Hospitals to Hours

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

hospitals, n. (10)

    Con 1.311 5 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    YA 1.375 9 ...we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.
    ET3 5.38 9 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    ET10 5.169 26 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    Ill 6.322 12 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
    WD 7.159 9 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
    Suc 7.286 13 We have seen women who could institute hospitals and schools in armies.
    Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating hospitals...
    CPL 11.496 17 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals...
    CL 12.159 22 ...there are more insane persons than...are under treatment in hospitals.

hospitia, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 10 Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns...

host, n. (14)

    Nat 1.32 11 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Hsm1 2.254 11 ...hospitality must be for service...or it pulls down the host.
    SwM 4.103 5 There is...strength of a host, as well as of a hero;...
    ET4 5.71 5 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as...Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming and a host of travellers.
    ET16 5.288 5 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    ET16 5.288 9 On the way to Winchester, whither our host accompanied us in the afternoon, my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET16 5.290 22 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral], and parting with our host, we took the train for London.
    Pow 6.78 19 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it...
    DL 7.111 21 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises... neither the host nor the guest;...
    PC 8.211 3 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PPo 8.245 19 The earth is a host who murders his guests.
    PPo 8.253 9 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
    Plu 10.319 14 [Plutarch] was a genial host and guest...
    ALin 11.332 2 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...

hostages, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 22 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...

hostile, adj. (37)

    YA 1.382 16 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
    SL 2.154 26 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort, friendly or hostile...
    Prd1 2.238 21 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...
    Exp 3.70 21 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    NER 3.254 7 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    NMW 4.236 3 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron...
    ET12 5.212 12 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...
    ET12 5.212 23 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    ET13 5.223 25 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
    ET15 5.265 20 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris, a very gentle person, with no hostile appearances.
    Wth 6.101 16 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
    CbW 6.254 5 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... and united hostile nations under one government.
    Elo1 7.97 14 Men are averse and hostile, to give value to their suffrages.
    Elo1 7.98 2 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments;...
    Cour 7.255 8 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies...
    Cour 7.268 2 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    PC 8.223 18 ...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance...
    Grts 8.315 15 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Dem1 10.8 24 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...
    Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    PerF 10.84 22 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Chr2 10.110 24 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.
    Chr2 10.114 20 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long... notoriously hostile to the Abolitionist, wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    EWI 11.118 27 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
    War 11.154 3 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...united hostile nations under one code.
    FSLC 11.194 14 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    AKan 11.256 7 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    PLT 12.63 24 ...at last [the Intellect] will be justified, though for the moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres.
    II 12.73 3 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.
    II 12.87 5 The virtue of the Intellect is its own...and at last, it will be justified, though for the time it seem hostile to that which it most reveres.
    Bost 12.192 18 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Bost 12.196 13 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude...
    Bost 12.208 21 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature hostile to oppression.
    Milt1 12.278 20 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against, though their end was hostile to the state; so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    MLit 12.320 13 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...

hostilities, n. (3)

    YA 1.364 6 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... there is no danger that local peculiarities and hostilities should be preserved.
    War 11.157 20 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...declared religious jubilees, during which all hostilities were suspended throughout Christendom...
    EPro 11.324 4 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of...in the progress of hostilities, disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.

hostility, n. (12)

    Nat 1.58 18 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
    Nat 1.59 6 I have no hostility to nature...
    AmS 1.101 19 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society...
    Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    ET14 5.254 20 ...[the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    CbW 6.275 25 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Schr 10.280 23 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is not a hostility to their truth...
    LS 11.24 11 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper];...
    EWI 11.127 3 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity, and the hostility to such as resisted it would be fatal.
    TPar 11.288 3 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into...a feeling of loneliness and hostility to what was reckoned respectable.
    CInt 12.124 26 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    Let 12.398 19 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only...widens the feeling of hostility between them and the citizens at large.

hosts, n. (4)

