Iachimo to Illustrations

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

Iachimo [Shakespeare, Cymbe (1)

    SL 2.159 22 Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul?

iambic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.40 18 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.

ibit, v. (1)

    OA 7.331 12 ...Et tunc magna mei sub terris ibit imago.

Ibn Haukal, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.253 14 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.

Ibn Jemin, n. (1)

    PPo 8.258 19 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./

ice, n. (27)

    Nat 1.13 12 ...the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;...
    SL 2.129 10 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    Prd1 2.235 13 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
    Cir 2.302 10 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice;...
    Nat2 3.196 10 Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
    NER 3.277 12 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice...
    NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    NMW 4.234 19 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat...on the ice of the lake, the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice!
    NMW 4.234 26 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up.
    F 6.15 11 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like...skates, which are wings on the ice but fetters on the ground.
    F 6.32 10 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Pow 6.62 3 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Pow 6.70 20 The luxury of ice is in tropical countries and midsummer days.
    DL 7.105 25 ...the rain, the ice, the frost, make epochs in [the child's] life.
    Elo2 8.118 24 ...deep interest or sympathy thaws the ice...
    Res 8.144 27 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...
    Comc 8.163 9 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
    Comc 8.163 12 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice...
    Aris 10.38 6 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever, a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them.
    MoL 10.256 8 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature. That ice won't bear.
    Thor 10.479 13 ...in snow and ice [Thoreau] would find sultriness...
    HDC 11.29 21 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.36 16 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
    EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.
    RBur 11.441 27 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...ice and sleet and rain and snow-choked brooks;...
    CW 12.171 15 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you...access...all winter, to miles of ice for the skater.

iceberg, n. (3)

    Comp 2.124 2 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    Farm 7.146 11 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.
    EWI 11.131 4 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...

icebergs, n. (3)

    Pow 6.69 17 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...yachting among the icebergs of Lancaster Sound;...
    Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
    Bost 12.185 17 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs...

ice-blinks, n. (1)

    CL 12.139 14 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also yellow days, and crystal days...

ice-cream, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 4 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

ice-creams, n. (2)

    MR 1.244 19 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, and so we buy ice-creams.
    Ill 6.324 2 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as...in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice-creams.

Iceland, n. (3)

    Tran 1.354 11 When we pass...into some new infinitude, out of this Iceland of negations, it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    ET8 5.140 13 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland...
    Civ 7.26 13 ...there have been learning, philosophy and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.

Ichabod! [John Greenleaf W (1)

    FSLN 11.215 9 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!

Ichabod, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.388 7 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors. If you fail,-Ichabod, the glory is departed. Let us pray.

ichor, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.39 24 Once having tasted this immortal ichor, [the poet] cannot have enough of it...
    F 6.20 26 Neither brandy...nor ichor...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    PI 8.73 17 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...
    PI 8.73 19 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor...
    PI 8.73 21 Time will be when ichor shall be [poets'] blood...

ichthyology, n. (1)

    Thor 10.472 1 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.

icicle, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 19 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;--icicle, orange-flower, acanthus, grapes and snowball.

icicles, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 22 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles.

iconoclast, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.146 18 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians...

iconoclast, n. (1)

    Thor 10.451 10 An iconoclast in literature, [Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...

Iconoclastes [John Milton], (1)

    ET12 5.202 1 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.

ictodes, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 26 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen, the ictodes prepares its flower...

icy, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...

idea, n. (139)

    Nat 1.4 13 We have...scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation.
    Nat 1.46 7 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends, who...are coextensive with our idea;...
    Nat 1.55 13 That [universal] law, when in the mind, is an idea.
    Nat 1.75 6 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.
    Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    AmS 1.83 22 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    AmS 1.107 20 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    AmS 1.109 12 ...a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    AmS 1.112 4 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns,
    AmS 1.112 6 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed...
    LE 1.163 9 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    MN 1.202 22 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself, and his performance compared with his promise or idea, will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MN 1.219 12 Has anything grand and lasting been done? Who did it? Plainly not any man, but all men: it was the prevalence and inundation of an idea.
    MN 1.220 23 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    MR 1.247 26 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
    MR 1.251 10 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    LT 1.261 24 In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture.
    LT 1.266 9 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?
    LT 1.271 5 There is a perfect chain...of reforms...each cherishing some part of the general idea...
    LT 1.271 10 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.271 12 The history of reform...is the comparison of the idea with the fact.
    LT 1.277 9 The Reforms...do not retain the purity of an idea.
    LT 1.278 12 ...the greatest action of man [leaves] no mark in the vast idea.
    Tran 1.345 24 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them...
    YA 1.382 18 It was a noble thought of Fourier, which gives a favorable idea of his system, to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.19 9 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    SR 2.47 1 We...are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
    Fdsp 2.192 21 The same idea exalts conversation with [the commended stranger].
    OS 2.283 21 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
    OS 2.283 25 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    OS 2.292 21 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God...
    Cir 2.302 6 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
    Cir 2.302 8 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea; they will disappear.
    Cir 2.303 25 ...[a man] has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
    Cir 2.303 27 [A man] can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Art1 2.353 10 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Pol1 3.205 25 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.207 25 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right.
    Pol1 3.213 11 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    Pol1 3.219 5 The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government...
    NR 3.227 9 All our poets, heroes and saints, fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea...
    NR 3.239 17 ...[each man] would impose his idea on others;...
    NER 3.266 19 The world is awaking to the idea of union...
    NER 3.271 20 [Genius's] own idea it never executed.
    UGM 4.7 18 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels...
    UGM 4.19 27 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    UGM 4.20 6 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...by the quality of that idea they embodied...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    UGM 4.30 24 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    PPh 4.40 11 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
    PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
    PPh 4.52 14 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    PPh 4.53 24 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...
    PPh 4.69 27 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    SwM 4.108 15 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea in the Timaeus.
    SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    SwM 4.114 12 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    SwM 4.114 17 This fruitful idea [that nature exists entire in leasts] furnishes a key to every secret.
    SwM 4.114 27 Every particular idea of man...is an image and effigy of him.
    SwM 4.142 7 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    NMW 4.237 11 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party.
    GoW 4.275 3 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    GoW 4.285 23 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea... that a man exists for culture;...
    GoW 4.286 10 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit...
    GoW 4.288 27 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth...is higher.
    ET1 5.12 6 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...
    ET9 5.150 18 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET11 5.173 5 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea...
    F 6.13 27 The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations...
    Ctr 6.145 15 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Bhr 6.192 11 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold, not enriched by so much as an idea or a virtuous impulse.
    DL 7.109 6 Does the household obey an idea?
    DL 7.111 5 ...what idea predominates in our houses?
    DL 7.111 27 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous. We need all the force of an idea to lift this load...
    DL 7.113 19 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    Cour 7.274 23 Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world;...
    PI 8.20 11 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven; they have no idea of such things, but of the realities signified thereby.
    PI 8.43 17 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    Comc 8.161 16 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
    Comc 8.164 15 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
    QO 8.198 3 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light; this idea of the authorship controlling our appreciation of the works themselves.
    PC 8.208 13 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    Insp 8.276 18 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.
    Grts 8.306 20 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind, to the full extent of Faraday's idea;...
    Grts 8.319 27 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    Imtl 8.330 10 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Imtl 8.342 6 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Imtl 8.344 19 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all;...
    Dem1 10.19 23 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Aris 10.31 22 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but the middle term...they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Aris 10.32 2 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture;...
    Aris 10.36 16 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.65 18 I do not know whether that word Gentleman, although it signifies a leading idea in recent civilization, is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Chr2 10.94 21 We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this [general mind].
    Edc1 10.130 14 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Edc1 10.132 4 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    Edc1 10.145 15 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea.
    Supl 10.167 1 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    SovE 10.188 24 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea which animates either party...
    SovE 10.190 17 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
    SovE 10.192 14 The idea of right exists in the human mind...
    SovE 10.212 2 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law, of public opinion, to the self-revealing idea;...
    LLNE 10.326 12 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    MMEm 10.421 12 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, done nothing;...
    MMEm 10.425 2 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    MMEm 10.425 22 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    MMEm 10.426 21 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.
    Carl 10.493 5 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    LS 11.15 9 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...
    War 11.161 5 The idea [that there can be peace as well as war] itself is the epoch;...
    War 11.173 14 ...this self-subsistency is essential to our idea of man.
    FSLC 11.185 7 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...one idea.
    Wom 11.409 14 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns], and of which he had formed a very inadequate idea.
    FRO2 11.487 1 ...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    PLT 12.24 14 The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental activity.
    PLT 12.43 19 ...sensibility does not exhaust our idea of [genius].
    PLT 12.48 12 ...idea and execution are not often intrusted to the same head.
    PLT 12.50 21 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    PLT 12.51 4 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea...
    PLT 12.54 4 ...without the violence of direction that men have, without bigots, without men of fixed idea, no excitement, no efficiency.
    II 12.67 27 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    II 12.81 25 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them....
    II 12.81 26 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them, and one related to yours. A stronger idea will subordinate them.
    CInt 12.123 23 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...
    Bost 12.192 27 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection...
    MAng1 12.216 12 This idea [of Beauty] possessed [Michelangelo]...
    MAng1 12.232 23 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.
    Milt1 12.254 17 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...
    Milt1 12.256 1 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    Milt1 12.278 2 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ACri 12.304 26 ...there is anything but time in my idea of the antique.
    MLit 12.320 17 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been not his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
    Trag 12.407 10 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
    Trag 12.416 4 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Idea, n. (5)

