Imperial to Incalculable

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

imperial, adj. (10)

Nat 1.52 16 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...

Hist 2.6 16 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures,--in the sacerdotal, the imperial palaces...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...

SL 2.145 27 M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.

Mrs1 3.147 18 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court;...

ET3 5.40 16 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line; as if that were an imperial centrality.

ET5 5.98 13 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.

ET15 5.272 5 [The English press] has an imperial tone...

ET19 5.311 4 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that,--this is the imperial trait...

F 6.32 14 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race...

Shak1 11.451 3 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...

Imperial Guard, n. (2)

DSA 1.149 1 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are the Imperial Guard of Virtue...

LE 1.180 19 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...

Imperial Library, Paris, F (1)

Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...

imperil, v. (1)

MoL 10.250 14 You [scholars] are to imperil your lives and fortunes for a principle.

imperilled, v. (2)

JBB 11.271 24 ...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.

EPro 11.321 8 In times like these, when the nation is imperilled, what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?

imperious, adj. (2)

Con 1.298 20 ...reform is individual and imperious.

Bty 6.293 12 I suppose the Parisian milliner who dresses the world from her imperious boudoir will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.

imperishability, n. (1)

Imtl 8.325 11 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming, to give imperishability to the corpse.

imperishable, adj. (5)

PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.

ET4 5.44 2 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...

Imtl 8.325 22 [The Greek] looked at death only as the distributor of imperishable glory.

Prch 10.223 13 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity, since it seeks to find in every nation and creed the imperishable doctrines.

Prch 10.226 1 ...the earth we stand upon is not imperishable...

imperishableness, n. (2)

AmS 1.88 8 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.

Imtl 8.335 2 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...in the noble toughness and imperishableness of the palm-tree...

impersonal, adj. (7)

MN 1.217 27 ...what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal...

Lov1 2.178 20 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...

Lov1 2.184 10 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day.

OS 2.277 11 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature...is impersonal;....

Int 2.327 10 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.

F 6.49 23 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which is...not personal nor impersonal...

CPL 11.503 11 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.

impersonal, n. (2)

OS 2.277 7 Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal.

Cir 2.313 22 ...the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...

impersonality, n. (2)

LE 1.158 13 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.

F 6.26 27 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted, the impersonality...that engage us.

impersonated, v. (2)

Nat2 3.196 17 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.

PLT 12.40 22 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being particularized or impersonated.

impersonates, v. (1)

PPh 4.57 5 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.

impersonation, n. (2)

WSL 12.338 14 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor, who may stand as a favorable impersonation of the genius of his countrymen at the present day.

WSL 12.345 25 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.

impertinence, n. (9)

SR 2.66 25 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

Lov1 2.176 13 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence...

SwM 4.135 26 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.

ET6 5.106 11 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...

Ill 6.313 3 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it would be an impertinence to break.

Elo1 7.84 1 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.

Chr2 10.94 26 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie, and our private good becomes an impertinence...

PLT 12.62 26 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual Ego, without impertinence...

CInt 12.114 27 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.

impertinencies, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.148 7 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.

impertinency, n. (1)

Ctr 6.138 5 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...

impertinent, adj. (7)

Nat 1.9 9 Nature says, - [man] is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.

SL 2.163 6 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...

Mrs1 3.141 11 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent.

Aris 10.31 2 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community...

Prch 10.224 10 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...

CPL 11.508 4 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the august presence of the creator.

MAng1 12.216 26 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty; a name which, in our artificial state of society, sounds fanciful and impertinent.

imperturbable, adj. (2)

PPh 4.73 20 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose temper was imperturbable;...

Edc1 10.144 10 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are...the imperturbable slighter of his trifling.

impetus, n. (1)

PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus;...

impieties, n. (2)

Chr2 10.105 19 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time...

Chr2 10.105 20 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.

impiety, n. (6)

SR 2.64 22 Here are the lungs of that inspiration...which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.

Cour 7.254 4 Men admire...the man...who has the impiety to make the rivers run the way he wants them;...

Chr2 10.97 6 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force] saith, I am; and he who hears it feels the impiety of wandering from this revelation to any record or to any rival.

Chr2 10.106 18 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature, and 't is an impiety to doubt.

SovE 10.200 19 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.

Plu 10.313 19 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./

impious, adj. (3)

ET5 5.83 6 [The English] are impious in their skepticism of theory...

Aris 10.64 3 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.

HDC 11.69 6 ...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.

impiously, adv. (1)

EdAd 11.382 15 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./

implanted, v. (3)

PPh 4.44 19 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...

ET4 5.54 23 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].

Prch 10.225 12 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.

implanting, v. (1)

Imtl 8.336 27 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...

implants, v. (2)

OA 7.324 22 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.

War 11.155 3 Nature implants with life the instinct of self-help...

impledge, v. (1)

LE 1.187 12 [Thought] will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.

implements, n. (2)

Wth 6.95 1 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...

PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the victims of our own arts and implements...

implicated, v. (4)

MR 1.231 13 We are all implicated of course in this charge;...

Hist 2.35 25 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world,--in which he is not less strictly implicated.

Comp 2.115 16 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...

ET16 5.285 21 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the lightness of a mullein plant, and not at all implicated with the church.

implication, n. (2)

Tran 1.357 9 ...[the strong spirits]...only by implication reject the clamorous nonsense of the hour.

Chr2 10.102 18 Character...by implication points to the source of right motive.

implicit, adj. (1)

II 12.67 3 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.

implicitly, adv. (3)

Wth 6.122 4 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...

Chr2 10.102 10 A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.

CInt 12.119 25 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that...they serve him with a million hands just as implicitly as his own members obey him.

implied, adj. (1)

Wsp 6.238 20 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...

implied, v. (7)

SwM 4.96 2 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which...is implied by the Bramins in the tenet of Transmigration.

SwM 4.116 24 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied in all poetry...

ET10 5.154 6 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...

ET15 5.263 2 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.

LS 11.14 14 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous communication is implied;...

Milt1 12.248 1 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious;...

EurB 12.374 2 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

implies, v. (12)

Nat 1.44 19 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.

AmS 1.83 7 The fable implies that the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.

Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...

Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies neither more or less of talent...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.

Civ 7.19 9 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man...

Civ 7.20 14 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 a facility of association...

Cour 7.268 15 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.

PI 8.17 20 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination;...

QO 8.201 27 [Genius] implies Will, or original force...

PC 8.217 9 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers;...

Chr2 10.91 23 Morals implies freedom and will.

Edc1 10.154 16 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...

implored, v. (1)

Elo2 8.127 21 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.

implores, v. (1)

Milt1 12.251 1 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary [Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.

imply, v. (3)

SwM 4.117 6 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.

Wsp 6.239 18 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and designs, which imply an interminable future for their play.

SS 7.4 16 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.

implying, v. (3)

Comc 8.166 30 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night, and implying a march and a conquest to-morrow,-- becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...

PC 8.210 21 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying the appearance of gifted men...

HDC 11.42 14 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power...

impolite, n. (1)

Ctr 6.164 3 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?

impolitic, adj. (1)

EWI 11.108 26 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment...that the slave-trade was as impolitic as it was unjust;...

imponderable, adj. (6)

CbW 6.247 27 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.

