Hole to Hooted

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

hole, n. (8)

    YA 1.368 18 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    Cir 2.318 4 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...
    ET8 5.132 20 ...[young Englishmen] saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks;...
    F 6.33 18 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    SovE 10.184 23 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    LLNE 10.356 6 Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    Thor 10.472 8 ...[Thoreau] pulled the woodchuck out of its hole by the tail...
    FSLC 11.205 4 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.

holes, n. (10)

    Prd1 2.228 22 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    Mrs1 3.144 17 ...these [social lions] are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens;...
    MoS 4.173 13 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.
    Farm 7.146 13 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores.
    MMEm 10.422 17 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes...
    HDC 11.36 15 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
    EWI 11.102 10 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
    SMC 11.369 4 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn.
    SHC 11.434 14 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    MAng1 12.227 2 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.

holiday, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.11 8 ...nature is not always tricked in holiday attire...
    LT 1.274 15 Religion...was a holiday guest.
    ShP 4.217 20 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    ALin 11.335 5 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for no holiday magistrate...

holiday, n. (17)

    AmS 1.81 10 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    Comp 2.107 12 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
    Mrs1 3.149 17 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
    Mrs1 3.154 10 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
    Nat2 3.173 7 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant.
    ET19 5.311 26 ...holiday though it be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    ET19 5.311 27 ...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    Bhr 6.180 12 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Bty 6.291 20 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    DL 7.105 26 What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad!
    WD 7.168 19 Any holiday communicates to us its color.
    Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    Edc1 10.143 2 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    MMEm 10.402 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her...was sure to make her arrival in each house a holiday.
    RBur 11.442 7 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
    CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
    MLit 12.331 13 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...on a rare holiday, to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

holidays, n. (7)

    LT 1.290 8 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment], holidays decreed to it;...
    NR 3.227 7 [A person who makes a good public appearance] is a graceful cloak or lay-figure for holidays.
    ET19 5.310 25 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days...
    Art2 7.56 13 ...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm, and never out of dilettanteism and holidays.
    DL 7.121 1 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    Schr 10.273 14 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
    FSLC 11.207 12 [Slavery] is very industrious, gives herself no holidays.

holier, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.137 11 ...we can make...a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
    HCom 11.339 5 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours,/ And gave them holier thoughts and manlier powers,-/ This is the day of fruits and not of flowers!/

holies, Holy of, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 23 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule... every Holy of holies;...

holiest, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    Fdsp 2.209 23 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars, that he may come near in the holiest ground.
    PI 8.35 6 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of daily bread into the holiest symbols;...

holily, adv. (1)

    Hist 2.28 2 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...

Holiness, Lucas on, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 8 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to...Lucas on Holiness!

holiness, n. (18)

    MN 1.221 7 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    MN 1.221 10 Truth is always holy, holiness is always wise.
    Prd1 2.221 12 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Prd1 2.232 8 [The man of talent's] art is less for every deduction from his holiness...
    Prd1 2.236 16 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Art1 2.368 12 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts...
    PNR 4.87 14 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer... gathers them all up into rank and gradation, the Euclid of holiness...
    Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    SovE 10.207 27 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    Prch 10.215 2 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
    HDC 11.40 7 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor... but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.40 13 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    War 11.167 4 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...
    War 11.175 14 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    SHC 11.428 22 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    CPL 11.498 8 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.498 14 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    Milt1 12.262 24 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.

Holiness, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.212 27 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
    Wsp 6.228 8 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness...
    WSL 12.339 9 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness, or Lucas on Holiness...

Holland, Henry Richard, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 5 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.

Holland House, London, Eng (1)

    ET11 5.181 27 Sion House and Holland House are in the suburbs [of London].

Holland, Lord, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 10 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.

Holland, n. (5)

    SwM 4.99 16 ...[Swedenborg]...visited the universities of England, Holland, France and Germany.
    WD 7.160 19 The soil of Holland...is below the level of the sea.
    Imtl 8.340 24 ...Van Helmont, the philosopher of Holland, drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
    Chr2 10.106 4 In Holland, in England, in Scotland, [Christianity] felt the national narrowness.
    CL 12.143 25 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland...

Holland, New, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 13 We have been civilizing very fast...planting New England and India, New Holland and Oregon,-and it has not appeared in literature;...

Holland, Philemon, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 12 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603...

hollow, adj. (12)

    DSA 1.140 20 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    Tran 1.354 26 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    SL 2.134 23 ...the virtue of a pipe is to be smooth and hollow.
    Exp 3.66 10 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find... themselves victims of partiality, very hollow and haggard...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Pol1 3.219 1 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    SS 7.1 17 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/...
    Art2 7.55 4 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
    Clbs 7.242 25 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    MoL 10.253 12 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    FSLC 11.183 17 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    CPL 11.501 13 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.

hollow, n. (2)

    Wth 6.122 27 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.

Hollow, Sleepy, n. (3)

    SHC 11.433 26 This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.434 9 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.434 22 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

hollows, n. (1)

    ShP 4.191 3 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, n. (1)

    HCom 11.339 14 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.

Holstein, Schleswig, n. (1)

    ET8 5.141 14 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein...

Holt, John, 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.

Holworthy, n. (1)

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

holy, adj. (52)

    DSA 1.126 18 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
    DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.132 16 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me...to Be. And thus, by his holy thoughts, Jesus serves us...
    DSA 1.135 14 To this holy office [of priest] you propose to devote yourselves.
    LE 1.155 17 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground...
    MN 1.198 1 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy impulse...
    MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.208 12 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity...
    MN 1.220 11 ...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
    MN 1.221 10 Truth is always holy, holiness is always wise.
    MR 1.244 25 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon, formidable and holy to all...
    MR 1.248 24 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    Con 1.315 21 These are stories of...holy families...
    Tran 1.349 2 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    Tran 1.349 11 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    Hist 2.12 21 To the poet...all days [are] holy...
    SR 2.73 13 I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly... whatever inly rejoices me...
    SR 2.77 10 That which [men] call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
    Fdsp 2.211 10 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Hsm1 2.250 19 ...there is somewhat not holy in [heroism];...
    Int 2.341 15 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost...
    Pt1 3.14 11 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place...
    Pt1 3.42 6 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.
    Chr1 3.115 11 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Chr1 3.115 15 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time...
    SwM 4.96 21 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all. How much more, if he that inquires be a holy and godlike soul!
    SwM 4.139 24 ...the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    GoW 4.280 7 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
    SS 7.8 20 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.
    WD 7.169 11 In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the holy time!
    Suc 7.287 16 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    Elo2 8.121 19 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend.
    Elo2 8.124 3 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Insp 8.278 20 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/...
    Imtl 8.326 15 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
    Aris 10.63 22 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    Chr2 10.101 11 The Arabians delight in expressing the sympathy of the unseen world with holy men.
    SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person;...
    Prch 10.228 2 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...
    LLNE 10.353 14 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
    MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts.
    MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.
    Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.
    II 12.88 22 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;...
    CL 12.155 26 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion. O holy simplicity of diet, past all praise!
    MAng1 12.235 1 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied...the characters I have painted were...holy men, with whom gold was an object of contempt.
    Milt1 12.254 10 [Milton] is identified in the mind with all select and holy images...
    Pray 12.355 25 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance (as men say, but which to us shall be holy) brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Let 12.395 5 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
    Let 12.400 13 There is nothing holy which is not desecrated...among this people [the Germans].
    Let 12.401 6 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave...nothing holy which they do not defile with their fumbling hands;...