    LT 1.272 3 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect.
    LT 1.285 17 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with the exorbitant Idea.
    Tran 1.350 10 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    NER 3.262 21 Only Love, only an Idea, is against property as we hold it.
    FRO1 11.476 7 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./

Idea of Beauty, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.216 12 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.

ideal, adj. (62)

    Nat 1.48 9 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
    Nat 1.54 23 The perception of real affinities between events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real), enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.59 23 The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    Nat 1.62 19 The first of these questions only [What is matter?], the ideal theory answers.
    Nat 1.73 16 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    AmS 1.83 26 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    DSA 1.127 23 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    LT 1.277 8 The Reforms have their high origin in an ideal justice...
    Con 1.303 27 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
    Hist 2.15 5 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
    Lov1 2.171 11 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.
    Prd1 2.233 9 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Hsm1 2.258 27 The magic [many extraordinary young men] used was the ideal tendencies...
    Int 2.338 4 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.
    Art1 2.357 23 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
    Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
    Pt1 3.38 22 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal...
    NR 3.234 26 Anomalous facts...are of ideal use.
    NER 3.267 16 The union must be ideal in actual individualism.
    PPh 4.54 26 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    SwM 4.141 21 [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 4.185 1 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ET3 5.37 4 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard;...
    ET4 5.44 6 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law, disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity;...
    ET4 5.73 17 The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal perfection;...
    ET10 5.164 8 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    ET14 5.245 13 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...
    ET14 5.252 1 [The English] are with difficulty ideal;...
    ET15 5.270 8 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative, and by no means ideal.
    ET18 5.299 2 [England] is no ideal framework...
    Bty 6.299 3 Faces are rarely true to any ideal type...
    Art2 7.55 22 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Boks 7.214 27 ...doubtless [novel-reading] gives some ideal dignity to the day.
    Cour 7.267 4 Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
    Cour 7.274 27 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal;...
    PI 8.26 19 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    PI 8.31 22 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to this moment...
    PI 8.52 7 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted...
    SA 8.90 17 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    Comc 8.159 23 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring...the ideal whole...
    QO 8.182 4 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...until it gets an ideal truth.
    PC 8.231 3 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...
    Imtl 8.347 2 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Schr 10.272 4 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him.
    Plu 10.318 22 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...are in the spirit of the ideal hero...
    LLNE 10.338 20 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...
    Thor 10.454 4 [Thoreau]...wished to settle all his practice on an ideal foundation.
    HDC 11.45 13 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered. For the first time, the ideal social compact was real.
    FSLN 11.232 1 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good...
    JBS 11.279 13 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends...
    EdAd 11.390 2 The State, like the individual, should rest on an ideal basis.
    Wom 11.421 13 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    FRep 11.517 18 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    FRep 11.543 5 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
    PLT 12.61 5 Ideal and practical...are never parallel.
    Mem 12.95 24 ...the power [of memory] exists in some marked and eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
    CInt 12.117 24 I presently know...whether [my companion] stands for ideal justice, or for a timorous expediency.
    Milt1 12.249 9 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice.
    Milt1 12.257 3 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    Milt1 12.270 23 That which drew [Milton] to the party was his love of liberty, ideal liberty;...
    Milt1 12.278 4 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience.
    Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...

Ideal, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.48 12 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...
    Nat 1.50 12 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.

ideal, n. (27)

    Nat 1.46 16 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal;...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Lov1 2.171 24 With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity...
    Int 2.337 4 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Art1 2.367 15 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal.
    Art1 2.367 20 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
    Art1 2.367 21 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal in eating and drinking...
    Pt1 3.38 13 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
    Pt1 3.42 6 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.
    Pt1 3.42 7 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet]...
    PPh 4.45 18 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.
    PNR 4.87 17 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints...a god leading things from disorder into order.
    ET9 5.148 27 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
    ET15 5.268 27 ...[the London Times] is [the Englishmen's] understanding and day's ideal daguerreotyped.
    CbW 6.277 16 The race is great, the ideal fair, but the men whiffling and unsure.
    Suc 7.307 21 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution? this enormous ideal?
    PI 8.27 3 ...poetry is...the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal...
    PI 8.57 21 I find or fancy more true poetry, the love of the vast and the ideal, in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    Comc 8.160 12 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    Comc 8.160 23 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    Comc 8.160 24 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    Comc 8.173 13 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
    Thor 10.479 2 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    ChiE 11.473 9 [Confucius's] ideal of greatness predicts Marcus Antoninus.
    II 12.78 9 The ideal is as far ahead of the videttes of the van as it is of the rear.
    CW 12.176 25 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    Milt1 12.274 21 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
    MLit 12.329 27 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery? Yes, O Goethe! but the ideal is truer than the actual.

