Hipparchus to Holdship

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

Hipparchus, n. (1)

    F 6.18 8 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Hipparchus...had anticipated them;...

Hippias, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 5 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens, Hippias and Gorgias, is that they made their own clothes and shoes.

Hippiases, n. (1)

    PPh 4.73 27 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.

Hippo, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 22 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?

Hippocrates, n. (3)

    SwM 4.104 19 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.113 13 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;...
    Suc 7.285 27 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...

hire, v. (4)

    UGM 4.31 1 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;--but what for the wretches whom they hire and kill?
    Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
    Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    Elo1 7.86 8 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party up a mountain...

hired, adj. (3)

    Civ 7.28 20 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a hired hand...
    Farm 7.136 2 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/...
    EWI 11.101 15 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired service of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

hired, v. (3)

    Wsp 6.236 24 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...
    Bty 6.291 16 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Res 8.148 3 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?

hirelings, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.273 3 [Milton] would remove hirelings out of the church...

Hispanus, Quintus Varius, n (2)

    Bhr 6.195 9 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    Bhr 6.195 12 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?

hiss, n. (2)

    LE 1.168 8 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    PLT 12.46 26 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is like the hiss of a snake...

hiss, v. (4)

    Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
    Res 8.148 3 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Prch 10.221 13 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    Schr 10.273 26 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil... the steam-pipe will hiss at him;...

hissed, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 11 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive...

hissed, v. (1)

    ET10 5.168 12 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.

hissing, adj. (2)

    Int 2.347 9 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
    GoW 4.281 27 What signifies...that [the writer's] voice is harsh or hissing;...

hissing, n. (2)

    Comp 2.100 4 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by faithfulness to his truth and become a byword and a hissing.
    FRep 11.514 15 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it.

hissing, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.178 9 An eye...can insult like hissing or kicking;...
    Schr 10.270 3 The engineer in the locomotive is waiting for [the poet]; the steamboat is hissing at the wharf...

historian, n. (16)

    YA 1.378 19 ...the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty;...
    Hsm1 2.248 15 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian.
    Chr1 3.89 4 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    ET11 5.175 18 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    ET17 5.294 23 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    ET19 5.309 12 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet]...
    Elo2 8.131 27 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    QO 8.195 18 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature.
    Imtl 8.324 9 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...
    Plu 10.296 7 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].
    HDC 11.35 15 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of the Pequots; are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.60 1 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    EWI 11.102 3 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
    Bost 12.201 8 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
    MAng1 12.244 6 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb of Nicholas Macchiavelli, the historian and philosopher;...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
    PPr 12.383 19 The historian of to-day is yet three ages off.

historians, n. (8)

    ET10 5.160 1 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    Boks 7.204 27 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age; Tacitus, the wisest of historians;...
    PI 8.63 16 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    SovE 10.187 15 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when, as the historians rightly tell, the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    Plu 10.302 13 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians.
    CPL 11.506 21 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...
    Bost 12.210 4 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.
    Pray 12.351 21 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life, the Arabian historians tell us, with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

historic, adj. (15)

    AmS 1.110 9 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    Prd1 2.232 14 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    PPh 4.70 21 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    ET11 5.193 7 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...
    ET16 5.283 4 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    Farm 7.137 7 ...all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
    SA 8.101 16 That method [of hereditary nobility]...gratified the ear with preserving historic names...
    PC 8.233 15 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    Insp 8.293 5 'T is a historic observation that a writer must find an audience up to his thought...
    Aris 10.32 16 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...
    Chr2 10.117 12 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...and these will provide [the moral sentiment] with new historic forms and songs.
    TPar 11.286 21 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations...
    TPar 11.288 5 'T is plain to me that [Theodore Parker] has achieved a historic immortality here;...
    ChiE 11.472 15 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time...
    ACri 12.296 4 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.

historical, adj. (38)

    Nat 1.60 18 ...not at all disturbed by chasms of historical evidence, [the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    DSA 1.128 12 As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
    DSA 1.130 10 ...we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.
    DSA 1.130 11 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    DSA 1.141 19 ...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching...
    LE 1.156 17 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.
    Hist 2.40 3 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    Hsm1 2.248 3 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.259 9 ...why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman...
    Pt1 3.4 6 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
    Pt1 3.38 16 Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical.
    Chr1 3.108 9 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person...
    ShP 4.208 18 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...which gives the most historical insight into the man.
    GoW 4.287 2 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest.
    ET4 5.49 20 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    ET4 5.51 18 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
    ET5 5.97 8 [English] social classes are made by statute. Their ratios of power and representation are historical and legal.
    ET11 5.182 1 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    ET18 5.306 23 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    Boks 7.200 23 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical accuracy;...
    Suc 7.307 22 No historical person begins to content us.
    OA 7.320 4 Age is comely...in courts of justice and historical societies.
    QO 8.185 10 Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
    Chr2 10.116 3 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth (easily disengaged from their historical accidents which nobody wishes to force on us), the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    SovE 10.196 5 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    Plu 10.309 22 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
    LS 11.7 8 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.
    LVB 11.94 16 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    EPro 11.324 23 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
    FRO2 11.488 8 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRO2 11.488 16 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
    PLT 12.11 14 My contribution [to the study of the laws and powers of the Intellect] will be simply historical.
    Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...
    Milt1 12.250 22 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
    Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    WSL 12.348 22 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last, not...on the symmetry of any of his historical portraits...

Historical Society, Massach (1)

    Scot 11.463 2 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society...

historically, adv. (7)

    AmS 1.109 1 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    Con 1.301 5 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.302 20 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.
    Hsm1 2.262 6 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    Art1 2.354 3 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
    ET4 5.51 15 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain? Who can trace them historically?
    Wsp 6.235 7 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...

histories, n. (23)

    Nat 1.3 3 [Our age] writes biographies, histories, and criticism.
    AmS 1.81 5 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes...
    LT 1.290 7 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...
    Pt1 3.32 15 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    PPh 4.45 8 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread itself since into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
    ShP 4.219 8 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
    GoW 4.272 2 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    ET1 5.8 2 The Greek histories [Landor] thought the only good;...
    ET11 5.179 5 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    ET13 5.216 1 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories...
    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...
    Bty 6.287 3 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Elo1 7.78 27 ...histories, poems and new philosophies arise to account for [Caesar].
    Boks 7.202 6 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.211 11 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories.
    Boks 7.214 5 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.221 7 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...
    PI 8.63 22 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears, and think lightly of histories and statutes.
    PPo 8.237 23 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.
    MoL 10.244 6 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    MMEm 10.421 25 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time, make epochs, write histories...
    FRO1 11.479 3 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    CPL 11.503 7 ...if you can kindle the imagination...by heroic histories... instantly you expand...

historiette, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 22 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.

historiographer, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.360 7 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...

historiographers, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 9 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Saadi] are librarians and historiographers, as well as poets.

history, adj. (2)

    LE 1.163 27 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
    Suc 7.304 25 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.

History, Civil, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.338 21 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy, Hegel his metaphysics, and extended it to Civil History.