Holy Alliance, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.347 12 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of the Holy Alliance...

Holy Father, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.227 26 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.
    Wsp 6.228 18 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer...

Holy Ghost, n. (13)

    DSA 1.146 5 Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity...
    Cir 2.319 21 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Exp 3.72 21 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    SwM 4.139 18 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    GoW 4.263 2 ...[the writer] would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.
    ET13 5.227 11 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    ET13 5.227 23 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
    ET14 5.235 21 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.
    Chr2 10.97 2 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Spirit, the Holy Ghost...
    LS 11.3 2 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
    LS 11.20 20 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    FRO1 11.479 8 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar. The Holy Ghost and the Son of Mary were worshipped...

Holy Grail, n. (1)

    Cour 7.273 13 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...

Holy of holies, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 23 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule... every Holy of holies;...

Holy Ripley, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.395 15 ...in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.

Holy Writ, n. (1)

    Schr 10.269 22 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ.

holydays, n. [holy-days,] (2)

    NER 3.271 8 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.
    SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity with assemblings and holy-days...

Holyoke, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    F 6.42 27 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Holyoke...

Holyoke, Mr., n. (1)

    HDC 11.64 24 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching, namely, Mr. John Whiting, Mr. Holyoke and Mr. Prescott, shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

homage, n. (57)

    DSA 1.147 26 ...the commanders encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
    Con 1.304 11 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages, which is a homage to the element of necessity and divinity which is in them.
    Con 1.308 12 To that fidelity and labor I pay homage.
    YA 1.390 5 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment, that project, will have the homage of the hero.
    Hist 2.7 23 Praise is looked, homage tendered...from mute nature...
    SR 2.60 4 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    SR 2.60 5 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    Exp 3.61 16 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
    Exp 3.71 27 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
    Chr1 3.114 21 If we cannot attain at a bound to these grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
    Mrs1 3.121 3 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.127 26 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a homage to men of his stamp.
    Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
    Mrs1 3.145 4 Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.
    Nat2 3.177 26 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
    Nat2 3.179 10 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Pol1 3.217 19 I find the like unwilling homage [to character] in all quarters.
    NER 3.275 24 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.
    UGM 4.15 9 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    PPh 4.62 5 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    PPh 4.68 5 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive...
    PPh 4.68 6 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive, and yet homage becoming the intellect to render.
    MoS 4.156 1 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    MoS 4.174 21 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
    ET9 5.146 13 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET10 5.153 2 There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth [as England].
    ET19 5.311 16 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...
    Pow 6.72 3 The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
    Bhr 6.175 3 A keen eye...will...see in the manners the degree of homage the party is wont to receive.
    Bhr 6.175 8 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires...a becoming mode of receiving and replying to this homage.
    Wsp 6.212 3 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    Wsp 6.213 16 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
    DL 7.132 4 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    WD 7.174 26 ...your homage to Dante costs you so much sailing;...
    Boks 7.216 5 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments.
    Clbs 7.231 11 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    Suc 7.302 11 This sensibility appears in the homage to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...
    SA 8.107 2 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit...
    PC 8.226 23 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man;...
    PPo 8.263 18 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage...to pay their homage to the Simorg.
    Aris 10.36 19 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.55 6 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
    Aris 10.57 11 Let [a true aristocrat] not divide his homage...
    Aris 10.62 9 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage.
    Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
    Chr2 10.103 17 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    SovE 10.206 8 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination, to which they pay homage.
    Schr 10.271 15 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in enthusiastic homage;...
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    SlHr 10.447 1 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as one of themselves, whilst they paid due homage to his powers of mind and to his virtues.
    Thor 10.472 24 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to the truth itself;...
    GSt 10.504 10 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries.
    LS 11.18 5 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    AsSu 11.249 8 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends. He was elected. It was a homage to character and talent.
    PLT 12.36 16 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to the unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    CInt 12.117 11 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!
    CInt 12.130 24 Homage to truth discriminates good and evil.

homages, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 21 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who...releases his servants from their barbarous homages;...

home, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.45 12 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.
    ET7 5.124 5 This [English] dulness makes...their adherence in all foreign countries to home habits.
    ET18 5.300 8 In the home population of near thirty millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
    PC 8.210 17 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade...have evoked!...

home, adv. (68)

    AmS 1.92 27 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    LE 1.162 23 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    LT 1.274 3 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night...
    Con 1.316 2 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...
    Con 1.322 14 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Tran 1.343 18 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.350 17 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    SR 2.56 6 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    Hsm1 2.262 21 ...let [a man] go home much...
    Hsm1 2.263 4 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    OS 2.294 5 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Art1 2.360 4 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.
    GoW 4.274 10 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of man.
    ET4 5.51 13 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it easy to trace it home to its original seats.
    ET5 5.91 6 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;...
    ET7 5.120 16 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal, where I happened to be a guest since my return home, I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET14 5.247 21 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
    ET18 5.304 10 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...in the instruction of the people, to qualify them for self-government, when the British power shall be finally called home.
    Pow 6.74 5 Everything is good which...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
    Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    Wth 6.115 24 If a man own land, the land owns him. Now let him leave home, if he dare.
    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Bhr 6.174 25 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.
    Bhr 6.192 8 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
    Wsp 6.241 19 [The new church founded on moral science] shall send man home to his central solitude...
    CbW 6.251 6 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.
    Bty 6.285 6 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]? Returning home, he imparted this reflection to the king.
    Ill 6.314 7 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
    SS 7.8 17 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    Elo1 7.90 18 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...which [the assembly] can...carry home with them,--and the cause is half won.
    DL 7.111 3 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    DL 7.131 10 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    Clbs 7.231 15 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves.
    Suc 7.297 2 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Suc 7.310 17 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
    Elo2 8.132 26 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Res 8.143 16 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    Comc 8.165 17 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    PC 8.205 3 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    Aris 10.46 27 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that, and is sure to bring home the opportunity to every one.
    Aris 10.50 18 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great satisfaction what a good thing they have done.
    PerF 10.82 1 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes.
    Edc1 10.146 11 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    MoL 10.253 16 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign], and the army got home as it could...
    Schr 10.264 12 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a cause;...
    LLNE 10.334 10 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    Carl 10.492 21 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    LVB 11.94 3 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    FSLC 11.179 12 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    AKan 11.263 14 Send home every one who is abroad...
    AKan 11.263 16 Come home and stay at home, while there is a country to save.
    TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it...
    ACiv 11.305 10 Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the soldiers home;...
    ACiv 11.305 24 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...
    EPro 11.314 24 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    SMC 11.356 1 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.357 18 One of our later volunteers, on the day when he left home... said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.358 4 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.360 9 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of and write home about.
    SMC 11.362 1 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home...
    SMC 11.369 16 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home.
    II 12.86 12 Take it sadly home to thy heart,-the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
    CInt 12.119 19 I wish you to be eloquent, to grasp the bolt and to hurl it home to the mark.
    CL 12.143 27 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland, and when you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you come home.
    CL 12.157 4 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...
    CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?

