Hemlock to Higgle

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

hemlock, adj. (1)

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

hemlock, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.172 19 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    PPh 4.75 3 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    Res 8.148 24 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.
    EurB 12.371 25 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck with boughs of hemlock and sweetbriar...

hemlock-boughs, n. (1)

    Thor 10.482 24 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...

hemlocks, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    CL 12.134 3 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./

hemorrhoids, n. (1)

    SwM 4.130 5 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...hemorrhoids...

hemp, n. (3)

    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.36 14 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
    CL 12.149 17 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or wild hemp...for strings;...

hen, n. (4)

    Aris 10.29 4 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
    LLNE 10.365 10 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    LLNE 10.365 11 A hen without her chickens was but half a hen.
    LLNE 10.365 12 A hen without her chickens was but half a hen.

hence, adv. (4)

    Suc 7.292 23 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence that depression of spirits...said to mark every American brow.
    PI 8.55 4 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    PI 8.61 23 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence...
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...

henceforth, adv. (5)

    AmS 1.88 24 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also.
    AmS 1.96 19 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of beauty...
    AmS 1.104 23 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior.
    Nat2 3.173 19 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please.
    ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.

henceforward, adv. (10)

    AmS 1.88 25 The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
    SR 2.60 11 Let the words [conformity, consistency] be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
    SR 2.72 26 Henceforward I am the truth's.
    SR 2.73 1 ...henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    SwM 4.120 13 The correspondence between thoughts and things henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
    ET4 5.67 1 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity, and shall plough in its furrow henceforward.
    Elo2 8.119 7 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and henceforward they possess this new and wonderful element.
    Schr 10.274 11 Let [men of thought] decline henceforward foreign methods and foreign courages.
    EPro 11.321 17 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    PPr 12.391 22 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...

Hengist [Merlin], n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 7 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;/...

Hengist, n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 13 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here...

Hengst, n. (1)

    ET4 5.72 7 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders.

Henley, Robert [Lord North (1)

    EWI 11.136 3 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.

henna, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 24 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs, henna, otto and camphor...

Henries, n. (1)

    ShP 4.193 4 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...

hen-roosts, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 5 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

Henry I, of England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.290 8 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...

Henry II, of England, n. (1)

    PC 8.218 14 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor; as Thomas a Becket overpowered the English Henry.

Henry III, of England, n. (2)

    ET4 5.64 6 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...
    Clbs 7.239 23 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.

Henry IV, of England, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.132 9 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.

Henry IV, of France, n. (6)

    MoS 4.164 23 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    ET4 5.70 6 [The English] think, with Henri Quatre, that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET12 5.201 10 Isaac Casaubon, coming from Henri Quatre of France...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
    Boks 7.206 13 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Plu 10.295 8 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    SMC 11.361 15 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.

Henry, Patrick, n. (5)

    Elo1 7.85 5 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Patrick Henry, of Adams...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo2 8.117 19 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    FRep 11.537 9 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab, nor was Martin Luther...nor Patrick Henry...
    CInt 12.120 5 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...
    ACri 12.286 12 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...Burke, O'Connell, Patrick Henry;...

Henry V, of England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.175 14 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...

Henry VI, of England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 8 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.

Henry VI [William Shakesp (1)

    ShP 4.195 11 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....

Henry VII, History of [F (1)

    Boks 7.207 13 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...the History of Henry VII...

Henry VII, of England, n. (2)

    Grts 8.316 25 Henry VII. of England was a wise king.
    Grts 8.317 4 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

Henry VIII, of England, (5)

    ET7 5.121 2 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET11 5.177 3 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived. The prince recommended him to Henry VIII...
    Pow 6.77 25 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.
    CbW 6.254 10 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely, as Henry VIII. in the contest with the Pope;...
    Boks 7.206 12 Ximenes...Henry VIII...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.

Henry VIII [William Sha (1)

    ShP 4.195 18 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.

Henry VI's, of England, n. (1)

    ET4 5.69 20 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water...

Henry's, Alexander, n. (1)

    QO 8.203 10 The earliest describers of savage life, as...Alexander Henry's travels among our Indian tribes, have a charm of truth...

Heptarchy, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 23 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament. This is the Heptarchy again;...

Heracleus, lapis, n. (1)

    ET16 5.282 8 The name of the magnet is lapis Heracleus...

Heraclitus, n. (11)

    LE 1.160 25 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers; of Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Xenophanes.
    MN 1.214 16 You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus;...
    Int 2.326 7 Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists.
    Int 2.346 8 This band of grandees...Heraclitus...and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Pt1 3.4 14 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Heraclitus, Plato...
    PPh 4.42 16 Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else;...
    Ill 6.324 4 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    QO 8.180 23 Hegel preexists in Proclus, and, long before, in Heraclitus and Parmenides.
    Chr2 10.97 21 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness. We should say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also: approve yourself to him.
    Plu 10.321 27 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.
    HCom 11.341 13 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.

herald, n. (3)

    Nat 1.24 22 [Beauty in nature] is the herald of inward and eternal beauty...
    Comp 2.111 23 Fear is...the herald of all revolutions.
    UGM 4.18 10 Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.

heralded, v. (1)

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

heraldic, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.173 6 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...

heraldry, n. (7)

    Hist 2.18 3 The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.
    ET11 5.173 21 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET11 5.197 21 Another stride that has been taken [in England] appears in the perishing of heraldry.
    Art2 7.55 11 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Aris 10.34 15 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...the codes and heraldry of states;...
    EurB 12.377 6 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry...

heralds, n. (4)

    LT 1.262 5 ...[persons] are the heralds of the Future.
    Tran 1.338 4 ...we know of none but prophets and heralds of such a philosophy [Transcendendalism];...
    Schr 10.262 26 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...heralds of civility, nobility, learning and wisdom;...
    Schr 10.287 23 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.

herald's, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.133 23 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.

herb, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 6 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...

herbage, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.9 14 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...

herbal, n. (2)

    Wth 6.84 2 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    Bty 6.284 20 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.