History, French, n. (1)

    LE 1.170 16 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe...

history, n. (603)

    Nat 1.3 9 Why should not we have...a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
    Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
    Nat 1.25 11 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
    Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, - so conspicuous a fact in the history of language, - is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.28 1 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value...
    Nat 1.28 4 ...marry [natural history] to human history, and it is full of life.
    Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
    Nat 1.33 13 ...the memorable words of history...consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.60 15 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...
    Nat 1.67 22 In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Nat 1.69 27 ...poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    Nat 1.70 15 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...which...may be both history and prophecy.
    Nat 1.70 23 In the cycle of the universal man...all history is but the epoch of one degradation.
    Nat 1.73 3 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the history of Jesus Christ...
    Nat 1.75 21 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    AmS 1.85 25 ...since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
    AmS 1.93 17 History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by laborious reading.
    AmS 1.96 26 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    AmS 1.102 4 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating...the conclusions of history.
    AmS 1.106 13 Men in history...are bugs...
    AmS 1.107 27 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    DSA 1.120 6 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
    DSA 1.126 21 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.128 6 These general views...find abundant illustration in the history of religion...
    DSA 1.128 7 These general views...find abundant illustration...especially in the history of the Christian church.
    DSA 1.128 23 Alone in all history [Jesus Christ] estimated the greatness of man.
    DSA 1.130 7 Thus is [Jesus]...the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.
    DSA 1.138 14 Not a line did [the preacher] draw out of real history.
    LE 1.159 1 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind...the grand events of history...
    LE 1.159 26 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are to history...
    LE 1.160 15 The whole value of history...is to increase my self-trust...
    LE 1.160 20 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith...
    LE 1.161 8 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.167 21 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...and of their essence, or of their history, knowing nothing.
    LE 1.170 7 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung. Is it otherwise with civil history?
    LE 1.170 9 ...every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.170 12 Greek history is one thing to me;...
    LE 1.170 14 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
    LE 1.170 16 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe...
    LE 1.170 24 As in poetry and history, so in the other departments.
    LE 1.178 22 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    LE 1.186 2 The hour of that choice [between the world and intellect] is the crisis of your history...
    MN 1.201 24 Read alternately in natural and in civil history...
    MN 1.206 3 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    MN 1.210 14 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    MN 1.210 23 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    MN 1.211 21 [This ecstatic state] respects...the anticipation of all things by the intellect, and not the history itself;...
    MN 1.219 7 What is all history but the work of ideas...
    MN 1.223 12 We cannot describe the natural history of the soul...
    MN 1.223 17 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame...have before had a natural history like that of this body you see before you;...
    MR 1.228 14 In the history of the world the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    MR 1.228 19 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state, literature or history...
    MR 1.240 8 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    MR 1.252 6 Our age and history...has not been the history of kindness...
    MR 1.252 8 Our age and history...has not been the history of kindness...
    MR 1.255 2 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    LT 1.259 14 The Times are...the receptable in which the Past leaves its history;...
    LT 1.265 25 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of...an apprehension which looks over all history and everywhere recognizes its own.
    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.
    LT 1.271 11 The history of reform is always identical...
    Con 1.295 5 This quarrel [between Conservatism and Innovation] is the subject of civil history.
    Con 1.313 17 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
    Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.
    Con 1.326 3 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.329 22 The materialist insists...on history...
    Tran 1.333 12 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
    Tran 1.335 13 ...Caesar's history will paint out Caesar.
    Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
    Tran 1.340 21 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    Tran 1.340 24 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    Tran 1.341 20 ...every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these [Transcendentalists] must. The question which a wise man and a student of modern history will ask, is, what that kind is?
    Tran 1.341 22 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    Tran 1.342 4 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...
    Tran 1.356 12 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to an obsolete history...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    YA 1.375 13 The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent tendency.
    YA 1.379 9 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    YA 1.392 16 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    YA 1.394 11 The English have...the proudest history of the world;...
    YA 1.395 14 ...we shall quickly enough advance...into a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.
    Hist 2.3 12 Of the works of this [universal] mind history is the record.
    Hist 2.3 15 Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.
    Hist 2.3 20 ...all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
    Hist 2.4 7 This human mind wrote history, and this must read it.
    Hist 2.4 9 If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
    Hist 2.6 14 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.6 24 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.8 1 The student is to read history actively and not passively;...
    Hist 2.8 4 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
    Hist 2.8 6 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.8 13 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    Hist 2.8 17 [Each man] should see that he can live all history in his own person.
    Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself...
    Hist 2.9 5 ...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.
    Hist 2.9 16 What is history, said Napoleon, but a fable agreed upon?
    Hist 2.9 27 We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience...
    Hist 2.10 1 All history becomes subjective;...
    Hist 2.10 3 ...there is properly no history, only biography.
    Hist 2.10 15 History must be [universal and subjective] or it is nothing.
    Hist 2.11 26 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production.
    Hist 2.14 11 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    Hist 2.14 18 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
    Hist 2.17 15 Civil and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Hist 2.17 17 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Hist 2.21 20 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
    Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...
    Hist 2.27 12 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own. To the sacred history of the world he has the same key.
    Hist 2.27 27 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history...
    Hist 2.29 17 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Hist 2.29 26 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has...in all fable as well as all history.
    Hist 2.30 15 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.30 18 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.35 23 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    Hist 2.38 14 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Hist 2.38 20 History no longer shall be a dull book.
    Hist 2.40 4 ...what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man?
    Hist 2.40 8 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
    SR 2.55 19 There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history;...
    SR 2.60 22 Let us...hurl in the face of custom...the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    SR 2.61 20 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    SR 2.62 23 In history our imagination plays us false.
    SR 2.66 25 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    SR 2.77 2 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall... make his name dear to all history.
    Comp 2.98 3 The influences of climate and soil in political history is another [instance of Compensation].
    Comp 2.100 25 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Comp 2.102 8 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; but there in history we can see its fatal strength.
    Comp 2.106 8 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting...of history...
    Comp 2.108 19 The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Comp 2.115 21 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...
    Comp 2.119 13 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature...
    Comp 2.124 18 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit. Such also is the natural history of calamity.
    SL 2.134 7 There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it.
    SL 2.164 8 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
    Lov1 2.171 7 ...we must...study the sentiment [of love] as it appeared in hope, and not in history.
    Lov1 2.172 5 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Lov1 2.183 27 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on politics and geography and history.
    Fdsp 2.198 5 The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the whole history of our personal relations.
    Prd1 2.226 27 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...
    Hsm1 2.256 20 Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them...
    OS 2.267 19 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written...
    OS 2.282 11 Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm.
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority.
    OS 2.296 1 we have no history...that entirely contents us.
    OS 2.296 3 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
    OS 2.297 6 ...[man] will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred;...
    Cir 2.310 3 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Cir 2.321 20 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.
    Cir 2.322 1 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Int 2.325 12 Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect...
    Int 2.334 14 Our history, we are sure, is quite tame...
    Int 2.339 22 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Art1 2.353 18 ...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.
    Art1 2.353 26 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Art1 2.367 25 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Art1 2.368 7 Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece.
    Pt1 3.11 23 All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
    Pt1 3.21 25 ...language is the archives of history...
    Pt1 3.35 12 The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Pt1 3.35 18 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    Exp 3.47 18 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas...
    Exp 3.54 6 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    Exp 3.54 18 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity. Given such an embryo, such a history must follow.
    Exp 3.58 1 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the history of every man's bread...
    Exp 3.74 8 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe.
    Exp 3.85 7 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Chr1 3.101 17 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history.
    Chr1 3.108 22 I look on Sculpture as history.
    Chr1 3.109 25 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
    Chr1 3.113 19 History has been mean;...
    Chr1 3.114 4 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    Mrs1 3.120 22 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    Mrs1 3.141 26 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    Nat2 3.170 19 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Nat2 3.183 16 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
    Nat2 3.184 26 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself...through the history and performances of every individual.
    Nat2 3.189 22 ...no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world;...
    Pol1 3.201 14 The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought...
    Pol1 3.207 16 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions... and we ostentatiously prefer them to any other in history.
    Pol1 3.215 9 This is the history of governments,--one man does something which is to bind another.
    Pol1 3.219 11 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history.
    Pol1 3.219 15 [The movement toward self-government] was never adopted by any party in history, neither can be.
    NR 3.246 7 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
    NER 3.254 14 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    NER 3.267 22 ...the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    UGM 4.4 24 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    UGM 4.9 25 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    UGM 4.18 14 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.
    UGM 4.30 23 Why are the masses, from the dawn of history down, food for knives and powder?
    UGM 4.32 23 The history of the universe is symptomatic...
    UGM 4.33 26 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history.
    PPh 4.44 16 We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
    PPh 4.45 4 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms;...
    PPh 4.46 22 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    PPh 4.47 4 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health, the culmination of power. Such is the history of Europe...
    PPh 4.52 10 To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations corresponded.
    PPh 4.56 9 Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories.
    PPh 4.71 1 Socrates, a man...of the commonest history;...
    PPh 4.75 4 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.
    PPh 4.75 8 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    PNR 4.81 13 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    SwM 4.111 17 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    SwM 4.118 25 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion, too frequent in religious history, that he was an abnormal person...
    SwM 4.120 24 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    SwM 4.135 2 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    SwM 4.136 14 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Swedenborg's history points the remark.