Home, Everard, n. (1)

    Exp 3.70 12 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...

home, n. (173)

    DSA 1.140 12 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they have at home...
    Tran 1.341 26 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    YA 1.365 24 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country which is our fortunate home.
    YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
    YA 1.391 24 ...here in America, is the home of man.
    Hist 2.6 20 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
    Hist 2.8 18 [Each man] must sit solidly at home...
    SR 2.51 18 Thy love afar is spite at home.
    SR 2.71 6 ...let us sit at home with the cause.
    SR 2.71 16 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home...
    SR 2.81 3 ...the wise man stays at home...
    SR 2.81 6 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he is at home still...
    SR 2.81 24 At home I dream that at Naples...I can be intoxicated with beauty...
    SR 2.82 12 Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
    Comp 2.124 23 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends and home and laws and faith...
    Lov1 2.176 25 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Lov1 2.185 27 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    OS 2.286 23 If [a man] have not found his home in God, his manners...will involuntarily confess it...
    Art1 2.361 13 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations.
    Art1 2.361 19 [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?
    Chr1 3.91 4 ...to use a more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Chr1 3.91 26 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words...
    Nat2 3.170 25 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Nat2 3.171 7 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We never can part with it; the mind loves its old home...
    Pol1 3.197 26 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.216 17 [The wise man] needs...no road, for he is at home where he is;...
    NER 3.274 12 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home...they would know the worst...
    PPh 4.55 24 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.99 15 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four years...
    MoS 4.159 12 If [men] keep too much at home, they pine.
    ShP 4.197 2 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience. Nay, he borrows very near home.
    GoW 4.288 24 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world.
    ET2 5.25 20 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
    ET2 5.31 16 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...
    ET4 5.71 5 The people at home [in England] are addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
    ET5 5.88 12 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET5 5.97 15 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies; power at home, by a standing army of police.
    ET7 5.124 4 This [English] dulness makes their attachment to home...
    ET8 5.127 6 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid, as finding their joys at home.
    ET8 5.141 2 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles and find a new home...
    ET10 5.154 27 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET10 5.163 14 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET10 5.166 7 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
    ET11 5.183 17 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates, devoured by ennui...
    ET11 5.191 7 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET12 5.206 3 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET14 5.242 25 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...
    ET16 5.274 4 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
    ET16 5.284 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...
    ET17 5.291 16 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET18 5.300 6 England rallies at home to check Scotland.
    ET18 5.301 16 At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
    ET19 5.310 2 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform. But I have known all these persons already. When I was at home, they were as near to me as they are to you.
    ET19 5.313 26 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and generous who are born in the soil.
    F 6.31 12 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Pow 6.61 6 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.69 2 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England, in confirmation of a frequent experience at home, that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Wth 6.83 12 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.95 6 The rich man, says Saadi, is everywhere expected and at home.
    Wth 6.111 6 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here;...
    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.137 21 We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
    Ctr 6.145 7 Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
    Ctr 6.145 13 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home...
    Ctr 6.145 20 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad.
    Ctr 6.145 24 You do not think you will find anything [abroad] which you have not seen at home?
    Ctr 6.147 8 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...
    Ctr 6.148 1 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Ctr 6.156 23 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
    Ctr 6.162 23 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
    Bhr 6.186 23 The hero should find himself at home, wherever he is;...
    Bhr 6.189 25 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is deep-founded...
    Wsp 6.236 14 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
    CbW 6.244 4 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    CbW 6.268 2 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...
    CbW 6.274 13 ...it is marriage, fit or unfit, that makes our home...
    Ill 6.322 20 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home...
    SS 7.1 22 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...
    SS 7.11 2 The people, not the college, is the writer's home.
    SS 7.15 5 What to do with these brisk young men who...make themselves at home in every house?
    Civ 7.24 22 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Civ 7.32 20 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home...I see what cubic values America has...
    DL 7.102 8 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    DL 7.107 6 The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.
    DL 7.112 14 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    DL 7.114 14 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist.
    DL 7.114 18 Few have wealth, but all must have a home.
    DL 7.120 12 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home...
    DL 7.132 15 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever;...that its home is in his own unsounded heart;...
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has broad lands for his home...
    Farm 7.141 13 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Farm 7.147 27 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home...
    WD 7.180 9 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose...
    Boks 7.193 24 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
    Clbs 7.244 15 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Cour 7.269 20 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind, as the home of all truth and counsel...
    Suc 7.281 6 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./
    Suc 7.301 9 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities... and woo them to stay and make their home with us.
    Suc 7.311 15 ...the inner life sits at home...
    OA 7.315 19 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    OA 7.323 13 The insurance of a ship expires as she enters the harbor at home.
    PI 8.67 24 We must...ask whether, if we sit down at home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
    SA 8.99 4 Stay at home in your mind.
    Elo2 8.116 21 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but...we are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
    Elo2 8.128 23 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    Res 8.135 1 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...
    PPo 8.255 19 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.
    PPo 8.260 21 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    Insp 8.288 13 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
    Insp 8.288 19 At home, the day is cut into short strips.
    Insp 8.288 23 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm...
    Insp 8.289 12 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Grts 8.307 21 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns to be at home with himself;...
    Grts 8.318 24 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man who was at home and welcome with the humblest...
    Aris 10.37 10 The superior man is at home in his own mind.
    Aris 10.39 4 I wish catholic men, who by their science and skill are at home in every latitude and longitude...
    Chr2 10.116 25 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons at home...
    Edc1 10.150 2 The college was to be the nurse and home of genius;...
    SovE 10.200 22 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
    Schr 10.261 6 A stranger but yesterday to every person present, I find myself already at home...
    Schr 10.270 27 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
    Plu 10.319 6 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
    LLNE 10.355 15 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...
    LLNE 10.363 18 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne, with his cold yet gentle genius, if he failed to do justice to this temporary home.
    MMEm 10.405 12 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
    MMEm 10.420 11 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    Thor 10.485 9 ...wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, [Thoreau] will find a home.
    GSt 10.506 19 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
    HDC 11.40 4 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
    HDC 11.60 14 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.
    EWI 11.125 15 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.
    FSLN 11.220 22 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...they use the constituencies at home only for their shoes.
    FSLN 11.240 19 [The free man] is a finished man;...at home in Nature and dignifying that;...
    AKan 11.255 6 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present.
    AKan 11.255 9 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    AKan 11.263 17 Come home and stay at home, while there is a country to save.
    TPar 11.290 2 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    TPar 11.292 25 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    ACiv 11.304 23 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home...
    ALin 11.329 21 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.331 11 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln], and which they had imparted to their colleagues, that they also might justify themselves to their constituents at home, was not rash...
    SMC 11.352 25 Reform must begin at home.
    SMC 11.356 10 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called to dress a cut finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers] have notes to pay at home;...
    SMC 11.360 13 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
    SMC 11.361 8 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me, for I know she would not have had me stay at home...
    Koss 11.400 8 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home.
    Wom 11.411 24 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./
    SHC 11.432 22 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery; a garden for the living, a home of thought and friendship.
    Shak1 11.453 17 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    CPL 11.496 10 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.
    FRep 11.529 23 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows the perception of English, French, German people at home.
    FRep 11.535 7 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions, which are graceful enough at home...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    FRep 11.535 21 I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have...
    FRep 11.544 17 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will find their home in our institutions...
    II 12.82 27 ...[a man's] workbench is home, education, power and patron.
    Mem 12.91 11 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends. Hereby a home is possible;...
    CInt 12.126 26 ...here [in the college], if nowhere else in the world, genius should find its home;...
    CL 12.133 7 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
    CW 12.172 4 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...
    Bost 12.200 9 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions...
    Milt1 12.262 19 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast...
    Milt1 12.264 22 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...
    Milt1 12.266 26 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    Milt1 12.269 25 The humanity which warms [Milton's] pages begins, as it should, at home.
    ACri 12.286 22 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home...
    MLit 12.322 27 Of all the men of this time, not one has seemed so much at home in it as [Goethe].
    EurB 12.368 21 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    Let 12.401 20 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people...