    ET1 5.7 13 ...[Landor] was the most patient and gentle of hosts.
    Farm 7.151 7 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
    PI 8.74 1 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are hosts of ideals...
    War 11.171 23 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the jousts of chivalry, the shock of hosts...

hot, adj. (30)

    Nat 1.60 21 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
    LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Con 1.295 18 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities.
    SL 2.135 25 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    Prd1 2.225 16 ...we are poisoned by the air that is too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
    Exp 3.51 4 Of what use [is genius], if the brain is too cold or too hot...
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings. Hot life is streaming in a single direction.
    MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe...that pepper is hot...
    MoS 4.155 22 The studious class are their own victims;...their feet are cold, their heads are hot...
    ET3 5.38 15 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude. Neither hot nor cold...
    ET13 5.228 15 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe;...
    ET14 5.233 10 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    Wth 6.94 11 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he.
    Civ 7.25 26 The highest civility has never loved the hot zones.
    Elo1 7.61 11 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a third needs an antagonist, or a hot indignation;...
    SA 8.90 11 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was...by no means the hot and hurried business which passes in the world.
    Elo2 8.109 3 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    Chr2 10.106 2 ...in the hands of hot Africans...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    Edc1 10.148 20 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.
    LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
    Carl 10.491 6 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    EWI 11.104 8 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on...we too should wince.
    FSLC 11.181 9 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    TPar 11.289 4 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame.
    SMC 11.364 21 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...being very hot and dry.
    PLT 12.6 24 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    CL 12.139 16 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also...days which are neither hot nor cold...
    MLit 12.331 12 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets before sunrise, or after sunset, or 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...

Hotel de Rambouillet, n. (1)

    Wom 11.415 22 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.

Hotel, Middlesex, Concord, (1)

    HDC 11.37 23 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].

hotel, n. (20)

    Con 1.311 27 Every island for thee has a town; every town a hotel.
    YA 1.388 17 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    ET1 5.16 21 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    ET6 5.106 2 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
    Wth 6.95 15 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic, and made it a luxurious hotel, amid the horrors of the tempests.
    Wth 6.109 3 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    Wth 6.109 10 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Clbs 7.238 16 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...the wits in the hotel.
    Clbs 7.243 4 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her hotel with a view to society...
    Clbs 7.246 2 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    PI 8.4 9 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    Insp 8.288 12 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 20 In the hotel, I have no hours to keep...
    SlHr 10.438 13 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    Carl 10.490 25 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    FSLC 11.189 21 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to make the world a greasy hotel...
    CPL 11.495 8 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site...good sidewalks, a good hotel;...
    FRep 11.524 1 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    FRep 11.533 23 Every village, every city, has...its hotel, its private house, its church, from England.
    EurB 12.373 10 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.

Hotel Rambouillet, Paris, (1)

    Clbs 7.243 11 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.

hotel-bill, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 4 'T is only now that I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not let--pay my hotel-bill.

hotels, n. (10)

    Exp 3.76 15 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels...
    GoW 4.274 5 [Goethe] sought [Proteus]...in boulevards and hotels;...
    Wth 6.91 5 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Bhr 6.173 22 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Boks 7.196 10 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels;...
    Imtl 8.332 21 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the...hotels...
    LLNE 10.365 7 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.
    TPar 11.291 14 Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will utter the fop's opinion...
    CL 12.139 2 ...if, instead of running about in the hotels and theatres of Europe, we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.159 23 The crowd in the cities, at the hotels, theatres, card-tables... are all more or less mad...

hotly, adv. (4)

    Prch 10.232 18 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth, in whose affairs we so hotly mix...
    LLNE 10.369 8 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared, some of them hotly shared...
    EWI 11.146 20 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    SMC 11.353 26 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston...

hot-pressed, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.112 8 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick hot-pressed paper...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.

Hotspur, n. (3)

    Wth 6.124 15 Hotspur lives for the moment...
    Wth 6.124 17 Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a good provider.
    Wth 6.124 19 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.