LLNE 10.350 6 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...

LLNE 10.350 13 ...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.

Wom 11.406 1 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.

CInt 12.129 9 Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play with all their magic undulations?

CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.

imponderable, n. (1)

PI 8.18 15 The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.

import, n. (18)

Nat 1.5 5 In enumerating the values of nature...I shall use the word...in its common and in its philosophical import.

Nat 1.26 10 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.

Nat 1.33 25 ...we repeat [proverbs] for the value of their analogical import.

LE 1.156 4 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.

Comp 2.94 16 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon. Yet what was the import of this teaching?

Comp 2.95 4 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...to push it to its extreme import,--You sin now, we shall sin by and by;...

Cir 2.316 13 For me, commerce is of trivial import;...

SwM 4.119 2 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.

GoW 4.266 2 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import unless the scholar heed it.

ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.

ET18 5.304 15 [The English] do not occupy themselves on matters of general and lasting import...

Imtl 8.334 13 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky, these puffing elements...

MMEm 10.422 24 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.

LS 11.14 21 ...the import of [St. Paul's] expression is that he had received the story [of the Last Supper] of an eye-witness such as we also possess.

EWI 11.143 1 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import.

CL 12.134 6 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/...

Milt1 12.276 12 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances.

PPr 12.391 23 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return with deeper tones and weightier import...

import, v. (15)

SL 2.132 5 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will...not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Cir 2.319 3 Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour?

PPh 4.42 22 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind.

SwM 4.123 13 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer, and of things which most import us to know.

ShP 4.208 26 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...that which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.

Pow 6.57 17 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.

Boks 7.215 11 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.

Suc 7.292 10 ...we import the religion of other nations;...

Chr2 10.111 8 A completed nation will not import its religion.

Edc1 10.131 20 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import...

Edc1 10.155 4 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.

LS 11.8 15 ...it should be granted us that, taken alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually thought...

HDC 11.70 5 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

FRep 11.533 15 We import trifles...

ACri 12.287 10 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.

importance, n. (100)

Nat 1.37 3 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...

AmS 1.84 23 The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.

AmS 1.94 4 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.

AmS 1.113 12 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.

MN 1.193 15 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...

LT 1.279 17 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...

YA 1.363 8 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.

YA 1.383 11 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs...

YA 1.393 26 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.

Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...

SL 2.154 27 The permanence of all books is fixed...by...the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Prd1 2.234 1 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...

Pt1 3.15 9 The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense;...

Pt1 3.39 26 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.

Exp 3.64 18 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...

Mrs1 3.121 3 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.

Mrs1 3.133 18 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... But do not measure the importance of this class by their pretension...

Gts 3.160 3 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Nat2 3.186 11 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance...

Nat2 3.187 21 Not less remarkable is the overfaith of each man in the importance of what he has to do or say.

Nat2 3.189 24 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance.

Pol1 3.211 25 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.

NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.

NER 3.262 7 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them.

MoS 4.168 16 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.

MoS 4.173 26 'T is of no importance what bats and oxen think.

ShP 4.192 17 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.

ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information.

ShP 4.211 19 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.

GoW 4.286 12 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise the external importance of events...

GoW 4.286 23 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...

ET1 5.6 21 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...

ET4 5.48 4 Race in the negro is of appalling importance.

ET4 5.57 7 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta. The government disappears before the importance of citizens.

ET5 5.94 14 There is no gold-mine of any importance, but there is more gold in England than in all other countries.

ET9 5.148 14 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.

ET17 5.297 16 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.

ET18 5.307 24 The English have given importance to individuals...

Pow 6.69 20 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.

Pow 6.80 17 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.

Bhr 6.184 12 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...

Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...

Bhr 6.191 22 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.

Wsp 6.201 11 I have...no belief that it is of much importance what I or any man may say...

Wsp 6.222 24 ...it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Wsp 6.229 26 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make...

CbW 6.249 3 'T is pedantry to estimate nations...other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

CbW 6.258 3 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on objects which have a brief importance...he prefers it to the universe...

CbW 6.274 11 ...see the overpowering importance of neighborhood in all association.

CbW 6.275 15 Do not make life hard to any. This point is acquiring new importance in American social life.

Civ 7.22 11 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.

Elo1 7.67 18 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...

Elo1 7.83 5 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...

Elo1 7.86 23 I remember long ago being attracted, by...the local importance of the cause, into the court-room.

DL 7.104 4 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...puts on his faces of importance;...

DL 7.129 15 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...

Boks 7.189 24 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...

Clbs 7.226 2 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...and has all degrees of importance;...

Suc 7.289 18 I could point to men in this country, of indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...

Suc 7.305 3 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...

Suc 7.305 4 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...

Suc 7.305 12 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...

OA 7.326 1 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective. Now it is of importance to his client, but of none to himself.

Elo2 8.129 3 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education, and of high importance to the matter in hand.

Elo2 8.130 21 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.

PC 8.220 8 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one...

PC 8.220 10 The importance of the one person who has the truth over nations who have it not, is because power obeys reality, and not appearance;...

Grts 8.304 12 You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your partners or yourself are of importance;...

Dem1 10.15 9 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...

Aris 10.34 11 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...

Chr2 10.101 23 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...

Chr2 10.118 12 ...in the new importance of the individual...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.

Edc1 10.125 12 We have already taken...the initial step, which for its importance might have been resisted as the most radical of revolutions... this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...

Supl 10.163 4 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...and its importance cannot be denied and hardly exaggerated.

Prch 10.223 10 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...

Prch 10.231 15 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary, and the opinions of the floating crowd of no importance whatever.

MoL 10.245 26 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.

Schr 10.268 24 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.

LLNE 10.335 15 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is acquiring greater importance every day...

LLNE 10.335 18 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.

LLNE 10.339 9 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...

Carl 10.495 23 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is...his perception of the sole importance of truth and justice;...

LS 11.20 11 The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.

LS 11.20 16 ...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper] which never can belong to any form.

LS 11.23 2 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...

HDC 11.46 23 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes...and, what seemed of at least equal importance, to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.

FSLC 11.208 4 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design...the new importance of Liberia;...all join to demand it.

FSLC 11.210 25 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her honest part.

FSLN 11.223 15 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.

TPar 11.292 22 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.

Wom 11.415 11 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century,-when her religious nature gave her, of course, new importance,-the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.

Wom 11.418 11 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...

CPL 11.497 12 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.

FRep 11.512 19 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.

PLT 12.56 1 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...

II 12.87 27 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.

CL 12.140 13 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.

ACri 12.302 23 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.

MLit 12.312 6 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.

EurB 12.372 27 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

important, adj. (86)

Nat 1.60 14 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...

Nat 1.65 2 ...[the world] differs from the body in one important respect.

MR 1.237 13 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar, hominy...by simply signing my name...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me in making all these far-fetched matters important to my comfort?

LT 1.260 4 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us to understand.

LT 1.269 16 These [modern reform] movements are on all accounts important;...

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;...

Int 2.329 27 In every man's mind, some...facts remain...which others forget, and afterwards these illustrate to him important laws.