Herbert, Edward [Baron of (1)

    Ctr 6.143 27 ...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

Herbert, Edward, n. (1)

    Plu 10.318 8 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Cromwell, Nelson...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Herbert, George, n. (12)

    Nat 1.68 15 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert...
    OS 2.287 6 The great distinction...between poets like Herbert, and poets like Pope...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    ET4 5.47 12 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert...
    ET14 5.234 16 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; in these writers [Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton] and in Herbert, Henry More, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne.
    ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Sidney, Lord Brooke, Herbert...
    Boks 7.207 7 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Herbert...
    PI 8.29 19 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    QO 8.195 25 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...like Donne, Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan;...
    SovE 10.203 21 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and Herbert, and Taylor;...
    Prch 10.227 9 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt. So not less of Bishop Taylor or George Herbert or Henry Scougal.
    Bost 12.194 1 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of...Jeremy Taylor, Herbert and Leighton.
    EurB 12.365 17 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised. Nothing of Milton, nothing...of Herbert...could be.

Herbert, George,n. (1)

    GSt 10.499 6 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.

Herbert, Robert H. [Earl o (1)

    ET16 5.284 12 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke...

Herbert, Sidney, n. (2)

    ET16 5.284 13 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert Esq....
    ET16 5.284 16 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.

Herbert, Thomas [Earl of P (1)

    Art1 2.364 25 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.

Herbert, Thomas, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 4 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as...Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming...

Herbert's, Edward [Baron of (2)

    ET11 5.189 25 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Boks 7.208 9 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as...Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs;...

Herberts, George, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 13 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.

Herbert's, George, n. (3)

    PI 8.55 28 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Herbert's Virtue and Easter...
    SA 8.88 12 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my discretion will be brave.
    Insp 8.282 15 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Neibuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him. As this rejoiced me, so does Herbert's poem The Flower.

Herbert's, Henry [Earl of (1)

    CL 12.147 11 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

Herberts, n. (2)

    ShP 4.203 21 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Massinger, the two Herberts...
    ET13 5.220 14 ...the age...of the Taylors, Leightons, Herberts;...is gone.

herborizations, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 23 At Upsala...[Linnaeus] instituted what were called herborizations...

herbs, n. (4)

    Nat 1.69 2 Herbs gladly cure our flesh.../
    Bty 6.281 7 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    WD 7.155 9 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    CL 12.149 6 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters)...harness your car! Ambrosia is in you, in you are medicinal herbs.

herb-tea, n. (2)

    Con 1.319 13 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...swallowing pills and herb-tea.
    Pow 6.68 12 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...

herb-wife, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 2 'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...

herb-woman, n. (1)

    AmS 1.105 25 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...

Hercules, n. (11)

    Nat 1.40 27 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Hist 2.24 10 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Hist 2.31 15 Antaeus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules...
    Chr1 3.90 16 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god?
    Chr1 3.90 21 ...Hercules did not wait for a contest;...
    ET16 5.282 8 ...Hercules was the god of the Phoenicians.
    ET16 5.282 9 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
    Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
    Cour 7.255 13 There is a Hercules, an Achilles...in the mythology of every nation;...
    Aris 10.51 21 To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    PLT 12.52 7 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine. 'T is like a withered hand or leg on a Hercules.

Hercules, Torso, n. (1)

    PI 8.13 9 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.

Hercynian, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.48 11 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.

herd, n. (2)

    AmS 1.106 15 ...men in the world of to-day...are called the mass and the herd.
    Bty 6.285 2 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.

Herder, Johann Gottfied von (1)

    MMEm 10.402 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Herder, Locke, Madame de Stael...

Herder, Johann Gottfried vo (1)

    Chr1 3.104 4 ...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...a post under the Grand Duke for Herder...

herds, n. (9)

    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.
    Pol1 3.202 11 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    Pol1 3.202 14 Jacob has no flocks or herds...and pays no tax to the officer.
    Pol1 3.202 23 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    ET4 5.58 2 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds of cows, and malt, wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
    ET10 5.153 17 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    F 6.26 11 Those who share [the mind] not are flocks and herds.
    Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose herds of cattle;...
    PLT 12.46 16 He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds.

herdsman, n. (1)

    JBS 11.279 23 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown] learned the manners of animals...

Here, n. (1)

    Hist 2.11 10 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then, and introduce in its place the Here and the Now.

hereafter, adv. (27)

    Nat 1.31 22 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    LT 1.270 20 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    Con 1.324 17 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name, shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
    SR 2.89 24 In the Will work and acquire, and thou...shall sit hereafter out of fear of [the wheel of Chance's] rotations.
    Comp 2.94 22 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
    Lov1 2.184 15 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Mrs1 3.121 1 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    SwM 4.116 18 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    ET8 5.138 5 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET8 5.140 23 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    Ill 6.321 12 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    Suc 7.311 21 ...[the inner life]...is just the same now in maturity and hereafter in age, [as] it was in youth.
    Grts 8.320 26 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek, encouraged in every good hour that here or hereafter he shall be found.
    Imtl 8.334 17 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui? Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter.
    Edc1 10.150 7 ...though every young man is born with some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed, and, whatever they may hereafter be, their senses are now opened in advance of their minds.
    SovE 10.197 26 ...every act is not hereafter but instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.
    MMEm 10.401 25 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
    MMEm 10.426 23 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.429 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing, never expect a palm, a laurel, hereafter.
    LS 11.5 13 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated.
    LS 11.7 5 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes.
    LS 11.7 9 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my blood.
    ALin 11.333 25 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    SMC 11.356 27 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
    PLT 12.50 10 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one.
    Milt1 12.256 9 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    ACri 12.294 19 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one.