    MoS 4.177 14 What can I do against the influence of Race, in my history?
    MoS 4.185 26 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
    ShP 4.191 7 Choose any other thing...out of the national feeling and history, and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
    ShP 4.192 9 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    ShP 4.193 2 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    ShP 4.195 18 Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.
    ShP 4.204 4 It was not possible to write the history of Shakspeare till now;...
    ShP 4.204 27 Beside some important illustration of the history of the English stage...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    ShP 4.206 2 We are very clumsy writers of history.
    ShP 4.206 13 It is the essence of poetry...to abolish the past and refuse all history.
    ShP 4.208 4 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age, which sees the works and asks in vain for a history.
    ShP 4.208 20 ...though our external history is so meagre, yet, with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    ShP 4.209 24 ...[Shakespeare] is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    ShP 4.210 23 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages...
    ShP 4.213 15 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...
    ShP 4.215 11 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history...
    ShP 4.217 5 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.225 9 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    NMW 4.232 23 History is full...of the imbecility of kings and governors.
    NMW 4.234 1 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history...
    NMW 4.253 6 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.253 14 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon]...
    NMW 4.254 8 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat.
    NMW 4.256 23 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party...
    GoW 4.261 9 All things are engaged in writing their history.
    GoW 4.278 15 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    GoW 4.286 7 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    GoW 4.287 8 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET1 5.6 15 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture, notwithstanding the antagonism in their views of the history of art.
    ET1 5.16 13 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis artifex pereo! better than most history.
    ET2 5.29 24 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent...
    ET2 5.30 21 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
    ET2 5.33 11 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system...English loves and fears, English history and social modes.
    ET3 5.36 15 Every book we read...is still English history and manners.
    ET3 5.38 10 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster;...
    ET4 5.49 23 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history...has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET4 5.52 2 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET4 5.57 3 The Heimskringla...collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
    ET4 5.60 1 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
    ET4 5.60 7 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    ET5 5.74 2 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy...
    ET5 5.76 24 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver. In all English history this dream comes to pass.
    ET5 5.101 17 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
    ET8 5.137 19 [The English] are very conscious of their advantageous position in history.
    ET8 5.140 16 The national temper [of England], in the civil history, is not flashy or whiffling.
    ET8 5.141 16 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it...
    ET8 5.142 24 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET9 5.148 6 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    ET9 5.151 26 Nature trips us up when we strut; and there are curious examples in history on this very point of national pride.
    ET10 5.157 15 It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the machine-shop.
    ET10 5.162 25 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    ET11 5.173 7 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the written and oral history of Europe...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET11 5.174 8 English history is aristocracy with the doors open.
    ET11 5.179 7 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body. What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation it infolds!
    ET11 5.185 13 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of unconscious history.
    ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken...
    ET11 5.191 4 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.
    ET11 5.196 15 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart. This is more manifest every day, but I think it is true throughout English history.
    ET11 5.196 16 English history, wisely read, is the vindication of the brain of that people.
    ET12 5.205 12 The number of students and of residents [at English universities]...the history and the architecture...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET13 5.218 21 The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved and is preserved.
    ET13 5.219 17 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.
    ET13 5.220 6 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...
    ET13 5.224 15 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history...
    ET14 5.237 17 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.242 12 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
    ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
    ET14 5.243 10 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    ET14 5.245 9 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    ET15 5.263 24 [The London Times] has its own history and famous trophies.
    ET16 5.276 23 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.277 7 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches and all history...
    ET16 5.278 27 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.279 26 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum; the fifty-three volumes of which are in the London Library. He finds all English history therein.
    ET17 5.293 20 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    ET18 5.299 20 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    F 6.13 5 ...in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    F 6.16 6 We know in history what weight belongs to race.
    F 6.18 5 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
    F 6.22 8 We must respect Fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.
    F 6.22 9 We must respect Fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.
    F 6.26 18 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history;...
    F 6.29 13 Does the reading of history make us fatalists?
    F 6.43 5 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought;...
    Pow 6.69 21 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Pow 6.70 27 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...
    Pow 6.80 25 ...never was any signal act or achievement in history but by this expenditure [of spirit].
    Wth 6.109 16 There is an example of the compensations in the commercial history of this country.
    Wth 6.119 25 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    Ctr 6.135 14 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.138 15 We can spare...your history...
    Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the museum of natural history;...
    Ctr 6.158 10 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Bhr 6.176 7 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    Bhr 6.176 27 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    Bhr 6.177 6 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.181 24 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face...for the expression of all his history and his wants.
    Wsp 6.219 2 ...to [man] the book of history, the book of love...are opened;...
    Wsp 6.219 11 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    CbW 6.250 10 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians; would it have been all the same to Greece, and to history?
    CbW 6.253 14 ...the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    CbW 6.256 14 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
    CbW 6.260 6 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Ill 6.318 22 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    Civ 7.21 11 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
    Art2 7.37 12 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the principles and history of Art.
    Art2 7.40 12 We find that the question, What is Art? leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist? And the solution of this is the key to the history of Art.
    Art2 7.53 22 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes intelligible...
    Art2 7.55 24 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Elo1 7.71 14 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...
    Elo1 7.92 6 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    DL 7.105 8 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history...
    DL 7.107 13 If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world...he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    DL 7.107 18 It is what is done and suffered in the house...in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us.
    DL 7.107 25 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your natural history;...
    DL 7.108 24 The history of your fortunes is written first in your life.
    DL 7.115 25 The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    DL 7.124 2 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history.
    DL 7.133 24 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will...make his own name dear to all history.
    WD 7.169 17 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    WD 7.174 21 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    WD 7.176 5 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn...
    WD 7.177 11 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    WD 7.180 11 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape, the aeons of history no such hour...
    Boks 7.197 14 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece, and occupies that place as history which nothing can supply.
    Boks 7.197 16 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
    Boks 7.197 17 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...
    Boks 7.197 24 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes...
    Boks 7.198 1 ...in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Boks 7.198 21 In Plato you explore...all that in thought, which the history of Europe embodies or has yet to embody.
    Boks 7.199 25 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.
    Boks 7.201 11 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    Boks 7.202 8 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.204 20 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Boks 7.205 21 The cardinal facts of European history are soon learned.
    Boks 7.206 19 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Boks 7.207 9 In reading history, [the scholar] is to prefer the history of individuals.
    Boks 7.217 26 The Greek fables, the Persian history...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Clbs 7.243 11 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    Clbs 7.243 13 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...would be an important chapter in history.
    Clbs 7.243 20 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each country, would be an important chapter in history.
    Cour 7.255 15 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas, a Scipio...
    Cour 7.272 27 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    Cour 7.276 3 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
    Suc 7.300 20 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important, and filling the main space in our history.
    Suc 7.305 24 Every man has a history worth knowing...
    OA 7.317 17 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...tells his name and history...
    OA 7.321 16 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life, which is...justified by all history.
    PI 8.21 17 The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting both.
    PI 8.35 13 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.
    PI 8.38 13 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
    PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...character and history...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PI 8.51 19 History sinketh beneath [Oblivion's] cloud.
    PI 8.54 5 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when history or philosophy is rhymed...
    PI 8.66 25 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its...whole history.
    SA 8.80 16 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history;...
    SA 8.89 6 We want...a more inward existence to read the history of each other.
    Elo2 8.111 1 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
    Elo2 8.128 12 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education,--teaching a youth Latin and metaphysics and history... that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.140 9 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.140 26 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Res 8.143 26 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most attractive;...
    QO 8.180 8 There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
    QO 8.181 9 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    QO 8.182 24 ...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.
    QO 8.184 24 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham! he knows politics, Greek, history, science;...
    QO 8.201 19 Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history;...
    PC 8.208 19 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    PC 8.212 19 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    PC 8.217 14 [Culture] is ever the romance of history in all dynasties...
    PC 8.218 3 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    PC 8.219 11 Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities...
    PC 8.223 20 Mind carries the law; history is the slow and atomic unfolding.
    PPo 8.239 1 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.
    PPo 8.240 10 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    Insp 8.275 13 The raptures of goodness are as old as history and new with this morning's sun.
    Insp 8.282 12 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Insp 8.292 13 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams, and what becomes of them; how they make history.
    Grts 8.302 6 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone. This is the worthiest history of the world.
    Grts 8.305 8 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
    Grts 8.315 16 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Imtl 8.324 18 ...the history of religion may be read in the forms of sepulture.
    Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
    Imtl 8.327 8 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form...
    Imtl 8.335 1 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias, a few of which will span the whole history of mankind;...
    Imtl 8.340 8 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Dem1 10.18 29 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    Dem1 10.20 14 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
    Dem1 10.22 4 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house...
    Dem1 10.25 4 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Aris 10.38 1 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those Merovingians, Guelphs...of the old warlike ages!
