Human to Hundredth

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

human, adj. (481)

    Nat 1.5 15 ...in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, [man's operations] do not vary the result.
    Nat 1.14 5 [The private poor man] goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;...
    Nat 1.14 6 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
    Nat 1.14 9 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.15 5 ...such [is] the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.19 25 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.28 3 ...marry [natural history] to human history, and it is full of life.
    Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.28 15 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul, who calls the human corpse a seed...
    Nat 1.29 4 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.32 27 ...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
    Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.43 18 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...
    Nat 1.45 10 [Words and actions] introduce us to the human form...
    Nat 1.47 10 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
    Nat 1.49 7 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.55 22 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    Nat 1.58 3 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    Nat 1.59 14 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life...
    Nat 1.63 10 Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular.
    Nat 1.65 3 [The world] is not, like [the body], now subjected to the human will.
    Nat 1.72 20 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the repairs of the human body by the dentist and surgeon.
    AmS 1.86 2 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects... have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
    AmS 1.86 4 The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.
    AmS 1.89 20 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...not as related to nature and the human constitution...
    AmS 1.92 18 ...the human body can be nourished on any food...
    AmS 1.92 21 ...the human mind can be fed by any knowledge.
    AmS 1.100 26 ...[the scholar]...cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    AmS 1.101 23 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    AmS 1.102 4 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    AmS 1.108 14 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    DSA 1.120 12 What am I? and What is? asks the human spirit...
    DSA 1.120 20 These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages.
    DSA 1.121 19 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
    DSA 1.133 20 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.133 26 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part of human life...
    LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
    LE 1.177 24 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    MN 1.195 15 The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.
    MN 1.207 19 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    MN 1.210 15 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    MN 1.219 20 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race...
    MR 1.227 14 ...some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us;...
    MR 1.232 17 ...the general system of our trade...is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature;
    MR 1.254 27 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.
    LT 1.263 6 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus, when I remember what I have experienced from the varied notes of the human voice.
    LT 1.281 24 Every Age, like every human body, has its own distemper.
    Con 1.295 21 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    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.
    Con 1.319 17 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Con 1.320 2 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.
    Tran 1.335 23 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...
    Tran 1.337 16 ...if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.343 17 ...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 1.343 23 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.344 15 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances, because of the extravagant demand they make on human nature.
    Tran 1.344 25 [Transcendentalists] make us feel the strange disappointment which overcasts every human youth.
    Tran 1.345 12 ...we, on this sea of human thought, in like manner inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    YA 1.365 23 ...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...
    YA 1.371 14 ...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.371 21 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    YA 1.374 8 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    YA 1.381 6 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
    YA 1.383 23 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    YA 1.392 6 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.
    Hist 2.3 16 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    Hist 2.4 7 This human mind wrote history, and this must read it.
    Hist 2.5 25 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    Hist 2.10 17 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    Hist 2.18 17 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
    Hist 2.24 9 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Hist 2.32 10 ...men and women are only half human.
    Hist 2.32 27 In splendid variety these changes come, all putting questions to the human spirit.
    Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Hist 2.36 9 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    Hist 2.37 15 Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?...
    SR 2.48 26 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    Comp 2.101 15 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life;...
    Comp 2.106 7 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting of fable...
    Comp 2.107 11 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...
    Comp 2.115 3 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    SL 2.156 1 Human character evermore publishes itself.
    SL 2.158 16 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings.
    SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear... the top and radiance of human life...
    Lov1 2.169 9 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life;...
    Lov1 2.169 18 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... gives permanence to human society.
    Lov1 2.178 7 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Lov1 2.183 15 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature...
    Lov1 2.186 20 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    Fdsp 2.191 4 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Fdsp 2.191 12 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Fdsp 2.199 3 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
    Prd1 2.230 24 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    Prd1 2.235 22 How much of human life is lost in waiting!...
    Prd1 2.236 5 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Prd1 2.236 12 Human nature loves no contradictions, but is symmetrical.
    Prd1 2.237 1 Every violation of truth...is a stab at the health of human society.
    Hsm1 2.249 14 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Hsm1 2.249 15 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Hsm1 2.254 8 These [magnanimous] men fan the flame of human love...
    Hsm1 2.256 24 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    Hsm1 2.262 12 Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs...
    OS 2.267 13 We grant that human life is mean...
    OS 2.296 25 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards...
    Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Cir 2.301 24 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Cir 2.310 12 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Cir 2.319 25 This old age ought not to creep on a human mind.
    Int 2.327 1 Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy.
    Int 2.337 5 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Int 2.347 2 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
    Art1 2.349 28 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    Art1 2.353 18 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.
    Art1 2.353 22 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols] denote the height of the human soul in that hour...
    Art1 2.356 9 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last...the opulence of human nature...
    Art1 2.358 19 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of human character...
    Art1 2.365 9 The sweetest music is...in the human voice...
    Pt1 3.26 24 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors...
    Pt1 3.39 5 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as, the painter and sculptor before some impressive human figures;...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.51 3 Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
    Exp 3.63 6 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of...the sculpture of the human body never absent.
    Exp 3.65 23 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.70 5 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    Exp 3.77 21 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...
    Mrs1 3.119 4 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    Mrs1 3.121 25 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Nat2 3.171 15 Cities give not the human senses room enough.
    Nat2 3.178 7 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    Pol1 3.211 3 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...
    Pol1 3.212 15 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    Pol1 3.214 23 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    Pol1 3.221 9 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    Pol1 3.221 25 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.229 2 Human life and its persons are poor empirical pretensions.
    NR 3.234 7 Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.
    NER 3.260 13 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
    NER 3.264 27 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    NER 3.268 1 The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
    NER 3.272 7 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done; all which human hands have ever done.
    UGM 4.4 23 Our colossal theologies of Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    UGM 4.5 3 Our theism is the purification of the human mind.
    UGM 4.8 24 ...each man converts some raw material in nature to human use.
    UGM 4.9 23 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer.
    UGM 4.9 25 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer. Each must be disenchanted and walk forth to the day in human shape.
    UGM 4.16 6 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    UGM 4.22 8 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.23 2 ...I like...Scourges of God, and Darlings of the human race.
    UGM 4.27 16 ...it is human nature's indispensable defence. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite...
    UGM 4.35 4 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    PPh 4.47 24 Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
    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 4.62 6 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 4.63 12 The soul which has never perceived the truth, cannot pass into the human form [said Plato].
    PPh 4.68 4 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...
    PPh 4.78 20 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    PPh 4.78 22 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    PNR 4.80 15 The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear.
    PNR 4.83 11 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac;...
    PNR 4.87 1 ...[to Plato] there is nothing casual in the action of the human mind.
    SwM 4.94 7 The human mind stands ever in perplexity...
