Indicate to Infantine

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

indicate, v. (52)

    Nat 1.50 10 Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture.
    Nat 1.59 11 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
    DSA 1.144 15 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    LE 1.170 12 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    LT 1.262 5 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    LT 1.265 9 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.265 10 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.284 7 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur, but the world shall take that course which the demonstration of the truth shall indicate.
    YA 1.372 8 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
    YA 1.384 16 This is the value of the Communities;...the revolution which they indicate as on the way.
    Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
    Comp 2.96 12 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Comp 2.101 1 These appearances indicate the fact that the universe is represented in every one of its particles.
    Lov1 2.182 21 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
    Prd1 2.222 20 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
    Hsm1 2.249 12 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.270 4 ...I desire...to indicate the heaven of this deity...
    OS 2.279 25 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    Chr1 3.100 18 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...
    Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
    ET14 5.236 20 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone.
    ET14 5.242 22 I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
    Wth 6.104 3 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Bhr 6.177 15 The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul...
    Bhr 6.188 26 Manners impress as they indicate real power.
    Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
    Wsp 6.215 13 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Farm 7.142 7 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom, to tie the thread when the wheel stops to indicate that a thread is broken, is called a minder.
    OA 7.318 10 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
    PI 8.13 10 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift...
    Elo2 8.132 10 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    Elo2 8.132 13 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Grts 8.319 3 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Imtl 8.337 13 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Dem1 10.10 25 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    Aris 10.51 6 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives].
    Aris 10.59 8 ...we can only indicate [grand interests] to show how high is the range of the realm of Honor.
    Chr2 10.102 12 This steadfastness we indicate when we praise character.
    Chr2 10.117 24 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
    Edc1 10.126 8 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    Supl 10.164 23 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.
    Plu 10.304 4 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a poet and an orator...
    Thor 10.471 14 [Thoreau's] power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses.
    HDC 11.64 18 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    EWI 11.132 4 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    War 11.151 2 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    FRO1 11.478 24 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    PLT 12.17 16 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect]...
    II 12.67 11 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    MAng1 12.227 27 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].

indicated, v. (11)

    Tran 1.350 9 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    PNR 4.86 15 [Plato] has indicated every eminent point in speculation.
    ET18 5.302 22 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    Elo1 7.82 3 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance; and the predominance of either is indicated by the choice of topic.
    PC 8.226 6 The benefactors we have indicated were exceptional men...
    LLNE 10.369 25 If I have owed much to the special influences I have indicated, I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    Thor 10.462 3 ...the relation of body to mind [in Thoreau] was still finer than we have indicated.
    EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
    Milt1 12.248 10 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    WSL 12.346 5 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].

indicates, v. (30)

    YA 1.372 4 [That Genius] indicates itself by a small excess of good...
    YA 1.380 8 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    Hist 2.10 16 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    Comp 2.112 4 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
    Cir 2.311 22 The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.
    PPh 4.65 7 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes.
    ET4 5.73 14 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    Ctr 6.152 25 A gorgeous livery [in England] indicates new and awkward city wealth.
    Ctr 6.159 26 ...[a cheerful intelligent face] indicates the purpose of nature and wisdom attained.
    CbW 6.264 13 The joy of the spirit indicates its strength.
    CbW 6.273 6 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz, who indicates this relation as the test of mental health...
    Cour 7.258 1 ...the high price of courage indicates the general timidity.
    Cour 7.274 22 Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world;...
    OA 7.328 1 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
    PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    SA 8.84 3 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    Elo2 8.117 10 No act indicates more universal health than eloquence.
    Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility...
    Elo2 8.120 16 The voice...soon indicates what is the range of the speaker's mind.
    QO 8.186 24 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.
    QO 8.189 16 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    PPo 8.248 12 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    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;...
    Dem1 10.27 18 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    Aris 10.36 10 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities.
    SovE 10.200 3 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...
    Plu 10.307 6 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles;...
    LS 11.8 19 ...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.
    FRep 11.532 1 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe...
    Milt1 12.267 6 ...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.