Ideal, n. (5)

    Exp 3.71 4 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the Ideal journeying always with us...
    Exp 3.75 2 I exert the same quality of power in all places. Thus journeys the mighty Ideal before us;...
    Imtl 8.339 14 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
    MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    MLit 12.331 5 Goethe...must be set down as the poet of the Actual, not of the Ideal;...

Ideal Nature, n. (1)

    Art2 7.48 13 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...

idealism, n. (14)

    Nat 1.59 6 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    Nat 1.60 3 Idealism sees the world in God.
    Nat 1.62 19 Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.
    Nat 1.62 20 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    Nat 1.62 27 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    MR 1.229 2 What if...the reformers tend to idealism?
    Cir 2.309 17 There are degrees in idealism.
    Cir 2.309 26 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
    Cir 2.309 27 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
    ET14 5.238 27 ...[Bacon]...marks the influx of idealism into England.
    MoL 10.243 19 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    FRep 11.536 11 Our young men lack idealism.
    ACri 12.300 1 [Metonomy] is a low idealism.
    ACri 12.300 1 Idealism regards the world as symbolic...

Idealism, n. (3)

    Tran 1.329 12 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.
    Tran 1.339 23 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    Tran 1.339 25 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...

idealist, n. (17)

    Con 1.319 7 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Tran 1.329 23 ...the idealist [insists] on the power of Thought and of Will...
    Tran 1.330 3 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.
    Tran 1.330 18 Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
    Tran 1.330 20 The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits.
    Tran 1.331 10 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive. What more could an idealist say?
    Tran 1.332 26 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness...
    Tran 1.333 6 The idealist has another measure, which is metaphysical...
    PI 8.26 7 Nature is the true idealist.
    PI 8.71 8 The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts;...
    Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Plu 10.307 15 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist...
    LLNE 10.341 20 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist...
    Thor 10.460 7 ...idealist as he was...it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    JBB 11.268 10 [John Brown] is...the rarest of heroes, a pure idealist...
    JBB 11.270 21 I said John Brown was an idealist.
    FRep 11.536 12 A man for success must not be pure idealist, then he will practically fail;...

idealistic, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.280 25 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...

idealists, n. (12)

    Tran 1.345 13 ...we, on this sea of human thought...inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    Exp 3.48 23 Grief too will make us idealists.
    ET14 5.239 14 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists...
    Wth 6.94 8 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could.
    PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
    MoL 10.254 10 [Scholars] are idealists...
    Schr 10.269 5 ...the lawyers and the manufacturers, are idealists...
    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.
    SMC 11.357 8 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists...
    FRep 11.543 4 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
    II 12.81 18 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists...
    Bost 12.193 19 [The Massachusetts colonists] were precisely the idealists of England;...

Idealists, n. (1)

    Tran 1.329 14 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...

idealization, n. (1)

    PI 8.68 3 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...

idealizations, n. (1)

    ET1 5.5 21 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.

idealize, v. (1)

    ET14 5.249 8 ...as Burke had striven to idealize the English State, so Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.

idealizing, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.184 6 Cause and effect...the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later...

idealizing, v. (1)

    Art2 7.54 2 ...[all the known orders of architecture] were the idealizing of the primitive abodes of each people.

ideally, adv. (1)

    UGM 4.3 14 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.

ideals, n. (3)

    ET14 5.247 3 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks,--but 't is not for us to be wiser; we must renounce ideals and accept London.
    PI 8.74 1 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are hosts of ideals...
    EurB 12.373 12 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.

idean, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.263 24 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

ideas, n. (146)

    Nat 1.30 2 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.57 25 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called the practice of ideas...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.57 26 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called...the introduction of ideas into life, have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.67 22 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind, and build science upon ideas.
    Nat 1.75 22 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    AmS 1.109 2 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    LE 1.175 6 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they deal...with ideas.
    MN 1.193 17 Here, a new set of distinctions, a new order of ideas, prevail.
    MN 1.210 1 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is the fool of ideas...
    MN 1.219 7 What is all history but the work of ideas...
    MR 1.229 7 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    MR 1.229 9 Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society...and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.229 13 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.230 2 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    LT 1.272 25 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
    LT 1.275 20 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could unite these scattered rays! And always such a genius does embody the ideas of each time.
    LT 1.279 25 ...the man of ideas...judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    LT 1.285 18 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Con 1.298 10 ...conservatism...must deny ideas...
    Tran 1.340 5 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.352 20 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    SL 2.147 6 God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
    OS 2.292 6 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of even companionship and of new ideas.
    Cir 2.310 8 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Cir 2.322 3 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Int 2.328 27 We are the prisoners of ideas.
    Pt1 3.2 2 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
    Pt1 3.8 26 [The poet] is a beholder of ideas...
    Exp 3.47 20 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales;...
    Exp 3.56 26 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Exp 3.76 7 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in, and God is but one of its ideas.
    Nat2 3.195 9 These [universal laws], while they exist in the mind as ideas, stand around us in nature forever embodied...
    NR 3.231 7 General ideas are essences.
    NER 3.263 27 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    UGM 4.8 21 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    UGM 4.16 14 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    UGM 4.19 26 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    UGM 4.21 11 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    UGM 4.25 27 ...the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe it.
    UGM 4.26 18 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
    PPh 4.76 24 [Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition from ideas to matter.
    PNR 4.83 2 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas...
    PNR 4.85 26 [Plato's] definition of ideas...marks an era in the world.
    PNR 4.86 8 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity;...
    PNR 4.87 5 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense. The gods are the ideas.
    SwM 4.93 10 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures...
    SwM 4.103 27 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas.
    SwM 4.105 13 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals], remembering what they have seen and hoped of ideas, should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    MoS 4.151 12 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    MoS 4.152 7 ...to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.152 17 After dinner...ideas are disturbing, incendiary...
    ShP 4.190 10 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
    NMW 4.225 23 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the execution of his ideas...
    NMW 4.242 6 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society.
    NMW 4.242 9 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...
    GoW 4.266 8 Ideas are subversive of social order and comfort...
    GoW 4.268 11 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    GoW 4.273 1 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    GoW 4.279 4 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants of great ideas...
    ET5 5.99 11 ...the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.
    ET5 5.99 12 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...
    ET10 5.156 3 Solvency is in the ideas and mechanism of an Englishman.
    ET11 5.192 11 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the want of ideas;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET13 5.222 1 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century...value ideas only for an economic result.
    ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    ET14 5.242 13 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
    ET14 5.243 16 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    ET14 5.245 26 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters: a lover of ideas is not only uncongenial, but unintelligible.
    ET14 5.247 10 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that [modern philosophy's] merit is to avoid ideas and avoid morals.
    ET14 5.248 23 Coleridge, a catholic mind, with a hunger for ideas;...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.249 11 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET14 5.253 21 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions, of John Hunter, a man of ideas;......
    ET14 5.254 20 ...[the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    ET14 5.258 19 For a self-conceited modish life...hating ideas, there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    ET18 5.301 19 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas...
    ET18 5.306 15 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in the submissive ideas pervading these people.
    F 6.3 14 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas...
    F 6.44 13 Certain ideas are in the air.
    Wth 6.96 6 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Ctr 6.147 1 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    Wsp 6.224 8 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination...
    Wsp 6.238 9 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.247 5 Fine society...has neither ideas nor aims.
    CbW 6.261 10 A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger, or war or ruffians,--and you can see he was not, from the moderation of his ideas.
    Civ 7.20 16 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies...the ceasing from fixed ideas.
    Civ 7.30 9 ...when [man] is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.
    Civ 7.30 10 ...ideas are impregnable...
    Elo1 7.61 13 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than the grandeur of absolute ideas...
    Elo1 7.91 20 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.97 1 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    Suc 7.296 3 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
    PI 8.38 26 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation, or ideas taking forms of their own...
    PI 8.52 3 With...the first strain of a song, we...launch on the sea of ideas and emotions...
    PI 8.64 8 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
    PI 8.73 24 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
    Elo2 8.132 12 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Imtl 8.330 13 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    Imtl 8.342 23 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    PerF 10.86 27 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    PerF 10.88 11 ...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last.
    PerF 10.88 15 The world stands on ideas...
    Chr2 10.110 24 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.
    Chr2 10.112 27 Ideas always generate enthusiasm.
    Edc1 10.142 17 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    MoL 10.248 24 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.
    MoL 10.250 18 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
    Schr 10.266 27 The cant of the time inquires superciliously after the new ideas;...
    Schr 10.266 27 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks;...
    Schr 10.272 1 ...men know that ideas are the parents of men and things;...
    Schr 10.281 20 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    Plu 10.307 27 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's...
    LLNE 10.347 18 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists...
    EzRy 10.383 11 [Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of the New England Church...
    Thor 10.475 15 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    LS 11.18 6 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    EWI 11.143 26 ...ideas only save races.
    War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast societies of men...
    War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    War 11.164 10 Observe the ideas of the present day,-orthodoxy, skepticism, missions...
    War 11.166 2 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances; the least enlargement of his ideas...
    FSLC 11.205 21 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
    FSLC 11.211 1 ...countries have been great by ideas.
    FSLC 11.213 16 Here let there be no confusion in our ideas.
    FSLN 11.217 9 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others.
    JBB 11.270 22 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
    ACiv 11.310 3 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas.
    ACiv 11.310 6 ...ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men...
    SMC 11.353 17 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas...
    FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.531 14 ...all advancement is by ideas...
    FRep 11.536 13 A man for success...must have ideas....
    FRep 11.536 14 A man for success...must obey ideas...
    PLT 12.31 2 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others.
    PLT 12.45 23 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
    PLT 12.47 10 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them. Vain expectation. They are possessed by the ideas but do not possess them.
    PLT 12.55 11 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.
    PLT 12.56 18 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas.
    CL 12.142 2 Walking, said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas.
    Bost 12.184 6 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.
    MAng1 12.236 10 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
    Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
    ACri 12.294 9 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality, which made bias or fixed ideas impossible...
    ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    WSL 12.346 22 [Landor] is a man full of thoughts, but not, like Coleridge, a man of ideas.

