate a vast heat...
  • SMC 11.364 23 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness, and suffered the more from this heat.
  • Shak1 11.452 3 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.
  • PLT 12.25 6 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
  • PLT 12.55 26 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
  • CInt 12.130 20 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes easily that he does, as snow and vapor, heat, wind and light.
  • CL 12.140 11 In summer, we have...scores of days when the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.
  • Bost 12.194 9 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with the cold complexion of our recent wits?
  • MAng1 12.231 10 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward, with the heat and determination of manhood, his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
  • MAng1 12.233 22 As from the fire, heat cannot be divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.

Heat, n. (1)

  • Nat 1.39 17 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.

heated, adj. (3)

  • Con 1.311 21 ...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under the polar circle;...
  • Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
  • Milt1 12.249 19 [Milton] writes whilst he is heated;...

heated, v. (4)

  • Wth 6.115 11 [The pale scholar] is heated and untuned, and by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
  • SA 8.80 15 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points. They may scream or applaud, he is never engaged or heated.
  • PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
  • Mem 12.98 8 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees;...

heath, adj. (1)

  • CInt 12.129 25 It was in a beggarly heath farm...that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.

heath, n. (2)

  • Con 1.311 12 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this towered and citied world?...
  • Schr 10.288 2 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees;...

heathen, adj. (2)

  • ET4 5.51 7 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...
  • Wsp 6.206 9 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...

heathen, n. (1)

  • Wsp 6.206 13 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./

heathenism, n. (1)

  • ET13 5.229 16 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.

heathenisms, n. (1)

  • Wsp 6.208 24 In creeds never was such levity; witness the heathenisms in Christianity...

heather, n. (1)

  • RBur 11.442 2 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather...

heathery, adj. (1)

  • ET1 5.15 4 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills...

heaths, n. (2)

  • ET3 5.39 5 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...
  • SHC 11.435 2 Bleak sea-rocks and sea-downs and blasted heaths have their own beauty;...

heat-lightning, n. (1)

  • Ill 6.307 20 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./

heat-pipes, n. (1)

  • Res 8.142 22 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...

heats, n. (10)

  • LT 1.277 14 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
  • Lov1 2.177 14 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
  • ET4 5.73 23 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
  • ET13 5.220 5 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...
  • Ctr 6.164 26 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
  • Civ 7.28 1 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
  • Elo1 7.80 13 ...among our cool and calculating people...where heats and panics and abandonments are quite out of the system, there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
  • FSLC 11.213 23 That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on meetings, but on private heats and courages.
  • Bost 12.198 26 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
  • Milt1 12.268 3 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.

heats, v. (1)

  • PC 8.223 11 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...

heave, v. (3)

  • Nat2 3.184 11 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
  • SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
  • MLit 12.310 25 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books...that seem to heave with the life of millions...

Heaven, Angels of, n. (1)

  • LLNE 10.336 8 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...

heaven, n. (210)