indicating, v. (8)

    LT 1.289 25 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
    SwM 4.122 27 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects...and opened the future world by indicating the continuity of the same laws.
    WD 7.167 5 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...
    Boks 7.202 20 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus, indicating the respect he inspired among his contemporaries.
    PI 8.7 14 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    QO 8.177 9 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption, indicating the sweetness of the act.
    Chr2 10.97 3 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...all indicating its power and its latency.
    Humb 11.457 24 There is no book like [Humboldt's Cosmos]; none indicating such a battalion of powers.

indication, n. (5)

    LE 1.171 2 As yet we have nothing but tendency and indication.
    NER 3.260 17 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.267 18 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man, which the heart is preaching to us in these days...
    Bhr 6.181 11 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    LVB 11.95 13 I will not hide from you [Van Buren], as an indication of the alarming distrust, that a letter addressed as mine is, and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

indications, n. (1)

    NR 3.234 26 Anomalous facts...are of ideal use. They are good indications.

indicative, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority.. .
    CbW 6.260 4 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    Wom 11.406 3 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events. Their very dolls are indicative.

indicators, n. (3)

    LT 1.265 9 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    UGM 4.16 12 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    UGM 4.16 14 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.

indictable, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.133 6 The sufferers [from egotism]...reveal their indictable crimes...

Indies, East, n. (4)

    ET8 5.129 20 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET8 5.137 13 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the East Indies, the Laws of Menu;...
    EWI 11.111 19 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    PPr 12.390 20 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...with trade-nobility, and East and West Indies for dependencies; and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

Indies, n. (5)

    AmS 1.92 27 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    AmS 1.93 1 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    Con 1.311 20 ...for thee both Indies smile;...
    ET8 5.137 8 The English did not calculate the conquest of the Indies. It fell to their character.
    Ill 6.318 8 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.

Indies, West, n. (11)

    MR 1.231 20 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    ET8 5.129 20 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET8 5.137 12 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the West Indies, the edicts of the Spanish Cortes;...
    ET18 5.301 15 [The English] have abolished slavery in the West Indies...
    Thor 10.465 23 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to the West Indies...
    HDC 11.56 19 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships, and found the way to the West Indies...
    EWI 11.107 26 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    EWI 11.142 7 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    EPro 11.315 22 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the British emancipation of slaves in the West Indies...
    PPr 12.390 20 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...with trade-nobility, and East and West Indies for dependencies; and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

indifference, n. (12)

    SR 2.81 23 Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    Nat2 3.178 1 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature], concerning which no sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.
    ET8 5.130 24 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    Ctr 6.160 6 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    DL 7.118 14 The great make us feel...the indifference of circumstances.
    Cour 7.253 4 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct... practical power...courage...
    QO 8.192 21 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
    Prch 10.217 3 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    HDC 11.68 9 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    Koss 11.400 22 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property...you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    FRep 11.536 21 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.

indifferency, n. (12)

    Comp 2.100 21 The true life and satisfactions of man seem...to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances.
    Comp 2.120 12 Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances.
    Comp 2.120 17 ...the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.
    Cir 2.317 21 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived...at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions...
    Art1 2.357 2 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
    Exp 3.59 12 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Exp 3.59 14 The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.
    CbW 6.270 16 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    Cour 7.265 25 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how short is the longest arm of malice...
    Aris 10.61 7 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    Thor 10.468 27 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    Milt1 12.266 12 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.

indifferent, adj. (22)