Ideas, n. (6)

    Nat 1.34 23 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.56 17 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures, that is, upon Ideas;...
    LT 1.267 16 We...stand in the light of Ideas...
    Pol1 3.200 12 ...they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity;...
    II 12.76 21 The inexorable Laws, the Ideas...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.80 5 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas.

idem, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.188 6 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same (spatium et urbis et orbis idem).

idem, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.24 24 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but alter idem, in a manner totally new.

identical, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.43 6 All the endless variety of things make an identical impression.
    MN 1.204 18 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    LT 1.271 11 The history of reform is always identical...
    Con 1.305 15 You [reformers] are not only identical with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and aims.
    Tran 1.329 6 The light is always identical in its composition...
    Hist 2.17 4 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works. It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical.
    SR 2.82 2 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...the sad self...identical, that I fled from.
    SL 2.165 1 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    SL 2.165 5 ...this under-estimate of our own [possibilities], comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    OS 2.277 6 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.
    Pol1 3.201 24 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature.
    Pol1 3.209 9 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which are identical in their moral character...
    PPh 4.50 20 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who is identical with all things...
    ET4 5.52 4 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians, coming from one place and genetically identical...
    ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.
    ET16 5.281 16 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    Bhr 6.182 10 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
    CbW 6.276 2 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house and a haridan in the other.
    Ill 6.323 24 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume; and our life-- the life of all of us--identical.
    Chr2 10.93 11 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind, identical in all men.
    Prch 10.222 19 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.
    FSLC 11.201 18 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...
    Wom 11.417 11 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    PLT 12.5 13 Our metaphysics should be able to...name the pair identical through all variety.
    II 12.66 22 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.
    MLit 12.328 24 The spirit of [Goethe's] biography, of his poems, of his tales, is identical...

identification, n. (1)

    PLT 12.62 18 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...

identified, v. (7)

    LT 1.263 17 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their religious denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    MoS 4.173 18 [Doubts and negations] will never be so formidable when once they have been identified and registered.
    ET11 5.173 17 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
    ET13 5.223 4 ...the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
    EzRy 10.383 11 [Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of the New England Church...
    Thor 10.470 20 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...
    Milt1 12.254 9 [Milton] is identified in the mind with all select and holy images...

identifies, v. (3)

    Exp 3.72 14 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;...
    Insp 8.275 22 Experience identifies.
    ACiv 11.307 22 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer.

identify, v. (5)

    Mrs1 3.134 3 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...they grasp each other's hand, to identify and signalize each other.
    Nat2 3.188 4 Each prophet comes presently to identify himself with his thought...
    NR 3.227 13 Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
    NMW 4.257 18 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    WD 7.174 25 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!

identifying, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.194 17 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...

identities, n. (2)

    Prch 10.227 1 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
    FRO2 11.490 17 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.

identity, n. (56)

    AmS 1.86 8 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
    AmS 1.92 10 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    AmS 1.109 7 With the views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals, I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    DSA 1.151 20 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart;...
    Hist 2.14 11 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    Hist 2.26 21 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep...I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea. I feel the eternity of man, the identity of his thought.
    Hist 2.31 23 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    SR 2.69 6 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    Fdsp 2.209 4 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which...unites them.
    Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...
    Int 2.340 22 ...an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.
    Nat2 3.180 16 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.182 16 That identity [in nature] makes us all one...
    Nat2 3.183 12 This guiding identity [in nature] runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece...
    Nat2 3.184 3 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    Pol1 3.212 20 Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
    NR 3.232 22 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    UGM 4.11 6 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.
    UGM 4.18 2 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    UGM 4.33 22 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    PPh 4.48 5 ...every mental act,--this very perception of identity, or oneness, recognizes the difference of things.
    PPh 4.62 24 [Dialectic] rests on the observation of identity and diversity;...
    SwM 4.106 9 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    SwM 4.117 14 ...[Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
    SwM 4.121 12 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    MoS 4.150 9 Another class [predisposed to Morals] have the perception of identity...
    NMW 4.241 17 ...there is in particulars this identity between Napoleon and the mass of the people...
    ET10 5.164 21 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    ET14 5.238 11 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
    Bhr 6.179 14 [The communication by the glance] is the bodily symbol of identity of nature.
    Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...since all beauty points at identity;...
    Ill 6.314 9 Science is a search after identity...
    Ill 6.324 6 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    Ill 6.324 11 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Art2 7.37 4 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law.
    WD 7.174 4 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...feel their identity, and keep his own;...
    PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
    PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity...
    PPo 8.263 21 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage, as a proof of the identity of mysticism in all periods.
    Insp 8.273 3 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
    Grts 8.303 1 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
    Dem1 10.9 5 We are...by this experience [of dreams]...acquainted with the identity of very unlike-seeming effects.
    Edc1 10.137 13 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...
    SovE 10.208 15 The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
    Schr 10.272 19 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion;...
    Thor 10.479 21 The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    FSLC 11.198 9 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature...
    FRO2 11.490 1 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us...
    FRep 11.529 6 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    PLT 12.15 7 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature;...
    PLT 12.20 12 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.20 16 Without identity at base, chaos must be forever.
    PLT 12.21 16 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    Mem 12.90 6 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action.