    SwM 4.102 22 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain... quasi omnipresence of the human soul in nature, is possible.
    SwM 4.104 25 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
    SwM 4.106 1 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
    SwM 4.106 21 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was strictly universal...
    SwM 4.110 6 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...
    SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.121 1 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature is not human and universal...
    SwM 4.126 20 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
    SwM 4.133 27 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
    SwM 4.140 26 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    SwM 4.141 20 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    MoS 4.149 16 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
    MoS 4.154 21 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.156 7 [The skeptic says] I know that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
    MoS 4.161 2 Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human nature.
    MoS 4.161 16 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...
    MoS 4.165 27 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    MoS 4.170 6 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    ShP 4.191 1 The human race has gone out before [the great man]...
    ShP 4.202 21 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    ShP 4.202 24 Bacon, who took the inventory of the human understanding for his times, never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
    ShP 4.211 18 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind...
    ShP 4.216 13 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?
    ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    ShP 4.218 17 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    NMW 4.246 1 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    GoW 4.277 2 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought...
    GoW 4.279 7 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
    ET1 5.18 21 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings.
    ET1 5.21 12 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary...to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
    ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength...
    ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...discolor the human saliva...
    ET4 5.50 6 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form...
    ET5 5.99 1 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.220 8 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human spirit...
    ET14 5.232 11 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...coarsely true to the human body...
    ET17 5.298 4 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
    ET18 5.301 16 [The English] have...put an end to human sacrifices in the East.
    F 6.4 24 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    F 6.33 17 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    F 6.45 8 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...
    F 6.47 6 One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition... exists;...
    Pow 6.53 4 Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Pow 6.53 6 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions...lead the activity of the human race.
    Pow 6.75 3 Concentration is the secret of strength...in all management of human affairs.
    Pow 6.77 12 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill.
    Wth 6.90 3 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
    Wth 6.92 10 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Ctr 6.139 27 ...in all human action those faculties will be strong which are used.
    Ctr 6.141 20 Books, as containing the finest records of human wit, must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Ctr 6.148 3 ...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 6.161 16 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Ctr 6.166 15 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.177 1 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    Bhr 6.178 5 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Wsp 6.199 23 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
    Wsp 6.210 19 Another scar of this skepticism is the distrust in human virtue.
    Wsp 6.214 15 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.216 14 ...when poems were made,--the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.219 11 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Wsp 6.221 6 ...in the human mind, this tie of fate is made alive.
    Wsp 6.221 8 The law is the basis of the human mind.
    Wsp 6.225 19 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.231 23 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    CbW 6.259 13 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which sets our human atoms spinning...
    CbW 6.260 11 Human nature is prone to indulgence...
    CbW 6.261 27 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    Bty 6.282 19 All our science lacks a human side.
    Bty 6.282 24 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...
    Bty 6.287 11 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form...
    Bty 6.290 5 Elegance of form in bird or beast, or in the human figure, marks some excellence of structure...
    Bty 6.295 16 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Bty 6.296 5 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Bty 6.301 1 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    Bty 6.302 17 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Bty 6.306 15 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...features of the human face and form...
    Ill 6.319 10 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself.
    Ill 6.321 23 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes.
    SS 7.7 13 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Art2 7.37 15 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Art2 7.40 22 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature; all human acts are satellites to her orb.
    Art2 7.41 7 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    Art2 7.45 2 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.47 5 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
    Art2 7.47 20 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Elo1 7.63 9 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.86 20 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... a piece of the well-known human life,--that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.88 23 [Lord Mansfield's sentences] come from and they go to the sound human understanding;...
    Elo1 7.90 3 ...nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    Elo1 7.91 22 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    Elo1 7.98 12 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    DL 7.117 14 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    WD 7.157 5 The human body is the magazine of inventions...
    WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate.
    WD 7.158 11 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
    WD 7.159 27 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...
    WD 7.162 24 Malthus...forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    WD 7.165 6 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    WD 7.172 22 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    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. Well, human life is made up of such transits.
    Boks 7.193 14 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Boks 7.194 17 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    Boks 7.204 3 What is really best in any book is translatable,--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Suc 7.286 19 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for,--each one as it is a new direction of human power.
    Suc 7.295 22 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race.
    Suc 7.298 7 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?
    Suc 7.302 15 This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a compliment to the human race...
    OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...
    PI 8.1 17 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.3 3 [The perception of matter] was the cradle, this the go-cart, of the human child.
    PI 8.9 18 The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life.
    PI 8.19 14 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times, and quite too refined? On the contrary, it is as old as the human mind.
    PI 8.20 5 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.22 10 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind...
    PI 8.23 13 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature, by giving it a human volition.
    PI 8.30 27 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is...
    PI 8.39 20 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also...
    PI 8.41 2 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the human cheek, the living rock...were painted.
    PI 8.46 23 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse...
    PI 8.47 7 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    SA 8.87 11 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    SA 8.94 12 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools...
    SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    SA 8.100 8 It is the sense of every human being that man should have this dominion of Nature...
    SA 8.101 1 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class...
    Elo2 8.115 22 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is superfluous.
    Comc 8.159 9 ...the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
    Comc 8.167 10 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.
    QO 8.180 12 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow are the limits of human invention.
    QO 8.186 19 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
    QO 8.199 24 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    PC 8.211 25 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind...
    PC 8.221 12 [The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind...
    PC 8.222 5 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the auguries or divinations of the human mind.
    Insp 8.270 23 The Hunterian law of arrested development...reaches the human intellect also.
    Insp 8.291 1 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds...used to say the human face was his landscape.
    Insp 8.294 7 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart the whole realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Insp 8.297 12 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.
    Grts 8.301 4 Every human being has a right to [greatness]...
    Imtl 8.321 4 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/...
    Imtl 8.333 7 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
    Imtl 8.349 8 The human mind takes no account of geography...
    Dem1 10.17 15 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not human, since it had no understanding;...
    Aris 10.31 4 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is an interest of the human race...
    Aris 10.33 7 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    Aris 10.52 16 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are human beings.
    Aris 10.62 7 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    PerF 10.72 16 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    PerF 10.75 1 We are surrounded by human thought and labor.
    PerF 10.78 25 I delight in tracing these wonderful [mental] powers, the electricity and gravity of the human world.
    Chr2 10.104 13 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome, the human sacrifice of the Druids...are examples of this perversion.
    Chr2 10.115 10 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...