    DSA 1.139 13 There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
    LE 1.169 18 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art, yet is not indifferent to any passenger.
    YA 1.367 26 A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live.
    YA 1.368 13 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    SR 2.61 6 The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.
    Comp 2.120 22 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...all actions are indifferent.
    Pt1 3.8 18 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.
    ShP 4.214 2 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that...more or fewer pictures, is a thing indifferent.
    F 6.41 10 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations...
    Pow 6.80 3 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    Wth 6.107 9 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want; the pattern is quite indifferent to him;...
    Clbs 7.248 12 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    PI 8.34 9 The subject [of poetry]...is indifferent.
    Comc 8.164 25 In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony indifferent.
    Grts 8.303 15 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Schr 10.286 18 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm, is, in short, indifferent;...
    LLNE 10.340 25 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were chatting agreeably on indifferent matters...
    RBur 11.441 9 It was indifferent-they thought who saw him-whether [Burns] wrote verse or not...
    PLT 12.35 10 Indifferent to the dignity of its function, [Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    II 12.69 23 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile? That force or flame is alone to be considered; 't is indifferent on what it is fed.
    II 12.72 6 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    CL 12.150 10 I am a very indifferent botanist...

indifferent, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.249 19 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent...

indifferentism, n. (4)

    MoS 4.154 1 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of thinking is that it runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
    Wsp 6.207 15 ...is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    SovE 10.207 10 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented, and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism.
    FSLN 11.242 5 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.

indifferently, adv. (11)

    Art1 2.360 23 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Gts 3.165 3 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe. Let him give kingdoms of flower-leaves indifferently.
    ShP 4.213 20 ...[Shakespeare] could paint...the tragic and the comic indifferently...
    Wth 6.106 11 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.
    CbW 6.269 1 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers, indifferently with prophet or friend, will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    Elo1 7.86 16 ...it is the certainty with which, indifferently in any affair that is well handled, the truth stares us in the face...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    WD 7.181 25 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    Aris 10.32 18 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
    Chr2 10.117 7 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...and indifferently in high and low conditions.
    Thor 10.470 24 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day.
    Bost 12.189 23 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.

indigence, n. (4)

    Tran 1.354 13 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    Exp 3.45 18 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature...
    NER 3.274 9 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature...
    Schr 10.278 1 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.

indigenous, adj. (3)

    Civ 7.34 8 ...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;...
    Art2 7.57 11 ...[beauty, truth and goodness] are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece.
    Thor 10.468 8 [Thoreau] was the attorney of the indigenous plants...

indigent, adj. (4)

    MN 1.195 19 There is somewhat indigent and tedious about [great men].
    DL 7.118 12 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    PI 8.18 8 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity.
    CPL 11.503 4 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.

indigestion, n. (4)

    MoS 4.176 14 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET8 5.133 10 There are multitudes of rude young English...who, with their disdain of the rest of mankind and with this indigestion and choler, have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    Farm 7.150 22 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
    Mem 12.107 6 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.

indignabundus, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 5 Ab iniquo certamine indignabundus recessit.

indignant, adj. (4)

    GSt 10.504 20 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior...
    EWI 11.100 25 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. ... Let us withhold...if we can, every indignant remark.
    TPar 11.290 25 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    Milt1 12.276 26 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.

indignantly, adv. (1)

    TPar 11.291 27 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing, now cheerfully, now indignantly, but always because he must...

indignation, n. (37)

    Nat 1.48 26 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.58 18 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
    Con 1.313 1 ...it might temper your indignation at the supposed wrong which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how society got into this predicament?
    YA 1.389 16 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Hist 2.28 23 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation...is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.38 2 Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage...
    SR 2.56 16 ...when to [the cultivated classes'] feminine rage the indignation of the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Comp 2.117 22 The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
    Comp 2.123 21 How can Less not feel the pain; how not feel indignation or malevolence towards More?
    SL 2.157 17 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not, though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
    Chr1 3.107 4 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...
    PPh 4.58 7 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    ET1 5.10 5 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor...for wisdom, wit, and indignation that are unforgetable.
    Pow 6.65 23 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    Bhr 6.176 1 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he; he knew that it had got to pipe, or wheeze, or screech his argument and his indignation.
    Elo1 7.61 11 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a third needs an antagonist, or a hot indignation;...
    Elo1 7.76 6 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation...
    Clbs 7.234 14 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    Cour 7.257 16 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
    Elo2 8.122 21 If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.122 23 ...a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Comc 8.160 6 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
    Edc1 10.136 23 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    Plu 10.305 24 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    LLNE 10.338 5 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    LLNE 10.351 23 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...the indignation they felt and uttered in the presence of so much social misery, commanded our attention and respect.
    Carl 10.495 4 [Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
    HDC 11.63 14 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.
    EWI 11.111 26 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation.
    EWI 11.137 6 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    FSLC 11.193 23 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    JBS 11.278 17 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    FRep 11.529 17 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...
    Milt1 12.249 21 ...the piece [a tract by Milton] shows all the rambles and resources of indignation...