Identity, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.195 1 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.
    PPh 4.47 27 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy]; the one, and the two.--1. Unity, or Identity; and, 2. Variety.

identity-philosophy, n. (1)

    ET14 5.242 14 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is quantitative.

Identity-philosophy, n. (1)

    SwM 4.106 26 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy...

ideologist, n. (2)

    NMW 4.228 10 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;--Necker is an ideologist...
    NMW 4.228 11 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...Lafayette is an ideologist.

ideologists, n. (2)

    NMW 4.228 9 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    GoW 4.266 8 Our people are of Bonaparte's opinion concerning ideologists.

idiom, n. (1)

    ACri 12.285 9 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.

idiomatic, adj. (4)

    ShP 4.200 23 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...
    ACri 12.284 23 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators...
    ACri 12.296 25 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has, a noble, idiomatic English...

idioms, n. (2)

    Nat 1.29 12 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.
    DSA 1.129 13 The idioms of [Jesus's] language...have usurped the place of his truth;...

idiot, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.115 12 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
    PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.

idiot, n. (4)

    Hist 2.41 2 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    NR 3.239 3 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    UGM 4.24 18 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    CPL 11.503 5 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.

idiots, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.189 25 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
    JBB 11.272 9 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use than idiots.
    Wom 11.417 17 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all...such satire as might be written on the tenants of a hospital or on an asylum for idiots.

idle, adj. (43)

    AmS 1.91 12 Books are for the scholar's idle times.
    Con 1.311 6 The ages have not been idle...
    Con 1.325 16 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    SL 2.157 18 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us...
    Prd1 2.226 2 ...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
    Exp 3.46 10 We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle.
    NR 3.236 10 [Generalizing] is all idle talking...
    ShP 4.192 19 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments.
    ShP 4.207 19 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    NMW 4.224 3 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
    ET11 5.191 6 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET14 5.240 15 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    F 6.48 19 How idle to choose a random sparkle here or there...
    Pow 6.74 15 No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Wth 6.83 4 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Bhr 6.182 17 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
    Res 8.149 12 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
    PPo 8.236 11 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    Insp 8.294 27 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by idle wishing...
    Dem1 10.11 24 Lucian has an idle tale that Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
    Aris 10.51 17 The day is darkened...when genius grows idle and wanton...
    Plu 10.316 10 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    MMEm 10.428 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she thinking it a pity to let it lie idle, wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    Thor 10.453 2 Never idle or self-indulgent, [Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    Carl 10.495 26 [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;...
    GSt 10.506 27 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns] did not know an idle day;...I count him happy among men.
    War 11.155 24 Idle and vacant minds want excitement...
    War 11.169 3 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation; I shall not find them defenceless, with idle hands swinging at their sides.
    FSLN 11.231 13 I know...how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from [conservatism].
    AsSu 11.247 18 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    ACiv 11.297 11 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting idle himself;...
    FRO2 11.485 13 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
    FRep 11.535 27 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms...
    FRep 11.542 13 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.
    PLT 12.28 26 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.
    PLT 12.32 13 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    Milt1 12.276 17 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    MLit 12.327 12 In these days and in this country, where the scholars are few and idle...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    Pray 12.353 12 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands...
    PPr 12.381 21 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation...to the idle, that no man shall sit idle;...
    Let 12.402 22 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...

idle, n. (3)

    Wth 6.106 3 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    PI 8.29 9 Fancy...surprises and amuses the idle...
    PPr 12.381 20 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation...to the idle, that no man shall sit idle;...

idleness, n. (6)

    NR 3.235 14 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
    ET10 5.160 23 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET11 5.193 26 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness...
    ET11 5.194 6 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up. It requires a life of idleness, dressing and attendance on their parties.
    Farm 7.138 10 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from the victims of idleness and pleasure?
    Trag 12.409 3 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts...idleness and solitude.

idler, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 25 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant, which no idler wind can so well dispense.

idler, n. (2)

    MN 1.212 7 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
    Boks 7.205 18 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...

idlers, n. (3)

    SL 2.164 26 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Clbs 7.232 18 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they...please themselves by sallies and chat which are admired by the idlers;...
    FRep 11.539 16 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by dunces or idlers...

idlest, adj. (3)

    SR 2.65 11 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.
    Chr2 10.105 2 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Schr 10.269 24 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought...is told already in the Senate.

idly, adv. (3)

    LE 1.168 1 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets, and repeated idly these few glimpses in their song.
    SwM 4.106 27 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly...
    Koss 11.400 16 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.

idol, n. (4)

    NMW 4.227 20 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    MoL 10.256 25 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
    Carl 10.495 1 Nor can that decorum which is the idol of the Englishman... win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.
    CInt 12.115 13 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down every idol...

idolators, n. (1)

    Comp 2.125 20 We are idolators of the old.

idolatries, n. (5)

    SR 2.76 25 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing...idolatries... out of the window, we pity him no more...
    Exp 3.76 18 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us. 'T is the same with our idolatries.
    Wsp 6.208 1 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    Boks 7.213 2 We must have idolatries, mythologies...
    MLit 12.333 17 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries...

idolatrous, adj. (3)

    LS 11.13 7 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals...
    JBB 11.272 16 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    CInt 12.117 26 Society is always idolatrous...

idolatry, n. (10)

    Fdsp 2.214 12 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts. Let us drop this idolatry.
    Cir 2.307 18 ...why should I play with [my friends] this game of idolatry?
    Chr1 3.98 4 ...if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.
    UGM 4.18 9 Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.
    ET14 5.254 17 ...parochial and shop-till politics, and idolatry of usage, betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    Aris 10.36 23 ...instead of this idolatry, a worship;...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    PerF 10.85 21 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms...
    Chr2 10.116 10 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    Prch 10.220 9 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    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.

idolized, v. (2)

    SR 2.80 4 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification is idolized...
    MMEm 10.404 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.

idols, n. (4)

    SR 2.80 23 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    Art1 2.353 20 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols...
    Chr1 3.98 3 ...if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.
    LS 11.22 18 The whole world was full of idols and ordinances.

idyl, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 23 The pairing of the birds is an idyl...

idyls, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 24 The pairing of the birds is an idyl, not tedious as our idyls are;...