hereafter, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.416 12 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.

hereby, adv. (11)

    Nat 1.51 19 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    Exp 3.71 1 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope. Life is hereby melted into an expectation or a religion.
    PI 8.22 9 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it, and is hereby education.
    PerF 10.72 14 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    HDC 11.80 25 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    PLT 12.52 22 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great. The wonderful men are wonderful hereby.
    Mem 12.91 11 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends. Hereby a home is possible;...
    Mem 12.91 12 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends. Hereby a home is possible; hereby only a new fact has value.
    Milt1 12.254 11 If hereby we attain any more precision, we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    ACri 12.300 20 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once into our parallel facts. We have hereby our vocabulary.

hereditary, adj. (10)

    MoS 4.177 14 What can I do against hereditary and constitutional habits;...
    NMW 4.239 17 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt...for the hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the Bourbons.
    ET5 5.92 17 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...
    ET6 5.110 2 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English].
    ET7 5.116 8 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET10 5.163 21 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    SA 8.101 9 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Aris 10.33 19 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.
    Aris 10.49 21 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction...
    HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people...

herein, adv. (5)

    ET8 5.138 11 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations.
    PI 8.36 12 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    HDC 11.40 15 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel...
    Wom 11.411 10 ...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? Herein woman is the prime genius and ordainer.
    CPL 11.498 16 [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. Strive we therefore herein to excel...

heresiarch, n. (1)

    Bost 12.203 5 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always a heresiarch...

heresy, n. (8)

    Tran 1.342 9 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    ET5 5.97 21 The crimes [in England] are factitious; as smuggling, poaching, nonconformity, heresy and treason.
    ET13 5.224 4 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
    CSC 10.374 14 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion from the straitest orthodoxy to the wildest heresy...
    JBS 11.281 18 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    FRep 11.528 21 Here heresy has lost its terrors.
    II 12.68 2 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
    Bost 12.207 6 From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

heretic, n. (2)

    Nat 1.53 10 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that heretic/...
    Chr2 10.105 27 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!

heretics, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.114 14 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no massacre of heretics...

hereto, adv. (1)

    MN 1.208 7 Hereto was [a man] born, to deliver the thought of his heart from the universe to the universe;...

heretofore, adv. (6)

    LT 1.261 1 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform], which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore...
    SL 2.160 26 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore?
    SwM 4.96 13 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    Bhr 6.190 16 ...men do not convince by their argument, but by their personality, by who they are, and what they said and did heretofore.
    EWI 11.132 22 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be.
    ACiv 11.298 22 All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant are deferred.

Hermaphrodite, n. (1)

    ET4 5.67 21 This union of qualities [in the English] is fabled...long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite.

Hermes, n. (6)

    Int 2.346 7 This band of grandees, Hermes...and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Exp 3.46 19 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the Moon...
    Exp 3.80 1 Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind' s ministers.
    Ctr 6.156 12 ...Archimedes, Hermes...did not live in a crowd...
    PC 8.216 6 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...Daedalus, Hermes, Zoroaster...
    PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Hermes, interpreter; and so on.

Hermes Trismegistus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 24 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Sentences of Epictetus;...

Hermit Antony, n. (1)

    SR 2.61 16 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony;...

hermit, n. (6)

    GoW 4.266 24 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    ET14 5.253 18 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    Ctr 6.148 14 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to...drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the year.
    Clbs 7.232 4 I know well the rusticity of the shy hermit.
    Thor 10.456 18 ...hermit and stoic as he was, [Thoreau] was really fond of sympathy...
    Thor 10.478 19 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.

Hermit, n. (1)

    CInt 12.130 16 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do.

Hermit Peters, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men...Hermit Peters...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.

hermitage, n. (1)

    LE 1.175 22 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain,-dear hermitage of nature.

hermits, n. (4)

    LE 1.174 26 The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still.
    Tran 1.359 17 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    Edc1 10.142 5 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
    MAng1 12.237 13 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...

hero, n. (99)