home-born, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.278 13 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory, whether home-born or imported...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.

home-keeping, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.23 10 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...

homeless, adj. (2)

    Chr2 10.119 7 At first [the infant soul] is forlorn, homeless;...
    MoL 10.247 1 I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

homeless, n. (1)

    Schr 10.261 12 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.

homeliest, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 10 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...

homeliness, n. (2)

    PPh 4.71 2 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others...
    ET14 5.232 12 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.

home-loving, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.299 16 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].

homely, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.121 14 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    Fdsp 2.205 25 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    ET8 5.141 27 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    ET14 5.233 27 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle and in the Sagas of the Northmen. Latimer was homely.
    OA 7.313 7 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    PI 8.3 4 We must learn the homely laws of fire and water;...
    RBur 11.441 25 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...

Homer, n. (70)

    Nat 1.18 1 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill, and which Homer...could not re-form for me in words?
    Nat 1.22 4 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    LE 1.172 27 ...nothing is great.-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason.
    MN 1.211 11 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.
    Con 1.316 24 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Hist 2.25 1 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer...
    Hist 2.30 7 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable...of Homer...
    SL 2.154 16 ...Moses and Homer stand for ever.
    SL 2.158 14 A fop may sit in any chair of the world nor be distinguished for his hour from Homer and Washington;...
    SL 2.163 7 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent? less pertinent than Epaminondas or Homer being there?...
    OS 2.288 24 Humanity shines in Homer...
    Art1 2.357 18 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Pt1 3.7 22 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
    Pt1 3.10 26 ...Homer no more should be heard of.
    Pt1 3.37 19 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Pt1 3.38 15 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
    Pt1 3.38 16 Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical.
    Pt1 3.41 1 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.63 13 I think I will never read any but the commonest books,--The Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare and Milton.
    UGM 4.12 19 Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works. Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
    PNR 4.80 22 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    ShP 4.197 7 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps;...
    ShP 4.199 6 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
    ShP 4.216 5 Homer lies in sunshine;...
    ShP 4.216 24 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    ET16 5.277 14 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...
    F 6.17 20 'T is hard to find the right Homer, Zoroaster, or Menu;...
    Ill 6.312 11 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Art2 7.47 5 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
    Art2 7.53 16 The Iliad of Homer, the songs of David...were made...in grave earnest...
    Elo1 7.71 13 Homer specially delighted in drawing the same figure [of the orator].
    WD 7.178 24 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
    Boks 7.197 10 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer...
    Boks 7.197 22 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...
    Boks 7.198 11 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer, now ripened to thought...
    Boks 7.198 13 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    Boks 7.198 14 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...as if Homer were the youth and Plato the finished man;...
    Suc 7.296 8 We assume...that there is but one Homer...
    Suc 7.296 13 In good hours we do not find Shakspeare or Homer over-great...
    Suc 7.307 12 'T is presumed...there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus...
    PI 8.29 18 Homer, Milton, Hafiz...are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PI 8.33 2 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/...
    PI 8.63 7 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
    PI 8.65 18 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could;...
    PI 8.67 21 We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
    PI 8.68 12 Perhaps Homer and Milton will be tin pans yet.
    QO 8.180 11 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil; read Virgil, and you think of Homer...
    PC 8.213 19 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor Aeschylus...
    PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology; Homer, Menu, Viasa...
    PC 8.216 8 The early names are too typical,-Homer, or blind man;...
    PPo 8.241 23 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
    Insp 8.293 9 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other;...
    Dem1 10.11 21 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Aris 10.42 2 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.
    PerF 10.71 17 The Vedas of India, which have a date older than Homer, are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    Edc1 10.140 10 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions to Homer, to Virgil...
    MoL 10.243 27 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems, from Homer to Euripides, so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    Schr 10.288 27 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
    Shak1 11.449 16 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical, like Orpheus and Homer...
    CPL 11.502 10 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    CPL 11.507 21 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    Mem 12.99 15 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
    Milt1 12.275 25 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare that they do not appear in their poems;...
    Milt1 12.276 18 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    MLit 12.326 7 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...
    WSL 12.341 11 When we pronounce the names of Homer and Aeschylus;... we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    WSL 12.343 13 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments.
    WSL 12.347 14 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
    EurB 12.366 23 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner.