  • Nat 1.9 5 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
  • Nat 1.20 16 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators. So are...all the stars of heaven.
  • Nat 1.32 12 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
  • Nat 1.40 22 ...every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
  • Nat 1.47 18 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
  • Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does rest, heaven move.../
  • Nat 1.76 7 Every spirit builds itself...a world, and beyond its world a heaven.
  • Nat 1.76 11 Adam called his house, heaven and earth;...
  • DSA 1.123 22 ...of their own volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell.
  • DSA 1.129 12 The understanding...said...This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
  • DSA 1.131 20 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty which heaven and earth reflect to you...
  • DSA 1.133 14 The preachers do not see that they...shear [Jesus] of...the attributes of heaven.
  • DSA 1.136 21 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart, and so affirms its own origin in heaven?
  • LE 1.158 25 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...its sparkling January heaven.
  • LE 1.187 17 ...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar beloved of earth and heaven.
  • MN 1.210 8 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
  • MN 1.210 14 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
  • MN 1.212 13 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable.
  • MR 1.250 23 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
  • LT 1.291 13 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
  • Con 1.309 18 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
  • Con 1.324 21 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived.
  • YA 1.393 19 ...there is no end to the wheels within wheels of this spiral heaven [English aristocracy].
  • Hist 2.9 14 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?
  • Hist 2.39 14 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
  • SR 2.80 8 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
  • Comp 2.107 19 ...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the Furies] would punish him.
  • Comp 2.110 24 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
  • SL 2.140 2 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world...would organize itself...
  • SL 2.140 13 ...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
  • SL 2.149 26 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...and heaven and earth are moved to that end.
  • SL 2.162 21 Heaven is large...
  • Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
  • Fdsp 2.200 21 The good spirit of our life has no heaven which is the price of rashness.
  • OS 2.270 4 ...I desire...to indicate the heaven of this deity...
  • OS 2.283 16 Men ask concerning...the employments of heaven...
  • OS 2.295 23 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
  • Cir 2.305 13 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to...marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
  • Int 2.329 1 We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven...
  • Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
  • Int 2.347 8 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
  • Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
  • Pt1 3.10 18 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea.
  • Pt1 3.12 6 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
  • Pt1 3.12 17 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven, whirls me into mists...
  • Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
  • Pt1 3.14 21 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
  • Pt1 3.31 20 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven...
  • Pt1 3.33 18 ...every heaven is also a prison.
  • Pt1 3.36 5 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
  • Pt1 3.42 18 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
  • Exp 3.71 5 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the heaven without rent or seam.
  • Exp 3.73 13 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
  • Chr1 3.110 5 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
  • Chr1 3.110 10 He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows heaven;...
  • Chr1 3.115 6 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
  • Mrs1 3.133 27 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...
  • Mrs1 3.153 8 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the heaven of thought or virtue.
  • Nat2 3.172 5 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
  • Nat2 3.193 13 [The maiden] was heaven whilst [the lover] pursued her as a star...
  • Nat2 3.193 15 [The maiden] was heaven whilst [the lover] pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.
  • Nat2 3.193 24 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
  • NR 3.242 3 ...rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth...
  • NER 3.276 23 ...[those who reject us] build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed...
  • UGM 4.12 10 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
  • UGM 4.31 27 ...heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature.
  • PPh 4.51 2 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and heaven itself a decoy.
  • PPh 4.51 5 That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form, out of Tartarus and out of heaven...
  • PPh 4.62 17 There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is our guide.
  • PPh 4.76 1 Mounting into heaven...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
  • PNR 4.86 25 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
  • PNR 4.88 23 Intellect, [Plato] said, is king of heaven and of earth;...
  • SwM 4.94 24 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
  • SwM 4.96 7 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
  • SwM 4.109 13 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
  • SwM 4.114 25 Man is a kind of very minute heaven...
  • SwM 4.114 26 Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the world of spirits and to heaven.
  • SwM 4.120 22 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
  • SwM 4.126 4 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
  • SwM 4.126 7 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
  • SwM 4.126 13 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Man, in his perfect form, is heaven...
  • SwM 4.126 16 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
  • SwM 4.126 17 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
  • SwM 4.126 21 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
  • SwM 4.127 25 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
  • SwM 4.128 5 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
  • SwM 4.128 27 Heaven is not the pairing of two, but the communion of all souls.
  • SwM 4.131 4 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth, the half part of heaven, is denied...
  • SwM 4.139 22 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him...that the Dutch, in the other world, live in a heaven by themselves...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
  • SwM 4.139 23 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him...that the Dutch, in the other world, live in a heaven by themselves, and the English in a heaven by themselves; I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
  • SwM 4.140 19 The secret of heaven is kept from age to age.
  • SwM 4.141 16 ...there is [in Swedenborg] no beauty, no heaven: for angels, goblins.
  • SwM 4.142 1 When [Swedenborg] mounts into the heaven, I do not hear its language.
  • SwM 4.142 8 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is a fete champetre...
  • MoS 4.180 26 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night...
  • MoS 4.181 1 [To some minds] Heaven is within heaven, and sky over sky...
  • MoS 4.181 2 [To some minds] Heaven is within heaven, and sky over sky...
  • MoS 4.181 4 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass...
  • MoS 4.184 6 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child...
  • MoS 4.185 26 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
  • ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age goes up to heaven...
  • ShP 4.208 14 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which seem to have fallen out of heaven... and tell me if they match;...
  • ET5 5.91 5 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven...
  • ET8 5.128 13 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg...that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
  • ET11 5.187 11 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry.
  • ET13 5.217 1 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately. In the long time, it has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath.
  • ET14 5.242 11 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg...that the man makes his heaven and hell;...
  • ET14 5.258 11 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
  • F 6.20 18 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf...
  • F 6.41 10 We know what madness belongs to love,-what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
  • Ctr 6.137 14 In the Norse heaven of our forefathers, Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
  • Ctr 6.162 24 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...
  • Bhr 6.194 8 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company, though in hell, and made a kind of heaven of it.
  • Bhr 6.194 14 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted, and he was allowed to go into heaven...
  • Wsp 6.204 11 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
  • Wsp 6.205 3 Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.
  • Wsp 6.207 3 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
  • Wsp 6.207 7 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
  • Wsp 6.214 5 Heaven deals with us on no representative system.
  • Wsp 6.241 15 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters;...
  • CbW 6.269 3 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
  • Bty 6.284 6 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him.
  • Ill 6.310 14 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
  • Ill 6.319 14 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
  • SS 7.5 16 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
  • SS 7.6 25 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels.
  • Elo1 7.59 8 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
  • WD 7.170 2 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven...
  • WD 7.171 6 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the heaven deep with worlds;...are given immeasurably to all.
  • WD 7.177 2 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point...
  • 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.
  • Boks 7.204 15 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
  • Clbs 7.238 13 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
  • Suc 7.303 20 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as...Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven.
  • PI 8.20 10 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
  • PI 8.24 15 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.
  • PI 8.26 9 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
  • PI 8.47 11 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
  • PI 8.63 11 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it...
  • PI 8.71 3 In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is not everything spoken in fine parable...
  • PC 8.223 14 On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
  • PC 8.225 4 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
  • PPo 8.244 27 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
  • PPo 8.246 19 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./
  • PPo 8.249 13 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
  • PPo 8.252 20 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces.
  • PPo 8.253 10 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
  • PPo 8.255 15 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./
  • PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
  • PPo 8.256 7 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/
  • PPo 8.256 12 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net./
  • Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.
  • Insp 8.289 6 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
  • Grts 8.304 2 ...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
  • Imtl 8.327 11 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven...
  • Imtl 8.344 20 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all;...
  • Imtl 8.346 19 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
  • Imtl 8.349 20 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
  • Imtl 8.350 19 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots...
  • Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
  • Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
  • Edc1 10.130 8 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...
  • Edc1 10.142 15 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
  • SovE 10.190 17 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
  • SovE 10.196 18 The ship of heaven guides itself...
  • Prch 10.221 14 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
  • Prch 10.222 5 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty.
  • Prch 10.222 8 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him.
  • Prch 10.236 3 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
  • MoL 10.244 13 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...heaven walked on earth...
  • Schr 10.263 24 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and earth...
  • Plu 10.312 22 Plutarch...with every virtue under heaven, thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
  • LLNE 10.342 7 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing;...
  • HDC 11.40 14 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
  • HDC 11.68 14 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of;...
  • HDC 11.68 25 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
  • FSLC 11.189 23 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...instead of noble motives and inspirations, and a heaven of companions and angels around and before us, to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
  • FSLN 11.228 15 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
  • JBS 11.278 23 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before.
  • ACiv 11.303 20 Here again is a new occasion which heaven offers to sense and virtue.
  • SMC 11.376 1 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone. Yet it is tinged with light from heaven.
  • RBur 11.438 7 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
  • RBur 11.443 1 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
  • CPL 11.498 15 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
  • FRep 11.539 27 ...if we have taught...the bolt of heaven to write our letters like a Gillot pen, let these wonders work for honest humanity...
  • PLT 12.9 13 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.
  • PLT 12.9 20 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
  • PLT 12.10 9 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the availing ourselves of every impulse of genius, an emanation of the heaven it tells of...
  • PLT 12.13 24 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
  • PLT 12.17 14 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness like a sky, of degree above degree, of heaven within heaven.
  • PLT 12.17 15 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness like a sky, of degree above degree, of heaven within heaven.
  • PLT 12.42 6 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
  • PLT 12.46 21 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties...
  • PLT 12.58 8 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...
  • II 12.70 5 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith;...
  • II 12.74 27 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
  • Mem 12.92 20 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it as heaven looks on it...
  • Mem 12.103 14 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
  • CInt 12.126 12 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be a fountain of novelties out of heaven...that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
  • CL 12.148 15 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth...
  • Bost 12.183 21 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.
  • Milt1 12.250 16 What under heaven had Madame de Saumaise...to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
  • Milt1 12.258 11 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
  • Milt1 12.275 1 Milton's sublimest song, bursting into heaven with its peals of melodious thunder, is the voice of Milton still.
  • ACri 12.290 5 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style, the power of working up all his experience into heaven and hell; also the sculpture of compression.
  • MLit 12.314 6 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
  • Pray 12.350 4 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..
  • Pray 12.356 20 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding...as the heaven is above the earth.
  • PPr 12.388 12 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.
  • Let 12.396 17 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven spoke to us in that scorn.