    Chr2 10.116 8 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Edc1 10.125 3 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.128 13 The household is a school of power. Here, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
    Edc1 10.148 4 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    Edc1 10.151 1 What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human race?
    Supl 10.172 24 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    Supl 10.173 8 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    SovE 10.181 1 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
    SovE 10.191 7 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    SovE 10.192 12 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art. But it ought to come; it belongs to the human intellect...
    SovE 10.192 14 The idea of right exists in the human mind...
    SovE 10.193 25 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...
    SovE 10.200 12 Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
    SovE 10.201 26 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.
    SovE 10.202 27 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!
    SovE 10.207 12 The human mind, when it is trusted, is never false to itself.
    Prch 10.217 8 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human nature...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.224 11 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...
    Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...
    Prch 10.237 3 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination,-the cardinal human power...
    MoL 10.244 1 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.251 3 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    MoL 10.255 8 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart, the wide realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Schr 10.270 10 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.279 20 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    Schr 10.282 27 I wish to see a revival of the human mind...
    Plu 10.300 15 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
    Plu 10.311 14 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things;...
    Plu 10.313 20 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    Plu 10.314 14 ...Plutarch always addresses the question [of immortality] on the human side...
    LLNE 10.328 24 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
    LLNE 10.337 24 [Mesmerism] was human, it was genial...
    LLNE 10.350 14 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture...
    LLNE 10.354 15 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    MMEm 10.397 13 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    MMEm 10.407 27 [Mary Moody Emerson] could keep step with no human being.
    MMEm 10.408 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy, divine or human...
    MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart...
    MMEm 10.430 11 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    MMEm 10.431 22 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson] trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events from the pressure of wants.
    Thor 10.475 25 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    Thor 10.479 3 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    Carl 10.493 1 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    LS 11.18 3 ...I believe the human mind can admit but one God...
    HDC 11.42 18 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.77 3 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...for the esteem and gratitude of the human race.
    HDC 11.86 8 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    LVB 11.88 2 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...
    LVB 11.93 23 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    LVB 11.94 11 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.
    EWI 11.103 23 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen...
    EWI 11.118 14 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.
    EWI 11.127 18 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    EWI 11.139 8 The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
    EWI 11.140 11 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro. A man is added to the human family.
    EWI 11.141 17 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    EWI 11.146 23 ...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;...
    EWI 11.147 11 Seen in masses, it cannot be disputed, there is progress in human society.
    War 11.151 2 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    War 11.156 13 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    War 11.160 2 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    War 11.160 22 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul...
    War 11.169 17 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race...
    War 11.170 2 The question naturally arises, How is this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real?
    War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    War 11.175 10 ...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.
    FSLC 11.189 17 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
    FSLC 11.191 1 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.
    FSLC 11.191 2 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.191 5 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.210 15 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    AsSu 11.250 21 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being were not an abolitionist...
    AKan 11.256 24 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to...enable them to stand against these enemies of the human race.
    AKan 11.260 22 It must happen, in the variety of human opinions, that there are dissenters.
    TPar 11.292 16 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...
    ACiv 11.298 7 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise, the constitution of human nature, and calls labor vile...
    ACiv 11.299 26 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
    ACiv 11.307 27 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    ACiv 11.308 3 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...
    EPro 11.315 10 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...
    EPro 11.316 19 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EPro 11.325 9 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race...
    ALin 11.328 15 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    EdAd 11.382 2 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    EdAd 11.392 5 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Wom 11.422 6 Human society is made up of partialities.
    Shak1 11.449 9 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which...in sterile periods, keeps up the credit of the human mind.
    Humb 11.457 5 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possibilities of the human mind...
    FRO2 11.486 19 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    FRep 11.516 10 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the human individual.
    FRep 11.517 22 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    FRep 11.521 23 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
    FRep 11.526 7 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...
    FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
    FRep 11.540 5 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    PLT 12.3 5 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.4 21 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.15 18 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front.
    PLT 12.16 24 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence?
    PLT 12.26 4 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...
    PLT 12.27 14 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics, strict as any department of human duty...
    PLT 12.34 16 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night. Yet a spark at which all the illuminations of human arts and sciences were kindled.
    PLT 12.35 12 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    PLT 12.35 20 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    PLT 12.36 23 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature...
    PLT 12.45 14 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the human race.
    PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human life.
    PLT 12.59 27 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
    PLT 12.62 21 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    II 12.65 19 Consciousness is...the taper at which all the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.
    II 12.68 18 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    II 12.70 8 The human faculty only warrants inceptions.
    Mem 12.91 10 Memory...gives continuity and dignity to human life.
    CL 12.143 1 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.161 2 ...in all works of human art there is deduction to be made for blunder and falsehood.
    Bost 12.196 17 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.200 1 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode...
    MAng1 12.215 9 ...so true was [Michelangelo] to the laws of the human mind, that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.215 12 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.215 16 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
    MAng1 12.216 19 It is a happiness to find, amid the falsehood and griefs of the human race, a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    MAng1 12.217 13 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    MAng1 12.217 16 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human being.
    MAng1 12.220 2 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.
    MAng1 12.221 21 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MAng1 12.221 27 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MAng1 12.222 4 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the Deity the human form.
    MAng1 12.222 7 ...no degrading views of human nature...can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.222 12 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.222 16 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MAng1 12.222 25 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    MAng1 12.243 3 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    MAng1 12.244 20 [Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country; he belonged to the human race;...
    Milt1 12.254 11 [Milton] is identified in the mind...with the supreme interests of the human race.
    Milt1 12.254 22 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.
    Milt1 12.266 23 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    Milt1 12.272 13 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
    Milt1 12.278 23 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.
    MLit 12.312 2 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.317 16 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.
    MLit 12.321 9 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself.
    MLit 12.332 14 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.
    MLit 12.334 14 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
    WSL 12.341 16 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    WSL 12.348 8 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.351 2 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.
    EurB 12.370 12 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
    EurB 12.373 24 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...
    PPr 12.382 6 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
    PPr 12.382 25 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race...
    Trag 12.406 21 What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?
    Trag 12.408 19 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...
    Trag 12.412 11 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...
    Trag 12.412 15 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering. This was true to human nature.
    Trag 12.414 11 Particular reliefs...fit themselves to human calamities;...
    Trag 12.415 3 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...