    Aris 10.40 20 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
    Chr2 10.114 26 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment], of course, the history of Jesus...
    Chr2 10.121 25 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Edc1 10.126 18 One of the problems of history is the beginning of civilization.
    Edc1 10.132 4 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    Edc1 10.146 5 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
    Edc1 10.149 6 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret...of chosen facts in history or in biography.
    Edc1 10.158 12 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about...history, that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Supl 10.177 8 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    SovE 10.187 8 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
    SovE 10.189 27 See how these things look in the page of history.
    SovE 10.202 16 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.204 21 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    Prch 10.217 1 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Prch 10.219 18 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
    Prch 10.222 21 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    Prch 10.223 3 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...
    Prch 10.228 18 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they used his name to falsify his history and undo his work.
    Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
    MoL 10.242 13 [The inviolate soul] is a learner of...the experiences of history;...
    MoL 10.244 19 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    MoL 10.248 25 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.
    Schr 10.269 12 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...
    Schr 10.272 20 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to show...its secret history and issues.
    Schr 10.275 25 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.
    Schr 10.289 7 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history...
    Plu 10.293 3 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch... whose history is so easily gathered from his works...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.296 9 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].
    Plu 10.300 8 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    Plu 10.301 8 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts, in order to keep up with the hasting history.
    Plu 10.301 15 ...[Plutarch] prattles history.
    Plu 10.301 26 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 10.317 2 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved, if only as a piece of history, the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    LLNE 10.332 5 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...as if in the consciousness and consideration of all history and all learning ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.336 15 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    LLNE 10.340 3 ...[Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
    EzRy 10.390 10 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    EzRy 10.394 9 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    EzRy 10.395 8 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
    MMEm 10.422 2 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    LS 11.3 3 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.12 14 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.16 24 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    LS 11.22 2 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    HDC 11.29 3 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.42 14 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.42 20 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.48 25 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
    HDC 11.61 15 The worst feature in the history of those years [of King Philip's War], is, that no man spake for the Indian.
    HDC 11.62 17 I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
    HDC 11.72 2 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    HDC 11.76 18 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord], whom God and the history of your country have ennobled, may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
    HDC 11.78 11 The economy so rigid, which marked [Concord's] earlier history, has all vanished.
    HDC 11.83 6 Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord.
    HDC 11.83 20 [The Concord Town Records] are the history of the town.
    HDC 11.86 9 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    HDC 11.86 22 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord].
    EWI 11.99 3 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    EWI 11.99 7 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    EWI 11.101 21 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    EWI 11.115 1 I have never read anything in history more touching than the moderation of the negroes [at the news of emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.118 1 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    EWI 11.122 1 I said, this event [emancipation in the West Indies] is a signal in the history of civilization.
    EWI 11.127 15 On reviewing this history, I think the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    EWI 11.127 21 It is a creditable incident in the history that when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.129 11 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    EWI 11.135 12 This event [emancipation in the West Indies] was a moral revolution. The history of it is before you.
    EWI 11.135 23 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure. Hence the elevation and pathos of this chapter of history.
    EWI 11.136 20 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...
    EWI 11.140 12 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
    EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages...
    EWI 11.145 5 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    EWI 11.146 3 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    EWI 11.147 18 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    EWI 11.147 25 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
    War 11.151 19 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.152 12 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    War 11.153 15 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    War 11.154 12 ...[war] is the subject of all history;...
    War 11.157 11 ...all history is the picture of war, as we have said...
    War 11.159 24 All history is the decline of war...
    War 11.163 5 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    FSLC 11.187 3 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    FSLC 11.198 18 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute...
    FSLC 11.202 9 I will not pursue [Webster's] bitter history.
    FSLC 11.202 13 ...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.
    FSLN 11.223 14 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
    FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.229 10 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
    AKan 11.256 5 It is a maxim that all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts; and our recent political history has abundantly borne out the maxim.
    JBB 11.267 7 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    JBB 11.267 11 ...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.
    JBB 11.269 17 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history...
    JBS 11.277 13 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to cling to [John Brown's] history...
    TPar 11.285 23 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history of the civil and religious liberty of his times.
    TPar 11.288 6 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
    TPar 11.292 2 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him; and history, nature and all souls testify to the same.
    ACiv 11.299 24 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    ACiv 11.302 14 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    ACiv 11.303 14 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ACiv 11.310 1 ...it is the maxim of history that victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;...
    EPro 11.315 9 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...
    EPro 11.315 17 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    ALin 11.329 6 Old as history is...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    ALin 11.330 20 All of us remember-it is only a history of five or six years-the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    ALin 11.335 14 [Lincoln] is the true history of the American people in his time.
    SMC 11.356 3 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.
    EdAd 11.391 3 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    Wom 11.403 3 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Wom 11.424 14 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...
    Wom 11.425 10 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.
    SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    RBur 11.440 25 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    RBur 11.442 15 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man.
    Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
    Shak1 11.450 23 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    Shak1 11.450 27 'T is fine for Englishmen to say, they only know history by Shakspeare.
    Humb 11.458 11 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    Humb 11.458 13 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    Humb 11.459 4 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
    Scot 11.462 6 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 reanimated the well-nigh obsolete feudal history...of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    Scot 11.463 5 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    ChiE 11.471 20 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.
    FRO1 11.478 11 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm which is the parent of everything good in history...
    FRO1 11.478 12 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm...which makes the romance of history.
    FRO1 11.478 16 The child, the young student, finds scope in his...natural history, because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    FRO1 11.479 14 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship, but only through favor of his Son. These mortifying puerilities abound in religious history.
    FRO2 11.491 2 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.
    FRO2 11.491 3 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.
    CPL 11.496 24 If you consider what has befallen you when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.497 12 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CPL 11.498 21 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    CPL 11.500 3 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory...
    CPL 11.501 10 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.
    CPL 11.506 17 In books I have the history or the energy of the past.
    FRep 11.516 8 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history...
    FRep 11.525 19 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    FRep 11.526 1 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    FRep 11.530 21 Never country had such a fortune...as this, in its geography, its history, and in its majestic possibilities.
    FRep 11.532 22 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    FRep 11.536 27 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.12 26 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects, as...natural history, ships, animals, chemistry,-in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.23 6 How obvious is the momentum, in our mental history!
    PLT 12.24 18 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.
    PLT 12.26 4 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...
    PLT 12.37 24 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
    PLT 12.39 23 ...[the intellectual man] wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    PLT 12.41 12 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.58 6 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.
    PLT 12.60 2 The history of mankind is the history of arrested growth.
    PLT 12.60 12 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is no history or tradition...on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    II 12.69 16 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself...
    II 12.78 11 ...before the good we aim at, all history is symptomatic...
    II 12.81 4 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    Mem 12.92 18 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
    Mem 12.96 18 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought;...
    Mem 12.101 20 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Mem 12.109 11 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CL 12.153 1 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?
    CL 12.157 27 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close beside the disclosures of natural history.
    Bost 12.188 12 This town of Boston has a history.
    Bost 12.188 20 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...part of the history of political liberty.
    Bost 12.188 22 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MAng1 12.216 6 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
    MAng1 12.219 2 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
    MAng1 12.223 12 ...it is an essential fact in the history of Michael Angelo that his love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    MAng1 12.226 8 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but a pitiful part in Michael's history.
    MAng1 12.237 17 Traits of an almost savage independence mark all [Michelangelo's] history.
    MAng1 12.240 2 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    Milt1 12.248 4 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
    Milt1 12.249 3 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
    Milt1 12.251 15 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
    Milt1 12.253 15 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    Milt1 12.258 13 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history;...
    Milt1 12.259 19 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
    Milt1 12.270 10 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself.
    ACri 12.285 14 You know the history of the eminent English writer on gypsies, George Borrow;...
    ACri 12.298 7 Until history is interesting, it is not yet written.
    ACri 12.300 9 The world, history, the powers of Nature,-[the poet] can make them speak what sense he will.
    ACri 12.303 1 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    MLit 12.311 23 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind,-meditations, history, classifications...
    MLit 12.313 22 ...the single soul feels its right...itself to sit in judgment on history and literature...
    MLit 12.314 14 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of...reciting facts and feelings of personal history.
    MLit 12.329 14 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
    MLit 12.332 8 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree into the common history of genius.
    WSL 12.345 17 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    WSL 12.346 12 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    WSL 12.348 19 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    PPr 12.380 10 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.383 17 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.
    Trag 12.406 6 ...one would say that history gave no record of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    Trag 12.412 9 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.