    Nat 1.51 25 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the hero...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    AmS 1.88 26 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    AmS 1.106 18 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    AmS 1.107 8 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
    LE 1.162 17 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.
    LE 1.163 24 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.163 25 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero, and every hero.
    LE 1.165 13 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Con 1.324 1 It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are.
    Tran 1.350 15 Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a twelvemonth is an age.
    Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    YA 1.390 5 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment, that project, will have the homage of the hero.
    Hist 2.34 21 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Comp 2.107 25 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    SL 2.138 16 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    SL 2.143 5 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.
    SL 2.151 22 Hero or driveller, [the world] meddles not in the matter.
    SL 2.159 26 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    Lov1 2.180 5 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    Fdsp 2.196 11 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines...
    Hsm1 2.243 7 ...The hero is not fed on sweets/...
    Hsm1 2.250 12 The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
    Hsm1 2.251 2 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed...
    Hsm1 2.254 17 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    Hsm1 2.255 11 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade. I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report.
    Hsm1 2.257 4 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Pt1 3.7 24 The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage...
    Exp 3.76 21 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint.
    Chr1 3.97 19 The hero sees that the event is ancillary;...
    Chr1 3.102 19 The hero is misconceived and misreported;...
    UGM 4.15 10 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    UGM 4.27 10 Every hero becomes a bore at last.
    UGM 4.30 19 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    SwM 4.103 5 There is...strength of a host, as well as of a hero;...
    MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero,--dispirits us.
    MoS 4.170 19 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero,--dispirits us.
    ShP 4.189 7 The hero is in the press of knights and the thick of events;...
    NMW 4.225 13 [Napoleon] is no saint...and he is no hero, in the high sense.
    GoW 4.278 27 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    GoW 4.279 5 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name;...
    GoW 4.279 12 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    ET1 5.16 27 ...[Carlyle] disparaged Socrates; and, when pressed, persisted in making Mirabeau a hero.
    ET8 5.136 13 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
    ET18 5.302 15 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who never throws himself entire into one hero...
    F 6.30 7 One way is right to go; the hero sees it...
    F 6.39 6 ...the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd...
    Pow 6.80 11 We can easily overpraise the vulgar hero.
    Ctr 6.150 12 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    Bhr 6.186 23 The hero should find himself at home, wherever he is;...
    Bhr 6.186 26 The hero is suffered to be himself.
    CbW 6.255 3 ...without enemies, no hero.
    CbW 6.277 17 The hero is he who is immovably centred.
    Ill 6.312 8 What a hero [the boy] is, whilst he feeds on his heroes!
    Civ 7.30 11 ...ideas...bestow on the hero their invincibility.
    WD 7.184 16 'T is not important how the hero does this or this, what what he is.
    Cour 7.265 23 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    Cour 7.270 14 Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas, said to me in conversation, that for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Cour 7.272 17 The hero could not have done the feat at another hour...
    Cour 7.275 15 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
    OA 7.330 11 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    PI 8.53 15 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    PI 8.58 26 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
    PI 8.66 7 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head, as the charioteer sits with the hero in the Iliad.
    PI 8.69 11 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset, but here [in Faust] he is an equal hero.
    Elo2 8.115 16 ...there is no true orator who is not a hero.
    QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    QO 8.190 11 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody...
    Grts 8.318 14 A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
    Aris 10.42 1 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
    Aris 10.42 19 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength. The hero must have the force of ten men.
    PerF 10.69 1 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...
    Prch 10.228 15 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
    Schr 10.274 2 The speculative man, the scholar, is the right hero.
    Schr 10.274 8 Is an armed man the only hero?
    Schr 10.275 9 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Plu 10.318 22 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...are in the spirit of the ideal hero...
    LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    MMEm 10.423 17 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    Thor 10.460 27 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    Carl 10.496 25 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero;...
    EWI 11.135 14 Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy, no fabulous hero...
    War 11.174 13 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...
    War 11.174 16 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life;...
    JBB 11.267 8 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    ALin 11.328 8 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    HCom 11.342 20 ...it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    HCom 11.344 22 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...
    Scot 11.464 26 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
    FRO2 11.489 21 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example, a model; no longer a heart-stirring hero...
    FRep 11.534 21 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where a man is made a hero by the varied emergencies of his lonely farm...
    FRep 11.537 26 ...[our civilization] has not ended nor given sign of ending in a hero.
    PLT 12.46 21 When [will] appears in a man he is a hero...
    Milt1 12.254 21 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    AgMs 12.358 23 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...
    AgMs 12.359 15 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad...
    EurB 12.374 7 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will...
    EurB 12.374 17 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy...
    EurB 12.375 4 In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...

Hero, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 8 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

Herod, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.99 1 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child. But if the child had been killed by Herod, would the element have been lost?

Herodotus, n. (9)

    Hist 2.14 18 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
    F 6.41 26 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate;...
    Civ 7.20 7 ...in Africa the negro of to-day is the negro of Herodotus.
    Boks 7.197 24 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus...
    Imtl 8.324 6 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
    Plu 10.305 25 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    Plu 10.306 1 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    Plu 10.315 22 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    EWI 11.102 3 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.

heroes, n. (98)