Homeric, adj. (5)

    LE 1.168 20 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these Homeric...pictures.
    Hist 2.24 1 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age...
    PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    LLNE 10.330 21 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with Wolff' s theory of the Homeric writings...
    SlHr 10.437 13 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.

Homers, n. (1)

    Suc 7.296 2 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great.

Homer's, n. (9)

    SL 2.133 25 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
    Pt1 3.7 21 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
    ET4 5.57 4 [The Heimskringla's] portraits, like Homer's, are strongly individualized.
    Farm 7.153 19 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world,--as Adam did...as Homer's heroes...do.
    PI 8.25 12 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that;...
    Plu 10.318 4 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has made his books, like Homer's Iliad, a bible for heroes;...
    Plu 10.318 23 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.
    WSL 12.343 12 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.

homes, n. (18)

    ShP 4.206 24 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
    ET6 5.109 6 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    ET11 5.177 19 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier, but to secure the comfort and independence of their homes.
    WD 7.173 25 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    Clbs 7.247 3 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes;...
    Imtl 8.331 26 ...as [the two men's] homes were widely distant from each other, it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    SovE 10.198 17 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    MoL 10.248 7 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up, and there stand new cities, new homes...
    EzRy 10.379 8 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    MMEm 10.420 9 In 1830, in one of her distant homes, [Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    SlHr 10.444 3 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    FSLC 11.201 23 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well, but who feel the disgrace of the new legislation creeping like miasma into their homes... disown him...
    AKan 11.257 23 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then...driven from their new homes...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    SMC 11.375 16 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    Wom 11.411 19 Society...colors, forms, are [women's] homes and attendants.
    FRep 11.535 20 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.
    CL 12.136 4 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    Bost 12.199 4 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

homesick, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.51 5 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...

home-speaking, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.362 15 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.

Homestead Bill, n. (1)

    EPro 11.316 2 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Homestead Bill in the last Congress...

homestead, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.34 19 ...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good...for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
    ET4 5.52 21 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
    Wth 6.115 22 In an evil hour [a man] pulled down his wall and added a field to his homestead.
    OA 7.327 17 [A man] has his calling, homestead, social connection and personal power...
    EurB 12.371 5 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity...

homesteads, n. (3)

    ET11 5.177 26 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    Wth 6.95 10 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
    SMC 11.348 2 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/

homeward, adj. (2)

    Suc 7.285 13 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    SMC 11.374 17 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms. The homeward march began on the thirteenth...

homeward, adv. (2)

    SA 8.104 12 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    JBB 11.266 11 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./

homicide, n. (6)

    PNR 4.84 4 Plato affirms...that the lie was more hurtful than homicide;...
    PNR 4.84 6 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    ET4 5.58 19 ...[the Norsemen] have a singular turn for homicide;...
    SA 8.105 26 ...mollify the homicide...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    EWI 11.124 7 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...
    FSLN 11.234 13 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...

hominy, n. (1)

    MR 1.237 7 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...hominy... by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...

homme de lettres, l', n. (1)

    Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...

homme, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.104 9 Si Dieu a fait l'homme a son image, l'homme l' a bien rendu.
    ACri 12.285 1 Le style c'est l'homme, said Buffon;...

homoeopathy, n. (2)

    NR 3.234 27 Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing...
    NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy...

homogeneous, adj. (5)

    SL 2.162 2 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous...
    SwM 4.114 14 The unities of each organ are so many little organs, homogeneous with their compound...
    NMW 4.223 8 It is Swedenborg's theory that every organ is made up of homogeneous particles;...
    DL 7.110 25 The household, the calling, the friendships, of the citizen are not homogeneous.
    PLT 12.52 19 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece...this continuity is for the great.

homologies, n. (1)

    ET14 5.253 23 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has imported into Britain the German homologies...

honest, adj. (78)

    LE 1.184 1 Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...
    LT 1.291 7 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every untried project which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.
    Con 1.322 2 Every honest fellow must keep up the hoax the best he can;...
    Con 1.323 17 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Hist 2.35 16 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.
    SR 2.43 2 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light.../
    SR 2.58 14 ...let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    SR 2.58 27 There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour.
    SR 2.80 16 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    Comp 2.114 26 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Comp 2.119 6 ...honest service cannot come to loss.
    SL 2.134 11 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    Prd1 2.221 20 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    OS 2.285 19 We know...whether that which we teach or behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also.
    Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of... honest and base, disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.38 1 Our log-rolling...the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men...are yet unsung.
    Nat2 3.171 13 Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    NER 3.265 23 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
    NER 3.268 14 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark is too honest...
    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    PPh 4.71 1 Socrates, a man of humble stem, but honest enough;...
    PPh 4.73 10 Nobody can refuse to talk with [Socrates], he is so honest and really curious to know;...
    SwM 4.141 24 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch...
    NMW 4.245 26 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him; these are honest victories;...
    ET1 5.18 11 ...[Carlyle] was honest and true...
    ET4 5.67 9 The fair Saxon man, with open front and honest meaning...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET7 5.116 4 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    ET10 5.156 4 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...
    ET11 5.190 16 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    ET13 5.227 27 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    F 6.31 11 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Pow 6.53 16 ...[power] is an element with which the world is so saturated... that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
    Pow 6.82 9 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    Bhr 6.175 13 ...Nature and Destiny are honest...
    CbW 6.249 14 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only...
    CbW 6.255 22 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes...
    CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Civ 7.25 12 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    DL 7.110 26 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    Cour 7.276 27 ...there is no creed of an honest man...which does not equally preach it.
    PI 8.25 15 ...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest fellow.
    Elo2 8.131 8 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really honest.
    Comc 8.157 19 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...
    QO 8.183 1 The borrowing [from the past] is often honest enough...
    Grts 8.311 19 Let us make [our day-labor] an honest sweat.
    Aris 10.50 15 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    Aris 10.50 17 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    Chr2 10.108 2 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as illuminated...
    LLNE 10.348 26 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    MMEm 10.423 2 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!
    Carl 10.496 11 Wellington [Carlyle] respects as real and honest...
    HDC 11.86 26 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    EWI 11.129 4 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.139 27 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain silence every honest voice...
    FSLC 11.210 25 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her honest part.
    FSLC 11.212 11 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends.
    FSLN 11.234 22 Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them;...
    JBB 11.271 14 ...the government, the judges...give such protection as they give in Utah to honest citizens...
    JBS 11.280 7 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an honest reward...
    TPar 11.291 22 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer. These met in the house of this honest man...
    TPar 11.293 3 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    ACiv 11.298 4 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career.
    SMC 11.354 21 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    Wom 11.422 27 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
    CPL 11.506 7 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
    FRep 11.527 3 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...honest and kind for the most part...
    FRep 11.540 1 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    FRep 11.540 13 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    Bost 12.204 16 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
    Bost 12.204 27 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
    Milt1 12.264 1 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.267 26 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...
    Milt1 12.273 17 [Milton] thought nothing honest was low.
    AgMs 12.358 10 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so honest withal that he always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.
    AgMs 12.362 19 ...a farm will not make an honest man rich in money.
    PPr 12.380 16 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...