Hottentots, n. (1)

    SA 8.99 26 In a whole nation of Hottentots there shall not be one valuable man...

hotter, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.12 16 ...[Coleridge said] this also, that if you should insist on your faith here in England, and I on mine, mine would be the hotter side of the fagot.

hottest, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.187 19 ...the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    ET8 5.140 21 The wrath of London...has a long memory, and, in its hottest heat, a register and rule.
    SMC 11.370 16 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire.

Houbraken's, Jacobus, n. (1)

    ALin 11.335 23 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.

hound, n. (4)

    Thor 10.471 25 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...
    Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
    Thor 10.476 14 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    FSLC 11.185 16 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him. The famous town of Boston is his master's hound.

hounds, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 3 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.

Hour, Genius of the, n. (1)

    Art1 2.352 19 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art]...

hour, n. (273)

    Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
    Nat 1.9 11 ...every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
    Nat 1.9 12 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.18 15 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before...
    Nat 1.26 27 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    Nat 1.31 24 Long hereafter...in the hour of revolution, - these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.39 26 ...up to the hour when he saith, Thy will be done! [man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    AmS 1.91 13 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    AmS 1.93 8 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
    AmS 1.96 15 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    AmS 1.99 21 ...the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.
    DSA 1.130 1 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    DSA 1.151 7 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    LE 1.157 18 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable...
    LE 1.159 22 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of antiquity, must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    LE 1.162 8 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the present hour.
    LE 1.167 17 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing...of an of these fine things;...
    LE 1.168 25 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    LE 1.169 1 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    LE 1.184 26 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour...
    LE 1.186 1 The hour of that choice [between the world and intellect] is the crisis of your history...
    MN 1.194 10 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...thine and not theirs is the hour.
    MN 1.194 14 We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy.
    MN 1.197 24 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    MN 1.211 2 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion...
    MN 1.215 2 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MR 1.228 15 ...the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    MR 1.229 21 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    MR 1.232 24 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;...
    MR 1.234 15 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    MR 1.234 16 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    MR 1.248 14 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which...every hour repairs herself...
    MR 1.256 8 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    LT 1.272 23 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...in some happy hour, be executed by the hands.
    LT 1.282 18 The men [of other periods] did not see beyond the need of the hour.
    Con 1.295 15 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every hour.
    Con 1.299 7 Conservatism never puts the foot forward; in the hour when it does that, it is not establishment, but reform.
    Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.318 3 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...
    Con 1.322 23 On which part will each of us find himself in the hour of health and of aspiration?
    Con 1.324 12 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    Tran 1.332 4 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour...
    Tran 1.346 16 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    Tran 1.352 21 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height;...
    Tran 1.353 11 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with some plaything, until his hour comes again.
    Tran 1.357 10 ...[the strong spirits]...only by implication reject the clamorous nonsense of the hour.
    YA 1.370 18 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    YA 1.383 14 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour.
    SR 2.59 1 There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour.
    SR 2.66 8 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it... absorbs past and future into the present hour.
    SR 2.69 3 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude...
    SR 2.85 9 ...[the civilized man] fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.
    Comp 2.119 21 [The mob's] fit hour of activity is night.
    SL 2.136 23 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
    SL 2.147 8 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened;...
    SL 2.150 14 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.153 11 ...if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour.
    SL 2.154 6 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...
    SL 2.158 13 A fop may sit in any chair of the world nor be distinguished for his hour from Homer and Washington;...
    SL 2.162 14 I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of [Epaminondas's] hour.
    Lov1 2.173 8 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.
    Lov1 2.186 27 ...the circumstances vary every hour.
    Fdsp 2.196 9 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    Fdsp 2.208 10 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour.
    Hsm1 2.253 22 Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in whatever number;...
    Hsm1 2.262 7 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    Hsm1 2.263 19 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    OS 2.267 2 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
    OS 2.269 13 ...this deep power...whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
    OS 2.272 21 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    OS 2.272 22 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    OS 2.290 23 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells in the hour that now is...
    Cir 2.306 3 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.
    Cir 2.310 7 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Cir 2.319 4 Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour?
    Cir 2.321 4 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour...
    Int 2.328 9 I have been floated into...this hour...
    Int 2.338 17 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last.
    Art1 2.353 22 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols] denote the height of the human soul in that hour...
    Art1 2.355 11 ...each work of genius is the tyrant of the hour...
    Pt1 3.23 4 The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one had not.
    Exp 3.59 22 To fill the hour,--that is happiness;...