indignity, n. (1)

    Thor 10.485 1 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.

indirect, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.8 16 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies, or with other people? Indirect service is left.

indirection, n. (3)

    ET12 5.210 6 Whether in course or by indirection...education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    WD 7.181 1 Everything in the universe goes by indirection.
    FSLC 11.187 5 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used.

indirections, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.24 13 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Ill 6.318 1 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it...

indirectly, adv. (1)

    OS 2.295 2 Whenever the appeal is made,--no matter how indirectly,--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.

indiscreet, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.146 21 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...

indiscretion, n. (3)

    ET11 5.192 10 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten thousand a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET15 5.268 8 The [London] Times never...cripples itself by apology for... the indiscretion of him who held the pen.
    EWI 11.104 21 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.

indispensable, adj. (32)

    AmS 1.93 17 Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.
    AmS 1.93 19 Colleges...have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    SL 2.145 22 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    Mrs1 3.150 4 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    NR 3.240 5 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    UGM 4.27 17 ...it is human nature's indispensable defence. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite...
    MoS 4.158 22 Culture, how indispensable!...
    ET5 5.84 1 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples...
    ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen.
    CbW 6.271 14 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have, how indispensable each is...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    SS 7.6 12 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable;...
    Civ 7.26 12 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence, though not quite indispensable...
    Art2 7.45 12 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these...are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a higher delight, but to which these are indispensable.
    WD 7.158 27 ...our common and indispensable utensils of house and farm are new;...
    Boks 7.221 15 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...and every other shall then decide whether this is a book indispensable to him also.
    Suc 7.289 17 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;...
    Grts 8.302 17 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These...and not the strong arm and brave heart, which are also indispensable to their defence.
    Chr2 10.107 23 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base...
    SovE 10.211 2 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like...to test his own reality by making himself useful and indispensable?
    Schr 10.275 17 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.
    MMEm 10.417 2 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.429 1 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    GSt 10.505 6 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    LS 11.24 22 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    EWI 11.144 4 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
    ChiE 11.472 11 I need not mention [China's] useful arts,-its pottery indispensable to the world...
    ChiE 11.473 25 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life, to whose distinctions it is made an indispensable passport.
    EurB 12.376 17 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful...
    EurB 12.376 19 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful, as in mechanics or agriculture or other indispensable art;...
    EurB 12.376 24 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...

indispensably, adv. (1)

    ET3 5.38 2 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...

indispose, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.97 17 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.

indisposed, adj. (3)

    LE 1.157 14 ...men here, as elsewhere, are indisposed to innovation...
    ET12 5.207 11 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...
    ET17 5.294 16 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed...

indisposes, v. (2)

    MR 1.241 15 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    FRO2 11.488 14 This claim [of miraculour dispensation] impairs, to my mind, the soundness of him who makes it, and indisposes us to his communion.

indisposition, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.429 10 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.

indisputable, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.66 21 ...a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation...
    Con 1.298 14 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations, reform on his indisputable infinitude;...
    Con 1.304 26 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    ET4 5.51 19 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...
    F 6.17 23 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...or Fulton; the indisputable inventor.
    FSLN 11.227 4 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them, not that they can give evidence to what is indisputable...
    PLT 12.38 22 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them, so that it becomes more indisputable.
    PLT 12.41 7 Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.
    Milt1 12.248 1 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious;...

indissoluble, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 19 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...

indissolubly, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.49 17 In [the senses' and the unrenewed understanding's] view man and nature are indissolubly joined.
    Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...