Human, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 9 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.

human, n. (2)

    MN 1.209 10 ...the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine.
    Supl 10.171 21 Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

humane, adj. (23)

    MR 1.245 20 Economy is a high, humane office...when its aim is grand;...
    YA 1.371 11 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
    YA 1.390 1 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    NER 3.270 1 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth...
    ET18 5.307 15 The American system is more democratic [than the English], more humane;...
    Ctr 6.157 9 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may appear.
    Bty 6.304 2 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    OA 7.327 15 ...[man] has...aesthetic wants, domestic, civil, humane wants.
    Dem1 10.21 24 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane;...
    Chr2 10.105 17 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.
    Plu 10.311 17 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...is less interesting, because less humane;...
    SlHr 10.437 7 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star...
    LVB 11.90 19 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    LVB 11.95 21 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.105 6 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
    EWI 11.140 26 ...a more enlightened and humane opinion [of the negro] began to prevail.
    War 11.154 3 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...
    FSLC 11.184 23 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    ALin 11.334 1 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    FRep 11.538 20 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.540 11 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    Milt1 12.269 22 [Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
    PPr 12.385 11 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea of poetic and humane conservatism...

humanely, adv. (1)

    ET8 5.141 12 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France, of Turkey...

humanities, n. (6)

    Tran 1.341 13 What [many intelligent and religious persons] do is done only because they are overpowered by the humanities that speak on all sides;...
    SwM 4.135 14 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment, which carries innumerable christianities, humanities, divinities, in its bosom.
    ShP 4.209 18 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    ET12 5.206 27 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton]...is critically learned in all the humanities.
    Grts 8.302 16 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These we call by distinction the humanities;...
    Bost 12.186 14 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.

humanity, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.157 25 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...
    Ctr 6.158 4 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.

humanity, n. (137)

    Nat 1.23 16 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Nat 1.52 10 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity...
    Nat 1.63 11 Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular.
    Nat 1.68 5 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    DSA 1.128 13 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words, which have been the consolation of humanity, you need not that I should speak.
    LT 1.288 19 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    Tran 1.348 10 The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.
    YA 1.387 22 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity...
    Hist 2.37 3 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For what you see is but the smallest part/ And least proportion of humanity;/...
    SR 2.60 17 I will stand here for humanity...
    SR 2.75 1 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    Lov1 2.185 17 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers].
    Fdsp 2.192 17 [The commended stranger] stands to us for humanity.
    Hsm1 2.246 9 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.263 25 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of humanity not yet subjugated in him?
    OS 2.277 23 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.288 20 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    OS 2.288 23 Humanity shines in Homer...
    OS 2.292 5 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of plain humanity...
    Exp 3.76 21 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Mrs1 3.154 15 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    NR 3.239 20 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
    UGM 4.11 9 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
    UGM 4.32 20 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals.
    UGM 4.33 25 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history.
    PPh 4.41 6 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
    PPh 4.58 10 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him tender for the superstitions of the people.
    SwM 4.142 24 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
    ShP 4.212 16 An omnipresent humanity co-ordinates all [Shakespeare's] faculties.
    ShP 4.216 23 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    ShP 4.218 20 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    GoW 4.274 25 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    ET4 5.66 23 When it is considered what humanity...the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET4 5.67 1 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity...
    ET8 5.134 16 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET8 5.136 22 This [English] race has added new elements to humanity and has a deeper root in the world.
    ET13 5.225 4 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.
    ET13 5.229 14 Dickens writes novels on Exeter-Hall humanity.
    ET14 5.253 11 ...English science puts humanity to the door.
    ET15 5.271 18 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET15 5.272 13 If only [the London Times] dared to...feed its batteries from the central heart of humanity...
    Pow 6.71 9 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    Wth 6.91 13 ...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; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Ctr 6.161 18 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    Ctr 6.164 1 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Bhr 6.197 7 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    CbW 6.260 23 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    Civ 7.23 27 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Art2 7.50 25 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber. The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.
    Boks 7.198 26 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato].
    Cour 7.275 14 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    Cour 7.276 6 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...men in whom every ray of humanity was extinguished...
    Suc 7.308 4 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
    Res 8.139 23 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    QO 8.193 14 We admire that poetry which no man wrote,-no poet less than the genius of humanity itself...
    PC 8.208 20 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PC 8.230 20 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the workman and to his child;...
    PC 8.234 13 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    Grts 8.315 23 [Diderot's] humanity knew no bounds.
    Grts 8.319 7 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism...which makes [the scholar] require geniality and humanity in his heroes.
    Grts 8.320 14 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    Dem1 10.13 16 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy.
    Dem1 10.13 21 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Aris 10.63 7 The man of honor is a man of taste and humanity.
    Aris 10.64 6 You must, for wisdom, for sanity, have some access to the mind and heart of the common humanity.
    Chr2 10.107 11 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
    Chr2 10.115 2 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    SovE 10.191 4 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle...
    SovE 10.209 25 Here is now a new feeling of humanity infused into public action.
    Prch 10.223 12 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
    MoL 10.245 23 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    Plu 10.298 23 The reason of Plutarch's vast popularity is his humanity.
    Plu 10.310 17 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
    Plu 10.311 3 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    Plu 10.312 15 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue, with a certain impassibility beyond humanity.
    Plu 10.313 15 [Plutarch's] faith in the immortality of the soul is another measure of his deep humanity.
    Plu 10.316 11 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb...
    Plu 10.319 12 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    LLNE 10.339 2 ...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.
    LLNE 10.344 11 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    LLNE 10.369 10 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the beauty of a life of humanity.
    MMEm 10.399 14 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    HDC 11.37 6 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    HDC 11.50 3 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    HDC 11.62 4 For [the Indians] the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone.
    EWI 11.99 16 I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.100 22 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.
    EWI 11.137 21 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion...
    EWI 11.144 12 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
    FSLC 11.185 5 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...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLN 11.226 4 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.237 20 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties; his integrity, his humanity is flowing away from him.
    TPar 11.286 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] information would have been excessive, but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity.
    TPar 11.287 27 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    TPar 11.288 24 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who threw himself into the cause of humanity...
    ALin 11.332 17 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    ALin 11.335 12 There, by...his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, [Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    HCom 11.343 5 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    EdAd 11.387 8 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
    EdAd 11.389 5 We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and humanity are to be spoken for.
    EdAd 11.392 4 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Wom 11.407 4 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail...
    RBur 11.442 10 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    Shak1 11.451 20 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that...speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.
    Shak1 11.453 2 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent...
    Scot 11.465 22 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor escaped its harm.
    Scot 11.466 2 ...Scott's eminent humanity delighted in the sense and virtue and wit of the common people.
    ChiE 11.474 22 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.
    FRO2 11.489 8 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
    FRO2 11.489 13 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man...
    FRep 11.515 21 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity...is the planting of America.
    FRep 11.519 19 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
    FRep 11.529 19 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,-at the want of humanity, of morality...
    FRep 11.540 1 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    FRep 11.541 6 Humanity asks that government shall not be ashamed to be tender and paternal...
    PLT 12.28 11 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.
    PLT 12.37 4 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition, requires all that is called humanity;...
    PLT 12.63 14 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
    II 12.87 22 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word. Morals and the genius of humanity will also.
    CInt 12.113 6 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity.
    CL 12.156 27 I think 't is the best of humanity that goes out to walk.
    Bost 12.188 16 [Boston] is...a seat of humanity...
    Bost 12.203 20 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...
    MAng1 12.238 27 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity.
    Milt1 12.255 23 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
    Milt1 12.262 18 ...in [Milton] humanity rights itself;...
    Milt1 12.269 20 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle; the side of humanity, but unlearned and unadorned.
    Milt1 12.269 24 The humanity which warms [Milton's] pages begins, as it should, at home.
    Milt1 12.274 21 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
    ACri 12.303 18 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...
    MLit 12.321 16 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    MLit 12.324 2 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    MLit 12.329 24 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.
    MLit 12.332 20 Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the road...
    PPr 12.387 17 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects;...
    PPr 12.388 4 This book [Carlyle's Past and Present] is full of humanity...