    Nat 1.20 25 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    LE 1.159 2 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    MR 1.246 5 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Tran 1.352 8 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them...with the trials of the bravest heroes.
    SR 2.59 20 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field...
    SR 2.86 5 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SL 2.165 14 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter. He does not therefore defer to the nature...of these stock heroes.
    Exp 3.66 12 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...and pronounce them failures, not heroes, but quacks,--conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Chr1 3.89 9 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
    Mrs1 3.128 16 The class of power, the working heroes...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Mrs1 3.143 20 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not.
    Mrs1 3.145 27 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct.
    Nat2 3.170 2 Here [in the forest] is...reality which discredits our heroes.
    NR 3.227 7 All our poets, heroes and saints, fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea...
    NER 3.274 15 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    UGM 4.3 3 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.
    UGM 4.23 13 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes...
    UGM 4.24 11 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
    UGM 4.27 22 There is...a speedy limit to the use of heroes.
    UGM 4.32 5 The heroes of the hour are relatively great;...
    PPh 4.49 25 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me. That which I am, thou art, and that also is this world, with its gods and heroes and mankind.
    MoS 4.159 1 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    ShP 4.216 21 ...[solitude] can teach us to spare both heroes and poets;...
    ET1 5.8 25 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    ET1 5.9 23 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...with an English appetite for action and heroes.
    ET4 5.57 19 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe.
    ET4 5.66 22 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
    ET5 5.101 26 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    ET12 5.201 16 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...
    ET16 5.282 23 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    ET19 5.313 21 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes...
    Pow 6.54 24 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility...even in heroes in all but certain eminent moments;...
    Pow 6.69 3 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will...come back heroes and generals.
    Ctr 6.136 9 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence. Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes.
    Ctr 6.139 23 ...by systematic discipline all men may be made heroes...
    Ctr 6.159 21 ...the [Greek] heroes...retain a serene aspect;...
    Bhr 6.192 24 That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Wsp 6.216 13 ...when heroes existed...the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.234 9 Under the whip of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
    CbW 6.250 7 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.252 22 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes...the school of heroes... has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    Bty 6.283 12 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
    Ill 6.312 9 What a hero [the boy] is, whilst he feeds on his heroes!
    SS 7.9 10 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union...
    DL 7.123 21 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race.
    Farm 7.153 15 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence;...
    Farm 7.153 19 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world,--as Adam did...as Homer's heroes...do.
    Boks 7.191 3 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled...with heroes and demigods standing around us...
    Boks 7.200 16 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the forms and behavior of heroes...
    Boks 7.219 13 Friendship should give and take, solitude and time brood and ripen, heroes absorb and enact [the communications of the sacred books].
    Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the proud anecdotes of our heroes...
    Cour 7.253 19 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...
    PI 8.19 5 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind...
    PI 8.39 2 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.
    PI 8.68 6 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands.
    PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets'] admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...
    SA 8.80 17 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history; Byron's heroes in poetry.
    PC 8.206 3 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears,/ The heroes on their horses,/ The gods upon their spheres./
    PC 8.213 17 ...we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch' s heroes.
    Insp 8.294 5 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes...
    Grts 8.319 7 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism...which makes [the scholar] require geniality and humanity in his heroes.
    Chr2 10.98 1 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Supl 10.169 5 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
    Prch 10.234 5 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    MoL 10.255 6 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    MoL 10.258 3 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes.
    Plu 10.301 5 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
    Plu 10.301 12 [Plutarch] gossips of heroes, philosophers and poets;...
    Plu 10.301 27 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to...the religion and history of antique heroes.
    Plu 10.311 5 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence his love of heroes...
    Plu 10.314 21 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
    Plu 10.318 5 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has made his books...a bible for heroes;...
    Plu 10.319 10 If Plutarch delighted in heroes...his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    SlHr 10.437 13 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.
    SlHr 10.447 21 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    Carl 10.496 14 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes...
    LS 11.22 15 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.76 21 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are indeed extraordinary heroes.
    EWI 11.144 9 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
    War 11.172 12 What makes to us the attractiveness of the Greek heroes? of the Roman?
    War 11.173 6 [Shakespeare's lords] are true heroes for their time.
    JBB 11.268 10 [John Brown] is...the rarest of heroes...
    EPro 11.319 26 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    SMC 11.349 10 ...every other town and city has its own heroes and memorial days...
    SMC 11.349 15 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    SMC 11.358 21 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might. Yet it is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed.
    Koss 11.397 23 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...
    SHC 11.435 14 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
    FRO1 11.480 9 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
    PLT 12.51 4 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea, but if we look nearly at heroes we may find the same poverty;...
    CInt 12.127 4 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
    Bost 12.210 15 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    ACri 12.294 2 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
    ACri 12.298 23 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before...
    Pray 12.353 29 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
    Let 12.401 19 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes.

heroic, adj. (85)

    Nat 1.19 27 Every heroic act is also decent...
    Nat 1.52 3 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the poet] uses matter as symbols of it.
    Nat 1.77 6 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way...
    AmS 1.92 22 And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    AmS 1.94 26 ...there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
    AmS 1.102 2 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments...
    MR 1.245 2 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves. Expense will be inventive and heroic.
    YA 1.394 13 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes...
    Fdsp 2.213 12 We may congratulate ourselves that...when we are finished men we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands.
    Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Hsm1 2.248 2 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.251 22 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    Hsm1 2.253 15 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
    Hsm1 2.255 12 The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
    Hsm1 2.255 19 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    Hsm1 2.262 11 ...whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
    Exp 3.51 10 Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?
    Mrs1 3.122 13 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Mrs1 3.137 4 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Mrs1 3.147 21 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native;...
    Gts 3.160 24 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Nat2 3.170 14 The tempered light of the woods...is stimulating and heroic.
    NER 3.263 11 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    UGM 4.15 2 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task.
    UGM 4.15 17 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic...
    UGM 4.25 6 We love to associate with heroic persons...
    GoW 4.270 18 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in.
    GoW 4.282 23 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    ET14 5.237 15 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson, full of heroic sentiment in a manly style, were received with favor.
    ET16 5.281 19 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    F 6.23 26 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    Bhr 6.192 14 We are fortified by every heroic anecdote.
    Bhr 6.195 2 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Boks 7.197 22 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...
    Cour 7.272 5 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.
    OA 7.315 21 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts...
    OA 7.320 9 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury, and the lip made up with a heroic determination not to mind it.
    OA 7.323 2 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams, the wise and heroic statesmen;...
    OA 7.329 23 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    OA 7.332 6 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person...
    PI 8.40 19 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.
    PI 8.46 26 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
    PI 8.49 18 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre, as the...heroic blank-verse...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    PI 8.73 8 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
    SA 8.101 16 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons...
    SA 8.101 17 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons...
    SA 8.101 18 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons, and still less surely heroic grandsons;...
    PC 8.232 24 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    PPo 8.241 25 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
    PPo 8.250 11 ...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.
    Aris 10.41 17 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
    Aris 10.41 27 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
    Aris 10.60 15 There is no heroic trait...that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still; such are able and fertile for heroic action;...
    Edc1 10.150 25 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character?
    Edc1 10.151 15 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Prch 10.219 4 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.
    Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of heroic action...
    MoL 10.250 23 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...
    MoL 10.258 1 The times are dark, but heroic.
    HDC 11.68 16 ...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; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.
    FSLN 11.243 26 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    AKan 11.262 1 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government...
    ACiv 11.299 19 Is not civilization heroic also?
    EPro 11.315 12 Every step in the history of political liberty...is fruitful in heroic anecdotes.
    ALin 11.335 12 There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    ALin 11.335 13 There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    ALin 11.336 20 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that this heroic deliverer [Lincoln] could no longer serve us;...
    HCom 11.339 9 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    CPL 11.503 7 ...if you can kindle the imagination...by heroic histories... instantly you expand...
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading.
    PLT 12.45 2 ...if [we converse] with high things, with heroic actions, with virtues, the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    Mem 12.96 9 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.
    MAng1 12.235 14 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied. His heroic stipulation with the Pope was worthy of the man and the work.
    Milt1 12.255 19 Franklin's man...savors of nothing heroic.
    Milt1 12.256 13 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
    Milt1 12.256 23 For the delineation of this heroic image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
    Milt1 12.276 25 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    ACri 12.293 21 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
    ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    MLit 12.335 25 [The Genius of the time] will describe the new heroic life of man...