IF, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 14 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.

igneis, 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./

ignibus, 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./

ignis, n. (1)

    NR 3.229 4 A personal influence is an ignis fatuus.

ignite, v. (1)

    Thor 10.483 3 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.

ignited, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.92 18 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be...beds of ignited anthracite at the centre.

ignoble, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.42 26 ...though thou [O poet] shouldst walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
    Cour 7.259 7 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    Wom 11.418 3 There are plenty of people who...do not see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world that wanted them.

ignoble, n. (1)

    Exp 3.74 3 It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception. The noble are thus known from the ignoble.

ignominious, adj. (2)

    F 6.22 12 Man is not order of nature...nor any ignominious baggage;...
    Cour 7.274 19 ...the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious.

ignominiously, adv. (1)

    ET2 5.29 6 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously...

ignominy, n. (4)

    PPh 4.74 21 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...
    Carl 10.496 26 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    FSLC 11.179 12 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FRep 11.520 22 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...

ignorance, n. (57)

    Nat 1.26 23 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    AmS 1.101 6 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
    AmS 1.104 7 Fear always springs from ignorance.
    AmS 1.105 8 To ignorance and sin, [the world] is flint.
    DSA 1.139 2 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment, that can lend a faint tint of light to...ignorance coming in its name...
    SR 2.46 12 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
    Comp 2.118 3 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he... learns his ignorance;...
    Fdsp 2.193 8 Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances.
    Hsm1 2.263 18 In the gloom of our ignorance of what shall be...who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    OS 2.267 16 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance...
    OS 2.287 1 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises of ignorance...
    Art1 2.359 24 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who toiled perhaps in ignorance of the existence of other sculpture...
    Exp 3.53 8 The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness [of physicians].
    NR 3.246 19 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses;...
    PPh 4.49 27 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    PPh 4.50 1 The words I and mine constitute ignorance.
    PPh 4.66 11 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    PNR 4.84 5 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    SwM 4.123 9 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated.
    MoS 4.178 16 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    ET1 5.10 24 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism...
    ET9 5.150 4 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance...
    CbW 6.275 24 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Ill 6.324 16 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    DL 7.103 21 [The child's] ignorance is more charming than all knowledge...
    Cour 7.257 15 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    Cour 7.262 26 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
    Cour 7.269 25 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    SA 8.95 23 Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance.
    SA 8.106 2 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted? The innocence and ignorance of the patient is the first difficulty;...
    Elo2 8.112 9 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage ignorance and rudeness.
    PC 8.213 13 ...it were ignorance not to see that each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    PC 8.223 18 ...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance...
    Insp 8.271 22 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance.
    Imtl 8.348 20 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth;...
    Imtl 8.351 6 These two, ignorance...and knowledge...are known to be far asunder...
    Aris 10.63 11 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...
    Edc1 10.152 26 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance...
    Supl 10.166 8 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
    SovE 10.200 4 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...
    Prch 10.220 4 Ignorance and passion alloy and degrade.
    Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    Plu 10.302 24 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    Plu 10.317 9 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance...
    LLNE 10.336 15 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    MMEm 10.419 12 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance...
    MMEm 10.423 11 War is...no worse than the strife with poverty, malice and ignorance.
    MMEm 10.426 27 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    MMEm 10.427 20 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...
    MMEm 10.432 7 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    Thor 10.468 25 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    HDC 11.47 21 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    HDC 11.51 26 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance.
    FSLN 11.220 20 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...
    Wom 11.422 24 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    SHC 11.434 17 ...when I think of the mystery of life...our ignorance of its beginning or its end...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    WSL 12.337 11 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him...

ignorances, n. (1)

    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.

ignorant, adj. (40)

    Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Nat 1.58 13 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    AmS 1.87 6 So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does [the scholar] not yet possess.
    DSA 1.139 10 I am not ignorant that when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.
    LE 1.183 10 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...like themselves...
    LT 1.264 10 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    SL 2.132 8 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him, and though very ignorant of books, his nature shall not yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
    SL 2.138 12 ...[a man] is very wise, he is altogether ignorant.
    Pol1 3.204 26 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.
    NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    UGM 4.24 3 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life, ignorant of the ruin...
    PPh 4.73 22 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    ET9 5.148 24 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    ET14 5.253 19 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    Wth 6.120 24 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Elo1 7.85 19 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to, though he is otherwise ignorant...
    DL 7.122 6 ...[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...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    SA 8.88 22 I am not ignorant,--I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Imtl 8.323 20 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    Imtl 8.342 16 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    Dem1 10.21 15 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant...
    Dem1 10.26 16 [Adepts in occult facts] are ignorant of all that is healthy and useful to know...
    SovE 10.184 4 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
    Prch 10.230 27 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    MoL 10.256 18 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of...the rights of men and women.
    Plu 10.307 18 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
    LLNE 10.337 1 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    LLNE 10.354 17 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is;...
    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 10.403 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    MMEm 10.416 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;- was ignorant that it was lately promulged, or partially received.
    MMEm 10.430 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    EWI 11.130 1 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,- whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.138 25 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish...
    War 11.154 16 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of half the world, of almost all young and ignorant persons;...
    War 11.155 22 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.
    FRO2 11.485 14 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
    MAng1 12.240 25 [Condivi wrote] As for me, I am ignorant what Plato has said upon this subject [love]; but this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    EurB 12.373 19 ...[Bulwer]...does not draw ignorant caricatures.
    Trag 12.408 20 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

ignorant, n. (8)

    DSA 1.143 12 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the learned and the ignorant...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    MR 1.253 14 But the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base.
    YA 1.381 3 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    SR 2.56 17 ...when the ignorant and the poor are aroused...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    PNR 4.84 13 [Plato affirms that] The intelligent have a right over the ignorant...
    CbW 6.260 5 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    Aris 10.60 2 We...see that if the ignorant are around us, the great are much more near;...
    MMEm 10.420 25 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...

ignorantly, adv. (2)

    Bost 12.205 14 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    Milt1 12.267 1 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

ignore, v. (1)

    ET12 5.207 15 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.

ignored, v. (2)

    ET1 5.9 27 Landor is strangely undervalued in England; usually ignored...
    ET14 5.248 13 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he...has become a potentate not to be ignored.

ignoring, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.140 20 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.

ignoring, n. (1)

    Prch 10.235 9 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...

ignoring, v. (2)

    Comc 8.161 1 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...coolly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...
    CInt 12.113 17 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars, which consists in ignoring the other.

Il Penseroso [John Milton] (1)

    Milt1 12.275 7 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...

ilia, dura, n. (1)

    ET12 5.207 23 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

Iliad [Homer], n. (12)

    SL 2.158 18 Pretension never wrote an Iliad...
    art1 2.363 2 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    NER 3.271 21 The Iliad, the Hamlet...when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    ShP 4.201 3 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ET4 5.57 3 The Heimskringla...collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
    Art2 7.53 16 The Iliad of Homer, the songs of David...were made...in grave earnest...
    PI 8.25 12 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that;...
    PI 8.66 8 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head, as the charioteer sits with the hero in the Iliad.
    PI 8.74 14 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
    Plu 10.318 4 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has made his books, like Homer's Iliad, a bible for heroes;...
    II 12.72 8 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad.
    EurB 12.377 25 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.