Humanity, n. (1)

    PI 8.66 6 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...

Humanity's, n. (1)

    HCom 11.345 1 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you,-you... Liberty's and Humanity's bodyguard!

humanize, v. (1)

    PLT 12.13 21 I want...the man who can humanize this [metaphysical] logic, these syllogisms, and give me the results.

humanized, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 18 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...

humanized, v. (1)

    UGM 4.10 20 Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized.

humanizes, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.240 2 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.

humanizing, v. (1)

    ET13 5.217 19 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...

humanly, adv. (1)

    Edc1 10.126 3 Humanly speaking, the school, the college, society, make the difference between men.

humble, adj. (44)

    LE 1.181 11 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    YA 1.387 15 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion, and the remembrance of the humble old friend...
    Hist 2.39 12 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
    Hsm1. 2.252 27 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense. Indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with greatness.
    Exp 3.61 1 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious, as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Pol1 3.208 14 Parties...have better guides to their own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
    NER 3.264 18 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
    PPh 4.70 27 Socrates, a man of humble stem, but honest enough;...
    NMW 4.239 12 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    ET6 5.110 11 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET13 5.217 19 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    Bhr 6.185 3 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard. The youth looks humble and manly; I choose him.
    Bhr 6.192 2 The boy [in earlier novels] was to be raised from a humble to a high position.
    Bty 6.283 21 ...we prize very humble utilities...
    Elo1 7.66 27 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...
    Elo1 7.79 24 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    DL 7.119 22 There is many a humble house in every city...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.126 4 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    SA 8.81 27 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. Are they humble? he is composed.
    Imtl 8.330 8 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I avow that I am not so humble as the atheist; I know not how they think, but for me, I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Aris 10.51 18 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...
    Chr2 10.104 19 Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble and gross minds...
    Chr2 10.108 23 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    SovE 10.184 11 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...
    Prch 10.228 3 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested...
    EzRy 10.379 5 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./
    EzRy 10.393 11 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all, even the most humble and ignorant.
    MMEm 10.399 22 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
    MMEm 10.429 15 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him.
    HDC 11.38 27 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    HDC 11.85 19 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    EWI 11.120 24 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    FSLN 11.218 18 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    Scot 11.466 5 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...
    FRO2 11.487 26 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...only humble and docile before the source of the wisdom he has discovered within him.
    FRO2 11.490 23 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    CPL 11.505 14 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    PLT 12.33 22 Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble service;...
    PLT 12.63 13 [Socrates] was sincerely humble...
    CL 12.167 7 ...as soon as man...knows that Nature and he are from one source, and that he, when humble and obedient, is nearer to the source... then Nature has a lord.
    Bost 12.194 15 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?
    MAng1 12.237 4 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    MLit 12.309 9 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune...of these humble Junes and Decembers of mortal life.

Humble, Lay of the [R. M. (1)

    Ctr 6.151 24 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble...

humble, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 26 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...

humble, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 2 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.

humbles, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.153 14 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.
    MMEm 10.417 20 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.

humblest, adj. (9)

    Cir 2.315 20 ...your bravest sentiment is familiar to the humblest men.
    Bhr 6.189 27 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    PC 8.223 26 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds...the humblest lot exalted.
    LLNE 10.344 12 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    FSLC 11.198 2 ...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, nor could they enter our humblest doors.
    FSLN 11.221 8 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    FRep 11.529 11 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
    WSL 12.341 23 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.

humblest, n. (3)

    LE 1.161 18 The humblest...may now theorize and hope.
    Grts 8.318 25 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...
    FRep 11.516 23 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...

humbling, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance.

humbly, adv. (4)

    SR 2.73 20 I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly.
    Hsm1 2.255 1 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    FSLC 11.192 11 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    FRO1 11.477 6 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...where I should happily and humbly learn my lesson;...

Humboldt, Alexander von, n. (10)

    SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests, as Aristotle... Humboldt, that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
    ET4 5.44 16 Blumenbach reckons five races; Humboldt three;...
    WD 7.172 8 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    OA 7.323 5 We still feel the force...of Humboldt, the encyclopaedia of science.
    Edc1 10.131 1 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt?
    HDC 11.51 6 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.
    EdAd 11.391 14 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].
    Humb 11.456 7 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity. Humboldt, Letter to Ritter.
    Humb 11.457 1 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world, like Aristotle...
    Humb 11.457 17 The wonderful Humboldt...marches like an army...

Humboldt's, Alexander von, n (2)

    Wth 6.94 25 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Humb 11.457 11 ...Humboldt's [natural powers] were all united...

humbug, n. (4)

    MoS 4.154 24 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.
    ET7 5.122 10 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug.
    Carl 10.496 2 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
    ACri 12.302 17 [Channing] thinks Egypt a humbug...

Hume, David, n. (5)

    Int 2.344 26 The Bacon...the Hume...is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Boks 7.206 26 Hume will serve [the scholar] for an intelligent guide...
    MoL 10.251 19 Learn of...David Hume, that it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    Plu 10.307 8 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles; as do Plutarch, Montaigne, Hume and Goethe.
    Milt1 12.255 12 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.