NER 3.277 7 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

SwM 4.102 8 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...

ShP 4.195 18 Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.

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].

GoW 4.276 12 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.

ET1 5.20 4 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.

ET4 5.45 13 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.

ET5 5.93 23 [The English] have a wealth of men to fill important posts...

ET9 5.150 22 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 and in the more important ones of freedom, virtue and science.

ET11 5.185 24 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.

ET13 5.217 26 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed;...

ET15 5.271 20 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.

ET16 5.281 8 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...

F 6.25 12 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...

Pow 6.58 1 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

Bhr 6.180 16 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him...

Civ 7.26 11 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence...

Elo1 7.86 12 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.

Elo1 7.89 16 Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it, and trifles become important.

Farm 7.138 16 The farmer's office is precise and important...

WD 7.184 16 'T is not important how the hero does this or this, what what he is.

Boks 7.201 11 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history, in which the important moments and persons can be rightly set down;...

Clbs 7.243 12 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.

Clbs 7.243 19 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each country, would be an important chapter in history.

Suc 7.300 19 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...

OA 7.322 23 We still feel the force...of Newton, who made an important discovery for every one of his eighty-five years;...

OA 7.329 21 We carry in memory important anecdotes...

OA 7.332 4 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch, and nothing important passed in the conversation;...

PI 8.32 27 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.

PI 8.33 1 Shakspeare is made up of important passages...

QO 8.191 4 If an author give us...inspiring lessons...it is not so important to us whose they are.

PC 8.208 14 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man, but they have added important features to the sketch.

Insp 8.294 2 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...

Grts 8.306 4 ...Sir Humphry Davy said, when he was praised for his important discoveries, my best discovery was Michael Faraday.

Grts 8.307 4 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society.

Dem1 10.13 6 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.

Dem1 10.13 11 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.

Dem1 10.13 17 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy. If any others are important to me they will certainly be shown to me.

Aris 10.50 21 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question, not less important than either of the others...

Aris 10.55 26 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come. It is not important what they say.

Edc1 10.147 16 [The boy] can learn anything which is important to him now that the power to learn is secured...

Plu 10.309 8 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate. The part of each of the class is as important as that of the master.

Plu 10.309 11 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.

Plu 10.318 17 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.

LLNE 10.330 11 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an important intellectual class;...

LLNE 10.335 15 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results.

LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...

LLNE 10.368 23 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.

SlHr 10.442 8 [Samuel Hoar] had one side or the other of every important case...

SlHr 10.443 10 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...

Thor 10.451 13 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem, whilst yet his debt to them was important.

Thor 10.465 18 There was nothing so important to [Thoreau] as his walk;...

Thor 10.467 15 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used, more important to him than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...

Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...

Thor 10.473 17 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These...were important in [Thoreau's] eyes.

GSt 10.503 21 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy...

LS 11.4 3 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature.

LS 11.13 26 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.

HDC 11.42 13 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...

HDC 11.67 25 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

HDC 11.68 23 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...

HDC 11.82 7 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.

EWI 11.143 27 If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races...the black man must serve, and be exterminated.

FSLN 11.242 27 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.

AsSu 11.249 7 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.

SMC 11.367 13 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested...by the important position usually assigned them in the field.

SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...

Wom 11.406 17 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important.

Wom 11.415 23 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg...

Wom 11.420 8 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

Wom 11.424 19 ...whatever is popular is important, shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.

ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.

CPL 11.500 6 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.

FRep 11.529 15 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does... and what is important does reach him.

PLT 12.55 18 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism...

CInt 12.114 21 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

CInt 12.129 19 Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?

MAng1 12.235 26 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.

ACri 12.283 7 The secondary services of literature...are quite as important in letters as iron is in war.

importation, n. (6)

SwM 4.100 26 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...

SwM 4.135 16 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.

PI 8.72 10 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.

HDC 11.80 9 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...

FRep 11.522 9 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...

PLT 12.59 15 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.

imported, adj. (4)

Ctr 6.136 6 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported...

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

Thor 10.468 10 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants...

FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported book of patterns, your furniture;...

imported, v. (11)

DSA 1.138 8 Not one fact in all his experience had [the preacher] yet imported into his doctrine.

MN 1.200 1 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.

Con 1.326 10 [Man's hope] was not imported from the stock of some celestial plant...

ET13 5.214 17 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported;...

ET14 5.241 12 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence; and imported thence into the oratorical art whatever could be useful to it.

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

Civ 7.19 18 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.

Civ 7.34 7 ...if there be...a country...where the arts, such as they have, are all imported, having no indigenous life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

Chr2 10.111 5 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...

HDC 11.71 2 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...

MLit 12.318 23 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany, was imported into France by De Stael...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

importers, v. (1)

FSLC 11.181 12 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].

importing, v. (4)

ET8 5.135 20 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...

Civ 7.20 24 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.

WD 7.167 4 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...importing that the Day is the Divine Power and Manifestation...

QO 8.202 15 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god.

imports, v. (13)

Tran 1.350 22 It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, of events, or of actors, that imports.

Exp 3.80 24 What imports it whether it is Kepler and the sphere...or puss with her tail?

Mrs1 3.122 14 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.

ET14 5.232 14 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...

SS 7.16 1 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...

Civ 7.20 1 The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress.

WD 7.183 18 It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.

PI 8.69 25 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity;...

QO 8.192 22 The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

PPo 8.249 26 It is the spirit in which the song is written that imports...

Insp 8.293 26 We live day by day under the illusion that it is the fact or event that imports...

Thor 10.471 19 ...none knew better than [Thoreau] that it is not the fact that imports...

CL 12.166 10 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one. It is his relation to one, to the first, that imports.

importunacy, n. (2)

LLNE 10.348 27 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.

EPro 11.321 2 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].

importunate, adj. (6)

Exp 3.82 9 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people;...

ShP 4.191 16 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments.

ShP 4.212 25 ...Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic;...

Bhr 6.187 23 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by importunate affairs.

MAng1 12.236 15 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...

Let 12.397 12 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.

importunately, adv. (1)

Art2 7.38 8 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

importune, v. (2)

SR 2.50 16 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.

SR 2.72 5 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

importuned, v. (3)

NER 3.270 21 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...

EdAd 11.383 20 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...

MAng1 12.235 25 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.

importunities, n. (2)

Ctr 6.157 9 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities...

MAng1 12.225 10 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence].

importunity, n. (3)

LE 1.156 14 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.

Wth 6.94 3 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?

TPar 11.289 13 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion...

impose, v. (16)

LE 1.185 3 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in...working off a stint of mechanical day-labor which your necessities or the necessities of others impose.

MR 1.230 6 ...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall never impose on me again;...

YA 1.394 16 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society, and which seem to impose the alternative to resist or to avoid it.

Comp 2.112 11 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.

Prd1 2.225 11 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties which impose new restraints on the young inhabitant.

Exp 3.52 16 Some modifications the moral sentiment avails to impose, but the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.

NR 3.239 17 ...[each man] would impose his idea on others;...

NER 3.281 12 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack, which might impose on indolent men but could not impose on lovers of truth;...

NER 3.281 13 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack, which might impose on indolent men but could not impose on lovers of truth;...