Iliad, n. (1)

    PPr 12.379 1 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes...

Iliads, n. (1)

    Tran 1.341 16 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.

ill, adj. (25)

    Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to defeat this hope.
    SR 2.43 5 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill/...
    Mrs1 3.146 9 ...there is still...some just man happy in an ill fame;...
    ET1 5.4 8 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET4 5.59 16 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET8 5.130 25 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET11 5.192 20 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to retrieve.
    Wth 6.114 19 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Wsp 6.214 9 The Spirit saith to the man, How is it with thee? thee personally? is it well? is it ill?
    Bty 6.289 6 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.
    Civ 7.27 19 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name.
    Boks 7.215 9 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Suc 7.299 12 Does that deep-toned bell, which has shortened many a night of ill nerves, render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Aris 10.52 10 ...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 burn his barns...
    MMEm 10.429 17 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late. Ill health and nerves.
    EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
    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.
    EPro 11.318 18 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes life mean...
    SMC 11.357 20 One of our later volunteers...in reply to my question, How can you be spared from your farm, now that your father is so ill? said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SHC 11.436 8 I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good.
    FRO1 11.478 7 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...
    MLit 12.328 13 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].

ill, adv. (21)

    MR 1.245 14 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson.
    MR 1.252 10 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    Fdsp 2.207 2 Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad.
    Exp 3.62 9 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.
    Mrs1 3.155 2 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
    NR 3.233 3 What is well done [in books] I feel as if I did; what is ill done I reck not of.
    ET13 5.226 23 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.
    Pow 6.67 3 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals. He was a knave whom the town could ill spare.
    Wth 6.83 20 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Ctr 6.155 19 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
    Wsp 6.204 11 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Boks 7.200 4 ...such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare [Plutarch's Morals] as the Lives.
    Suc 7.289 20 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    QO 8.187 25 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    PPo 8.256 10 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./
    Imtl 8.348 9 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
    HDC 11.47 6 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    EPro 11.318 18 'T is wonderful what power is, and how ill it is used...
    Wom 11.406 20 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    MAng1 12.235 10 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    EurB 12.370 23 The [modern] painters are not willing to paint ill enough;...

ill, n. (8)

    Comp 2.95 16 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will; and so establishing the standard of good and ill...
    Comp 2.101 16 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill...
    OS 2.285 11 In that man, though he knew no ill of him, [one] put no trust.
    SwM 4.138 17 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    ET7 5.120 3 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious...
    CbW 6.243 23 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    FSLN 11.220 27 There are those...who have power and inspiration only to do ill.
    Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind, ready for any event of good or ill...

ill-assorted, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.288 18 All the geniuses are usually so ill-assorted and sickly that one is ever wishing them somewhere else.

ill-born, adj. (1)

    PI 8.74 5 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.

ill-bred, adj. (1)

    PI 8.74 5 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.

ill-clothed, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.129 27 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,- whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

ill-concealed, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.78 7 Every day, every act betrays the ill-concealed deity.

ill-disguised, adj. (1)

    F 6.22 17 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...quadrumanous, quadruped ill-disguised...

ill-doing, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.237 18 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.

Ille ego, n. (1)

    MLit 12.326 8 ...[Wieland] says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguished him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...

illegal, adj. (2)

    ET18 5.300 12 Down to a late day, marriages performed by dissenters were illegal [in England].
    HDC 11.69 5 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.

illegally, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.69 2 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...

ill-fated, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.326 10 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...

ill-favored, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.300 1 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but when the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

ill-humor, n. (1)

    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...

illiberal, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.224 6 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
    WSL 12.342 20 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.

illimitable, adj. (6)

    DSA 1.125 12 [The sentiment of virtue] makes [man] illimitable.
    Hist 2.6 3 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    Suc 7.296 25 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.
    PC 8.221 18 ...from each atom rays out illimitable influence.
    Edc1 10.158 22 By simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire...all.
    FSLN 11.226 11 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and threatening an illimitable increase.

illimitable, n. (2)

    Cir 2.313 22 ...the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    PPh 4.68 1 Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...

Illimitable, n. (1)

    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!...

Illinois, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.256 24 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...

Illinois Indians, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 26 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.

Illinois, n. (12)

    ET4 5.48 9 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans...in Missouri and the heart of Illinois...
    ET9 5.148 21 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    CbW 6.256 16 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
    ALin 11.329 21 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.330 16 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;...
    ALin 11.331 8 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    FRep 11.538 5 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana... must needs be ordinary.
    CL 12.143 20 In Illinois, everybody rides.
    CL 12.144 18 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CL 12.144 23 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.
    Let 12.403 11 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...

illiterate, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.

ill-judged, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.122 5 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government...

ill-luck, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 23 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.

ill-made, v. (1)

    ET5 5.96 15 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products, but on its manufactures, or the making well every thing which is ill-made elsewhere.

ill-natured, adj. (1)

    SA 8.79 1 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.

ills, n. (2)

    MR 1.252 4 [Love] is the one remedy for all ills...
    MMEm 10.414 2 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...

ill-spelled, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.48 19 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.

ill-suppressed, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.136 4 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches;...should be heard...

ill-timed, adj. (1)

    JBB 11.272 2 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.

illumes, v. (1)

    SHC 11.428 20 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...

illuminate, v. (3)

    CbW 6.271 12 ...if one comes who can illuminate this dark house with thoughts...he wakes in [men] the feeling of worth...
    Prch 10.222 10 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever.
    Pray 12.353 19 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...

illuminated, adj. (5)

    OS 2.288 4 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    SwM 4.140 7 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
    ET7 5.116 6 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    Insp 8.279 16 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...
    War 11.154 22 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...

illuminated, n. (1)

    Tran 1.348 17 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...

illuminated, v. (7)

    MN 1.208 5 ...from [a man] all things are illuminated to their centre.
    PNR 4.87 20 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...
    Wsp 6.240 20 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    PI 8.36 17 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    Chr2 10.108 3 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as illuminated...
    EPro 11.317 23 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity; illuminated, as they now are, by this dazzling success [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    Humb 11.458 3 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.

illuminates, v. (3)

    Nat 1.8 26 The sun illuminates only the eye of the man...
    AmS 1.108 20 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples.
    PPr 12.385 7 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air, illuminates the whole horizon, and shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

illuminating, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.182 15 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.

illuminating, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.100 16 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do, by illuminating the untried and unknown.
    Elo1 7.90 22 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts, of illuminating them...are keys which the orator holds;...

illumination, n. (19)

    LE 1.183 15 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...
    MR 1.227 17 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    Tran 1.353 6 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    OS 2.282 7 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the illumination of Swedenborg...are of this kind.
    Art1 2.352 4 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Exp 3.71 6 Do but observe the mode of our illumination.
    UGM 4.32 25 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    SwM 4.97 19 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled...
    SwM 4.100 1 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began.
    GoW 4.266 23 Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    Civ 7.25 23 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Reason...
    Elo1 7.67 1 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;...
    Dem1 10.10 9 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.
    Plu 10.298 6 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    CPL 11.506 24 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
    PLT 12.14 3 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and its settings, illumination and eclipse;...that I may learn to live with it wisely...
    II 12.65 19 Consciousness is...the taper at which all the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.
    CInt 12.123 25 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
    Milt1 12.269 8 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.