History, n. (8)

    LT 1.268 5 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    Hist 2.21 11 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
    Hist 2.40 12 I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
    Hsm1 2.248 8 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...
    Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
    HDC 11.83 8 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    HDC 11.83 10 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown.
    FSLN 11.225 27 ...the question which History will ask is broader. In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?

History, Natural, Academies (1)

    Wth 6.96 15 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Philadelphia Academies of Natural History...

History, Natural, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.222 15 [Prudence] is legitimate when it is the Natural History of the soul incarnate...
    Plu 10.310 16 [Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet...
    Thor 10.471 23 [Thoreau's] determination on Natural History was organic.
    PLT 12.4 5 These [higher] powers and laws are also facts in a Natural History.
    CL 12.161 7 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.

History, Natural, of Intell (1)

    PLT 12.15 1 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.

History of America [William (1)

    ET1 5.17 5 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early favorite.

History of Anglo-Saxons [S (1)

    ET16 5.290 5 Sharon Turner, in his History of the Anglo-Saxons, says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...

History of Britain [John M (1)

    Milt1 12.270 15 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.

History of Europe [Archibal (1)

    ET19 5.310 9 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...

History of Frederick II [ (1)

    ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...

History of Henry VII [Fr (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...

History of the Quakers [Wil (1)

    Cour 7.274 11 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at...Sewel's History of the Quakers...

History of...Maine... [Wm. (1)

    War 11.159 5 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

History, Philosophy of [Fra (1)

    Carl 10.494 15 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington... and on Philsophy of History, [Carlyle] thinks that nothing.

History Society, Natural, n (2)

    Comc 8.168 6 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Thor 10.471 9 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society.

History, Universal, n. (2)

    Int 2.334 23 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    FSLC 11.187 6 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.

History...French Revolution (1)

    PPr 12.379 3 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution.

hit, v. (20)

    Tran 1.350 12 When [the great man] has hit the white, the rest may shatter the target.
    Nat2 3.185 12 We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
    NER 3.282 23 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact.
    SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    ET5 5.77 18 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET5 5.81 6 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET7 5.117 20 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth. Draw a straight line, hit whom and where it will.
    ET9 5.149 26 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    Pow 6.59 18 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark...
    Pow 6.59 27 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.
    CbW 6.243 25 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with the bow, yet hit the white./
    Elo1 7.78 23 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...has a reserve of power when he has hit his mark.
    Elo1 7.88 18 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo1 7.93 19 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    Dem1 10.23 15 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Edc1 10.140 7 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.
    Edc1 10.148 26 The boy wishes to learn...to hit a mark with a snowball or a stone;...
    LLNE 10.346 22 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism...
    SMC 11.368 27 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded. The Colonel [George Prescott] was hit by three bullets.
    SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand.

hitch, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 4 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...

hitch, v. (2)

    Civ 7.28 24 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...
    Civ 7.30 14 Hitch your wagon to a star.

hither, adv. (36)

    AmS 1.82 13 Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of [the American Scholar's] biography.
    MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou loving, all-hoping poet!...
    MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...
    YA 1.395 10 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Prd1 2.236 6 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Art1 2.361 17 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Exp 3.63 15 ...we...run hither and thither for nooks and secrets.
    Chr1 3.107 12 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    ET6 5.107 20 Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare and costly...
    ET6 5.114 10 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects...
    ET11 5.188 8 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...brought hither out of all the world.
    ET12 5.201 3 Hither [to Oxford] came Erasmus, with delight, in 1497.
    Bhr 6.184 22 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    Wsp 6.211 3 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    Ill 6.325 19 The mad crowd drives hither and thither...
    Elo1 7.72 5 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    Suc 7.305 17 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    PC 8.207 19 Men come hither by nations.
    Insp 8.285 29 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    MoL 10.242 5 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough...
    LLNE 10.346 18 Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from England in 1845...
    LLNE 10.360 4 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    EzRy 10.390 19 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    MMEm 10.400 22 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
    HDC 11.30 27 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    HDC 11.50 17 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    HDC 11.56 8 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances;...
    HDC 11.72 26 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.86 23 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither.
    SHC 11.430 22 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    SHC 11.435 17 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence;...
    SHC 11.436 4 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?
    PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...which surges and washes hither and thither...
    PLT 12.61 14 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    CInt 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands...
    CL 12.163 12 [Conversation with Nature] is the lesson we were put hither to learn.

hitherto, adv. (27)