Hume's, David, n. (3)

    ET14 5.244 25 Hume's abstractions are not deep or wise.
    WD 7.173 5 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...
    Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.

humiliating, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.196 27 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.

humiliation, n. (6)

    Gts 3.164 19 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Pol1 3.218 9 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    NER 3.276 2 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification...
    UGM 4.29 17 Serve the great. Stick at no humiliation.
    PC 8.226 23 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man;...
    HDC 11.58 4 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.

humiliations, n. (2)

    Exp 3.76 10 The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
    CbW 6.260 21 By humiliations...learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.

humility, n. (38)

    Nat 1.66 18 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at...by entire humility.
    DSA 1.122 23 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility.
    LE 1.159 19 A false humility...must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    LT 1.280 25 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility feels his superiority...but he makes you feel it too.
    LT 1.290 2 ...I read [the Moral Sentiment] in the pride and in the humility of people;...
    Prd1 2.240 24 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    OS 2.275 25 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    OS 2.284 7 ...in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance.
    OS 2.295 7 When I rest in perfect humility...what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Wth 6.113 26 ...next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband.
    Wsp 6.228 20 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer: here is no miracle, for here is no humility.
    Wsp 6.231 24 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    Wsp 6.233 24 [The faithful student] learns the greatness of humility.
    Ill 6.321 12 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    DL 7.122 7 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything, yet such an excessive humility...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    DL 7.123 25 [Every man] observes...the humility of the expectations of the greatest part of men.
    WD 7.176 15 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all...
    Suc 7.308 11 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...one feats, the other humility;...
    SA 8.81 20 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility...
    Grts 8.313 9 Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
    Grts 8.313 17 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Chr2 10.93 5 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
    Chr2 10.113 25 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Chr2 10.122 10 [Character] extols humility...
    SovE 10.185 25 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./ Humility is the avenue.
    SovE 10.208 5 ...by humility we rise...
    Prch 10.229 7 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred, and not justice and humility...
    LLNE 10.336 27 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    MMEm 10.404 26 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    SlHr 10.441 3 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    LS 11.12 4 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons...(2) because it was typical, and all understood that humility is the thing signified.
    ACiv 11.297 5 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service, the greatest spirit only attaining to humility.
    Wom 11.413 4 ...the omnipotence of Eve is in humility.
    Wom 11.413 10 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility.
    Wom 11.413 19 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./
    Milt1 12.266 11 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and...laying its chief stress on humility.
    Milt1 12.266 14 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.267 7 ...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.

humming, n. (3)

    MN 1.210 6 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice...at last is but a humming in his ears.
    Thor 10.474 19 ...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the telegraph-wire.
    EWI 11.118 22 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...

humming, v. (1)

    ACri 12.299 2 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling...

hummock, n. (2)

    Farm 7.136 4 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    ACri 12.299 6 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...

humor, n. (46)

    MR 1.239 11 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.285 5 ...have a little patience with this melancholy humor.
    Hist 2.33 21 Much revolving [his figures Goethe] writes out freely his humor...
    Chr1 3.93 11 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor...
    PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...
    SwM 4.109 22 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    SwM 4.138 25 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    SwM 4.144 7 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no humor...
    NMW 4.255 26 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
    ET1 5.15 15 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon.
    ET6 5.114 12 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits...of miscellaneous humor;...
    ET8 5.129 11 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg...that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET15 5.271 16 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    Pow 6.56 2 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.
    Wth 6.92 3 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ctr 6.140 12 There are people who can never understand...any humor;...
    Bhr 6.193 22 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated...
    Bty 6.284 21 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.
    Elo1 7.90 24 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    WD 7.168 21 We wear [a holiday's] cockade and favors in our humor.
    Clbs 7.233 23 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    Clbs 7.248 1 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. All are in good humor and at leisure...
    Suc 7.289 19 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    PI 8.9 16 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    PI 8.44 11 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    Res 8.148 11 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
    Comc 8.158 23 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Comc 8.165 6 Captain John Smith...was not wanting in humor.
    QO 8.183 6 What [a great man] quotes, he fills with his own voice and humor...
    Dem1 10.27 3 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where everybody believes only after his humor...
    Edc1 10.140 21 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric, should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.155 1 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Supl 10.171 27 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish...to check the invention of wit or the sally of humor.
    Plu 10.321 21 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    Plu 10.322 1 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    EzRy 10.386 21 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor...
    Carl 10.495 16 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution than his humor...
    EWI 11.111 10 [The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at the humor of the master...
    EWI 11.117 25 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this assembly.
    EWI 11.119 24 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies], and in ill humor at these acts, the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    ALin 11.332 24 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    Scot 11.467 12 What an ornament and safeguard is humor!
    II 12.82 2 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...an eye for Nature, good humor, vast curiosity...
    ACri 12.289 24 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    ACri 12.303 3 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.

humor, v. (5)

    Exp 3.55 15 We house with the insane, and must humor them;...
    ET9 5.149 1 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means...
    Ctr 6.133 20 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it...
    PLT 12.50 27 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it...
    II 12.75 5 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...

humored, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.203 25 Almost every man we meet...requires to be humored;...
    Elo1 7.65 18 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...

humorem, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 24 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/ Ignibus ex igneis, humorem humoribus esse./

humoribus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 24 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/ Ignibus ex igneis, humorem humoribus esse./

humorist, n. (6)

    PPh 4.74 8 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    MoS 4.165 2 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
    Ill 6.314 24 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    SS 7.3 1 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
    PPr 12.386 10 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...under the refraction of this wonderful humorist;...
    PPr 12.389 11 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.

humorists, n. (3)

    ET9 5.144 1 The English are a nation of humorists.
    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...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    Ctr 6.152 10 ...in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction, and you find humorists.

humorist's, n. (1)

    PLT 12.54 9 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view...

humorous, adj. (4)

    Pow 6.78 21 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Elo1 7.68 22 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river,--so unconsidered, so humorous...
    OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
    Bost 12.199 14 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.

humorously, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.167 4 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.

humors, n. (10)

    Exp 3.81 6 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things...saturated with our humors.
    ET8 5.132 8 The young [English] men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors.
    Clbs 7.224 4 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Clbs 7.229 17 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain: thoughts, fancies, humors flow;...
    Dem1 10.24 21 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    Schr 10.271 2 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    EWI 11.103 7 For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
    Mem 12.107 6 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.
    MLit 12.330 6 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
    PPr 12.385 27 [Carlyle's] humors are expressed with so much force of constitution that his fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.

humors, v. (1)

    Carl 10.494 19 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor. He humors this into the idolatry of strength.

Hump, Camel's, Vermont, n. (1)

    Supl 10.170 8 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits, as... Camel's Hump...mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

hump, n. (2)

    F 6.45 10 ...a hump in the shoulder will appear in the speech and handiwork.
    F 6.45 12 If [a man's] mind could be seen, the hump would be seen.

hump-back, n. (1)

    Bty 6.292 14 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature,--a long nose, a sharp chin, a hump-back,--is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.