Heaven, n. (39)

  • LE 1.155 15 ...a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth...
  • MN 1.194 11 ...the kind Heaven justifies thee...
  • LT 1.261 23 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.
  • Con 1.296 8 Saturn grew weary of sitting...with none but the great Uranus or Heaven beholding him...
  • SL 2.129 1 The living Heaven thy prayers respect/...
  • Mrs1 3.147 4 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
  • Mrs1 3.147 6 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
  • ET1 5.14 9 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old...
  • F 6.29 11 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers himself to be betrayed by Fate!
  • Wsp 6.202 24 Heaven kindly gave our blood a moral flow./
  • Ill 6.321 8 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit. Not so, says the good Heaven;...
  • SS 7.7 18 We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.
  • Elo1 7.61 14 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than...the splendors and shades of Heaven and Hell.
  • Cour 7.261 12 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State.
  • PI 8.64 14 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
  • Imtl 8.327 22 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
  • Dem1 10.10 19 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows;...
  • Dem1 10.14 7 ...says Plutarch...we cannot believe that men are sacred and favorites of Heaven.
  • Dem1 10.20 18 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of and are mad to grasp, yet how slow Heaven is to trust us with such edge-tools.
  • PerF 10.85 23 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven always succors us in working for these.
  • Edc1 10.137 13 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...
  • SovE 10.192 6 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
  • MoL 10.242 4 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough...
  • MoL 10.242 14 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
  • MoL 10.248 14 If churches are effete, it is because the new Heaven forms.
  • Schr 10.279 21 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
  • EzRy 10.379 3 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./
  • MMEm 10.408 13 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson] was fantastic enough, Heaven knows...
  • MMEm 10.423 8 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven.
  • LS 11.24 19 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world, if it please men and please Heaven...
  • JBB 11.266 16 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
  • ALin 11.336 25 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
  • ALin 11.337 15 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
  • SMC 11.352 22 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment, for the principle is as old as Heaven,-that only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
  • SMC 11.354 21 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
  • FRO2 11.490 25 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
  • II 12.76 15 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us...
  • CInt 12.112 12 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
  • ACri 12.283 16 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

Heaven, Queen of, n. (1)

  • ET16 5.286 11 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.

heaven-facing, adj. (1)

  • Hist 2.32 15 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.

heavenlier, adj. (1)

  • PI 8.1 8 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./

heavenly, adj. (40)

  • Nat 1.7 6 The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between [a man] and what he touches.
  • Nat 1.7 10 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
  • DSA 1.132 12 [The divine bards] admonish me that...they were not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
  • MN 1.210 1 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is the fool of ideas, and leads a heavenly life.
  • MR 1.250 20 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
  • Tran 1.345 21 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
  • Tran 1.357 8 ...[the strong spirits] surrender themselves with glad heart to the heavenly guide...
  • Tran 1.358 19 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark...
  • Cir 2.307 25 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
  • Art1 2.349 18 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./
  • Pt1 3.14 4 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
  • Pt1 3.14 18 The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
  • Pt1 3.31 5 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree...
  • Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
  • Exp 3.46 17 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere...
  • Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony...
  • Nat2 3.172 1 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which call us to solitude...
  • SwM 4.121 15 In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits every hydrant.
  • SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books, as under a heavenly mandate, the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
  • SwM 4.144 3 ...is [Swedenborg] reporting a breach of the manners of that heavenly society?...
  • SwM 4.145 5 Do not rely on heavenly favor...
  • ET14 5.256 16 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few! Shall I find my heavenly bread in the reigning poets?
  • CbW 6.273 9 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
  • Civ 7.29 17 We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
  • Suc 7.281 5 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./
  • PI 8.46 10 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,--Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?
  • PI 8.49 10 ...there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
  • PI 8.63 8 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread!
  • PPo 8.258 17 Hafiz says...to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
  • PerF 10.84 9 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
  • MMEm 10.413 12 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
  • Thor 10.464 18 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
  • FRep 11.537 13 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is marked.
  • PLT 12.16 1 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
  • PLT 12.17 17 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair...
  • Bost 12.200 25 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side...but if followed it leads to heavenly places.
  • EurB 12.367 22 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
  • EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.

heavens, n. (43)

  • Nat 1.12 17 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball which floats him through the heavens.
  • Nat 1.18 17 The heavens change every moment...
  • Nat 1.22 7 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
  • Nat 1.56 26 When [the Supreme Being] prepared the heavens, [Ideas] were there;...
  • DSA 1.136 17 In how many churches...is man made sensible...that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind;...
  • MR 1.243 14 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
  • LT 1.266 27 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
  • Tran 1.331 7 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say, Though we should soar into the heavens...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
  • Comp 2.106 3 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens...O thou only great God...
  • SL 2.151 27 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
  • SL 2.156 24 When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
  • Lov1 2.184 27 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
  • OS 2.271 26 ...there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens...
  • Pt1 3.12 22 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
  • Pt1 3.28 17 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...as it was an emancipation not into the heavens but into the freedom of baser places, they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
  • Nat2 3.173 25 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
  • NR 3.229 19 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
  • PPh 4.65 11 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
  • SwM 4.110 8 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens.
  • SwM 4.120 19 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
  • SwM 4.132 23 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
  • SwM 4.134 5 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull;...
  • SwM 4.136 21 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
  • ShP 4.217 26 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
  • GoW 4.290 16 We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
  • ET13 5.225 5 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not...
  • F 6.25 14 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens.
  • Boks 7.212 27 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
  • Suc 7.297 26 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
  • PI 8.42 3 Better men saw heavens and earths;...
  • PI 8.42 8 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.
  • PI 8.49 10 ...there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
  • PI 8.49 11 ...there is...nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.
  • PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
  • Supl 10.166 13 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens. Discovery in the heavens has waited for it; discovery on the face of the earth not less.
  • Schr 10.265 27 ...[the poet's] achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
  • Schr 10.277 8 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
  • PLT 12.41 27 [Perceptions] are your door to the seven heavens...
  • PLT 12.42 7 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
  • PLT 12.59 8 We are passing into new heavens in fact by the movement of our solar system...
  • CW 12.175 1 Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens...
  • Milt1 12.267 16 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
  • MLit 12.331 25 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.

heaven's, n. (3)

  • Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
  • YA 1.364 27 The heaven's blue pillars are Medea's house./
  • Schr 10.279 22 Order is heaven's first law.

Heaven's, n. (5)

  • Wth 6.83 11 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
  • Wom 11.413 20 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./
  • CInt 12.112 16 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
  • Milt1 12.260 13 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
  • Let 12.392 19 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

heavenward, adv. (1)

  • Pt1 3.12 20 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound heavenward;...

heave-offerings, n. (1)

  • SwM 4.135 21 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with heave-offerings and unleavened bread...

heavier, adj. (2)

  • Suc 7.310 17 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
  • MMEm 10.426 18 Number the waste places of the journey,-the secret martyrdom of youth, heavier than the stake, I thought...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.

heaviest, adj. (2)

  • ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
  • Farm 7.148 6 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.

heaviest, adv. (1)

  • Farm 7.148 3 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.

heavily, adv. (4)

  • MoS 4.151 23 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
  • Elo1 7.67 24 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.
  • HDC 11.41 14 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges, and they seem to have fallen heavily on the few wealthy planters.
  • CL 12.155 23 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road, although they were both loaded heavily enough with my baggage.

heaviness, n. (1)

  • CL 12.155 10 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.

heaving, v. (2)

  • WD 7.175 7 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was...the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs;...
  • Schr 10.273 16 Other men are...heaving and carrying...

heavy, adj. (38)