    MN 1.207 22 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    Tran 1.332 13 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...
    YA 1.368 19 In America we have hitherto little to boast in this kind [of beautiful gardens].
    SR 2.72 26 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    Chr1 3.114 13 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind. This great defeat is hitherto our highest fact.
    Pow 6.66 1 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.
    WD 7.164 25 I saw a brave man...hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    Suc 7.306 1 Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there, unknown hitherto to his neighbors.
    OA 7.331 25 America is...too full of work hitherto for leisure and tranquillity;...
    PI 8.40 16 ...[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...
    PI 8.50 23 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Insp 8.292 18 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought, hitherto wrapped in our consciousness, detaches itself...
    Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
    LLNE 10.349 17 Genius hitherto has been shamefully misapplied, a mere trifler.
    LVB 11.93 15 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
    FSLC 11.212 3 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLN 11.234 3 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience hitherto passive and unconcerned...
    EPro 11.322 13 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    SMC 11.357 5 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world...
    SMC 11.371 14 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    Koss 11.399 14 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart.
    ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty,-hitherto a romantic legend to most of us-suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    FRep 11.517 25 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy.
    PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...
    MLit 12.324 2 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    Let 12.396 11 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

hitherto-existing, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.273 16 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

hits, n. (3)

    Exp 3.50 1 ...all our hits are accidents.
    Art2 7.47 14 Our arts are happy hits.
    ACri 12.297 9 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time.

hits, v. (6)

    ShP 4.190 22 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ET9 5.148 25 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    Bhr 6.180 7 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him...
    CbW 6.250 19 Nature...only hits the white once in a million throws.
    WD 7.157 20 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    PPr 12.380 17 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so hits all other men...

hitting, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.229 15 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity.
    Boks 7.192 9 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

hive, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.228 22 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    F 6.11 18 The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.
    SovE 10.189 26 ...that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
    Prch 10.231 8 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others...are only neuters in the hive...

hive, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.226 26 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...
    ET6 5.114 26 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    DL 7.120 24 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    OA 7.328 26 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...
    Imtl 8.336 20 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value...

hives, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 21 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.

hives, v. (1)

    PLT 12.51 22 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives...

hiving, v. (4)

    Nat 1.38 2 ...[property] is hiving...experience in profounder laws.
    Exp 3.83 17 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    ET5 5.99 14 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
    OA 7.336 7 ...the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Hoadly [Hoadley] Benjamin, (1)

    LS 11.4 14 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was neither a sacrifice nor a feast after sacrifice...

Hoar, Elizabeth, n. (4)

    MMEm 10.410 12 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
    MMEm 10.410 18 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth.
    MMEm 10.410 20 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar.
    MMEm 10.410 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece].

Hoar, 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...

Hoar, Samuel, n. (8)

    SlHr 10.437 4 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    SlHr 10.442 13 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 18 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    SlHr 10.442 26 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived. And in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this?...
    SlHr 10.443 15 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    SlHr 10.444 23 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession by the grasp of his mind...
    SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    EWI 11.107 22 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

hoard, n. (1)

    Wth 6.84 17 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./

hoard, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.210 23 ...wish [your friend] not less by a thought, but hoard and tell them all.
    Wth 6.97 12 They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal;...
    Wth 6.126 11 Will [a man] not spend but hoard for power?

hoarded, adj. (4)

    SR 2.68 12 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    Cir 2.320 22 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...
    Farm 7.140 20 The farmer is a hoarded capital of health...
    PPo 8.253 21 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./

hoarded, v. (4)

    Wsp 6.234 15 [Benedict] had hoarded nothing from the past...
    Farm 7.144 6 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Clbs 7.228 19 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded!
    OA 7.330 19 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power, and justifies the superstitious instinct with which we have hoarded it.

hoarding, n. (1)

    PerF 10.76 25 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet, gathering and giving. Any hoarding is tumor and disease.

hoarding, v. (1)

    Farm 7.146 1 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a hoarding to check the spending...

hoards, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 13 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.

hoards, v. (2)

    Tran 1.338 20 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    YA 1.374 11 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...

hoariness, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.31 10 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...

hoarse, adj. (8)

    Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears extorted, hoarse, and half witness.
    NR 3.233 23 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    SwM 4.144 13 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
    Elo1 7.85 19 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...though he is hoarse and ungraceful...
    SA 8.83 20 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...
    Schr 10.265 6 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
    EdAd 11.387 4 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...

hoarsely, adv. (1)

    RBur 11.443 15 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...

hoarseness, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 18 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.

hoary, adj. (2)

    MMEm 10.423 24 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
    CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every hoary lie...

hoax, n. (2)

    Con 1.322 2 Every honest fellow must keep up the hoax the best he can;...
    Hsm1. 2.252 19 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...

hoaxed, v. (1)

    OA 7.335 13 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed...

Hobart, Henry, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 10 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void. Chief Justice Hobart, Chief Justice Holt, and Chief Justice Mansfield held the same.

Hobbes, Thomas, n. (4)

    ET11 5.190 7 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET12 5.202 4 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.
    ET14 5.233 27 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech.
    Ctr 6.148 25 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...

Hobbes's, Thomas, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 9 The [American] universities are not, as in Hobbes's time, the core of rebellion...

hobble, v. (1)

    CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

hobgoblin, n. (3)

    SR 2.57 17 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
    MoS 4.174 25 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first;...
    GoW 4.277 5 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...

hobgoblins, n. (1)

    SwM 4.139 25 The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip and tell fortunes.

Hobnail, Mr., n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 8 ...here is...Mr. Hobnail, the reformer;...

hobnail, n. (1)

    ET9 5.147 2 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England;--for that also is British law;...

hodden, n. (1)

    RBur 11.441 13 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.

hodiernal, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.311 27 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.

hodiurnal, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 9 ...the rule and hodiurnal life of a good man is benefaction.

Hodson, William Stephen Ra (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi.

Hodson's, William Stephen (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...

hoe, n. (4)

    AmS 1.100 6 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade...
    Cour 7.264 6 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    HDC 11.34 17 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    EWI 11.103 21 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill; and hoe and bill for the negro to this day.

hoe, v. (3)

    Int 2.333 26 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Pol1 3.205 6 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    LLNE 10.366 14 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.

hoed, v. (2)

    Wth 6.119 2 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...hoed his potatoes...
    Thor 10.468 14 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...

hoeing, n. (1)

    Wth 6.102 1 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing.

hoeing, v. (1)

    MN 1.215 20 You shall love...sympathy and usefulness, and not hoeing and coopering.

hoes, n. (1)

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

hog, n. (2)

    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Farm 7.149 11 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite...even now and then for a dead hog, he will indulge them.

Hogarth, William, n. (1)

    ET14 5.246 19 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth;...

Hogg, James, n. (2)

    QO 8.197 19 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author...
    Scot 11.467 25 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey...

hoggish, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.141 23 ...the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state.

Hoghan Moghan [Butler, Hud (1)

    Comc 8.166 22 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./

Hohenlohe, Alexander Leopol (1)

    Nat 1.73 7 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the miracles of enthusiasm, as those reported of...Hohenlohe...

hoist, v. (1)

    SovE 10.196 13 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.

hoisted, v. (1)

    LT 1.288 7 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have hoisted some signal...