UGM 4.28 21 ...every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature...

ET9 5.146 25 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...impose Wapping on the Congress of Vienna...

Bhr 6.188 13 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers, and impose on the frivolous...by these fames.

SS 7.8 10 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.

OA 7.316 18 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which does not impose on us who know how innocent of sanctity or of Platonism he is...

Chr2 10.92 12 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.

LS 11.7 25 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...and meant to impose a memorial feast upon the whole world.

imposed, v. (13)

LT 1.260 21 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.

Pol1 3.200 5 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.

UGM 4.14 9 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp...of Falkland...

NMW 4.239 27 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte] was not to be imposed upon...

ET4 5.73 5 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.

ET12 5.211 22 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write, or at all events for some by-end imposed on them, must read meanly and fragmentarily.

Edc1 10.127 27 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...

SovE 10.209 17 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful sparkles...and that is their priceless good to men, that they charm and uplift, not that they are imposed.

LLNE 10.353 1 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men...

LS 11.17 19 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.

CL 12.164 26 We are not to be imposed upon by the apparatus and the nomenclature of the physiologist.

Bost 12.204 19 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people;...

Let 12.402 6 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.

imposes, v. (5)

SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...

Bhr 6.187 5 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.

Cour 7.275 3 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal;...seeking...to have no other limitation than that which his own constitution imposes.

Edc1 10.157 4 The will, the male power...imposes its own thought and wish on others...

II 12.68 9 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble imposes on us;...

imposing, adj. (4)

Nat 1.54 25 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world...

War 11.163 22 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

War 11.164 14 Observe the ideas of the present day...see how each of these abstractions has embodied itself in an imposing apparatus in the community;...

Milt1 12.252 3 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing place in the mind of men at this hour than ever before.

imposing, v. (2)

PerF 10.83 12 We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours.

Edc1 10.137 25 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...

imposition, n. (1)

HDC 11.68 19 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...

impositions, n. (1)

DSA 1.131 7 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...

impossibilities, n. (4)

Con 1.303 15 Reform converses with possibilities, perchance with impossibilities;...

Nat2 3.195 23 In these checks and impossibilities...we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.

PPh 4.54 25 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].

Bhr 6.197 24 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself. But nature lifts her easily and without knowing it over these impossibilities...

impossibility, n. (10)

AmS 1.96 21 Observe too the impossibility of antedating this act.

Hist 2.32 6 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.

Exp 3.66 25 A man is a golden impossibility.

Exp 3.69 5 Every man is an impossibility until he is born;...

Chr1 3.99 16 Character is...the impossibility of being displaced or overset.

ET4 5.51 17 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...

ET15 5.264 21 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...

PerF 10.71 21 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them, such as...impossibility of being warped.

PerF 10.72 26 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself, the impossibility of tampering with it or warping it,-the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...

EPro 11.324 12 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.

impossible, adj. (88)

MN 1.198 14 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an... impossible ghost.

MN 1.206 14 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.

Con 1.299 24 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.

Hist 2.24 15 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...

Hist 2.30 1 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...

SR 2.87 4 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...

Comp 2.106 24 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.

Comp 2.115 10 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...

Comp 2.118 27 ...it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Lov1 2.184 8 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.

Fdsp 2.201 1 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust...in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.

Hsm1 2.264 6 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...

Exp 3.54 20 ...it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself.

Exp 3.69 6 ...every thing [is] impossible until we see a success.

Exp 3.77 7 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible...

Chr1 3.108 23 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.

Chr1 3.109 20 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...

Pol1 3.205 22 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix...

Pol1 3.221 24 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...

NR 3.234 6 Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.

NR 3.241 5 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...

UGM 4.6 4 [Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity...

UGM 4.9 2 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.

PPh 4.44 24 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.

PPh 4.48 7 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.

PPh 4.64 10 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.

MoS 4.179 17 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?

MoS 4.183 13 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.

NMW 4.226 18 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.

GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...impossible at any earlier time...

ET1 5.14 13 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse...

ET2 5.28 5 It is impossible not to personify a ship;...

ET4 5.55 22 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years,--say impossible to conquer, when one remembers the long sequel;...

ET10 5.158 1 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.

ET13 5.220 17 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...

ET18 5.306 4 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel, with a poise impossible to disturb...

Pow 6.74 10 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,--all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible.

Wth 6.112 5 Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other...

Wsp 6.209 13 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...

Wsp 6.222 26 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.

CbW 6.248 6 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will.

Civ 7.17 20 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...

DL 7.111 24 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...

DL 7.112 7 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible;...

DL 7.117 24 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...a demeanor impossible to disconcert;...

Clbs 7.247 21 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.

SA 8.79 14 ...how impossible to overcome the obstacle of an unlucky temperament and acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...

SA 8.82 10 'T is impossible but thought disposes the limbs and the walk...

SA 8.97 14 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me think that if other men were like him cooperation were impossible.

QO 8.202 24 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...

PC 8.225 15 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin; impossible to deny, impossible to believe.

Insp 8.276 26 ...says the man...the favorable hour will come...when that will be easy to do which is at this moment impossible.

Insp 8.288 14 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...

Insp 8.296 13 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.

Imtl 8.344 3 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...

Aris 10.57 26 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who...has long ago made up its conclusion that it is impossible to fail.

SovE 10.193 4 It is impossible to tilt the beam [of Divine justice].

SovE 10.202 16 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...

SovE 10.210 19 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...

Prch 10.231 24 ...it is impossible to pay no regard to the day's events...

MoL 10.257 3 It is impossible to extricate oneself from the questions in which our age is involved.

Schr 10.269 3 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with influences impossible to parry or resist.

Plu 10.313 24 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.

LLNE 10.333 10 [Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...

EzRy 10.388 25 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.

MMEm 10.431 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception...made it impossible for them to make small calculations.

GSt 10.501 7 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility, when we see how impossible it is to replace them.

LS 11.11 25 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.

HDC 11.68 3 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord].

EWI 11.120 16 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].

FSLC 11.207 26 Is it impossible to speak of [abolition] with reason and good nature?

AsSu 11.249 13 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend;...

AsSu 11.250 15 ...beyond this charge, which it is impossible was ever sincerely made, that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...

AKan 11.255 10 ...it is impossible for the most recluse to extricate himself from the questions of the times.

JBS 11.280 20 ...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.

EPro 11.323 10 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...

EPro 11.323 11 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the insatiable temper of the South made it impossible...

Wom 11.416 5 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery. It was easy to enlist Woman in this; it was impossible not to enlist her.

Wom 11.425 16 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.

Shak1 11.447 12 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...

PLT 12.6 23 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.

II 12.72 6 It is as impossible for labor to produce a sonnet of Milton...as Shakspeare's Hamlet...

II 12.84 8 This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.

Mem 12.99 10 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...

CL 12.144 15 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...

CW 12.177 26 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.

Milt1 12.254 26 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.

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...

impossible, n. (5)

MR 1.252 6 We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Con 1.301 12 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present, and require the impossible of the Future.

YA 1.389 2 /Man alone/ Can perform the impossible./

Dem1 10.17 22 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight...