Humphrey, Duke [Shakespeare (1)

    ET11 5.189 21 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.

humps, n. (3)

    Mem 12.94 22 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation; as the starved camel in the desert lives on his humps.
    ACri 12.288 16 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...
    ACri 12.295 20 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps...

hums, v. (2)

    Hist 2.15 24 [Nature] hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ill 6.310 6 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...

hundred, adj. (315)

    Nat 1.20 18 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.67 1 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.
    Nat 1.76 13 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a hundred acres of ploughed land...
    AmS 1.91 8 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
    DSA 1.140 10 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a thousand miles...
    DSA 1.140 13 ...[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...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to escape.
    MR 1.229 15 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    MR 1.244 3 We spend our incomes...for a hundred trifles...and not for the things of a man.
    Con 1.300 6 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    YA 1.386 6 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    Hist 2.4 15 ...the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant...
    SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
    SR 2.76 16 [A sturdy lad from Vermont] has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
    Comp 2.112 19 Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none?
    Fdsp 2.200 10 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./
    Fdsp 2.203 4 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds.
    Hsm1 2.253 21 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    Int 2.334 22 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Exp 3.63 8 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    Exp 3.85 18 It takes a good deal of time...to earn a hundred dollars...
    Chr1 3.104 1 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...
    Chr1 3.110 8 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
    Chr1 3.110 11 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
    Mrs1 3.135 22 ...Napoleon...was not great enough, with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.142 6 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.
    Gts 3.160 9 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    Nat2 3.195 12 Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish expectations.
    Pol1 3.201 12 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years...
    Pol1 3.205 7 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    NR 3.230 22 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NER 3.252 27 ...the hundred acres of the farm must be spaded...
    NER 3.259 3 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    UGM 4.14 17 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    PPh 4.39 16 The Bible of the learned for twenty-two hundred years, every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.45 8 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread itself since into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
    PPh 4.79 6 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
    SwM 4.111 15 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg, after a hundred years...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    MoS 4.154 3 Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
    MoS 4.163 8 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and, after two hundred and fifty years, had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.167 7 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer, and a hundred straws just as ridiculous...
    ShP 4.197 11 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world...
    NMW 4.238 4 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...
    NMW 4.244 19 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    GoW 4.287 24 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    ET1 5.8 24 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    ET2 5.26 12 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles.
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.27 8 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles.
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons...
    ET2 5.28 2 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    ET2 5.28 4 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet;...
    ET2 5.28 5 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet; the length of the deck from stem to stern, 155.
    ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles...
    ET2 5.29 22 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...
    ET2 5.30 27 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET2 5.33 18 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests; but the curse of eight hundred years we could not discern.
    ET3 5.38 3 ...to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET3 5.41 15 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island of eight hundred miles in length...
    ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three hundred miles;...
    ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    ET4 5.45 10 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000, and governing a population of 245,000,000 souls.
    ET4 5.47 21 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET4 5.52 8 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    ET4 5.55 22 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET4 5.60 16 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET4 5.65 9 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET4 5.66 7 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals, which are seven hundred years old, are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET4 5.72 25 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET5 5.76 3 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...
    ET5 5.100 3 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET6 5.110 4 [Englishmen's] leases run for a hundred and a thousand years.
    ET6 5.110 13 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.110 17 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET6 5.113 13 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat,--and has been for many hundred years.
    ET7 5.122 2 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...
    ET7 5.124 20 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET8 5.128 25 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    ET8 5.133 13 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET10 5.154 14 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET10 5.157 16 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    ET10 5.158 4 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have not yet fulfilled his words.
    ET10 5.158 13 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years.
    ET10 5.158 22 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before.
    ET10 5.159 19 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET10 5.159 21 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET10 5.163 4 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the island [England].
    ET11 5.177 8 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET11 5.178 5 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET11 5.178 6 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years; at a hundred miles, two hundred years; and so on;...
    ET11 5.178 12 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years...
    ET11 5.178 20 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET11 5.178 23 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 5.182 11 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET11 5.182 18 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    ET11 5.182 25 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET11 5.182 26 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET11 5.183 15 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.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.193 25 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants, in many houses exceeding a hundred.
    ET11 5.197 2 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and so has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET12 5.200 17 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.202 25 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET12 5.204 10 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical, and 1500 dollars not extravagant.
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET12 5.210 23 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men, and three or four hundred well-educated men.
    ET13 5.215 9 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower, which is eight hundred years old, This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    ET15 5.266 5 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment, in which, I think, they employed a hundred and twenty men.
    ET16 5.276 25 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    ET16 5.277 10 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 (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
    ET16 5.277 25 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge], and there were once probably one hundred and sixty.
    ET16 5.278 9 The sacrificial stone [at Stonehenge]...must have been brought one hundred and fifty miles.
    ET16 5.278 24 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen hundred years.
    ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    ET16 5.285 19 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground...
    ET16 5.289 13 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET18 5.302 23 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    ET18 5.303 20 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    ET18 5.308 4 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    F 6.10 25 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son for a hundred years.
    F 6.14 14 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.17 11 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had.
    F 6.32 17 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a thousand years in yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands, a hundred Mexicos.
    F 6.46 16 ...a hundred signs apprise [some people] of what is about to befall.
    Pow 6.55 23 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Pow 6.55 23 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail...fifteen hundred miles further...
    Pow 6.77 21 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Pow 6.78 11 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    Wth 6.86 13 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
    Wth 6.104 18 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.104 19 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.114 1 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Wth 6.114 2 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Wth 6.122 22 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Ctr 6.137 16 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Ctr 6.141 7 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life, ten, fifty, or a hundred years.
    CbW 6.245 17 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.250 7 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.250 8 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.264 27 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...
    Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann, more than a hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.297 16 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Civ 7.25 2 ...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...
    Civ 7.29 13 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit, say two hundred millions of miles, between his first observation and his second...
    Elo1 7.76 27 You are safe...in the city...under the eyes of a hundred thousand people.
    DL 7.131 8 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years inflamed the imagination...of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Farm 7.146 23 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles and hardly find a stick or a stone.
    Farm 7.147 14 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high...
    Boks 7.192 14 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
    Boks 7.193 9 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Boks 7.205 8 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down...through fourteen hundred years of time.
    Boks 7.209 16 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.
    Boks 7.209 27 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas.
    Boks 7.210 15 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    Boks 7.210 25 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Boks 7.211 13 Out of a hundred examples, Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
    Clbs 7.244 16 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 7.264 8 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Cour 7.270 17 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Suc 7.285 9 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.293 23 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...ten per cent., a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Suc 7.306 5 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    OA 7.317 26 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    OA 7.323 1 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France to be guarded with the utmost care for a hundred years;...
    OA 7.327 3 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine.
    PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.14 2 ...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years.
    PI 8.40 7 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;...
    SA 8.94 14 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
    Elo2 8.127 9 Dr. Charles Chauncy was, a hundred years ago, a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
    Res 8.147 1 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is not only better than ten men or a hundred men, but victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Res 8.148 27 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect...that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times...
    QO 8.179 24 In a hundred years...not a hundred lines of poetry...
    QO 8.179 24 In a hundred years, millions of men, and not a hundred lines of poetry...
    QO 8.185 8 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    QO 8.188 4 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed...from a hundred charities?
    PC 8.214 24 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
    PC 8.218 2 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    PC 8.219 6 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    PPo 8.237 5 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.242 3 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons, whose reign lasted seven hundred years;...
    PPo 8.261 25 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.263 19 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Imtl 8.335 6 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Imtl 8.335 18 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
    Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    Aris 10.48 23 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    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;...
    PerF 10.75 11 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house, for five hundred years.
    PerF 10.82 7 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn...each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the crowner.
    PerF 10.85 3 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    Chr2 10.118 19 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Edc1 10.152 6 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
    Edc1 10.152 21 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...
    MoL 10.248 9 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over...
    Schr 10.270 17 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Plu 10.302 17 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one...
    LLNE 10.350 18 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties;...
    LLNE 10.359 18 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury, of about two hundred acres...
    EzRy 10.381 7 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving...one hundred and two grandchildren and ninety-six great-grandchildren.
    MMEm 10.419 27 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. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain...
    LS 11.4 16 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
    LS 11.8 7 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...two hundred years ago this day, leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.36 27 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
    hDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.41 1 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
    HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.43 7 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...
    HDC 11.47 7 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.50 6 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    HDC 11.50 7 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    HDC 11.54 11 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.57 4 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.70 21 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.73 2 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
    HDC 11.73 10 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.73 26 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies, amounting to about one hundred men, to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.77 10 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...225 bushels of grain;...
    HDC 11.79 1 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds.
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    HDC 11.82 21 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars.
    HDC 11.84 19 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    HDC 11.85 10 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    LVB 11.91 8 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    EWI 11.109 22 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.110 23 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in 800,000 negroes...
    EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a population of half a million, and 300,000 negroes...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.126 22 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    EWI 11.140 15 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    War 11.159 12 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    War 11.164 23 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...
    FSLC 11.184 18 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    FSLC 11.185 9 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.185 10 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    AKan 11.262 12 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    JBS 11.278 20 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    EPro 11.321 24 What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven cents?
    SMC 11.368 18 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.370 9 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone. We have a hundred and seventy-seven guns this morning.
    SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    EdAd 11.384 16 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    EdAd 11.384 17 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of-a hundred dollars over his bread-is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    EdAd 11.393 1 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    Wom 11.420 3 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies...
    SHC 11.431 1 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    SHC 11.431 11 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...
    Shak1 11.449 15 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...
    ChiE 11.472 26 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    FRep 11.512 21 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    FRep 11.512 25 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
    FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    II 12.71 17 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius! In five hundred years we shall not have a second.
    Mem 12.109 7 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CL 12.137 2 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...
    CL 12.137 18 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year.
    CL 12.143 22 There is no good walk in that state [Illinois]. The reason is, a square yard of it is as good as a hundred miles.
    CL 12.145 19 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
    CL 12.149 24 [The Indian] can draw...food and antidotes from a hundred plants.
    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...
    CW 12.175 11 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more,-a telescope in an observatory will show two hundred.
    Bost 12.182 9 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said, three hundred years ago, of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.195 19 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    Bost 12.199 12 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...
    MAng1 12.236 4 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
    MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
    ACri 12.294 23 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's, and he can turn off a hundred yards to their one.
    ACri 12.301 5 I passed at one time through a place called New City, then supposed, like each of a hundred others, to be destined to greatness.
    MLit 12.312 5 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    WSL 12.337 16 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;...