Hojeda [Ojeda] Alonso de, n [Hojeda] (2)

    eT9 5.152 21 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    Suc 7.284 5 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

hold, n. (27)

    DSA 1.142 25 ...what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    Comp 2.101 23 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Lov1 2.183 9 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...
    Prd1 2.239 22 The thought is not [in dispute] taken hold of by the right handle...
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Exp 3.60 2 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere.
    UGM 4.12 7 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    NMW 4.252 27 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair took hold of any thing...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.258 1 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it...
    ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end...
    ET16 5.290 16 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...
    Wsp 6.209 10 ...the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
    CbW 6.263 9 ...sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of...
    Ill 6.322 11 When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
    Cour 7.262 10 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball...took hold of my hand and whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Imtl 8.340 7 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death and takes hold of what is real and abiding, by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.345 8 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience, by losing hold of life...
    Supl 10.172 8 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage, and 't was common to strike seals and porpoises in the hold.
    Prch 10.217 8 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    Prch 10.229 4 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions...
    Schr 10.267 27 I do not wish to see you...taking hold of the world with the tips of your fingers...
    Plu 10.314 15 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.
    MMEm 10.426 8 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with, in whose filthy hold he sat in irons...
    FSLC 11.183 22 I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
    CW 12.172 11 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were...to take hold of one's heart at the School Exhibitions.
    Trag 12.415 19 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold.

hold, v. (188)

    Nat 1.30 20 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country, namely, who hold primarily on nature.
    AmS 1.90 15 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they - let us hold by this.
    AmS 1.102 27 ...in severe abstraction, let [the scholar] hold by himself;...
    DSA 1.145 22 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins...
    LE 1.158 18 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power]...is the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    LE 1.171 19 ...[the light] is gone before you can cry, Hold.
    LE 1.186 3 ...see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect.
    MN 1.197 10 ...we no longer hold [nature] by the hand;...
    MN 1.199 23 ...insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought...
    MN 1.214 19 Does not the same law hold for virtue?
    MN 1.223 25 ...[these qualities]...hold the key to universal nature.
    MR 1.256 24 ...the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back...
    LT 1.260 15 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet, and says, I will hold fast;...
    LT 1.291 10 ...you who hold not of to-day...but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it...
    Con 1.296 20 ...I hold what I have got;...
    Con 1.296 23 O Saturn, replied Uranus, thou canst not hold thine own but by making more.
    Con 1.304 3 We hold to this [existing world], until you can demonstrate something better.
    Con 1.324 9 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed; for its wrongs he will not hold himself responsible...
    Tran 1.341 5 [Many intelligent and religious persons] hold themselves aloof...
    YA 1.363 18 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...
    YA 1.392 1 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.6 5 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Hist 2.39 20 I hold our actual knowledge very cheap.
    SL 2.140 17 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.
    SL 2.162 13 I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of [Epaminondas's] hour.
    Fdsp 2.195 6 ...my relation to [my friends] is so pure that we hold by simple affinity...
    Fdsp 2.209 17 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person.
    Fdsp 2.216 4 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. But they shall not hold me by any relations less subtile and pure.
    Int 2.333 15 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise. This may hold in the great examples.
    Pt1 3.11 26 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Pt1 3.13 15 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Exp 3.51 6 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    Exp 3.65 4 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Exp 3.81 9 We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous...
    Mrs1 3.136 25 I like that every chair should be a throne, and hold a king.
    Mrs1 3.138 3 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate as if I knew already.
    Mrs1 3.142 20 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Nat2 3.185 20 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.189 12 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    NR 3.245 9 No sentence will hold the whole truth...
    NER 3.262 21 Only Love, only an Idea, is against property as we hold it.
    NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    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 4.26 16 The great, or such as hold of nature...are saviors from these federal errors...
    UGM 4.30 2 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there.
    PPh 4.72 15 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    SwM 4.118 9 ...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this centre?
    SwM 4.128 11 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    MoS 4.153 10 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...and suspenders hold up pantaloons;...
    MoS 4.153 15 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...
    MoS 4.158 9 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    ShP 4.194 18 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building, which serves also as a frame to hold the figures;...
    GoW 4.265 9 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.
    GoW 4.290 13 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on men or hours.
    ET2 5.32 27 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never...hold property in what was always flowing, the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET3 5.35 11 What are the elements of that power which the English hold over other nations?
    ET4 5.63 13 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...
    ET5 5.80 23 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious, and they can hold many threads without entangling them.
    ET5 5.101 16 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    ET5 5.101 24 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET8 5.134 16 ...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;...
    ET8 5.139 3 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET8 5.142 8 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
    ET9 5.149 2 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out and hold him to it.
    ET10 5.161 18 Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold.
    ET10 5.161 22 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.
    ET11 5.190 15 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    ET13 5.228 23 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.
    ET16 5.287 4 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    ET18 5.304 21 Such is their tenacity and such their practical turn, that [the English] hold all they gain.
    ET18 5.305 10 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
    ET18 5.305 20 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
    F 6.24 10 Let [man] hold his purpose as with the tug of gravitation.
    Pow 6.55 11 Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure possible.
    Pow 6.72 9 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Pow 6.80 19 ...I hold that an economy may be applied to [spirit];...
    Wth 6.89 18 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
    Wth 6.113 4 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.116 20 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
    Ctr 6.162 18 [The finished man of the world] must hold his hatreds...at arm' s length...
    Bhr 6.196 22 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace...
    Wsp 6.199 4 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold/...
    Wsp 6.224 4 He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion.
    Wsp 6.227 1 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
    Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    Wsp 6.237 11 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
    Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    CbW 6.275 11 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    Bty 6.283 2 Men hold themselves cheap and vile;...
    Ill 6.317 7 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
    Ill 6.317 9 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
    Ill 6.324 17 ...the beatitude of man [the Hindoos] hold to lie in being freed from fascination.
    SS 7.15 7 ...ropes cannot hold me when my welcome is gone.
    SS 7.15 20 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    Elo1 7.94 22 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    Elo1 7.98 23 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    DL 7.122 24 ...the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.
    DL 7.125 24 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...
    WD 7.177 17 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face. He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap.
    Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication!
    PI 8.3 8 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    PI 8.18 9 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
    PI 8.35 11 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.46 6 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
    PI 8.69 22 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
    PI 8.74 2 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold them up out of the slough.
    SA 8.89 11 Welfare requires...persons...who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue;...
    SA 8.97 22 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind;...
    SA 8.104 19 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast the country...
    Res 8.151 11 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...no fleet horse that a man cannot hold...
    PC 8.221 5 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in mining and in war. But over all their utilities, I must hold their chief value to be metaphysical.
    PC 8.234 14 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    PPo 8.244 21 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not, if I hold it dear at one grapestone.
    Insp 8.275 19 I hold that ecstasy will be found normal...
    Insp 8.297 6 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain, a new thought intoxicate and hold them prisoners for years perhaps.
    Grts 8.309 1 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Grts 8.310 25 ...if you are a scholar, be that. The same laws hold for you as for the laborer.
    Grts 8.319 2 ...there was no room in [Lincoln's heart] to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Imtl 8.337 27 Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
    Imtl 8.344 13 Nothing will hold but that which we must be and must do...
    Dem1 10.4 22 ...[dreams] dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them.
    Dem1 10.14 12 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Dem1 10.20 2 [Belief in the demonological] is a midsummer madness, corrupting all who hold the tenet.
    Aris 10.29 14 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
    Aris 10.60 7 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth. They are gathered in no one chamber; no chamber would hold them;...
    Chr2 10.95 22 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes, there where all the wires terminate which hold the world in magnetic unity...
    Chr2 10.103 14 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.112 4 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
    Chr2 10.116 27 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
    Edc1 10.156 18 Teach [your pupils] to hold their tongues by holding your own.
    Supl 10.167 19 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.
    SovE 10.201 20 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    SovE 10.204 13 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...
    SovE 10.206 13 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves; it is very grateful to see those who hold an opinion the reverse of this.
    Prch 10.225 26 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    MoL 10.250 8 [Nature says to the American] See to it that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.
    Schr 10.282 2 We will hold fast our opinion and die in silence.
    Schr 10.288 21 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    MMEm 10.427 18 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    Carl 10.487 1 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./
    GSt 10.507 18 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    HDC 11.76 14 We hold by the hand the last of the invincible men of old...
    LVB 11.91 11 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    EWI 11.135 21 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves.
    EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
    FSLC 11.198 10 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    FSLC 11.205 22 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas. I hold it to be a real and not a statute union.
    FSLC 11.208 4 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design, the vast stake we hold;...all join to demand it.
    FSLN 11.232 5 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground; to hold fast and to advance.
    FSLN 11.237 13 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    AKan 11.263 8 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    ACiv 11.298 25 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization...
    ACiv 11.299 4 ...a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to hold these two states of society under one law.
    ACiv 11.305 7 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We shall still have to keep him under, and it will cost as much to hold him down as it did to get him down.
    ACiv 11.305 15 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to capture a regiment of rebels? But one weapon we hold which is sure.
    EPro 11.318 5 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.326 4 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world...
    SMC 11.361 24 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits...
    SMC 11.370 19 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied...I can hold this place;...
    EdAd 11.389 22 ...we hold that the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
    Wom 11.424 7 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;...
    SHC 11.434 26 ...I hold that every part of Nature is handsome when not deformed by bad Art.
    RBur 11.439 19 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy...
    FRO2 11.490 20 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    FRep 11.514 1 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.540 17 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall hold the citizen loyal...
    PLT 12.10 22 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to hold them fast...
    PLT 12.21 7 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design.
    PLT 12.32 25 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    PLT 12.41 25 Do not trifle with your perceptions, or hold them cheap.
    PLT 12.44 3 ...the true scholar is one who has the power...to hold off his thoughts at arm's length...
    PLT 12.48 24 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain, but are made to sell, and will not hold any curtain but cobwebs.
    PLT 12.51 24 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.
    Mem 12.93 15 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold...
    Mem 12.103 10 If we recall our own favorites, we shall usually find that it is for one crowning act or thought that we hold them dear.
    CInt 12.115 9 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...
    CInt 12.127 5 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CL 12.136 2 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture. Other impulses hold us to other habits.
    CL 12.146 16 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...
    CL 12.158 24 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many men begin with good resolution, but they do not hold out...
    CL 12.160 3 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true.
    Bost 12.193 22 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.208 13 ...I hold that a community, as a man, is entitled to be judged by his best.
    MAng1 12.213 2 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
    EurB 12.366 17 [The poet's] fable must be a good story, and its meaning must hold as pure truth.