honestest, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.164 24 Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
    Wth 6.104 1 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Pray 12.350 10 Pythagoras said that the time when men were honestest is when they present themselves before the gods.

honestly, adv. (17)

    MR 1.245 12 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
    Con 1.308 1 I have...toiled honestly and painfully for very many years.
    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.
    MoS 4.173 19 ...I mean honestly by [doubts and negations]...
    ET4 5.72 6 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship...
    ET7 5.119 22 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
    ET16 5.285 24 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.
    F 6.5 3 ...let us honestly state the facts.
    Bty 6.291 6 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
    Boks 7.221 5 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    Chr2 10.110 19 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly...
    EzRy 10.391 14 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    MMEm 10.417 27 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own.
    CInt 12.120 14 [Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly.
    MLit 12.328 15 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    AgMs 12.362 21 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
    PPr 12.379 7 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...

honesty, n. (29)

    DSA 1.131 9 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.
    Con 1.310 24 ...in this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty and promise in the human countenance, always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Exp 3.69 15 ...I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter...
    NER 3.273 20 ...[Men] resent your honesty for an instant, they will thank you for it always.
    MoS 4.158 16 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all; it is the only honesty;...
    MoS 4.182 16 [The spiritualist] denies out of honesty.
    NMW 4.253 22 ...[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    ET7 5.119 26 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET7 5.122 11 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.
    ET13 5.228 2 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET19 5.311 11 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    Wsp 6.202 13 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe;...
    Wsp 6.212 5 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    CbW 6.250 11 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille. Add honesty to him, and they might have called him Hundred Million.
    Ill 6.322 24 ...we must...deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
    Ill 6.322 26 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Elo1 7.68 2 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...with his obvious honesty and good meaning...
    Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;...
    SovE 10.210 22 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    Schr 10.281 25 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    LLNE 10.369 9 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the honesty of a life of labor...
    SlHr 10.443 5 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
    FSLC 11.199 3 [Webster's] pacification has brought all the honesty in every house...to accuse the law.
    FSLN 11.219 20 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a repute for honesty, all count for nothing.
    ALin 11.334 21 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly with all his might and all his honesty, laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
    FRep 11.520 4 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...break away from the law of honesty...
    Bost 12.193 11 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment; as courage, veracity, honesty...
    WSL 12.339 12 ...a man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.
    PPr 12.381 3 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight.

honey, n. (10)

    LT 1.261 26 We do not think the sky will be bluer, or honey sweeter...
    Tran 1.338 21 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    Prd1 2.228 23 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    UGM 4.27 9 We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness.
    ET17 5.292 4 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart...
    SS 7.1 15 ...[Seyd] wood-gods fed with honey wild/ And of his memory beguiled./
    DL 7.120 25 ...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;...
    PI 8.16 25 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product, which is not mint and marjoram, but honey;...
    Thor 10.475 19 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold...is drossy and crude. The thyme and marjoram are not yet honey.
    Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is honey in the mouth...

honeyed, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.118 14 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

honking, v. (1)

    LE 1.168 3 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

honnetes, adj. (1)

    F 6.29 22 As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens c'est qu'ils sont des laches.

Honor, Legion of, n. (2)

    NMW 4.245 6 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    Aris 10.59 16 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor...

honor, n. (145)