indistinct, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.147 21 The sentiment of Right, once very low and indistinct... pronounces Freedom.

indite, v. (1)

    Insp 8.278 17 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./

inditing, v. (1)

    Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.

individual, adj. (69)

    Nat 1.16 3 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.27 5 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life...
    Nat 1.38 11 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are...sundered and individual.
    AmS 1.85 17 To the young mind every thing is individual...
    LE 1.165 8 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    MN 1.193 6 Men...do not honor any individual citizen;...
    MN 1.206 1 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    MN 1.206 7 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...
    Con 1.298 19 ...reform is individual and imperious.
    Tran 1.330 2 ...the idealist [insists]...on individual culture.
    Hist 2.3 1 There is one mind common to all individual men.
    Hist 2.4 10 If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
    Hist 2.4 20 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.
    Hist 2.17 16 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Fdsp 2.194 21 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...
    Hsm1 2.248 9 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...
    Hsm1 2.250 21 ...[heroism] is the extreme of individual nature.
    OS 2.281 5 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    OS 2.282 18 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    OS 2.289 23 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    Cir 2.304 6 The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Art1 2.353 15 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.354 17 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Pt1 3.26 22 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
    Pt1 3.28 9 ...[these stimulants] help [man] to escape the custody...of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
    Pt1 3.34 20 Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
    Exp 3.52 17 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.95 15 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Chr1 3.96 1 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Nat2 3.194 14 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    NER 3.265 27 ...concert is...neither more nor less potent, than individual force.
    NER 3.266 12 When the individual is not individual, but is dual;...what concert can be?
    PNR 4.81 12 ...the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...
    SwM 4.121 9 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts...
    ShP 4.212 5 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...
    GoW 4.270 17 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture...has smoothed down all sharp individual traits;...
    ET5 5.86 4 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET5 5.87 4 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
    ET9 5.144 2 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.
    ET9 5.151 16 Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.
    Art2 7.48 14 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature, and everything individual abstracted...
    Art2 7.50 24 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber. The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.
    DL 7.126 7 Every individual nature has its own beauty.
    DL 7.127 24 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Boks 7.209 4 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled, as dependent on individual caprice.
    Suc 7.297 4 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    PC 8.215 17 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    Grts 8.302 22 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Grts 8.307 13 ...every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Grts 8.312 3 With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
    Aris 10.36 25 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.94 16 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    Chr2 10.118 16 In the present tendency of our society...when counties and towns are resisting centralization, and the individual voter his party,- society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    SovE 10.198 2 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will.
    Prch 10.219 1 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    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.
    LS 11.18 7 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    HDC 11.48 9 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings].
    War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    ACiv 11.310 20 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...
    Wom 11.425 5 ...forever it is individual force that interests.
    PLT 12.27 21 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    PLT 12.27 25 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world. An individual mind in like manner is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    PLT 12.32 3 ...individual men have secret senses, each some incommunicable sagacity.
    PLT 12.47 8 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them.
    II 12.77 5 Intellect is universal not individual.
    WSL 12.344 2 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age...
    Let 12.392 5 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

individual, n. (143)