Hundred Million, n. (1)

    CbW 6.250 12 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille. Add honesty to him, and they might have called him Hundred Million.

hundred, n. (6)

    AmS 1.115 14 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned...in the hundred...of the party...to which we belong;...
    SR 2.76 12 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    ET5 5.89 9 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told...that they make no mistakes, every blade in the hundred and in the thousand is good.
    ET10 5.166 14 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong...
    F 6.14 4 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    FSLC 11.201 8 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.

Hundred, Old, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 24 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung...in every note of Old Hundred and Hallelujah and Short Particular Metre.

hundredfold, adj. [hundred-fold,] (3)

    Wth 6.87 11 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Farm 7.152 12 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil, which yield a hundred-fold the former crops.
    Imtl 8.341 12 A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's] faculties, would not suffice.

hundred-gated, adj. (2)

    Res 8.136 2 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PLT 12.29 7 In [Nature's] hundred-gated Thebes every chamber is a new door.

hundred-handed, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.271 9 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity; hundred-handed...
    FRep 11.534 27 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity.

hundreds, n. (30)

    Nat 1.30 13 Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe...that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.71 8 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.
    MN 1.191 18 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    Con 1.312 5 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores, nay hundreds and thousands, for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    SR 2.49 12 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds...
    Pt1 3.10 15 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines...
    Exp 3.80 14 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    Mrs1 3.119 16 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another, as there are several hundreds at their command.
    Nat2 3.186 24 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that hundreds may come up...
    GoW 4.270 21 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains...
    ET1 5.22 7 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET2 5.27 22 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day...
    ET2 5.32 21 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years claimed the strict sovereignty of the sea...
    ET5 5.99 3 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET15 5.262 20 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...
    DL 7.131 19 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens...
    Boks 7.191 25 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Boks 7.195 12 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Suc 7.303 13 The keen statist reckons by tens and hundreds;...
    PC 8.234 3 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...reaching millions instead of hundreds.
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    Chr2 10.121 7 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Schr 10.276 8 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea. Then it is paid for by hundreds of thousands of our money.
    LLNE 10.350 27 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    Thor 10.455 20 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...
    EWI 11.146 14 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    EdAd 11.388 11 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society, and which is pampered by hundreds of profligate presses.
    FRep 11.524 10 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
    PLT 12.7 27 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    PPr 12.382 17 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that is for the use of hundreds, perhaps of thousands...

hundredth, adj. (1)

    RBur 11.439 14 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.

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