  • AmS 1.93 9 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
  • Chr1 3.105 2 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that reanimate my heavy soul...
  • NER 3.266 26 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
  • MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes, so that the works appear heavy and faulty.
  • NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
  • NMW 4.235 2 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
  • NMW 4.240 20 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
  • ET4 5.73 5 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
  • ET5 5.83 21 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts, but adroit at the coarse;...
  • ET5 5.88 13 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
  • Wth 6.102 8 The farmer's dollar is heavy and the clerk's is light and nimble;...
  • Wth 6.107 7 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin.
  • Ctr 6.153 23 'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match with myrmidons./
  • Art2 7.50 23 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber.
  • Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
  • Clbs 7.242 5 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...
  • Clbs 7.242 7 I have known persons of rare ability who...were heavy to intellectual men who ought to have known them.
  • PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
  • SA 8.82 21 Intellectual men...are timid and heavy with the elegant.
  • SA 8.83 22 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
  • Elo2 8.120 4 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself... perhaps a heavy companion;...
  • Elo2 8.126 23 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
  • Comc 8.162 22 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
  • Grts 8.320 5 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me.
  • Imtl 8.348 14 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day; an hour hangs heavy on their hands;...
  • Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky, heavy and tedious.
  • Edc1 10.132 18 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.
  • Plu 10.300 19 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters chiefly ethical, which are so prone to be heavy and sentimental.
  • LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids...
  • EWI 11.101 11 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...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...
  • EPro 11.321 15 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor, this heavy load lifted off the national heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
  • SMC 11.364 17 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry...
  • Scot 11.467 5 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...
  • PLT 12.7 21 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive...that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
  • Mem 12.97 26 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
  • CL 12.155 7 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden.
  • CW 12.175 20 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
  • EurB 12.371 14 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.

heavy-armed, adj. (1)

  • Schr 10.286 25 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls. Let us keep only the heavy-armed.

Hebraic, adj. (1)

  • SwM 4.121 2 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature...is mystical and Hebraic.

Hebraism, n. (2)

  • SwM 4.127 11 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
  • EzRy 10.395 17 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...

Hebrew, adj. (19)

  • DSA 1.151 11 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
  • LT 1.282 15 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity] in the Arabian, in the Hebrew...periods;...
  • Pt1 3.17 18 The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness.
  • SwM 4.134 24 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
  • ET11 5.173 8 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the Hebrew religion and the oldest traditions of the world, was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
  • ET14 5.235 16 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
  • Civ 7.33 1 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of the Indian Buddh...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
  • Elo1 7.71 7 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie...
  • WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
  • Boks 7.218 13 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
  • PI 8.35 1 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...
  • Grts 8.313 26 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
  • MoL 10.244 3 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
  • LLNE 10.333 13 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
  • EzRy 10.395 7 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
  • TPar 11.287 9 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...
  • PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
  • Bost 12.194 24 These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
  • Milt1 12.259 10 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...

Hebrew Law, n. (1)

  • MAng1 12.229 16 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law.

Hebrew, n. (2)

  • Boks 7.197 16 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry. It is so in Hebrew, in Sanskrit and in Greek.
  • ACri 12.286 6 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...

Hebrews, n. (3)

  • DSA 1.151 9 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews...shall speak in the West also.
  • ET13 5.229 20 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...
  • Wom 11.414 17 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has...among the Hebrews...

Hebrides, n. (1)

  • ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides...

Hecate, n. (1)

  • Chr1 3.98 6 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate...mouse to Hecate;...

Hecateus of Abdera, n. (1)

  • Dem1 10.14 14 Let me add one more example of the same good sense in a story quoted out of Hecateus of Abdera...

hecatombs, n. (1)

  • Let 12.404 21 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold,-every trait of beauty purchased by hecatombs of private tragedy.

Hecla [Hekla], Mount, Icel (1)

  • ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...

Hector [Homer, Iliad], n. (4)

  • Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
  • Comp 2.107 26 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
  • Cour 7.271 22 Hector and Achilles...become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
  • Dem1 10.13 22 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./

Hedge, Frederic Henry, n. (1)

  • LLNE 10.341 14 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...

hedge, n. (5)

  • Con 1.311 11 Would you have been born like a gipsy in a hedge...
  • Wth 6.115 26 ...every hill of melons, row of corn, or quick-set hedge [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
  • SS 7.4 12 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there...
  • WD 7.173 8 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
  • Trag 12.410 2 [People with an appetite for grief] handle every nettle and ivy in the hedge...

hedge, v. (2)

  • Hist 2.5 27 ...we hedge [human life] round with penalties and laws.
  • Wom 11.409 19 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to be despised...

hedged, v. (1)

  • Nat2 3.187 1 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.

hedgehog, adj. (1)

  • Wom 11.411 7 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

hedge-rows, n. (1)

  • ET16 5.288 25 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England.

hedges, n. (2)

  • MMEm 10.409 14 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
  • CL 12.146 21 Here [on Estabrook Farm], no hedges are wanted;...

hedges, v. (2)

  • ShP 4.193 24 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried. Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.
  • Ctr 6.162 25 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...

heed, n. (18)

  • Nat 1.31 20 The poet...bred in the woods...without design and without heed, - shall not lose their lesson altogether...
  • Nat 1.38 22 ...what good heed Nature forms in us!
  • LT 1.267 15 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 1.324 8 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed;...
  • Hist 2.18 10 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
  • Int 2.328 14 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
  • Int 2.331 20 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
  • Int 2.347 1 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
  • Mrs1 3.127 12 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
  • Gts 3.162 14 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
  • Nat2 3.172 9 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
  • GoW 4.284 25 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with peremptory heed that he should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.
  • Bty 6.288 1 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed...
  • Civ 7.21 27 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
  • Dem1 10.10 9 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.
  • Aris 10.46 16 ...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering.
  • Schr 10.283 4 Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts will find that our science of the mind has not got far.
  • Milt1 12.261 13 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...

heed, v. (5)

  • SL 2.164 6 Let me heed my duties.
  • Exp 3.65 12 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
  • GoW 4.266 3 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import unless the scholar heed it.
  • WD 7.167 17 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms, and what admonitions of the planets he must heed.
  • PLT 12.29 21 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...

heeded, v. (4)

  • LE 1.166 26 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. ... We have not heeded the invitation it holds out.
  • ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
  • Dem1 10.17 3 Heeded though [the belief in luck] be in many actions and partnerships, it is not the power to which we build churches...
  • PLT 12.55 19 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism, which must be heeded until [a man] can explain and rightly silence them.

heedfully, adv. (1)

  • ET4 5.47 4 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...

heeding, v. (1)

  • OS 2.283 24 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... heeding only the manifestations of these, never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...

heedless, adj. (13)

  • SR 2.67 16 ...man...heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
  • OS 2.283 23 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love], heedless of sensual fortunes...never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
  • CbW 6.263 12 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...heedless of what is good and great...
  • Farm 7.141 20 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who, heedless of laws and constitutions, stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
  • Cour 7.270 9 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city;...
  • PPo 8.236 9 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
  • Aris 10.32 20 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few, so heedless of badges... that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
  • Chr2 10.113 3 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness...
  • Chr2 10.113 4 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness, heedless of their lives and fortunes.
  • SovE 10.200 5 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...heedless of the stupendous fact of his own personality.
  • FRep 11.521 20 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power, very heedless of his own liberty or of other peoples'...
  • Let 12.395 8 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.
  • Trag 12.407 2 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...heedless whether it serves or crushes [man].

heedlessness, n. (1)

  • MN 1.221 21 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact, against the heedlessness and against the contradiction of society.

heeds, v. (2)

  • MN 1.205 4 Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?
  • Pt1 3.32 12 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he...heeds only this one dream which holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.

heel, n. (5)

  • Comp 2.107 3 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.
  • MoS 4.175 27 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life...
  • F 6.20 21 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains,-the one he snapped and the other he spurned with his heel...
  • SovE 10.206 17 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
  • CL 12.155 25 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.

heels, n. (4)

  • Hist 2.29 16 A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
  • Hsm1 2.249 10 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...
  • Mrs1 3.147 8 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
  • LLNE 10.337 18 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism...