    Nat 1.20 3 ..the universe is the property of every individual in it.
    Nat 1.38 5 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    Nat 1.42 18 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    Nat 1.62 10 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual...
    Nat 1.62 11 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it.
    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.
    AmS 1.109 9 ...I believe each individual passes through all three [epochs].
    AmS 1.113 14 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    LE 1.162 15 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
    LE 1.173 4 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual...
    MN 1.201 10 There is...no detachment of an individual.
    MN 1.205 4 The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
    MN 1.217 7 ...[Love] is that in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...
    MR 1.233 3 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual.
    MR 1.236 13 ...there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of [manual labor].
    MR 1.241 19 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    Tran 1.340 23 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times, though...as yet not incarnated in any powerful individual, will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    YA 1.371 22 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided,-the race never dying, the individual never spared...
    YA 1.378 7 Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
    YA 1.391 14 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
    Hist 2.13 15 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    Hist 2.22 4 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle, in the nation and in the individual.
    Hist 2.23 16 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    Hist 2.28 11 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.51 6 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
    Comp 2.97 15 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in each individual of every animal tribe.
    Comp 2.124 27 In proportion to the vigor of the individual these revolutions are frequent...
    OS 2.271 13 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself.
    OS 2.274 24 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
    OS 2.281 16 Every moment when the individual feels himself invaded by [the soul] is memorable.
    OS 2.281 21 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
    Int 2.326 13 The intellect goes out of the individual...
    Int 2.327 21 God enters by a private door into every individual.
    Art1 2.358 17 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Pt1 3.23 12 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she detaches from him a new self, that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is exposed.
    Exp 3.53 23 I had fancied that the value of life lay...in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new individual, what may befall me.
    Exp 3.69 24 The individual is always mistaken.
    Exp 3.70 1 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken.
    Chr1 3.96 2 An individual is an encloser.
    Mrs1 3.121 12 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.131 26 ...the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
    Mrs1 3.143 25 There is not only the right of conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for the time;...
    Mrs1 3.149 11 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    Nat2 3.184 27 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself...through the history and performances of every individual.
    Pol1 3.219 6 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution;...
    Pol1 3.219 16 [The movement toward self-government] separates the individual from all party...
    Pol1 3.221 14 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    NR 3.226 20 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    NR 3.230 18 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    NR 3.230 22 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NR 3.231 4 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    NR 3.231 25 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with the compensations) in the individual also.
    NR 3.241 9 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NR 3.243 22 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NER 3.254 9 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church...
    NER 3.260 18 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.266 11 When the individual is not individual, but is dual;...what concert can be?
    UGM 4.28 19 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    UGM 4.33 4 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    UGM 4.34 20 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective...
    UGM 4.34 21 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself...
    PPh 4.45 20 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    SwM 4.133 3 There is no individual in [Swedenborg's system of the world].
    SwM 4.133 7 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie...cold and still. What seems an individual and a will, is none.
    ShP 4.189 22 The Genius of our life...will not have any individual great, except through the general.
    NMW 4.253 19 The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    ET4 5.46 23 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET9 5.144 9 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living...
    ET10 5.166 16 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual...
    ET13 5.229 25 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...
    F 6.4 7 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the significance of the individual...
    F 6.4 18 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world...
    F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.
    F 6.11 16 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker.
    F 6.11 19 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.13 5 ...in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    F 6.35 24 Behind every individual closes organization;...
    Pow 6.69 22 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Wth 6.96 26 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    Ctr 6.134 11 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.
    Ctr 6.138 20 Nature is reckless of the individual.
    Bhr 6.169 12 The visible carriage or action of the individual...we call manners.
    Wsp 6.219 14 ...though the new element of freedom and an individual has been admitted, yet the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    Wsp 6.236 17 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged.
    SS 7.10 5 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth...where the individual is lost in his source.
    SS 7.13 15 In society, high advantages are set down to the individual as disqualifications.
    Civ 7.23 23 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    Art2 7.40 18 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
    Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
    Elo1 7.83 4 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion, between the demands of the hour and the prepossession of the individual.
    PI 8.32 14 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself...with the local and individual.
    PI 8.39 8 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
    PI 8.44 18 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors, but also in the bearing and behavior and style of each individual.
    QO 8.192 16 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth is the property of no individual...
    QO 8.200 7 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's...
    QO 8.201 1 ...there remains the indefeasible persistency of the individual to be himself.
    PC 8.217 12 Culture alters the political status of an individual.
    Grts 8.307 6 ...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. We call this specialty the bias of each individual.
    Imtl 8.333 11 The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world; which infinity reappears in every particle, the powers of all society in every individual...
    Imtl 8.343 1 Nature never spares the individual;...
    Dem1 10.9 20 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us. Of all it is true that the reason of them is always latent in the individual.
    Dem1 10.18 13 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
    Dem1 10.20 4 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual...
    Aris 10.33 24 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual...
    Aris 10.33 27 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual...
    PerF 10.72 6 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual;...
    Chr2 10.93 13 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    Chr2 10.94 1 The antagonist nature is the individual...
    Chr2 10.94 5 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual...
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.94 12 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.118 12 ...in the new importance of the individual...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Edc1 10.126 24 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race. Each individual must be taught anew.
    Edc1 10.129 15 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    Edc1 10.133 17 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    SovE 10.198 6 ...Religion is...the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    Schr 10.277 18 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference...
    LLNE 10.326 11 The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual...
    LLNE 10.326 15 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.327 15 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means; the end being the enlargement and independency of the individual.
    LLNE 10.352 23 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world.
    EzRy 10.394 12 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    MMEm 10.421 14 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
    HDC 11.30 10 ...the race survives whilst the individual dies.
    HDC 11.47 1 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government...
    War 11.167 11 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men.
    EdAd 11.390 1 The State, like the individual, should rest on an ideal basis.
    SHC 11.430 13 ...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.
    Humb 11.456 2 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 compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    FRep 11.516 10 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the human individual.
    PLT 12.21 1 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...
    PLT 12.39 16 ...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men... the power of genius to hurl a new individual into the world.
    PLT 12.53 11 I must think...that we have in the race the sketch of a man which no individual comes up to.
    PLT 12.60 26 These elements [mind and heart] always coexist in every normal individual...
    II 12.66 20 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts; as for example, of the continuity of the individual...
    II 12.87 11 As the whole has its law, so each individual has his genius.
    II 12.87 14 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
    Mem 12.90 14 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    MAng1 12.237 22 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual.
    MAng1 12.243 8 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?
    MLit 12.314 15 A man may say I, and never refer to himself as an individual;...
    Trag 12.408 4 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.
    Trag 12.416 7 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition...