illuminations, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.111 26 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    PLT 12.34 15 [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.

illumined, v. (2)

    SA 8.83 18 Whilst certain faces are illumined with intelligence...others are marked with warnings...
    Res 8.135 4 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./

ill-used, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.24 7 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...

illusion, n. (39)

    LE 1.171 9 Take for example the French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive; there is an optical illusion in it.
    Tran 1.347 21 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Exp 3.50 4 ...there is no end to illusion.
    Exp 3.52 2 There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
    Pol1 3.199 9 Society is an illusion to the young citizen.
    NER 3.274 14 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.178 14 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    GoW 4.265 22 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes...
    ET3 5.37 16 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET4 5.61 3 Such...is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET11 5.197 14 I have no illusion left, said Sidney Smith, but the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    F 6.40 16 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing, with a new gauze or two of illusion overlaid.
    CbW 6.267 22 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...
    Ill 6.310 10 ...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.313 11 I find men victims of illusion in all parts of life.
    Ill 6.313 14 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion...is stronger than the Titans...
    Ill 6.313 21 There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm.
    Ill 6.315 25 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion.
    Ill 6.318 7 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Ill 6.319 7 There is the illusion of love...
    Ill 6.319 16 There is the illusion of time, which is very deep;...
    Ill 6.319 26 There is illusion that shall deceive even the elect.
    Ill 6.319 27 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle.
    Ill 6.322 21 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home and a severe barring out of all duplicity or illusion there.
    Ill 6.324 11 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    WD 7.172 14 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
    WD 7.173 14 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    WD 7.177 27 Another illusion is that there is not time enough for our work.
    WD 7.178 14 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    Cour 7.264 24 ...the danger of dangers is illusion.
    Cour 7.269 8 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    OA 7.317 22 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion...
    PI 8.38 6 A poet comes who...shows [mortal men] the circumstance as illusion;...
    QO 8.195 7 There is an illusion in a new phrase.
    Insp 8.293 25 We live day by day under the illusion that it is the fact or event that imports...
    Imtl 8.347 15 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state.
    PerF 10.87 15 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    SlHr 10.447 15 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion...
    Trag 12.411 10 [Tragedy] is full of illusion.

Illusion, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 25 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...

Illusionists, n. (1)

    MoS 4.177 23 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.

illusions, n. (31)

    Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense...
    Exp 3.52 1 Temperament also enters fully into the system of illusions...
    ShP 4.207 11 These tricks of [Shakespeare's] magic spoil for us the illusions of the green-room.
    Wsp 6.214 27 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
    Ill 6.312 5 The child walks amid heaps of illusions...
    Ill 6.313 6 ...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
    Ill 6.317 23 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions...
    Ill 6.319 6 There are...the structural, beneficent illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.
    Ill 6.322 18 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.
    Ill 6.323 7 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    Ill 6.324 21 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions.
    Ill 6.325 14 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they...beckoning him up to their thrones. On the instant, and incessantly, fall snow-storms of illusions.
    Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made by tribes.
    WD 7.172 25 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, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
    WD 7.175 17 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    WD 7.183 14 In stripping time of its illusions...we come to the quality of the moment...
    OA 7.316 4 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    OA 7.316 11 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time]...
    OA 7.318 20 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    Grts 8.319 13 Life is made of illusions...
    Imtl 8.329 5 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down, existing quite independently of the present illusions.
    Imtl 8.348 19 The youth puts off the illusions of the child...
    PerF 10.87 16 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.109 12 ...we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
    SovE 10.193 13 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    SovE 10.202 9 ...in trying to dispel the illusions of his neighbor, [a man] opens his own eyes.
    MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    TPar 11.287 18 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions.
    SHC 11.434 17 ...when I think of the mystery of life, its round of illusions... I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleep Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    FRep 11.536 3 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance.
    Mem 12.106 1 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

illusoriness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.55 4 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.

illusory, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.178 15 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    WD 7.172 19 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    Cour 7.265 20 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory.

illustrate, v. (8)

    AmS 1.98 7 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    Int 2.329 27 In every man's mind, some...facts remain...which others forget, and afterwards these illustrate to him important laws.
    UGM 4.21 10 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    SwM 4.105 23 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books], but they will reward him who can. His theologic works are valuable to illustrate these.
    Civ 7.32 7 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.79 15 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    Plu 10.300 20 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    EzRy 10.384 8 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...

illustrated, v. (12)

    Nat 1.41 25 It has already been illustrated, that every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
    Nat 1.53 27 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Hist 2.3 13 [The universal mind's] genius is illustrated by the entire series of days.
    Art1 2.359 10 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
    PPh 4.68 16 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    ET5 5.96 24 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    Boks 7.207 27 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Res 8.151 8 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    War 11.161 1 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness;...
    Scot 11.462 6 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    WSL 12.347 14 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.

illustrates, v. (4)

    Nat 1.42 19 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    Ctr 6.132 8 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    DL 7.130 12 ...every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
    Mem 12.98 6 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.

illustrating, v. (3)

    Tran 1.333 21 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    AKan 11.259 10 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to demoralize legislation...
    PLT 12.40 13 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?

illustration, n. (26)

    Nat 1.28 8 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    DSA 1.120 10 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.128 5 These general views...find abundant illustration in the history of religion...
    Hist 2.5 10 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.
    Comp 2.115 5 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    SL 2.145 2 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
    Int 2.332 25 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
    Int 2.346 20 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Chr1 3.91 3 ...to use a more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    NER 3.279 17 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    PNR 4.87 8 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. ... Venus is proportion; Calliope, the soul of the world; Aglaia, intellectual illustration.
    SwM 4.107 7 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration from the newest.
    ShP 4.204 27 Beside some important illustration of the history of the English stage...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    ET1 5.21 10 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration.
    ET14 5.240 23 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    Wsp 6.241 16 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have...science for symbol and illustration;...
    Elo1 7.91 6 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.94 2 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...no power of wit or learning or illustration will make any amends for want of this.
    PI 8.11 5 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of my thought, it the real worth.
    PI 8.34 7 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law and draw all tragic or joyful illustration, as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    Comc 8.167 16 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard...
    Supl 10.178 1 On the other hand,-and it is a good illustration of the difference of genius,-the European nations...understand the manufacture of iron.
    Schr 10.288 11 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    FSLC 11.202 13 ...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.
    Mem 12.92 1 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    MLit 12.327 4 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration...

illustrations, n. (11)

    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    PPh 4.55 6 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    PPh 4.59 24 [Plato's] illustrations are poetry and his jests illustrations.
    PPh 4.72 1 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from cocks and quails...
    CbW 6.276 16 ...why multiply these topics, and their illustrations...
    SA 8.91 25 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we...surround it with illustrations that help and delight us.
    Elo2 8.131 11 Your argument is ingenious...your illustrations brilliant, but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    Grts 8.320 1 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    Prch 10.223 5 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    FSLN 11.225 8 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    PLT 12.22 9 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...

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