Mem 12.91 6 Memory performs the impossible for man...

impossibly, adv. (1)

SHC 11.430 17 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...

impostor, n. (4)

NMW 4.256 6 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last; but with an impostor and a rogue;...

ET9 5.152 16 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.

Insp 8.284 4 To-morrow to [Mirabeau] was not the same impostor as to most others.

PerF 10.87 7 If I have not my own respect, I am an impostor...

impostors, n. (1)

OA 7.316 24 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.

imposts, n. (1)

ACiv 11.302 1 ...imposts are the cheap and right taxation;...

imposture, n. (1)

Ill 6.315 14 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff.

impotence, n. (3)

Nat 1.47 14 In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

MR 1.254 13 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of armies...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].

MoS 4.177 16 What can I do...against scrofula, lymph, impotence?...

impotent, adj. (1)

Nat2 3.170 10 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...

impound, v. (1)

CbW 6.269 11 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...impound and imprison us.

impounded, v. (1)

UGM 4.33 7 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits. Thought and feeling that break out there cannot be impounded by any fence of personality.

impoverish, v. (8)

Nat 1.45 2 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

DSA 1.123 7 ...alms never impoverish;...

LE 1.161 7 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...

MN 1.192 1 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...

UGM 4.18 22 True genius will not impoverish, but will liberate...

PC 8.227 2 Great men shall not impoverish, but enrich us.

SovE 10.206 9 You cannot impoverish man by taking away these objects above him without ruin.

SovE 10.208 4 We cannot disenchant, we cannot impoverish ourselves, by obedience;...

impoverished, v. (4)

NMW 4.258 6 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...

Wth 6.110 5 Britain, France and Germany, which our extraordinary profits had impoverished, send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.

PerF 10.82 26 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind. But they are nowise impoverished for any other mind...

LLNE 10.339 25 ...all America would have been impoverished in wanting [Channing].

impoverishes, v. (2)

Mrs1 3.153 20 [Love] impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.

Prch 10.229 10 ...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion], is the shallowness which impoverishes.

impoverishing, adj. (2)

LE 1.162 13 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...

Aris 10.56 16 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.

impoverishing, v. (2)

ET10 5.168 24 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Suc 7.296 12 We should know how to praise...Saint John, without impoverishing us.

impracticability, n. (1)

FSLC 11.186 19 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.

impracticable, adj. (4)

MoS 4.181 18 Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic...

NMW 4.248 17 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter, which all writers...had described as impracticable.

SS 7.15 14 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.

FSLC 11.209 15 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do.

impracticables, n. (1)

Clbs 7.233 4 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...then the heady men...and the impracticables.

imprecates, v. (1)

Comp 2.109 24 Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.

imprecations, n. (2)

Dem1 10.15 1 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew.

LVB 11.93 11 ...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?

impregnable, adj. (3)

ET3 5.41 14 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...

Civ 7.30 11 ...ideas are impregnable...

Elo1 7.80 25 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions. But does any one suppose himself to be quite impregnable?

impregnates, v. (1)

Nat 1.42 15 ...this moral sentiment which...impregnates the waters of the world, is caught by man...

impress, n. (1)

ET3 5.35 27 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress.

impress, v. (11)

AmS 1.91 24 [The best books] impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads.

ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.

ET1 5.20 25 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....

ET1 5.24 14 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...

ET16 5.279 22 The old times of England impress Carlyle much...

Bhr 6.188 26 Manners impress as they indicate real power.

Bty 6.288 4 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.

Suc 7.288 7 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.

PI 8.32 15 I require that the poem should impress me so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...

PLT 12.42 1 Say, what impresses me ought to impress me.

PLT 12.47 15 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.

impressed, v. (16)

Nat 1.23 9 All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world;...

Nat 1.39 13 ...we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored.

PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.

NMW 4.244 18 In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.

ET5 5.85 6 ...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilization.

Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their school-days.

WD 7.162 10 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...

SA 8.102 1 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...

MoL 10.244 8 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!

MMEm 10.414 5 ...[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 than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.

JBB 11.268 13 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.

TPar 11.285 12 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...

SHC 11.430 14 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.

II 12.82 10 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias...

II 12.87 9 One polarity is impressed on the universe and on its particles.

CL 12.135 20 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...

impresses, v. (8)

Nat 1.52 8 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast; the [poet], as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.

Clbs 7.236 19 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.

OA 7.324 20 To keep man in the planet, [Nature] impresses the terror of death.

Imtl 8.333 22 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Chr2 10.99 4 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.

FSLN 11.224 2 ...with a general ability which impresses all the world, there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster' s] writings.

PLT 12.42 1 Say, what impresses me ought to impress me.

AgMs 12.358 6 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect...

impressible, adj. (1)

Elo1 7.71 3 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.

impressing, v. (1)

PPr 12.385 12 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...

impression, n. (69)

Nat 1.5 14 ...in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, [man's operations] do not vary the result.

Nat 1.7 21 ...all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Nat 1.8 10 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.

Nat 1.23 24 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.

Nat 1.43 6 All the endless variety of things make an identical impression.

DSA 1.123 10 The least admixture of a lie, - for example...any attempt to make a good impression...will instantly vitiate the effect.

DSA 1.126 20 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].

DSA 1.129 23 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...

MN 1.203 27 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...

Hist 2.15 16 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.

SR 2.46 3 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...

SR 2.46 23 Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on [a man], and another none.

SR 2.54 7 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It...blurs the impression of your character.

SL 2.159 8 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression.

Prd1 2.230 2 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.

OS 2.288 14 In these instances [the scholar and author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue...

Cir 2.321 7 Character dulls the impression of particular events.

Cir 2.321 13 ...events pass over [the great man] without much impression.

Art1 2.358 14 Since what skill is...shown [in a work of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...it should produce a similar impression to that made by natural objects.

Exp 3.85 23 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things make no impression...

NR 3.228 11 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things.

NER 3.262 13 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.

ET1 5.7 8 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath...

ET1 5.24 21 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression of a narrow and very English mind;...

ET3 5.37 11 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power has culminated...

ET3 5.37 27 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.

ET5 5.80 16 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...and one on which words make no impression.

ET16 5.287 21 I fancied that one or two of my anecdotes made some impression on Carlyle...

ET16 5.288 20 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...and on it man seems not able to make much impression.

ET17 5.291 11 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...

F 6.24 2 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.

F 6.26 16 Where [the mind] shines...all things make a musical or pictorial impression.

Ctr 6.132 1 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Bhr 6.185 7 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are healthful.

Bhr 6.195 20 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...

Elo1 7.96 7 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor brickbats make any impression.

DL 7.133 14 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.

Farm 7.144 27 Our senses...believe only the impression of the moment...

Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature.

PI 8.11 7 First the fact; second its impression...

SA 8.97 5 ...there are...people on whom speech makes no impression;...

Elo2 8.123 22 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends... which made a profound impression on the class.

Aris 10.37 17 We like cool people...on whom events make little or no impression...

Chr2 10.95 26 ...no talent gives the impression of sanity, if wanting this [moral sentiment];...

MoL 10.247 26 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm...

Schr 10.278 10 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...