Heeren, Arnold Hermann, n. (2)

  • Hist 2.19 23 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
  • Elo1 7.99 6 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm, n. (9)

  • Int 2.343 24 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...such has Hegel... seemed to many young men in this country.
  • Chr1 3.104 1 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...
  • F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Hegel...and the rest.
  • Clbs 7.238 23 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Hegel was the guest of Victor Cousin in Paris;...
  • Elo2 8.131 25 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.
  • QO 8.180 22 Hegel preexists in Proclus...
  • Insp 8.292 8 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but conversation, is the right metaphysical professor.
  • LLNE 10.328 25 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind. Hegel also, especially.
  • LLNE 10.338 20 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy, Hegel his metaphysics...

Hegel's, Georg Wilhelm, n. (1)

  • ET14 5.242 12 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...

hegira, n. (1)

  • OA 7.324 9 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...

Heidelberg, Germany, n. (1)

  • GoW 4.276 22 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well initiated in the life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...

heifer, n. (1)

  • SMC 11.360 16 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer.

height, n. (59)

  • DSA 1.139 24 [The prayers and dogmas of our church] mark the height to which the waters once rose.
  • LT 1.267 5 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions! he is now reduced almost to the middle height;...
  • Tran 1.334 13 The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained...
  • Tran 1.352 22 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height;...
  • Hist 2.11 3 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
  • SR 2.59 4 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of...at a little height of thought.
  • SR 2.61 20 Scipio, Milton called the height of Rome;...
  • SR 2.85 26 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
  • SL 2.141 13 The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
  • Fdsp 2.204 9 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form;...
  • Hsm1 2.255 20 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
  • Cir 2.307 5 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.
  • Art1 2.353 22 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols] denote the height of the human soul in that hour...
  • Pt1 3.19 16 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
  • Mrs1 3.120 3 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names; individuals are called after their height, thickness, or other accidental quality...
  • Nat2 3.174 2 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
  • Nat2 3.192 13 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead, enjoying, as it seemed, their height and privilege of motion...
  • NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...
  • UGM 4.16 7 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
  • SwM 4.97 25 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
  • ET1 5.9 16 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
  • ET6 5.108 23 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
  • ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
  • ET12 5.207 5 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
  • ET14 5.254 6 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
  • F 6.19 14 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
  • F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all atoms which rise to that height...
  • F 6.30 20 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house and notch their height from year to year.
  • Bty 6.296 8 [The human form] reaches its height in woman.
  • Ill 6.313 1 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height.
  • Boks 7.209 14 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
  • PI 8.60 10 There is in every poem a height which attracts more than other parts...
  • PI 8.65 26 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself...
  • Elo2 8.117 17 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character, the height of manhood.
  • Elo2 8.125 17 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
  • PC 8.213 23 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height.
  • PC 8.214 7 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
  • PC 8.229 18 ...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of character, height of genius, can only find nourishment in this soil.
  • PPo 8.250 13 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the height of thought...
  • Dem1 10.21 20 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better. It is the height of the animal; below the region of the divine.
  • Supl 10.171 20 Enthusiasm is the height of man;...
  • Supl 10.178 6 One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is the skill in the fabric of iron.
  • SovE 10.194 22 Let [a man]...find...the height of lowliness, the immensity of to-day;...
  • SovE 10.205 19 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
  • Thor 10.453 17 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
  • War 11.168 24 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
  • War 11.174 12 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...
  • FSLN 11.236 13 ...our education is...to know...that self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
  • ACiv 11.304 1 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
  • Wom 11.406 27 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
  • Wom 11.413 7 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./
  • Wom 11.413 11 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
  • Wom 11.414 6 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.
  • FRep 11.521 20 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...
  • FRep 11.544 16 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection...will find their home in our institutions...
  • PLT 12.62 17 The height of culture, the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
  • CL 12.160 14 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
  • CW 12.171 18 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
  • Milt1 12.274 6 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.

Height, n. (1)

  • SR 2.70 7 We do not yet see that virtue is Height...

heighten, v. (1)

  • Mrs1 3.140 4 ...besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

heightened, v. (3)

  • ET11 5.183 10 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
  • HDC 11.50 18 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
  • LVB 11.90 3 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

heightens, v. (2)

  • PI 8.23 12 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature...
  • Comc 8.171 8 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress; and another whose dress obeys and heightens the expression of her form.

Heights, Dorchester, Massac (1)

  • HDC 11.79 4 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.

heights, n. (15)

  • DSA 1.149 19 ...these are heights that we can scarce remember...without contrition and shame.
  • Cir 2.307 13 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I... rise by my affection to new heights.
  • Mrs1 3.141 3 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity, from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige, up to the heights of magnanimity and love.
  • ET14 5.243 7 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age]. These heights could not be maintained.
  • ET14 5.243 13 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
  • Cour 7.275 20 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
  • PC 8.211 19 We have been taught to tread familiarly on giddy heights of thought...
  • Insp 8.296 23 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep/ Heights which the soul is competent to gain./
  • Imtl 8.348 24 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is rising to greater heights...
  • Supl 10.163 6 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
  • SovE 10.198 19 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
  • MAng1 12.224 7 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato...
  • Milt1 12.278 14 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.
  • Milt1 12.279 10 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
  • WSL 12.342 23 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this;...

Heimskringla [Snorri Sturlu (4)

  • ET4 5.57 1 The Heimskringla, or Sagas of the Kings of Norway, collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
  • ET4 5.66 21 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
  • ET8 5.139 24 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
  • Boks 7.206 22 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...

Heines, n. (1)

  • Chr2 10.105 26 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes, Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!

heinously, adv. (1)

  • Res 8.145 20 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, which was heinously unprovided and exposed.

heir, n. (5)

  • MR 1.236 27 The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
  • ShP 4.197 11 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world...
  • ET5 5.93 22 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches, and the Banshee has sworn that a male heir shall never be wanting.
  • Ctr 6.165 2 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the estate...shall be delivered down to the next heir in as good condition as he received it;...
  • MMEm 10.424 12 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.

heirlooms, n. (1)

  • ET6 5.107 24 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...