    AmS 1.100 24 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars...and... honor is sure.
    DSA 1.137 4 The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
    DSA 1.143 24 ...age is without honor.
    MR 1.228 13 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    LT 1.290 9 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs, churches, built to its honor;...
    Con 1.318 16 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.325 11 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    YA 1.386 26 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    YA 1.388 2 The people, and the world, are now suffering from the want of religion and honor in its public mind.
    YA 1.393 24 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador;...
    YA 1.394 7 ...in England...such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hist 2.25 16 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have?
    SR 2.60 1 Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera.
    SR 2.63 18 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Hsm1 2.256 4 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    Hsm1 2.262 25 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    Chr1 3.93 2 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the quiet spirit of honor which attends him...
    Mrs1 3.128 3 ...[fashion] is a kind of posthumous honor.
    Mrs1 3.133 8 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion, if not added as honor, then severed as disgrace.
    Mrs1 3.133 20 ...do not...imagine that a fop can be the dispenser of honor and shame.
    Mrs1 3.142 9 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    Mrs1 3.142 12 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.
    Mrs1 3.143 5 Fashion, which affects to be honor, is often...only a ballroom code.
    Mrs1 3.153 15 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before the cause and fountain of honor...namely the heart of love.
    NR 3.232 14 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor;...
    NR 3.241 9 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NER 3.275 12 ...a naval and military honor, a general's commission...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    UGM 4.16 8 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays;...
    PPh 4.58 10 [Plato] has a probity, a native reverence for justice and honor...
    SwM 4.106 1 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
    MoS 4.152 24 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world.
    MoS 4.164 18 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went, his courage and honor being universally esteemed.
    ET1 5.20 10 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...to give a tone of honor to the community.
    ET4 5.68 10 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear, which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.
    ET5 5.87 13 It is not usually a point of honor...that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
    ET6 5.113 11 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat...
    ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET8 5.131 22 [The English] are good...at...any desperate service which has daylight and honor in it;...
    ET8 5.141 24 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society, namely that private life is the place of honor.
    ET10 5.155 15 To pay their debts is [the Englishmen's] national point of honor.
    ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET11 5.180 17 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET11 5.192 8 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.198 7 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence.
    ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    ET17 5.291 17 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET18 5.299 15 England is not so public in its bias; private life is its place of honor.
    F 6.30 10 [The hero's] approbation is honor;...
    Pow 6.67 8 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial...
    Wth 6.91 2 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, a man of honor...
    Bhr 6.173 5 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
    Bhr 6.189 9 A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
    Wsp 6.211 26 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...
    Wsp 6.242 5 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    CbW 6.249 23 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    Civ 7.19 12 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Civ 7.26 18 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...
    Art2 7.47 3 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    DL 7.119 10 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship...
    DL 7.119 14 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there...honor and courtesy flow into all deeds.
    DL 7.128 5 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    WD 7.177 16 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    Clbs 7.248 23 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    OA 7.327 14 [Man] wants...wife and children, honor and fame;...
    SA 8.85 16 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    SA 8.106 19 Listen to every prompting of honor.
    Res 8.147 10 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off, and perhaps to your honor.
    QO 8.197 1 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    PC 8.207 11 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    PPo 8.245 12 In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful.
    Aris 10.31 16 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    Aris 10.31 23 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    Aris 10.52 26 [Men] are honored by rendering [Genius] honor...
    Aris 10.61 6 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    Aris 10.63 6 I know the difficulties in the way of the man of honor.
    Aris 10.63 6 The man of honor is a man of taste and humanity.
    Aris 10.65 26 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man...an honor which is only a name for sanctity...
    Aris 10.66 1 Call it man of honor, or call it Man, the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
    Aris 10.66 3 ...the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
    Chr2 10.103 21 ...the private or social practices we establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
    Chr2 10.116 12 To their great honor, the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Supl 10.170 20 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    Supl 10.171 11 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father.
    Prch 10.235 23 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice. I hope that day will keep its honor and its use.
    Plu 10.308 20 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    Plu 10.310 23 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    LLNE 10.341 7 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present.
    SlHr 10.437 8 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star, full of...honor and charity;...
    SlHr 10.441 5 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down beside him.
    SlHr 10.448 21 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him...
    GSt 10.507 19 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    HDC 11.30 22 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.
    LVB 11.95 22 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people, whose love would be honor, regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.102 24 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.127 16 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    EWI 11.131 24 The rich men may walk in State Street, but they walk without honor;...
    War 11.157 19 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes, to their eternal honor, declared religious jubilees...
    War 11.169 5 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them men of love, honor and truth;...
    War 11.169 8 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    War 11.172 25 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.185 6 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity, and the health and honor of their native State, but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.197 26 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FSLC 11.198 11 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? No man of honor can sit on that bench.
    FSLC 11.211 25 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    FSLN 11.215 7 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    FSLN 11.244 6 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.
    AsSu 11.247 12 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with honor and justice.
    AsSu 11.248 27 Mr. Sumner's position is exceptional in its honor.
    AsSu 11.250 4 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires. I say it to his honor.
    AsSu 11.250 5 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.
    AKan 11.260 14 Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
    JBB 11.270 6 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    JBB 11.272 1 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    ACiv 11.310 22 All thanks and honor to the Head of the State!
    EPro 11.314 10 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./
    EPro 11.320 19 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...every religious heart, every man of honor...all rally to its support.
    EPro 11.321 15 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    HCom 11.344 26 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you...
    SMC 11.350 14 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    SMC 11.373 19 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money...
    SMC 11.374 24 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead. There is something partial in this distribution of honor.
    SMC 11.374 26 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.
    EdAd 11.388 19 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Koss 11.398 8 [The people of Concord] wish to reserve our honor for actions of the noblest strain.
    Wom 11.415 12 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Shak1 11.449 7 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which, in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...
    FRO1 11.477 13 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    FRO2 11.489 8 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
    FRep 11.520 19 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no garment to their backs can fit./
    FRep 11.525 3 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...quite capable of any sacrifice except of their honor.
    PLT 12.48 2 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor.
    CInt 12.131 10 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor according to the fidelity shown.
    CL 12.150 23 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns, but it is not in honor of election of any President.
    Bost 12.185 26 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
    Bost 12.206 21 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a political point, a point of honor...
    Bost 12.211 8 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    Milt1 12.265 10 [Milton's] native honor never forsook him.
    WSL 12.340 21 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...honor for every just and generous sentiment...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    PPr 12.380 13 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten...
    PPr 12.384 5 ...[Carlyle] has added to his love whatever honor his opinions may forfeit.
    PPr 12.388 11 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

Honor, n. (2)

    Aris 10.59 10 ...we can only indicate [grand interests] to show how high is the range of the realm of Honor.
    Schr 10.268 14 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor watches to see whether you dare seize the palms.

honor, v. (37)

    Nat 1.67 15 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details...
    DSA 1.120 6 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
    DSA 1.141 1 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    MN 1.193 6 Men...do not honor any individual citizen;...
    MN 1.195 3 ...we are too nearly related in the deep of the mind to that we honor.
    MN 1.217 24 ...the reason why all men honor love is because it looks up and not down;...
    LT 1.274 24 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman...
    LT 1.276 8 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong. I cannot choose but allow and honor them.
    Hist 2.7 4 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    SL 2.142 18 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate, or men will never know and honor him aright.
    SL 2.162 11 I love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epaminondas.
    Fdsp 2.191 7 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Fdsp 2.201 26 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Fdsp 2.209 17 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person.
    Prd1 2.230 12 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...honor their own senses with trust.
    Exp 3.61 14 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
    Chr1 3.115 18 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    PPh 4.45 17 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.
    GoW 4.269 18 ...how can [the writer] be honored when he does not honor himself;...
    GoW 4.290 22 The secret of genius is...first, last, midst and without end, to honor every truth by use.
    ET5 5.92 5 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others...
    ET7 5.121 5 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; and [the English] so honor stoutness in each other that the king passed it over.
    ET14 5.243 4 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    Wsp 6.237 23 Honor him whose life is perpetual victory;...
    Civ 7.30 21 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...
    DL 7.122 15 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to be a master of living well...
    WD 7.177 24 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment;...
    PI 8.56 14 I honor the naturalist;...
    PI 8.56 15 ...I honor the geometer...
    SA 8.102 27 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Insp 8.280 7 I honor health as the first muse...
    Chr2 10.91 2 Morals respects...that which all men agree to honor as justice...
    Plu 10.300 13 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...honor all the parties...
    Plu 10.306 27 Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...
    LLNE 10.347 18 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists...
    SMC 11.350 9 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    PLT 12.52 12 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you.

honorable, adj. (12)

    MR 1.243 21 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable?
    Con 1.324 7 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which is alike lovely and honorable to those who render and those who receive it;...
    QO 8.189 20 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    PC 8.208 17 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.
    Schr 10.270 24 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
    SlHr 10.442 4 The impression [Samuel Hoar] made on juries was honorable to him and them.
    HDC 11.76 26 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...
    FSLN 11.220 24 ...of course, [vulgar politicians] can drive out from the contest any honorable man.
    FSLN 11.233 3 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    AsSu 11.252 4 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    TPar 11.285 22 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were all honorable to him...

honorable, n. (1)

    AmS 1.102 25 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.

honorablest, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.256 12 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...

honorably, adv. (2)

    MR 1.228 11 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...not only go honorably himself, but make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    PC 8.233 24 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...

honorary, adj. (3)