LLNE 10.331 9 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...

LLNE 10.347 6 Owen made the best impression by his rare benevolence.

SlHr 10.442 4 The impression [Samuel Hoar] made on juries was honorable to him and them.

SlHr 10.443 26 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.

SlHr 10.445 11 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression...

SlHr 10.447 14 [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...

Thor 10.465 2 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre. And this made the impression of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.

Thor 10.471 19 ...none knew better than [Thoreau] that it is not the fact that imports, but the impression or effect of the fact on your mind.

Thor 10.475 27 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression.

LS 11.8 21 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.

LS 11.8 24 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.

LS 11.17 2 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression.

HDC 11.72 19 It is said that all the services of that day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord]...

EdAd 11.393 10 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...

Scot 11.465 15 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.

PLT 12.16 1 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.

PLT 12.41 5 Every new impression on the mind is not to be derided, but is to be accounted for...

PLT 12.43 11 My measure for all subjects of science as of events is their impression on the soul.

PLT 12.54 17 [The tree or the brook]...makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.

Mem 12.98 1 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who...shares experiences like theirs. 'T is like the impression made by the same stamp in sand or in wax.

CL 12.147 18 ...Nature makes a like impression on age as on youth.

Milt1 12.262 26 ...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is that of elegance.

Trag 12.415 2 ...Temperament resists the impression of pain.

impressionability, n. (3)

Suc 7.297 7 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of impressionability...

Suc 7.301 19 ...the chief difference between man and man is a difference of impressionability.

Suc 7.303 22 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...

impressionable, adj. (9)

F 6.44 14 We are all impressionable...

F 6.44 14 Certain ideas are in the air. We are...all impressionable, but some more than others...

F 6.44 19 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first...

F 6.44 24 ...the great man...is the impressionable man;...

Wsp 6.216 25 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience, more impressionable...

Res 8.137 9 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium...

FSLC 11.180 4 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable...

Wom 11.405 14 [Women] are more delicate than men...and thus more impressionable.

PLT 12.43 12 That mind is best which is most impressionable.

impressional, adj. (1)

Ctr 6.129 4 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional/...

impressions, n. (26)

Nat 1.47 16 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

Tran 1.330 6 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of sense, admits their coherency...

Int 2.327 25 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions...

Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive organ, though you knew it not.

Pt1 3.6 5 Too feeble fall the impressions of nature on us to make us artists.

Pt1 3.42 8 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain...

ET14 5.253 9 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility to all impressions...

Wsp 6.240 18 Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions and destiny.

PI 8.15 25 The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life...

PI 8.32 19 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.

Comc 8.162 12 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.

QO 8.201 24 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world...

Dem1 10.13 5 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.

Aris 10.43 26 ...when the well-mixed man is born...capable of impressions from all things, and not too susceptible,-then no gift need be bestowed on him...

PerF 10.76 18 We define Genius to be a sensibility to all the impressions of the outer world...

PerF 10.76 20 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions...

PerF 10.82 17 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...

MMEm 10.418 10 O the power of vision, then the delicate power of the nerve which receives impressions from sounds!

AKan 11.256 4 ...all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts;...

PLT 12.64 1 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.

II 12.69 26 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.

Mem 12.101 11 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...

CL 12.158 17 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...returns more delicate impressions.

Milt1 12.257 26 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received... a rare susceptibility to impressions from external beauty.

Milt1 12.258 12 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history;...

MLit 12.328 26 ...we may here set down...the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.

impressive, adj. (16)

Pt1 3.39 4 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as, the painter and sculptor before some impressive human figures;...and each presently feels the new desire.

Nat2 3.189 8 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...

ShP 4.200 16 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.

ET6 5.106 9 It was an odd proof of this impressive [English] energy, that in my lectures I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...

ET11 5.182 6 In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more impressive.

ET14 5.248 12 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...

ET16 5.276 17 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.

Art2 7.44 18 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.

Elo1 7.74 13 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...

Elo1 7.74 23 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.

OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.

Dem1 10.3 6 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.

Supl 10.172 15 All men like an impressive fact.

LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...

ALin 11.332 22 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.

CW 12.178 5 No lesson of chemistry is more impressive to me than this chemical fact that Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.

impressively, adv. (1)

PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.

impressiveness, n. (2)

SL 2.143 13 The parts of hospitality...the impressiveness of death...royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.

ShP 4.199 3 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of something of their impressiveness.

impressment, n. (4)

ET4 5.63 23 [The English] have retained impressment, deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.

ET5 5.97 22 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen.

ET5 5.97 23 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.

ET18 5.305 15 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails.

imprimaturs, n. (1)

Milt1 12.270 4 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...

imprint, v. (1)

Int 2.329 26 In every man's mind, some...facts remain, without effort on his part to imprint them, which others forget...

imprinted, v. (3)

PNR 4.83 11 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac;...

SlHr 10.442 1 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory...

Mem 12.93 25 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.

imprints, v. (1)

Aris 10.40 20 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...

imprison, v. (4)

CbW 6.269 11 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...impound and imprison us.

DL 7.114 11 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day imprison us in lucrative labors...

PI 8.23 24 The senses imprison us...

EWI 11.133 3 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?

imprisoned, adj. (1)

MMEm 10.423 20 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!

imprisoned, v. (15)

Comp 2.125 8 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned.

SL 2.149 12 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.

Cir 2.304 17 ...the heart refuses to be imprisoned;...

Int 2.327 3 ...man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Nat2 3.196 16 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.

NR 3.243 13 ...if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.

Ctr 6.138 24 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places.

Boks 7.191 26 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes;...

PI 8.62 10 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free.

SovE 10.183 20 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form.

MMEm 10.415 6 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned...

EWI 11.133 3 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?

AKan 11.256 17 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned?

FRep 11.537 22 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's, who, we see, is much imprisoned in his backbone.

CL 12.134 8 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/ They chant the bliss of their abodes/ To man imprisoned in his own./

imprisoning, adj. (2)

LE 1.175 22 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain...

Dem1 10.6 18 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams. What compassion do these imprisoning forms awaken!

imprisoning, v. (1)

F 6.9 5 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.

imprisonment, n. (11)

LT 1.276 22 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not imprisonment...are needed...

Con 1.306 27 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward.

Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

PPh 4.51 2 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and form is imprisonment;...

MoS 4.179 20 ...all the ways of culture and greatness lead to solitary imprisonment.

ET5 5.97 19 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...and the transported felon better than the one under imprisonment.

SA 8.106 7 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds. Then poverty, famine, war, imprisonment, might be tried.

PC 8.208 26 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science; the abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt;...

MMEm 10.419 8 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.

HDC 11.31 11 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent, and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation.

FSLC 11.195 11 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.

imprisons, v. (1)

FSLC 11.192 24 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity?

improbable, adj. (2)

Ctr 6.148 14 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to...drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the year.

OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain.

improper, adj. (3)

MMEm 10.417 17 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place, which I most bitterly lament,-not because they were improper, but they arose from anger.

MAng1 12.223 4 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.