    Exp 3.59 23 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
    Exp 3.60 22 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
    Exp 3.61 23 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour...
    Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour...
    Exp 3.83 9 I gossip for my hour concerning the eternal politics.
    Chr1 3.98 25 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
    Chr1 3.99 5 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    Chr1 3.102 18 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
    Mrs1 3.121 23 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour...
    Mrs1 3.128 6 [Fashion] usually sets its face against the great of this hour.
    Mrs1 3.141 17 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company;...
    Nat2 3.192 15 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.
    Pol1 3.209 24 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    NR 3.237 15 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read...
    NR 3.239 4 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place...other talents take place, and rule the hour.
    NR 3.246 18 There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
    NER 3.257 19 ...we cannot tell...the hour of the day by the sun.
    NER 3.260 22 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy]...is reaching forward at this very hour to the happiest conclusions.
    NER 3.265 5 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    NER 3.267 11 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
    NER 3.283 18 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
    UGM 4.32 5 The heroes of the hour are relatively great;...
    PPh 4.59 18 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...
    PNR 4.81 7 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive.
    SwM 4.117 24 ...down to this hour, literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
    MoS 4.167 18 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One cannot be sure of himself and his fortune an hour...
    MoS 4.169 23 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. In the hour of death, he gave the same weight to custom.
    MoS 4.175 25 Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
    ShP 4.191 13 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in... suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
    ShP 4.208 8 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us, that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
    NMW 4.224 10 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class] and recruiting its numbers every hour by births.
    NMW 4.238 8 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
    NMW 4.238 10 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
    ET1 5.14 12 I was in [Coleridge's] company for about an hour...
    ET1 5.18 24 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET2 5.27 25 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater;...
    ET2 5.28 19 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET3 5.38 16 ...there is no hour in the whole year when one cannot work [in England].
    ET4 5.73 23 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
    ET6 5.113 25 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET6 5.114 4 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen remain over their wine an hour longer...
    ET7 5.121 8 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour.
    ET8 5.131 1 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET8 5.131 9 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET11 5.175 22 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it, hour by hour, against a terrible enemy.
    ET12 5.200 16 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET15 5.266 1 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET15 5.266 3 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    ET15 5.270 16 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    ET16 5.283 20 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    ET18 5.305 22 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    ET19 5.313 25 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...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    F 6.27 12 Our thought, though it were only an hour old, affirms an oldest necessity...
    F 6.37 24 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived at the same hour...
    F 6.44 22 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
    Pow 6.68 22 Some men cannot endure an hour of calm at sea.
    Wth 6.88 17 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man]...
    Wth 6.103 26 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state is more worth, in the hour of his action.
    Wth 6.115 20 In an evil hour [a man] pulled down his wall and added a field to his homestead.
    Bhr 6.196 14 Every hour will show a duty as paramount as that of my whim just now...
    Wsp 6.213 9 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume. But this avoidance will yield spontaneous forms in their due hour.
    Wsp 6.214 25 ...obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Wsp 6.235 10 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.
    Wsp 6.237 3 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to be done...when the hour comes.
    Wsp 6.238 15 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to that future hour...
    CbW 6.244 5 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    CbW 6.258 4 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he prefers it to the universe...
    Bty 6.291 17 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Ill 6.324 3 We see God face to face every hour...
    Civ 7.25 4 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Art2 7.49 22 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour...
    Elo1 7.73 14 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.83 3 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion, between the demands of the hour and the prepossession of the individual.
    Farm 7.144 5 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now--when in our immense day the hour is at last struck--take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    WD 7.169 14 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.169 27 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus.
    WD 7.175 17 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    WD 7.175 18 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    WD 7.177 1 Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you...
    WD 7.177 12 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    WD 7.180 11 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape, the aeons of history no such hour...
    WD 7.181 18 Just to fill the hour,--that is happiness.
    WD 7.181 18 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.181 20 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.181 21 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.185 12 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Boks 7.196 6 Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour.
    Cour 7.257 21 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more.
    Cour 7.272 18 The hero could not have done the feat at another hour...
    Suc 7.296 9 We assume...that there is but one Homer, but one Shakspeare, one Newton, one Socrates. But the soul in her beaming hour does not acknowledge these usurpations.
    Suc 7.299 3 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
    OA 7.317 24 The mind stretches an hour to a century...
    OA 7.317 25 The mind...dwarfs an age to an hour.
    OA 7.334 24 We spent about an hour in [John Adams's] room.