Individual, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.215 24 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...

individualism, n. (13)

    NER 3.267 17 The union must be ideal in actual individualism.
    UGM 4.23 17 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism;...
    PPh 4.77 20 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism.
    SwM 4.134 6 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism.
    SwM 4.140 16 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...
    MoS 4.179 27 ...the excellence of each [man] is an inflamed individualism which separates him more.
    Ctr 6.132 18 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Wsp 6.214 3 The energetic action of the times develops individualism...
    Boks 7.215 22 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does...
    FRep 11.534 5 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is...to extinguish individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.
    PLT 12.7 22 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PLT 12.50 18 The excess of individualism, when it is not corrected...makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    II 12.86 9 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.

individualities, n. (1)

    PLT 12.53 23 Don't fear to push these individualities to their farthest divergence.

individuality, n. (10)

    NR 3.245 24 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
    UGM 4.28 15 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    ET5 5.99 14 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
    Ctr 6.134 13 This individuality is not only not inconsistent with culture, but is the basis of it.
    Bty 6.303 20 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality.
    Art2 7.37 19 ...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.
    Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our individuality from acting.
    Dem1 10.22 14 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    Edc1 10.137 15 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    Milt1 12.276 2 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their individuality vanishes...

individualized, v. (2)

    Hist 2.21 9 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
    ET4 5.57 4 [The Heimskringla's] portraits, like Homer's, are strongly individualized.

individualizing, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.186 2 The child...individualizing everything, generalizing nothing... lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.

individually, adv. (2)

    Cir 2.303 19 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will...these leaves hang so individually considerable?
    PI 8.8 20 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...

individuals, n. (89)