MAng1 12.241 3 [Condivi wrote] As for me...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, and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire...

improprieties, n. (1)

HDC 11.67 12 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of expression...

improve, v. (6)

ET6 5.107 20 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture. 'T is a passion which survives all others, to deck and improve it.

Wth 6.90 22 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man...has himself to thank if he do not maintain and improve his position in society.

Elo2 8.127 17 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.

EWI 11.126 2 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil;...

Wom 11.425 18 Improve and refine the men, and you do the same by the women...

FRep 11.511 8 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...

improved, adj. (3)

SR 2.86 13 The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.

ET5 5.93 12 It is England whose opinion is waited for on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.

PC 8.209 4 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the improved almshouses;...

improved, v. (6)

ET10 5.158 10 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved...

ET10 5.158 19 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention...

ET10 5.158 23 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further.

Bty 6.295 27 In our cities...any beautiful building is copied and improved upon...

HDC 11.64 23 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

AgMs 12.359 11 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year...

improvement, n. (16)

LT 1.281 19 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.

Tran 1.359 4 ...when every voice is raised...for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?

YA 1.379 14 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...

SR 2.84 10 All men plume themselves on the improvement of society...

Pol1 3.204 14 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement...

NER 3.261 23 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

NMW 4.240 24 In the time of the empire [Napoleon] directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.

ET5 5.87 5 [The English] adopt every improvement in rig, in motor, in weapons...

Civ 7.20 23 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement...

Elo2 8.112 15 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc. These must have their advocates of each improvement and each interest.

PC 8.208 27 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the improvement of prisons;...

LVB 11.90 6 We have learned with joy [the Cherokees'] improvement in the social arts.

EPro 11.319 24 [Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the nineteenth century.

FRep 11.527 7 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.

PLT 12.26 5 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...

ACri 12.292 16 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...

improvements, n. (7)

Tran 1.359 10 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...

YA 1.363 9 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.

YA 1.364 8 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.

YA 1.369 15 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.

SR 2.86 26 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...

Supl 10.178 17 Our modern improvements have been in the invention of friction matches;...

ACri 12.301 25 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

improver, n. (2)

NMW 4.252 17 [Napoleon] was...the internal improver...

EWI 11.125 24 Slavery is no scholar, no improver;...

improvers, n. (1)

QO 8.193 12 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.

improves, v. (2)

SR 2.84 11 ...no man improves.

Res 8.140 6 See...how every traveller, every laborer...improves the national tongue.

improvidence, n. (2)

Wth 6.124 20 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.

War 11.151 24 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...

improving, v. (3)

LT 1.281 8 These benefactors [the reformers] hope to raise man by improving his circumstances...

WD 7.165 8 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer...

HDC 11.41 8 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price, on the single condition of improving it.

improvisations, n. (1)

LE 1.160 24 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...

improvisators, n. (1)

Elo1 7.70 17 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators...in our translations of the Arabian Nights.

improvised, v. (2)

PPo 8.239 16 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.

EurB 12.365 16 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised.

improvising, v. (1)

Art1 2.357 26 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself improvising...

improvvisatori, n. (1)

PPo 8.239 15 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.

imprudence, n. (1)

Prd1 2.230 15 ...what man shall dare task another with imprudence?

imprudent, adj. (2)

Prd1 2.233 19 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...

SwM 4.140 20 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.

impudence, n. (3)

Chr1 3.91 18 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...

UGM 4.18 18 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

Suc 7.289 1 I have heard that Nelson used to say, Never mind the justice or the impudence, only let me succeed.

impudent, adj. (2)

Exp 3.53 9 The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness [of physicians].

Elo1 7.77 17 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...

impulse, n. (37)

LE 1.165 12 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.

MN 1.198 1 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy impulse...

LT 1.269 15 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther...and Whitefield. They have...the same noble impulse, and the same bigotry.

LT 1.276 8 The impulse [of Reform] is good, and the theory; the practice is less beautiful.

Tran 1.357 24 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius then most when his impulse is wildest;...

Hsm1 2.251 13 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.

OS 2.275 3 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...

Art1 2.352 3 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...

Exp 3.52 7 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them.

Exp 3.52 8 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.

Exp 3.74 6 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...

Nat2 3.184 8 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse...to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.

Nat2 3.184 18 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.

Nat2 3.185 4 Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse;...

Nat2 3.193 17 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...

Nat2 3.195 1 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.

MoS 4.177 22 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.

ShP 4.199 25 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor, when a thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

NMW 4.233 9 Few men have any next; they...after each action wait for an impulse from abroad.

F 6.23 8 Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul.

Ctr 6.166 14 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...

Bhr 6.192 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.

Clbs 7.231 22 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding impulse...

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 8.43 21 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...

Insp 8.272 26 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life, sometimes a religious impulse...

Imtl 8.332 13 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.

LLNE 10.361 8 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm]...

EWI 11.100 15 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...

FRO2 11.485 20 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.

FRep 11.532 12 Our people act...from external impulse.

PLT 12.10 8 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the availing ourselves of every impulse of genius...

II 12.69 19 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself, though now dim and hard to read. All depends on some instigation, some impulse.

CInt 12.124 7 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind, and in all sound minds, and the hope and impulse imparted.

MAng1 12.232 4 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.

Milt1 12.265 20 [Milton] accepts a high impulse at every risk...

MLit 12.334 25 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her beauty, one impulse of resistance and valor.

impulses, n. (20)

DSA 1.126 18 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.

DSA 1.141 8 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue...

MR 1.255 20 He who would help himself and others should not be a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue...

SR 2.50 20 ...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from below...

Hsm1 2.260 5 All men have wandering impulses...

Art1 2.368 23 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?

Pt1 3.13 7 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...

Pt1 3.35 22 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.

Chr1 3.90 2 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...

Mrs1 3.146 13 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... And these are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses.

Nat2 3.195 25 In these checks and impossibilities...we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.

GoW 4.264 24 Presentiments, impulses, cheer [the scholar].

Pow 6.64 15 ...natures with great impulses have great resources...

Ill 6.315 10 We must not carry comity too far, but we all have kind impulses in this direction.

SovE 10.203 16 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have...organized [men's] devout impulses or oracles into good institutions.

Prch 10.234 12 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...and shall not forget to come again for new impulses.

Schr 10.267 24 ...I do not wish to check your impulses to action...

Carl 10.494 25 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...

CL 12.135 21 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...

CL 12.136 1 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture. Other impulses hold us to other habits.

impulsive, adj. (4)

SL 2.133 22 We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.

Exp 3.68 8 ...[nature's] methods are saltatory and impulsive.

ET12 5.207 11 [The Englishman]...unless of an impulsive nature, is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...

PLT 12.36 23 The action of the Instinct is for the most part...regulative, rather than initiative or impulsive.

impunity, n. (9)

Con 1.303 11 ...the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream;...

Nat2 3.189 26 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance. My work may be of none, but I must not think it of none, or I shall not do it with impunity.

ET5 5.77 6 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity.

OA 7.326 9 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity...

PI 8.3 23 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...

PC 8.211 22 The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity.

EWI 11.131 16 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...

EWI 11.134 23 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims]...may with impunity be left in their chains or to the chance of chains,-then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

Wom 11.409 22 No woman can despise [ceremonies] with impunity.

impure, adj. (7)

Tran 1.340 22 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times, though impure...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.