holden, v. (12)

    SL 2.147 6 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face...
    Fdsp 2.204 14 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...
    NR 3.247 5 If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words...
    PPo 8.254 20 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./
    Dem1 10.16 11 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see.
    CSC 10.373 13 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    CSC 10.373 16 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November, which was accordingly holden;...
    EWI 11.112 24 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.132 18 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    Wom 11.420 11 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    MAng1 12.233 14 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty.
    AgMs 12.363 13 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed;...

holder, n. (1)

    Aris 10.36 7 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents.

Holderlin's, Frederic, n. (1)

    Let 12.399 20 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

holding, v. (28)

    MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    Nat2 3.187 14 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    NMW 4.242 6 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society.
    GoW 4.281 17 There must be a man behind the book; a personality... holding things because they are things.
    ET1 5.15 9 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
    ET1 5.15 11 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    ET4 5.60 8 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    ET5 5.85 19 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    OA 7.322 14 We still feel the force...of Archimedes, holding Syracuse against the Romans by his wit...
    PI 8.74 22 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought...but not by holding it high, but by holding it low.
    PI 8.74 23 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought...but not by holding it high, but by holding it low.
    PC 8.222 21 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still, a fact really universal,-holding in intellect as in matter, in morals as in intellect...
    PPo 8.236 12 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    Edc1 10.156 19 Teach [your pupils] to hold their tongues by holding your own.
    Thor 10.451 12 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem...
    Thor 10.452 20 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty.
    Carl 10.491 4 Young men, especially those holding liberal opinions, press to see [Carlyle]...
    Carl 10.497 20 Holding an honored place in the best society, [Carlyle] has stood for the people...
    GSt 10.505 23 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    EWI 11.118 14 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.
    FRep 11.517 6 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    FRep 11.517 14 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
    Mem 12.103 4 I value the praise of Memory. And how does memory praise? By holding fast the best.
    CL 12.145 22 [The apple trees] look as if they were arms and fingers, holding out to you balls of fire and gold.
    MAng1 12.228 7 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    AgMs 12.358 4 [The Farmer] was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen.

holdings, n. (2)

    Bty 6.305 13 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.
    Farm 7.143 15 You cannot detach an atom from its holdings...

holds, v. (75)

    Nat 1.44 14 ...a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature.
    Nat 1.60 10 ...the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet.
    DSA 1.143 8 ...the motive that holds the best there [in the church] is now only a hope and a waiting.
    LE 1.166 26 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. ... We have not heeded the invitation it holds out.
    Con 1.297 26 [Conservatism] affirms because it holds.
    Con 1.316 20 ...what holds in particular, holds in general...
    Hist 2.6 4 Property also holds of the soul...
    Comp 2.116 14 ...the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
    Lov1 2.172 24 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
    Lov1 2.180 9 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. Then first it ceases to be a stone. The same remark holds of painting.
    Lov1 2.181 25 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...
    Fdsp 2.205 10 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...holds the pall at the funeral;...
    Cir 2.302 5 The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.
    Int 2.333 13 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new;...
    Pt1 3.15 24 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you.
    Pt1 3.32 13 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he...heeds only this one dream which holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Exp 3.47 3 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Exp 3.52 17 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Exp 3.65 21 Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better.
    NER 3.282 7 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy...
    UGM 4.12 5 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
    PPh 4.77 24 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth.
    ShP 4.194 5 [Popular tradition] holds [the poet] to the people...
    GoW 4.282 23 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    ET11 5.181 25 Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.
    ET14 5.233 20 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    F 6.48 7 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which holds nature and souls in perfect solution...
    Pow 6.55 3 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    CbW 6.247 22 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter together.
    CbW 6.251 22 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
    Civ 7.27 9 Everything good in man leans on what is higher. This rule holds in small as in great.
    Civ 7.34 19 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Elo1 7.70 4 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast;...
    Elo1 7.90 25 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    DL 7.110 19 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another is a farmer...another is a chemist, and the same rule holds for all.
    DL 7.121 3 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch?
    Farm 7.139 26 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession. And the like fact holds in the surrounding towns.
    WD 7.155 6 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    WD 7.182 25 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking. The same rule holds in science.
    Boks 7.194 7 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim...
    Boks 7.197 15 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
    Clbs 7.234 17 ...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.
    PI 8.15 18 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.31 1 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is: this holds even of the bravest and sincerest writers.
    PI 8.35 24 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature. Yet the writer holds it cheap...
    Elo2 8.121 2 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious. I think the like rule holds of the good reader.
    Comc 8.158 13 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained. The same rule holds true of the animals.
    PC 8.221 15 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity,-which holds the universe together...
    PC 8.229 25 The same law holds for the intellect as for the will.
    PPo 8.250 26 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds...it speaks to the intelligent;...
    PPo 8.256 13 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net./
    Insp 8.272 12 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern, but the poet does not know the pitcher that holds his nectar.
    Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
    Imtl 8.341 19 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruin.
    PerF 10.71 9 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?
    Chr2 10.122 7 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    Edc1 10.143 17 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret.
    SovE 10.211 20 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris...
    HDC 11.31 14 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    FSLC 11.211 26 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
    FSLN 11.219 27 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide, and that holds them to the part of liberty and justice.
    SMC 11.350 1 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    Wom 11.424 21 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds of high and distant causes...
    FRO2 11.488 1 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    CPL 11.506 5 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me. Nothing holds me.
    FRep 11.511 1 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.
    PLT 12.28 15 [Each man] holds the keys of the world in his hands.
    Mem 12.90 8 As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.91 7 Memory...holds together past and present...
    Mem 12.91 10 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends.
    Bost 12.193 8 ...by some secret tie [the divine will] holds the poor savage to it...
    PPr 12.380 11 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.
    PPr 12.382 12 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds his property that a benefit goes from it to all.
    Trag 12.406 26 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...

Holdship ("), n. (1)

    ET6 5.110 6 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.

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