Heister, Lorenz, n. (1)

  • SwM 4.104 23 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam...Heister...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

Hekla [Hecla], Mount, Icel (1)

  • ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...

held, v. (103)

  • MN 1.207 16 [Man's] two parents held each of them one of the wants...
  • SR 2.78 25 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man] because he held on his way...
  • SR 2.87 4 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...
  • Comp 2.107 3 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.
  • SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
  • Int 2.333 12 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new;...
  • Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
  • Pt1 3.35 4 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must be held lightly...
  • Pt1 3.35 25 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
  • Mrs1 3.149 15 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding, and held out protection and prosperity;...
  • NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
  • SwM 4.102 1 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
  • SwM 4.106 23 ...[Swedenborg] held...that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
  • SwM 4.106 27 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly...
  • SwM 4.118 23 In his fifty-fourth year these thoughts [about Correspondence] held [Swedenborg] fast...
  • SwM 4.132 24 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held as mystical...
  • SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
  • ShP 4.202 2 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not, whether he held horses at the theatre door...
  • NMW 4.242 9 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...
  • ET3 5.42 26 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
  • ET4 5.48 6 The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
  • ET4 5.49 10 'T is said that the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions.
  • ET10 5.170 12 ...being in the fault, [England] has the misfortune of greatness to be held as the chief offender.
  • ET10 5.170 13 England must be held responsible for the despotism of expense.
  • ET11 5.174 4 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son.
  • ET11 5.175 9 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
  • ET11 5.175 26 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
  • ET13 5.217 6 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
  • ET14 5.239 13 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held of the analogists...
  • ET14 5.240 9 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...
  • ET15 5.268 9 The [London] Times never...cripples itself by apology for... the indiscretion of him who held the pen.
  • ET17 5.297 13 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company...
  • ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
  • F 6.5 22 [The Calvinists] felt that the weight of the Universe held them down to their place.
  • F 6.20 23 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him;...
  • F 6.24 3 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.
  • Wth 6.102 5 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
  • Bhr 6.174 5 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the deformity.
  • Bhr 6.176 3 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he...held on to his chair with both hands...
  • Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
  • Wsp 6.210 9 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
  • Wsp 6.222 9 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood, which held him to decorum.
  • Ill 6.315 5 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...
  • Ill 6.319 3 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
  • Civ 7.33 18 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane...
  • Elo1 7.72 20 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward, but held it still...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
  • Farm 7.143 25 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
  • WD 7.162 5 Our selfishness would have held slaves...
  • Boks 7.219 14 [The communications of the sacred books] are not to be held by letters printed on a page...
  • Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
  • Cour 7.255 20 ...the immense esteem in which [courage] is held proves it to be rare.
  • Cour 7.270 23 [John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are silent concerning themselves.
  • Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at bay...
  • Suc 7.300 2 ...the sand floor is held by spheral gravity...
  • OA 7.321 6 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
  • OA 7.321 8 ...in all governments, the councils of power were held by the old;...
  • PI 8.69 23 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
  • Res 8.149 21 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
  • Comc 8.166 12 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...
  • Imtl 8.324 20 There never was a time when the doctrine of a future life was not held.
  • Imtl 8.332 12 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held...
  • Aris 10.32 5 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...
  • PerF 10.74 10 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.
  • Chr2 10.106 20 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
  • Supl 10.167 2 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
  • Supl 10.176 4 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men, who have held themselves hard to the poverty of Nature.
  • MoL 10.250 16 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.
  • Plu 10.314 1 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful, who held that the soul perishes when it is separated from the body.
  • Plu 10.319 10 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
  • LLNE 10.343 13 From that time meetings were held for conversation...
  • LLNE 10.346 19 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...
  • LLNE 10.355 5 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
  • LLNE 10.359 24 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money, others held shares by their labor.
  • LLNE 10.362 19 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm], perhaps as long as the colony held together;...
  • EzRy 10.384 3 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence,-certainly, as they held it, a very particular providence......
  • EzRy 10.388 11 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
  • MMEm 10.421 24 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
  • MMEm 10.421 27 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity...
  • Thor 10.458 18 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
  • Thor 10.475 7 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
  • LS 11.23 25 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
  • HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
  • HDC 11.53 15 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
  • HDC 11.72 8 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men.
  • EWI 11.111 5 Looking in the face of his master by the negro was held to be violence by the [West Indian] island courts.
  • War 11.160 9 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...
  • FSLC 11.191 6 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
  • FSLC 11.191 11 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void. Chief Justice Hobart, Chief Justice Holt, and Chief Justice Mansfield held the same.
  • TPar 11.290 22 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party.
  • ACiv 11.303 21 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...
  • SMC 11.370 24 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully.
  • SMC 11.374 4 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth...
  • ChiE 11.472 22 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
  • FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
  • PLT 12.40 26 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from any man's saying so...is of inestimable value.
  • II 12.78 19 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
  • Mem 12.93 23 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
  • Mem 12.106 17 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method, yet securely held, and ready to come at call;...
  • Mem 12.109 19 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
  • CL 12.143 6 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
  • CL 12.146 13 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself, and whilst some of its trees decay, the hardier have held their own.
  • CL 12.150 27 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
  • Let 12.397 4 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held by some masonic tie.

heldest, v. (1)

  • WD 7.175 8 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands...

Helen [Goethe, Helena], n. (1)

  • Hist 2.33 17 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

Helen [Homer, Iliad], n. (2)

  • Elo1 7.71 18 Helen is pointing out to Priam...the different Grecian chiefs.
  • Elo1 7.71 27 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...

Helen, of Argos, n. [Helen] (2)

  • PPh 4.41 3 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
  • Bty 6.297 20 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...

Helena [Johann Wolfgang von (3)

  • Hist 2.33 14 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing.
  • NR 3.242 7 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
  • GoW 4.271 27 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...

Helena, St., n. (6)

  • LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
  • NMW 4.240 2 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all parts of his Memoirs, dictated at St. Helena.
  • NMW 4.240 18 I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's] biographers at St. Helena.
  • NMW 4.251 2 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...with Antonomarchi at St. Helena.
  • NMW 4.251 16 [Bonaparte's] memoirs, dictated to Count Montholon and General Gourgaud at St. Helena, have great value...
  • Trag 12.416 13 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

Heliodorus, Angel driving... (1)

  • Comc 8.170 24 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...

hell, n. (17)

  • DSA 1.123 23 ...of their own volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell.
  • Cir 2.318 6 ...no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions.
  • Exp 3.55 1 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science]. We hurl it into its own hell...
  • NER 3.274 15 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst, and tread the floors of hell.
  • SwM 4.131 14 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
  • SwM 4.131 23 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw the hell of the jugglers, the hell of the assassins...
  • SwM 4.131 24 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw...the hell of the lascivious;...
  • SwM 4.131 24 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw...the hell of robbers, who kill and boil men;...
  • SwM 4.131 26 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful...
  • SwM 4.137 26 ...one [man] dreads hell,--show him that dread is evil.
  • NMW 4.250 12 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree, viz. that of hell, and that of salvation out of the pale of the church.
  • ET14 5.242 11 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg...that the man makes his heaven and hell;...
  • Bhr 6.193 21 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
  • Bhr 6.194 7 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company, though in hell...
  • PC 8.232 1 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...
  • MMEm 10.421 5 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
  • ACri 12.290 6 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style, the power of working up all his experience into heaven and hell; also the sculpture of compression.

Hell, n. (4)

  • LT 1.261 23 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.
  • Pow 6.66 16 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
  • Elo1 7.61 14 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than...the splendors and shades of Heaven and Hell.
  • ACri 12.283 16 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

Hellas, n. (1)

  • Hist 2.26 16 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas.

hellebore, n. (2)

  • NR 3.238 13 ...[Nature] has hellebore at the bottom of the cup.
  • ACiv 11.298 10 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see for such madness no hellebore...

hellebores, n. (1)

  • Schr 10.266 5 ...[Nature] has balsams for our hurts, and hellebores for our insanities.