Heroic, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.24 1 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age...

heroic, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.260 9 The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Hsm1 2.260 10 The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

heroical, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 18 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...

heroically, adv. (1)

    Suc 7.286 3 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.

heroine, n. (5)

    GoW 4.278 27 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    ET4 5.67 24 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET7 5.125 13 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
    Boks 7.215 27 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
    MMEm 10.399 16 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...

heroines, n. (1)

    Wom 11.407 17 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, one of the heroines of the English Commonwealth, who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...

heroism, n. (32)

    Nat 1.21 20 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    MR 1.232 19 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity, much less by the sentiments of love and heroism...
    YA 1.388 27 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit, or in the street, the secret of heroism?
    Hist 2.6 11 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self-reliance.
    Fdsp 2.211 9 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.
    Prd1 2.236 16 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Hsm1 2.250 18 There is somewhat not philosophical in heroism;...
    Hsm1 2.250 24 Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right;...
    Hsm1 2.251 10 Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind...
    Hsm1 2.251 12 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.
    Hsm1 2.251 26 Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
    Hsm1. 2.252 10 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    Hsm1. 2.252 10 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.
    Hsm1 2.260 4 The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.
    Hsm1 2.262 3 Times of heroism are generally times of terror...
    ET14 5.250 8 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET14 5.255 8 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    F 6.29 8 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
    Ctr 6.162 6 We wish to...play at heroism.
    DL 7.115 16 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit, but by your heroism, your purity and your faith.
    DL 7.119 17 There was never a country in the world which could so easily exhibit this heroism as ours;...
    DL 7.133 13 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.
    Suc 7.310 24 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism...
    Grts 8.311 4 No way has been found for making heroism easy...
    Chr2 10.121 20 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives, before which all energetic heroism...must recede.
    SovE 10.207 26 The most daring heroism...never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    Prch 10.223 16 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
    Plu 10.314 19 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to his stern delight in heroism;...
    LLNE 10.363 2 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;... finding his delight in the petulant heroism of boys;...
    CInt 12.113 16 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars...
    MAng1 12.241 22 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    Milt1 12.266 4 To this antique heroism, Milton added the genius of the Christian sanctity.

Heroism, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.248 14 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
    Hsm1 2.250 7 To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism.

heroisms, n. (2)

    CbW 6.256 5 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.
    Wom 11.412 24 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

heron, n. (3)

    Bty 6.281 23 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Thor 10.466 27 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    SHC 11.435 25 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

heron's, n. (1)

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

hero's, n. (2)

    GoW 4.272 22 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    Aris 10.58 8 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures...

Herrick, Robert, n. (8)

    Boks 7.207 7 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Herrick;...
    Boks 7.208 4 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also to the times.
    Clbs 7.243 22 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare...Herrick...
    Clbs 7.243 24 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    Insp 8.278 10 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/...
    Insp 8.295 7 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.
    ACri 12.296 8 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style.

Herricks, n. (1)

    Insp 8.283 4 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes...should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...

Herrick's, Robert, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.248 15 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact...
    ACri 12.296 22 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance...

herring, n. (5)

    ET3 5.39 10 In the northern lochs [of England], the herring are in innumerable shoals;...
    ET5 5.95 11 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    HDC 11.34 25 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives, about the bigness of a herring.
    EWI 11.111 9 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt herring a day.
    CL 12.161 19 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.

herrings, n. (2)

    ET3 5.39 9 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish; there are salmon for the rich and sprats and herrings for the poor.
    ET14 5.232 19 [The English] ask their constitutional utility in verse. The kail and herrings are never out of sight.

Herrnhutters, n. (1)

    MR 1.228 16 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...

Herschel, John Frederick, n (1)

    II 12.86 14 The old Herschel must choose between the night and the day...

Herschel, John Frederick W (1)

    ET1 5.9 7 ...[Landor] professed never to have heard of Herschel...

Herschel, John Frederick W (5)

    AmS 1.100 22 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    MN 1.212 23 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...
    ET3 5.40 10 Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene globe.
    ET5 5.91 1 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father... expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    MMEm 10.433 3 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?

Hertford, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.210 12 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford], the Lusby, the Hertford, the Dean-Ireland and the University...

Hertfords, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 9 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...

Herveys, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 9 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago, that the world was made up of men and women and Herveys.

Hesiod, n. (3)

    WD 7.167 10 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...
    QO 8.202 14 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    ACri 12.290 9 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.

hesitate, v. (23)

    MoS 4.181 22 Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the spiritualist's] co-operation. How can he hesitate?
    NMW 4.237 21 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...
    ET10 5.156 17 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...
    Bhr 6.177 19 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Wsp 6.205 15 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Wsp 6.205 19 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them...
    Civ 7.24 15 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Art2 7.47 2 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    Boks 7.198 8 Of Plato I hesitate to speak, lest there should be no end.
    Boks 7.203 27 I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named...in translations.
    Aris 10.45 11 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate.
    Chr2 10.96 12 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life for the sake of a truth...
    Chr2 10.113 17 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.
    Plu 10.307 16 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself privation;...
    MMEm 10.406 23 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    GSt 10.502 25 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients...
    EWI 11.99 14 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.100 14 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts.
    EWI 11.101 6 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    AKan 11.257 16 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    ACiv 11.300 7 If the American people hesitate, it is not for want of warning or advices.
    EdAd 11.386 27 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism...
    Milt1 12.276 13 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things...