    PI 8.17 16 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.34 24 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.41 6 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment, when once their hour is struck...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.68 2 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise which ever in the best hour beckons us?
    Elo2 8.113 3 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
    Elo2 8.123 25 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    Comc 8.172 5 ...Timur scratched his head, since the hour of the barber was come...
    QO 8.194 2 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour;...
    PC 8.217 2 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour...
    PPo 8.254 16 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    PPo 8.257 13 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    Insp 8.276 23 ...says the man...the favorable hour will come when I can command all my powers...
    Insp 8.278 2 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Insp 8.284 25 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Insp 8.286 6 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./
    Insp 8.286 24 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day...
    Grts 8.300 2 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.320 25 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek, encouraged in every good hour that here or hereafter he shall be found.
    Imtl 8.327 2 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which...gave grandeur to the passing hour.
    Imtl 8.335 13 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour.
    Imtl 8.348 1 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable. We say we lived years in that hour.
    Imtl 8.348 14 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day; an hour hangs heavy on their hands;...
    Dem1 10.6 8 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour...
    Dem1 10.10 14 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;...
    Dem1 10.12 11 ...I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour.
    PerF 10.69 4 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour;...
    Chr2 10.94 12 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.98 15 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    Edc1 10.133 9 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour.
    Edc1 10.139 8 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    SovE 10.187 22 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing hour, the age of ages.
    Schr 10.268 11 Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the great opportunity.
    Schr 10.281 20 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    Plu 10.302 2 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
    LLNE 10.329 19 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone; another hour had struck and other forms arose.
    LLNE 10.331 27 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour.
    LLNE 10.344 18 [Theodore Parker] used every day and hour of his short life...
    LLNE 10.356 24 [Thoreau] lived extempore from hour to hour...
    CSC 10.374 25 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MMEm 10.424 14 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...
    MMEm 10.425 3 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    MMEm 10.432 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.460 26 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    Thor 10.466 13 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years, and at every hour of the day and night.
    Thor 10.477 9 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    GSt 10.503 18 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures needed for the hour.
    LS 11.9 6 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    HDC 11.36 24 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.74 4 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle... remembering their parent town in the hour of danger, arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HDC 11.76 10 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    HDC 11.82 9 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    LVB 11.91 24 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    EWI 11.115 6 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    EWI 11.127 2 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...
    War 11.169 27 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event. Nature and God will instruct him in that hour.
    FSLC 11.179 15 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, which...takes the sunshine out of every hour.
    FSLC 11.180 6 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.184 11 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
    FSLC 11.203 14 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...
    FSLN 11.226 1 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.227 20 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    FSLN 11.232 15 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    AKan 11.262 22 ...the hour is coming when the strongest will not be strong enough.
    TPar 11.290 26 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    ACiv 11.300 1 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
    ACiv 11.303 27 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    EPro 11.319 8 ...the hour will strike, and all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    ALin 11.329 18 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.333 16 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later...turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
    SMC 11.352 8 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they overlooked the moral law...
    SMC 11.352 26 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South;...
    SMC 11.354 16 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    EdAd 11.392 10 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    Wom 11.405 15 [Women] are the best index of the coming hour.
    Wom 11.424 20 ...whatever is popular...shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.
    RBur 11.439 6 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands, and at the latest hour too, to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    CPL 11.497 4 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...
    CPL 11.503 14 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
    CPL 11.505 6 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, never having had a chagrin which an hour of reading has not put to flight.
    FRep 11.532 9 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.
    PLT 12.6 2 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king which he does not deliver because the hour when he should say it is not yet arrived.
    PLT 12.32 17 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a pint in a quarter of an hour.
    PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    Mem 12.103 24 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not;...
    CL 12.152 9 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived...
    CW 12.176 21 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    Bost 12.209 26 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...she will furnish what is wanted in the hour of need;...
    Milt1 12.252 4 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing place in the mind of men at this hour than ever before.
    Milt1 12.253 14 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    ACri 12.288 27 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they...even overstayed the hour of the mathematical professor.
    MLit 12.334 1 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.
    WSL 12.343 10 Each kind of excellence takes place for its hour and excludes everything else.
    Pray 12.353 3 If there is no hour of solitude granted me, still I will commune with thee [My Father].
    PPr 12.383 12 ...the truth of the present hour...is unattainable.