Hellenic, adj. (1)

  • Comp 2.108 17 Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.

Hellespont, n. (1)

  • ET16 5.277 14 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...

Hellesponts, n. (1)

  • Pow 6.69 11 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...swimming Hellesponts;...

hell-fire, n. (1)

  • F 6.20 26 Neither brandy...nor hell-fire...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].

hells, n. (6)

  • SwM 4.131 26 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the excrementitious hells;...
  • 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.
  • SwM 4.134 5 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull;...
  • SwM 4.142 14 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
  • Ctr 6.166 19 [Man] will convert the Furies into Muses, and the hells into benefit.
  • CbW 6.255 11 What would painter do...but for crucifixions and hells?

helm, n. (3)

  • Cir 2.303 24 ...[a man] has a helm which he obeys...
  • ALin 11.335 7 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for...no fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado.
  • FRep 11.543 22 Our helm is given up to a better guidance than our own;...

helmet, n. (3)

  • WD 7.184 25 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.
  • Comc 8.170 25 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
  • MAng1 12.237 25 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...

helmets, n. (1)

  • Cour 7.264 25 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.

Helmont, Jan Baptista van, (4)

  • ET14 5.241 21 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker, even to Van Helmont and Behmen...
  • PC 8.228 25 It was the conviction...of Van Helmont...that piety is an essential condition of science...
  • Imtl 8.340 23 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
  • CInt 12.131 19 Study for eternity smiled on me, says Van Helmont.

helmsman, n. (1)

  • FRep 11.543 24 ...the course of events is quite too strong for any helmsman...

help, n. (29)

  • AmS 1.113 22 Help must come from the bosom alone.
  • MR 1.245 10 Now what help for these evils?
  • MR 1.253 4 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
  • Lov1 2.182 22 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to...give to each all help and comfort in curing [blemishes and hindrances].
  • Exp 3.58 8 ...what help from these fineries or pedantries?
  • Exp 3.58 9 What help from thought?
  • Chr1 3.112 2 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men], from asking their praise, or help, or pity, and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
  • NR 3.233 11 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination.
  • UGM 4.13 21 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections. Other help I find a false appearance.
  • UGM 4.27 7 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men...
  • ET9 5.150 5 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer.
  • Pow 6.78 17 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year.
  • Wth 6.120 21 Help comes in the custom of the country...
  • Ctr 6.140 15 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. They are past the help of surgeon or clergy.
  • Bty 6.284 11 The invention is of use to the inventor, of questionable help to any other.
  • Elo1 7.99 20 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they valued every help to its attainment...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
  • Cour 7.260 22 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
  • PI 8.9 13 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them. His words and his thoughts are framed by their help.
  • PI 8.10 27 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help...
  • Chr2 10.118 5 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
  • Carl 10.497 6 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire, and, by the help of God, had resolved to stand there.
  • GSt 10.502 18 Mr. [George] Stearns...had the magnanimity to trust [John Brown] entirely, and to arm his hands with all needed help.
  • EWI 11.145 1 ...you must save yourself, black or white, man or woman; other help is none.
  • FSLC 11.182 24 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
  • FSLC 11.212 1 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
  • FSLN 11.234 20 There is no help but in the head and heart and hamstrings of a man.
  • SMC 11.368 6 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
  • Scot 11.466 9 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.
  • PPr 12.384 18 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords! There is no help in place or pride...

help, v. (94)

  • AmS 1.113 21 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
  • DSA 1.123 13 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
  • MN 1.202 12 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
  • MR 1.239 27 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
  • MR 1.255 18 He who would help himself and others should not be a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue...
  • Con 1.311 8 Have we not atoned for this small offence (which we could not help) of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
  • Tran 1.356 24 [The Transcendentalist] cannot help the reaction of this injustice in his own mind.
  • YA 1.374 4 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will. We are very forward to help it, but it will not be accelerated.
  • YA 1.376 20 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers...to help him keep his overgrown house in order;...
  • SR 2.70 26 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
  • SR 2.78 11 Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer;...
  • SL 2.156 15 ...your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them;...
  • Lov1 2.172 25 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
  • Fdsp 2.203 11 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting--as indeed he could not help doing...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
  • Cir 2.320 16 I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess...
  • Pt1 3.28 7 ...[these stimulants] help [a man] to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up...
  • Mrs1 3.153 22 What is rich? Are you rich enough to help anybody?...
  • NER 3.272 26 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...
  • NER 3.284 7 ...the good globe...carries us securely through the celestial spaces anxious or resigned, we need not interfere to help it on;...
  • UGM 4.34 26 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
  • PNR 4.81 25 The naturalist would never help us to [the expansions of facts] by any discoveries of the extent of the universe...
  • SwM 4.99 3 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
  • NMW 4.228 23 Napoleon...would help himself with his hands and his head.
  • GoW 4.285 9 [Goethe's] affections help him...
  • ET4 5.64 20 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
  • ET7 5.125 7 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
  • ET8 5.135 8 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart... who loves to help you at a pinch.
  • ET9 5.146 22 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
  • 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...
  • ET14 5.243 5 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
  • ET16 5.283 16 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with paddies to help...
  • F 6.11 6 ...all the legislation of the world cannot meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of [a man].
  • Pow 6.59 21 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him;...
  • Wth 6.117 11 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;...
  • Wth 6.118 6 It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger incomes do not help anybody.
  • Wth 6.121 10 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...and you cannot help or hinder it.
  • Wsp 6.212 13 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day...
  • Wsp 6.212 15 Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make a party pledge to defend this or that...
  • Wsp 6.215 10 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
  • Wsp 6.239 22 Such as you are, the gods themselves could not help you.
  • Wsp 6.240 1 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them?
  • Wsp 6.241 27 No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt [man].
  • CbW 6.245 7 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
  • Civ 7.30 17 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help.
  • Elo1 7.95 5 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
  • DL 7.110 5 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings young drapers...
  • WD 7.162 8 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
  • Boks 7.205 26 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
  • Clbs 7.233 5 It does not help that you find as good or a better man than yourself, if he is not timed and fitted to you.
  • Cour 7.278 12 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
  • Suc 7.291 21 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be.
  • Suc 7.309 18 Set down nothing that will not help somebody;...
  • Suc 7.311 2 ...to help the young soul...that is not easy...
  • PI 8.23 24 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary...
  • PI 8.59 13 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities.
  • PI 8.74 26 The only heart that can help us is one that draws...from itself, a counterpoise to society.
  • SA 8.91 26 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we...surround it with illustrations that help and delight us.
  • Comc 8.168 15 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
  • QO 8.189 21 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?
  • PC 8.227 21 It is only in the sleep of the soul that we help ourselves by so many ingenious crutches and machineries.
  • PC 8.232 4 Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough.
  • Insp 8.283 11 ...what is will for, if it cannot help us in emergencies?
  • Grts 8.312 14 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me.
  • Grts 8.315 22 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France, and would help any wretch at a pinch.
  • Imtl 8.335 15 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers...
  • Imtl 8.335 19 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
  • PerF 10.69 6 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind.
  • Chr2 10.95 17 Not by adding...does the moral sentiment help us;...
  • SovE 10.190 5 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them...hinder none, help all...
  • Schr 10.284 17 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you help any soul?
  • Plu 10.312 18 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]: God divided man into men, that they might help each other;...
  • LLNE 10.323 3 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
  • MMEm 10.407 6 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
  • Thor 10.480 18 ...I cannot help counting it a fault in [Thoreau] that he had no ambition.
  • LS 11.11 3 ...I cannot help remarking that it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
  • LS 11.12 7 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine...do not help us to understand the redemption which they signified.
  • LS 11.22 8 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
  • FSLC 11.193 12 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
  • FSLC 11.207 7 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states, and help them effectually to make an end of it.
  • FSLC 11.213 17 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal...
  • FSLN 11.232 13 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise, and the instinct to love and help his brother.
  • AKan 11.254 3 ...Help them who cannot help again:/ Beware from right to swerve./
  • JBB 11.266 16 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
  • ChiE 11.474 10 I cannot help adding...that I have read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
  • FRep 11.531 12 Nations were made to help each other as much as families were;...
  • PLT 12.3 7 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
  • PLT 12.19 21 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot help it...
  • II 12.78 18 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody...
  • Mem 12.97 17 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.
  • ACri 12.288 3 The short Saxon words with which the people help themselves are better than Latin.
  • ACri 12.289 13 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious, to see how words help us and must be philosophical.
  • MLit 12.313 27 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be delivered from some burden...
  • MLit 12.314 3 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...flattered or pardoned or enriched; what will help to marry or to divorce them...
  • AgMs 12.358 18 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.