hesitated, v. (4)

    MR 1.230 8 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    ET6 5.106 10 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    Clbs 7.247 14 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    Elo2 8.127 19 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...

hesitates, v. (1)

    PPo 8.260 2 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

hesitating, adj. (4)

    SA 8.82 23 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...
    Dem1 10.15 23 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Edc1 10.147 24 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    FSLC 11.196 13 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...

hesitatingly, adv. (1)

    CbW 6.245 14 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.

hesitation, n. (11)

    MN 1.191 16 Avarice, hesitation, and following, are our diseases.
    Nat2 3.188 23 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye.
    MoS 4.166 18 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease...
    Ctr 6.156 21 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
    Civ 7.19 13 In the hesitation to define what [Civilization] is, we usually suggest it by negations.
    Elo1 7.68 16 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    DL 7.109 24 ...some things each man buys without hesitation;...
    Imtl 8.343 14 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought...
    Carl 10.493 26 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.
    HDC 11.79 11 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will, without hesitation...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
    ACiv 11.303 24 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands, to be saved by our firmness or to be lost by hesitation.

Hesperides, Garden of the, n (1)

    CL 12.154 27 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides.

heterogeneous, adj. (4)

    YA 1.370 26 A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Comp 2.125 6 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    SL 2.162 3 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous...
    Mrs1 3.151 17 [Lilla] was a solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society...

heure, n. (1)

    WD 7.178 17 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En peu d'heure Dieu labeure.

hew, v. (1)

    Art2 7.49 4 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...

hews, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.240 21 If not the Deity but our ambition hews and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...

hexameter, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...

hexameters, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 24 ...an Eton captain...can turn the Court-Guide into hexameters...

heyday, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Fdsp 2.199 25 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Cir 2.309 19 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that [idealism] may be true...
    Nat2 3.192 24 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
    F 6.13 10 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.
    Comc 8.161 9 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure...
    EzRy 10.383 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.
    Mem 12.103 2 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

Heyne, Christian Gottlob, n (1)

    LLNE 10.330 22 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with...with the criticism of Heyne.

Heywood, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 17 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Stow, Hoar, Heywood, Hunt, Miles...

Heywood, Thomas, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 14 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

Hiardaholt, Iceland, n. (1)

    ET8 5.140 14 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt...

hibernation, n. (5)

    F 6.37 4 The web of relation is...shown in hibernation.
    F 6.37 4 When hibernation was observed, it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
    F 6.37 7 ...hibernation then was a false name.
    II 12.83 27 We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a kind of hibernation...
    Mem 12.99 6 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages, profound as the hibernation of bears, which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...

hickories, n. (1)

    CL 12.152 2 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...

hickory, n. (2)

    SwM 4.136 10 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.
    CL 12.149 19 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough, at a pinch;...

hickory-stick, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 19 Witness...the hickory-stick...and all the cognizances of party.

hid, v. (26)

    AmS 1.91 16 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    SL 2.166 4 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams cannot be muffled or hid...
    Art1 2.349 4 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...
    Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature...
    Chr1 3.87 10 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the feat./
    NER 3.269 3 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot avert.
    UGM 4.9 21 The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant.
    MoS 4.181 12 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds] and convince them that these have seen something which is hid from themselves.
    GoW 4.285 2 From [Goethe] nothing was hid, nothing withholden.
    ET2 5.30 14 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    Wsp 6.202 3 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    SS 7.4 8 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures.
    Boks 7.190 17 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary...
    PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
    SA 8.81 16 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate, hid behind its shield of bronze.
    Elo2 8.122 10 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    PPo 8.244 4 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    Aris 10.36 21 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid under gauze and lace...
    PerF 10.75 3 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid in that stone wall...
    MMEm 10.398 2 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] cannot be confined or hid.
    II 12.76 24 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.89 2 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Bost 12.199 22 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    MLit 12.326 18 [Goethe] hid himself...
    Let 12.398 24 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be hid from the reproachful eyes of their countrymen...

hidden, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    YA 1.369 13 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
    SR 2.78 6 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    Comp 2.101 5 Every thing is made of one hidden stuff;...
    Fdsp 2.189 19 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The fountains of my hidden life/ Are through thy friendship fair./
    Pt1 3.4 21 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    NR 3.244 22 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth...
    UGM 4.24 10 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
    ET4 5.55 16 [The Celts] have a hidden and precarious genius.
    OA 7.330 9 The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found;...
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    PC 8.220 4 Often the master is a hidden man...
    PPo 8.246 16 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...
    EzRy 10.393 25 Was a man a sot...or suspected of some hidden crime...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.416 27 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    Thor 10.464 9 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Scot 11.462 7 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    PLT 12.16 9 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
    Milt1 12.261 16 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/ Untwisting all the chains that tie/ The hidden soul of harmony./
    Trag 12.409 12 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...see these marks of stamping feet, of hidden riot.

hidden, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 7 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched...

hidden, v. (22)

    Nat 1.26 3 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us...
    LT 1.289 17 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    SL 2.143 7 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.
    OS 2.268 3 Man is a stream whose source is hidden.
    Exp 3.54 1 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear. I know he is in the neighborhood, hidden among vagabonds.
    ShP 4.209 16 What trait of his private mind has [Shakespeare] hidden in his dramas?
    F 6.8 9 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus, and other warriors hidden in the sea, are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.34 26 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his skull...all the vices of a Saxon...race...
    F 6.40 2 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
    Ill 6.321 24 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes.
    Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    PC 8.214 5 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names...hidden through their very superiority to their coevals...
    Imtl 8.334 11 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.345 14 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly.
    PerF 10.81 4 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    HDC 11.33 20 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
    FSLC 11.189 16 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
    FSLC 11.193 2 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    ACiv 11.302 5 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    ALin 11.333 23 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by the very closeness of their application to the moment, are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    FRep 11.524 21 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    Trag 12.409 18 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

hide, v. (49)