    ET7 5.121 15 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum.
    ET11 5.195 22 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary.
    Scot 11.463 3 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society, of which he was for ten years an honorary member.

honor-bright, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.118 9 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright...

honored, adj. (9)

    SA 8.92 13 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate.
    Comc 8.167 19 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend...
    Supl 10.170 14 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great man in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
    SlHr 10.447 4 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an active member.
    Carl 10.497 20 Holding an honored place in the best society, [Carlyle] has stood for the people...
    HDC 11.48 4 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
    SMC 11.372 24 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    Shak1 11.447 13 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    CPL 11.508 26 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library, and its honored Founder [William Munroe].

honored, v. (24)

    LE 1.155 2 The invitation to address you this day, with which you have honored me, was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
    MR 1.249 5 Is it not the highest duty that man should be honored in us?
    PPh 4.62 9 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...
    SwM 4.100 15 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored.
    GoW 4.269 18 ...how can [the writer] be honored when he does not honor himself;...
    ET1 5.24 17 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth...
    Aris 10.45 24 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.52 25 [Men] are honored by rendering [Genius] honor...
    Chr2 10.99 17 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    SovE 10.190 6 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them...hinder none, help all, and these are honored and perpetuated.
    Schr 10.267 9 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored!...
    Plu 10.296 9 Voltaire honored [Plutarch]...
    MMEm 10.399 2 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    Thor 10.460 15 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    Thor 10.481 13 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    HDC 11.31 19 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...honored for his own virtues...
    EWI 11.145 13 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself.
    FSLC 11.201 25 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored...disown him...
    FSLN 11.215 1 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    TPar 11.291 17 ...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies...honored him;...
    TPar 11.293 4 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    SHC 11.433 9 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games,-not such as the Greeks honored the dead with, but for games of education;...
    CPL 11.496 15 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
    Let 12.392 8 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us...with their confidence...

honoring, adj. (5)

    Wsp 6.199 10 ...Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
    QO 8.202 13 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    MoL 10.257 25 I learn with grief, but with honoring pain, that you have had your sufferers in the battle...
    CInt 12.127 2 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
    ACri 12.298 19 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

honoring, v. (3)

    ET11 5.187 6 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
    OA 7.315 17 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity, honoring him who spoke and those who heard.
    EPro 11.316 6 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...honoring alike those who initiate and those who receive them.

honors, n. (21)

    Con 1.320 7 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...pardons for sin, funeral honors...
    SR 2.78 21 ...[the self-helping man]...all honors crown...
    Comp 2.123 6 I do not wish more external goods,--neither possessions, nor honors...
    Chr1 3.102 22 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding new powers and honors to his domain...
    Mrs1 3.152 18 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth...whom it has excluded from its coveted honors and privileges.
    PPh 4.60 24 ...disregarding the honors that most men value...I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    PNR 4.85 17 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    NMW 4.225 27 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of...palaces and conventional honors...
    ET11 5.174 27 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors...
    ET11 5.175 20 The war-lord earned his honors...
    ET19 5.313 5 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England, with the possessions, honors and trophies...
    Bhr 6.173 6 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.
    Chr2 10.101 1 When a man is born...preferring truth, justice and the serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the superiority.
    MoL 10.241 4 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of you...to-morrow will receive the parting honors of the College.
    Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...
    MMEm 10.427 27 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse...
    EdAd 11.391 6 The name of Swedenborg has in this very time acquired new honors...
    CInt 12.117 2 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
    CInt 12.131 1 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who wear the honors...
    Milt1 12.259 15 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...where...he received social and academical honors from the learned and the great.

Honors, n. (1)

    Pow 6.65 19 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see...how much crime the people will bear;...they have calculated but too justly upon their Excellencies the New England governors, and upon their Honors the New England legislators.

honors, v. (5)

    Mrs1 3.120 11 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... honors himself with architecture;...
    ET15 5.271 23 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who dare to print all they know...
    Chr2 10.99 16 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man. It is partial at first, and honors only some one or some few truths.
    Shak1 11.449 5 ...[Shakespeare] is...the fountain of joy which honors him who tastes it;...
    Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...

honour, n. (1)

    LVB 11.88 1 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...

honoured, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.216 1 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/

hood, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 20 ...love is not a hood, but an eye-water.

Hood, Robin, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.359 15 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad...

Hood, Robin, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.149 21 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;...
    ShP 4.201 3 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ET4 5.68 22 ...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.
    Boks 7.197 19 English history is best known through Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish ballads!...

Hood, Thomas, n. (1)

    ET15 5.271 17 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England--as in Punch, so in the humorists, Jerrold, Dickens, Thackeray, Hood--have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.

Hoods, n. (1)

    ET15 5.262 22 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

Hood's, Robin, n. (1)

    PI 8.25 17 Give [people] Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda...and they like these well enough.

Hood's, Thomas, n. (1)

    SS 7.3 13 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?

hoofs, n. (2)

    Con 1.299 17 Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance, to kick with hoofs;...
    Bhr 6.179 21 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...

hook, n. (1)

    Bty 6.299 21 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Hook, Sandy, New Jersey, n (1)

    CbW 6.252 12 We have as good right, and the same sort of right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.

hook, v. (1)

    AKan 11.262 20 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers, as bees hook themselves to one another and to their queen in a loyal swarm.

Hooke, Robert, n. (2)

    ET14 5.248 20 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
    Bty 6.300 20 It was said of Hooke, the friend of Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.

Hooker, Richard, n. (5)

    ET14 5.234 3 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Hooker, Cotton...wrote it.
    ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Mede, Gataker, Hooker...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;--More, Hooker, Bacon...
    ET14 5.241 21 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
    ET14 5.253 1 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.

Hooker, Thomas, n. (1)

    HDC 11.51 5 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.

Hooker, William Jackson, n. (2)

    ET17 5.293 2 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...De la Beche, Hooker, Carpenter...
    ET17 5.293 18 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...

hooks, n. (4)

    ET5 5.101 16 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    Wsp 6.202 26 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes...
    AKan 11.262 19 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
    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...

Hooks, n. (1)

    ET15 5.262 22 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

hoop, n. (4)

    Int 2.339 18 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    DL 7.121 2 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch?
    Boks 7.207 19 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    LLNE 10.327 21 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine; but it is a painted hoop, and has no girth.

hooped, v. (1)

    F 6.19 26 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.

hoops, n. (3)

    F 6.34 12 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...with clamps and hoops of castles...
    F 6.34 14 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    PI 8.67 12 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if alone...

Hoosac, Mount, Massachusett (1)

    AKan 11.262 4 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach of peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.

Hoosier, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 3 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves, Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.

Hoosiers, n. (2)

    ET4 5.48 11 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
    Pow 6.65 12 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition.

hooted, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive...

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