helped, v. (13)

  • Exp 3.75 19 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.
  • NER 3.260 14 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition...that man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.
  • Clbs 7.231 20 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as one thought...
  • OA 7.334 14 [George Whitefield's] voice and manner helped him more than his sermons.
  • Dem1 10.24 22 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
  • Schr 10.266 22 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us.
  • Schr 10.273 18 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped.
  • LLNE 10.359 10 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
  • Thor 10.453 23 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds, and helped his studies of Nature.
  • FSLC 11.202 16 Who has not helped to praise [Webster]?
  • AKan 11.256 25 [The people of Kansas] have a right to be helped, for they have helped themselves.
  • PLT 12.9 6 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped.
  • PPr 12.382 7 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...

helper, n. (1)

  • Pray 12.356 11 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct; and I was able to do it, because now thou wert become my helper.

Helper, n. (1)

  • PI 8.59 12 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper';...

helpers, n. (4)

  • Civ 7.29 4 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
  • Farm 7.151 11 The first planter, the savage, without helpers...takes poor land.
  • PerF 10.69 20 ...show [a man] what mighty allies and helpers he has.
  • MLit 12.309 4 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.

helpful, adj. (7)

  • AmS 1.82 20 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself;...
  • AmS 1.99 26 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
  • MR 1.228 5 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place a free and helpful man...
  • Cir 2.320 15 I can know that truth is divine and helpful;...
  • UGM 4.13 20 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections.
  • Suc 7.291 22 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be.
  • Chr2 10.108 3 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated...as helpful, as having public and universal regards, or otherwise;...

helpfulness, n. (2)

  • Wth 6.112 11 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind.
  • CbW 6.251 5 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.

helping, adj. (1)

  • SMC 11.359 22 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...the helping hand...

helping, v. (4)

  • MR 1.240 1 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the helping of his friend...
  • Elo1 7.75 26 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who has no capacity for helping them at all...
  • 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.
  • PPr 12.382 7 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped, nor by helping the depraved after their own foolish fashion...

helpless, adj. (11)

  • Nat 1.62 4 ...when we try to define and describe [God]...we are as helpless as fools and savages.
  • Comp 2.106 14 [Jupiter] is made as helpless as a king of England.
  • Exp 3.74 10 The spirit is not helpless or needful of mediate organs.
  • UGM 4.7 6 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times...
  • Cour 7.257 8 ...man begins life helpless.
  • Edc1 10.158 8 ...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.
  • SovE 10.191 12 Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every crime.
  • MoL 10.251 2 I wish the youth to be...no helpless angel to be slapped in the face...
  • EWI 11.129 18 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
  • FSLN 11.238 22 ...Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong.
  • ACri 12.303 21 ...whilst the world is made of youthful, helpless children of a day, literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and or moral truth.

helpless, n. (2)

  • YA 1.390 6 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood, to succor the helpless and oppressed;...
  • Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in...appointing almoners to the helpless...

helplessness, n. (1)

  • Nat2 3.194 24 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.

Helps, Arthur, n. (2)

  • ET16 5.286 19 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]....
  • ET17 5.292 24 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Leigh Hunt, D' Israeli, Helps...

helps, n. (2)

  • SR 2.65 26 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
  • Mem 12.109 15 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see the natural helps of it in the mind...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

helps, v. (22)

  • Chr1 3.100 7 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
  • Chr1 3.100 13 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...to whom all parties feel related, both the leaders of opinion and the obscure and eccentric,--he helps;...
  • Mrs1 3.139 21 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
  • Nat2 3.188 7 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people...
  • NR 3.239 20 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
  • SwM 4.107 19 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine...
  • MoS 4.185 4 Man helps himself by larger generalizations.
  • ShP 4.215 1 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
  • F 6.17 17 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure...
  • Bhr 6.191 16 ...What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
  • Art2 7.46 17 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
  • Farm 7.141 13 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
  • Clbs 7.227 12 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk. The physician helps them mainly in the same way...
  • Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. The affection or sympathy helps.
  • PI 8.37 18 ...the poet says nothing but what helps somebody;...
  • QO 8.181 24 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it...the same growth befalls mythology...
  • Insp 8.296 5 The deep book...helps us best.
  • Grts 8.301 8 ...every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
  • PLT 12.25 14 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...
  • II 12.85 25 That you have done long ago helps you now.
  • Mem 12.101 3 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
  • CL 12.149 16 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed, or withe-bush...for strings;...

Helvellyn, Mount, England, (3)

  • Insp 8.287 13 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?
  • EurB 12.368 7 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...
  • EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

hem, n. (1)

  • Milt1 12.255 17 The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch [Milton's man's] garment's hem.

hem, v. (3)

  • Cir 2.304 11 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify and hem in the life.
  • Pt1 3.39 10 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in.
  • MLit 12.330 23 The vicious conventions, which hem us in like prison walls...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

Hemans, Filicia, n. (1)

  • MLit 12.318 25 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in...Byron, Shelley, Felicia Hemans, and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

hemisphere, n. (6)

  • YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
  • ET5 5.91 3 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father, who had made the catalogue of the stars of the northern hemisphere, expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
  • HDC 11.38 21 Natives of another hemisphere, [the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
  • War 11.161 12 The star once risen, though only one man in the hemisphere has yet seen its upper limb in the horizon, will mount and mount...
  • Mem 12.110 19 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future, but in that day [when the Great Mind enters into us] will the hemisphere complete itself...
  • Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago in the other hemisphere...

hemispheres, n. (2)

  • ET13 5.229 3 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
  • Trag 12.406 10 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.

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