hour-glass, n. (2)

    PC 8.212 25 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock, no more a measure of time than an hour-glass or an egg-glass...
    MAng1 12.221 1 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.

houris, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.346 16 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...casting sheep's-eyes even on Fourier and his houris.

Houris, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 5 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence; and should they then deny us Paradise, the Houris themselves would forsake that and come out to us.

hourly, adj. (2)

    YA 1.364 4 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... an hourly assimilation goes forward...
    PLT 12.43 3 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.

hourly, adv. (2)

    DSA 1.121 24 ...we read [these divine laws] hourly in each other's faces...
    Comp 2.109 9 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...

hours, n. (142)

    Nat 1.16 27 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness...
    Nat 1.18 23 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.34 4 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    Nat 1.53 11 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that heretic,/ That works on leases of short numbered hours/...
    AmS 1.96 4 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
    AmS 1.102 5 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...in all solemn hours, has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    DSA 1.139 8 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
    DSA 1.141 12 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers, as in the better hours...of all...
    DSA 1.146 26 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    LE 1.184 11 ...[the scholar] will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom out of what seemed hours of obstruction and loss.
    MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Con 1.314 22 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
    Hist 2.4 11 There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
    Hist 2.4 17 ...the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
    Hist 2.4 19 ...the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
    SR 2.64 11 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    SR 2.81 1 In manly hours we feel that duty is our place.
    Comp 2.93 24 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.120 8 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities...
    SL 2.129 3 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...
    SL 2.131 15 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    SL 2.131 17 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    Fdsp 2.192 25 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Fdsp 2.195 17 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours;...
    Fdsp 2.214 21 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...
    Prd1 2.225 25 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    Prd1 2.226 6 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.
    OS 2.289 15 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    OS 2.296 5 ...in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of [the saints' and demigods'] memory...
    Cir 2.311 3 In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque.
    Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards.
    Int 2.336 3 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Int 2.336 12 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired...
    Art1 2.358 15 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art;...
    Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Exp 3.47 17 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Exp 3.50 15 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.60 7 ...to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    Nat2 3.188 11 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.
    Nat2 3.195 5 After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours;...
    NR 3.231 14 [The day-laborer's] measures are the hours;...
    NER 3.272 10 ...we are all the children of genius, the children of virtue,-- and feel their inspirations in our happier hours.
    MoS 4.179 1 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    MoS 4.185 8 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    ShP 4.209 9 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers...which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours.
    NMW 4.230 27 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen hours...
    NMW 4.236 1 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready, by day and by night and at all hours, to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.251 27 [Bonaparte] had hours of thought and wisdom.
    GoW 4.281 3 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    GoW 4.290 14 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on men or hours.
    ET2 5.26 1 I am not a good traveller, nor have I found that long journeys yield a fair share of reasonable hours.
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h, 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET2 5.31 13 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET3 5.38 23 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET6 5.113 22 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London, and if any company is expected, one or two hours later.
    ET6 5.114 3 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET10 5.157 8 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET15 5.264 23 ...a daily paper can only be new and seasonable for a few hours.
    ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    F 6.10 9 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...
    Pow 6.79 11 Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of touch;...
    Pow 6.79 12 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Pow 6.82 8 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    Wth 6.92 2 ...wise men are not wise at all hours...
    Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    Bhr 6.171 19 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want...
    Wsp 6.201 22 We are of different opinions at different hours...
    Wsp 6.230 3 How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor in all passages of life and death!
    CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.
    CbW 6.278 6 The man,--it is his attitude...not on set days and public occasions, but at all hours...
    Ill 6.314 1 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours...
    Ill 6.315 22 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    Ill 6.323 10 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    SS 7.12 7 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
    Elo1 7.64 21 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in a pair of hours...the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.70 14 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
    DL 7.112 17 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... If the hours of meals are punctual, the apartments are slovenly.
    DL 7.116 22 Another age may...make the labors of a few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
    WD 7.169 4 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...
    WD 7.173 23 ...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?
    WD 7.181 8 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the delicious manoeuvre for hours.
    Boks 7.194 6 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.
    Boks 7.194 26 Dr. Johnson said...read anything five hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
    Boks 7.212 24 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
    Clbs 7.228 15 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    Clbs 7.249 8 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Cour 7.263 21 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    Suc 7.296 13 In good hours we do not find Shakspeare or Homer over-great...
    OA 7.330 23 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    PI 8.21 12 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
    Comc 8.172 12 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours.
    QO 8.177 16 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.196 27 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    Insp 8.284 2 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day, or, rather, in an interval of twelve hours.
    Insp 8.288 20 In the hotel, I have no hours to keep...
    Insp 8.291 13 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who, having received from the fairy an enchantment of six hours of growing strength every day, took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.291 14 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Imtl 8.328 25 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Dem1 10.4 12 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...
    Dem1 10.4 26 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...
    Dem1 10.5 25 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon.
    Aris 10.59 27 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself, and falls abroad with too much freedom. But in the hours of insight we rally against this skepticism.
    PerF 10.85 14 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation in the dark hours of private or public fortune.
    Edc1 10.152 17 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    Supl 10.172 11 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up, in shallow hours or ages, with legends, traditions and forms...
    Prch 10.219 7 It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
    Prch 10.219 10 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur. In those hours, we can find comfort in reverence of the highest power, and only in that.
    Schr 10.280 7 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    LLNE 10.335 7 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...
    LLNE 10.365 16 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.406 3 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she...resolved to have their best hours.
    MMEm 10.416 10 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    Thor 10.463 6 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready...for conversation prolonged into late hours.
    HDC 11.33 13 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
    EWI 11.111 7 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours...
    EWI 11.135 9 ...I do not wish to darken the hours of this day by crimination;...
    FSLC 11.189 5 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
    FSLN 11.218 8 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
    SMC 11.367 25 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving...
    SMC 11.368 2 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours...
    SMC 11.368 17 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    EdAd 11.388 18 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.
    Shak1 11.450 16 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
    Mem 12.104 7 In low or bad company you...recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    Mem 12.104 14 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
    Mem 12.108 26 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed, many hours or days.
    Mem 12.109 1 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.157 1 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.
    CL 12.163 1 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.
    MLit 12.324 24 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...
    Pray 12.350 18 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...
    Trag 12.405 8 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be a defensive war...
    Trag 12.405 23 ...in the serene hours we have no courage to spare.

hour's, n. [hours',] (3)

    Elo1 7.64 22 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Imtl 8.328 24 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    HDC 11.36 24 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.

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