    Nat 1.75 4 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact...
    LE 1.175 20 ...retire and hide;...
    LE 1.187 6 Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world? Hides his thoughts! Hide the sun and moon.
    LT 1.290 1 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs. So is it with the Life of our life; so close does that also hide.
    Hist 2.5 15 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    Hist 2.40 7 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
    SR 2.73 11 I will not hide my tastes or aversions.
    Comp 2.116 2 ...there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...crook and hide...
    Art1 2.364 15 I cannot hide from myself that there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
    Exp 3.67 26 God delights to...hide from us the past and the future.
    Chr1 3.112 11 It was a tradition of the ancient world that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
    Mrs1 3.135 15 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Mrs1 3.139 14 You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you will hide the want of measure.
    Pol1 3.217 18 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
    Pol1 3.221 17 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.246 15 We hide this universality if we can...
    NMW 4.244 14 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET1 5.15 7 Carlyle was...an author who did not need to hide from his readers...
    ET3 5.37 26 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET8 5.134 26 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them.
    ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice as people who...hide their strength.
    ET11 5.178 1 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    F 6.43 26 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    Wth 6.83 16 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
    Ctr 6.145 21 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
    Bhr 6.178 2 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal...to lie down and hide itself.
    Wsp 6.222 14 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities,--none large enough to hide in;...
    Wsp 6.223 9 You cannot hide any secret.
    Wsp 6.224 3 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast? 'T is as hard to hide as fire.
    CbW 6.265 18 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
    Elo1 7.92 3 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
    Farm 7.138 5 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
    WD 7.166 21 Every [inventor] has more to hide than he has to show...
    WD 7.173 15 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    WD 7.175 24 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...
    OA 7.316 8 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    PI 8.19 24 ...the world exists for thought: it is to make appear things which hide...
    PPo 8.260 6 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
    Aris 10.64 1 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit...to hide from him the current of Tendency;...
    PerF 10.72 15 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    SovE 10.202 3 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    SlHr 10.438 10 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    HDC 11.76 26 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...
    LVB 11.95 13 I will not hide from you [Van Buren], as an indication of the alarming distrust, that a letter addressed as mine is, and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    War 11.166 18 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence; then quite hide themselves...
    FSLC 11.178 5 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy,/ And their coming triumph hide/ In our downfall, or our joy/...
    FSLN 11.227 7 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.

hide-drogher, n. (1)

    MR 1.237 16 ...it is the sailor, the hide-drogher...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...

hideous, adj. (9)

    SL 2.148 4 Hideous dreams are exaggerations of the sins of the day.
    ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous.
    Wth 6.105 17 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind, with every hideous result...
    Wth 6.111 13 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
    Cour 7.276 3 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
    SovE 10.190 26 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...
    SovE 10.193 14 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    EWI 11.124 10 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound.
    Trag 12.407 8 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds or thunders...

hides, n. (1)

    LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...

hides, v. (19)

    LE 1.187 5 Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world?
    LE 1.187 6 Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world? Hides his thoughts! Hide the sun and moon.
    Nat2 3.187 7 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end...
    ET9 5.147 22 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
    ET14 5.247 26 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical.
    ET16 5.288 23 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET18 5.305 22 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour. It hides in their sturdy will.
    Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
    Wsp 6.223 24 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character...
    WD 7.175 15 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    Clbs 7.234 19 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk. Yes, and we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from ours.
    Res 8.149 19 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead and hides all its possibilities in lofty depths, 't is but gloom on gloom.
    PC 8.224 25 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
    PerF 10.72 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides-and hides through absolute transparency-the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.75 9 Labor hides itself in every mode and form.
    Chr2 10.109 25 ...Paganism hides itself in the uniform of the Church.
    Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the deepest abyss.
    FRO2 11.484 4 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure transparency;/...
    PLT 12.5 16 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through absolute transparency) the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

hideth, v. (1)

    Cir 2.320 14 ...the masterpieces of God...he hideth;...

hiding, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.325 27 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.

hiding, n. (2)

    SovE 10.193 2 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
    FSLC 11.182 3 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate, and the hiding of the head.

hiding, v. (7)

    AmS 1.104 13 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an ostrich...
    ET8 5.134 14 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET15 5.271 25 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.
    Bhr 6.182 21 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
    Wsp 6.223 24 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
    Bty 6.305 26 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky.
    Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.

hie, v. (1)

    PPo 8.249 3 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence;...

hierarchies, n. (4)

    Con 1.295 6 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
    Pt1 3.35 12 The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    UGM 4.18 15 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point.
    LLNE 10.327 5 ...[the new race] hate...hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws.

hierarchy, n. (2)

    ET13 5.230 10 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    Aris 10.33 1 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.

Hiero, n. (1)

    CInt 12.113 23 Hiero the king reproached [Archimedes] with his barren studies.

hieroglyphic, n. (5)

    Nat 1.4 3 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
    SR 2.63 19 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    PI 8.65 2 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
    CL 12.165 11 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...
    CW 12.179 10 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...

hieroglyphically, adv. (1)

    LT 1.286 6 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...

hieroglyphics, n. (2)

    Art1 2.353 19 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
    Art2 7.54 23 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.

hieroglyphs, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 20 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg] a grammar of hieroglyphs...

hierology, n. (1)

    QO 8.182 27 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.

Higginson, Francis, n. (1)

    HDC 11.39 13 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.

higgle, v. (2)

    Comp 2.104 15 The particular man aims...to truck and higgle for a private good;...
    HDC 11.84 18 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.

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