SR 2.64 2 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...

SR 2.70 22 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.

Chr1 3.96 25 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.

Pol1 3.213 11 ...every government is an impure theocracy.

Bty 6.306 5 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...

Aris 10.36 23 ...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...

impurities, n. (1)

GoW 4.279 13 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.

impurity, n. (2)

DSA 1.122 15 He who puts off impurity, thereby puts on purity.

Art2 7.37 18 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.

imputation, n. (3)

Lov1 2.170 3 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.

ET1 5.7 10 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath,--an untamable petulance. I do not know whether the imputation were just or not...

EdAd 11.390 3 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...

impute, v. (2)

SL 2.134 8 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon;...

Art2 7.46 24 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.

imputed, adj. (1)

UGM 4.8 4 Churches believe in imputed merit.

imputed, v. (1)

ET12 5.200 2 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.

imputes, v. (3)

SwM 4.138 17 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./

Civ 7.26 21 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...

SovE 10.191 23 [Man] imputes the stroke to fortune, which in reality himself strikes.

In 1830...[Mary Moody Emer (1)

elf with some sudden ssion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...

inability, n. (1)

MR 1.250 13 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.

inaccessible, adj. (9)

Nat 1.7 20 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...

LT 1.267 2 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.

Nat2 3.193 11 Is it that beauty...in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

ShP 4.206 23 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.

ET13 5.223 10 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end: two together are inaccessible to your thought...

Farm 7.135 13 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./

Boks 7.190 17 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary...

Thor 10.484 10 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...

CPL 11.503 1 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers. Everything begins to look so slow and inaccessible.

inaccessibleness, n. (2)

Pt1 3.33 14 The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in, is wonderful.

CPL 11.507 2 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...contrasts with the slowness of fortune and the inaccessibleness of persons.

inaccuracy, n. (1)

Nat 1.5 6 In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy [of terminology] is not material;...

inaction, n. (7)

AmS 1.94 25 Inaction is cowardice...

LT 1.278 21 I must consent to inaction.

LT 1.278 24 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.

LT 1.285 6 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief; their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate action.

Tran 1.350 26 We [Transcendentalists] are miserable with inaction.

YA 1.386 16 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction...does not hear his call to go and be their king?

SL 2.162 23 Action and inaction are alike to the true.

inactive, adj. (3)

SL 2.161 7 We call the poet inactive, because he is not a president...

Pt1 3.30 2 If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.

SMC 11.372 15 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.

inactivity, n. (5)

DSA 1.142 16 ...there have been periods when, from the inactivity of the intellect on certain truths, a greater faith was possible in names and persons.

Prch 10.219 8 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur.

HDC 11.58 9 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.

SMC 11.372 11 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two; whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac.

Humb 11.456 6 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity.

inadequacy, n. (4)

LT 1.283 7 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still.

Prch 10.218 6 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...

WSL 12.348 6 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence...

Let 12.393 14 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...and the total inadequacy of the present system of defence, that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

inadequate, adj. (11)

LT 1.277 10 [The Reforms] are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form...

LT 1.285 7 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief; their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate action.

Nat2 3.189 16 A man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate.

GoW 4.281 27 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate?

ET10 5.170 3 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities. But the antidotes are frightfully inadequate...

ET14 5.249 3 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.

ET16 5.289 2 ...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.

F 6.19 11 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...

Imtl 8.346 12 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering, but attempt to ground it, and the reasons are all vanishing and inadequate.

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.

MAng1 12.232 17 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.

inadmissible, adj. (2)

Farm 7.153 13 ...[the farmer] would not shine in palaces; he is absolutely unknown and inadmissible therein;...

Chr2 10.115 19 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim of positive authority...

inalienable, adj. (1)

FSLC 11.187 15 A man's right to liberty is as inalienable as his right to life.

inanimate, adj. (3)

Pt1 3.20 15 The poet...puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object.

UGM 4.11 27 ...all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.

Dem1 10.17 11 I believed that I discovered in nature, animate and inanimate...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...

inanition, n. (1)

Comc 8.174 3 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition...

inapplicable, adj. (1)

MR 1.236 16 The use of manual labor...is inapplicable to no person.

inapprehensible, adj. (1)

MN 1.216 5 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses;...

inapprehensive, adj. (1)

Edc1 10.136 19 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.

inaptitude, n. (2)

Prd1 2.228 21 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.

Trag 12.408 25 After we have enumerated famine, fever, inaptitude...we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

inarticulate, adj. (3)

DSA 1.134 12 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Pol1 3.204 6 ...there is an instinctive sense, however obscure and yet inarticulate, that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...

ET6 5.104 14 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;...

inartificial, adj. (1)

NER 3.280 5 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.

inasmuch, adv. (21)

YA 1.363 17 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...

YA 1.366 17 ...the walks of trade were crowded, whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be, inasmuch as the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread...

YA 1.387 7 If society were transparent, the noble...would be felt as benefit, inasmuch as he was noble.

SR 2.69 24 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.

Comp 2.121 13 [Nothing, Falsehood] is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.

Comp 2.121 21 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.

Art1 2.353 15 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give, inasmuch as the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...

NER 3.256 13 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...

UGM 4.12 26 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.

SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.

ET14 5.245 11 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.

Wth 6.90 25 The subject of economy mixes itself with morals, inasmuch as it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.

Ctr 6.133 19 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it...

Cour 7.271 16 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown.

QO 8.192 17 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.

Dem1 10.9 21 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams], inasmuch as they originate from us, may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.

Schr 10.281 11 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.

Schr 10.281 12 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.

EWI 11.123 4 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations...

SMC 11.369 15 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home.

EurB 12.374 18 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power does not flow from its legitimate fountains in the mind...

inattention, n. (1)

Prd1 2.228 19 ...the discomfort of...inattention to the wants of to-morrow, is of no nation.

inaudible, adj. (1)

SR 2.49 24 These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

inaugurate, v. (2)

LLNE 10.342 16 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...

ACiv 11.307 3 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...

inaugurated, v. (1)

Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which his books and Byron's inaugurated;...

inauguration, n. (1)

NMW 4.246 19 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz, which was the anniversary of his inauguration as Emperor, presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.

inborn, adj. (3)

Hist 2.26 15 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...

SR 2.89 10 He who knows that power is inborn...instantly rights himself...

PLT 12.40 16 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.

Inca, n. (1)

Hist 2.28 18 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.

incalculable, adj. (12)

LE 1.180 2 ...[Napoleon] believed...in the...quite incalculable force of the soul.

LT 1.263 7 [Persons] are an incalculable energy which countervails all other forces in nature...

OS 2.268 6 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.

Cir 2.320 14 ...the masterpieces of God...he hideth; they are incalculable.

Int 2.328 4 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...

ET19 5.313 10 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes, fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.

F 6.8 12 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...

Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.

FSLC 11.199 15 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections;...

ALin 11.331 5 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable.

Milt1 12.253 19 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries (always an incalculable influence) we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.

ACri 12.305 11 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...is always a new and incalculable result...

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