    Nat 1.67 6 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom...
    Nat 1.70 22 In the cycle of the universal man, from whom the known individuals proceed, centuries are points...
    AmS 1.83 4 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals...
    AmS 1.109 7 With the views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals, I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    LE 1.156 3 The few scholars in each country...seem to me not individuals, but societies;...
    LE 1.164 26 The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all individuals.
    MN 1.201 14 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals.
    MN 1.210 15 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    MN 1.210 20 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    LT 1.262 7 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    LT 1.268 17 ...this [conservative] class...is respectable only as nature is; but the individuals have no attraction for us.
    YA 1.373 9 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist, reserving all profits to the community, without dividend to individuals.
    YA 1.391 8 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    Hist 2.13 16 Genius detects...through countless individuals the fixed species;...
    Hist 2.22 21 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...
    Hist 2.26 13 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.
    Comp 2.120 10 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals...
    SL 2.141 22 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals...
    Fdsp 2.207 12 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul...
    Fdsp 2.208 3 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    OS 2.285 8 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    Pt1 3.24 7 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    Exp 3.47 13 How many individuals can we count in society?...
    Chr1 3.107 23 There is a class of men, individuals of which appear at long intervals, so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Mrs1 3.120 2 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names; individuals are called after their height, thickness, or other accidental quality...
    Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Mrs1 3.147 23 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NR 3.236 1 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that...it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
    NR 3.241 8 ...when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NR 3.246 5 We fancy men are individuals;...
    NER 3.263 23 ...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...
    UGM 4.28 25 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    UGM 4.28 26 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    UGM 4.33 3 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    UGM 4.33 18 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    UGM 4.33 22 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    PNR 4.80 11 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    ShP 4.189 21 The Genius of our life is jealous of individuals...
    NMW 4.258 17 Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
    ET1 5.18 27 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET4 5.44 10 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    ET4 5.45 19 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by the number of individuals among them of personal ability.
    ET4 5.57 13 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons...
    ET10 5.167 21 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals...
    ET14 5.237 23 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.
    ET18 5.302 17 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms to vicious and defective individuals.
    ET18 5.307 24 The English have given importance to individuals...
    ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    Bhr 6.180 27 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.
    CbW 6.249 10 I wish not to concede anything to [masses], but to...draw individuals out of them.
    CbW 6.265 4 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    CbW 6.277 14 The individuals are fugitive...
    Elo1 7.63 2 An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.
    Elo1 7.69 24 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    DL 7.123 20 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do the select individuals whom he admires...
    DL 7.128 11 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Boks 7.207 10 In reading history, [the scholar] is to prefer the history of individuals.
    Cour 7.266 26 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    PI 8.27 12 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...
    Insp 8.294 2 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Insp 8.294 4 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes...
    Dem1 10.15 13 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Chr2 10.119 17 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...
    Edc1 10.157 3 ...[these difficulties and perplexities in education] solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
    SovE 10.211 19 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure, and then it would not be safe from desperate individuals.
    MoL 10.255 6 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    CSC 10.373 5 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers, signed by a few individuals...
    CSC 10.376 10 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    Thor 10.455 4 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose.
    LS 11.19 4 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    HDC 11.41 10 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...
    HDC 11.53 15 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    War 11.154 19 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature, where war between tribes, and between individuals of the same tribe, perpetually rages.
    FSLN 11.238 8 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    AKan 11.257 13 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals...
    SMC 11.355 17 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    FRep 11.525 24 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.
    FRep 11.525 25 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.
    FRep 11.529 24 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...in this is our hope.
    PLT 12.18 15 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age, for them to begin, as new individuals, their career.
    PLT 12.40 6 The animal, the low degrees of intellect, know only individuals.
    PLT 12.51 27 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock, and raises a few individuals, or only a pair.
    II 12.66 22 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.
    MLit 12.316 27 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.
    Let 12.396 21 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...
    Trag 12.408 21 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...
    Trag 12.416 10 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

individual's, n. (5)

    Hist 2.28 19 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
    Hsm1 2.251 13 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.
    OS 2.280 17 ...beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience, [the soul] also reveals truth.
    OS 2.281 19 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    Supl 10.166 26 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.

indivisible, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 17 Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
    ET5 5.82 17 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and indivisible unity are names for assassination.

indoctrinated, v. (1)

    SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

indolence, n. (11)

    DSA 1.130 22 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity, which indolence and fear have built, the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    DSA 1.136 10 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches...should be heard through the sleep of indolence...
    MR 1.253 1 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the... indolence...of domestics.
    Comp 2.112 20 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares...
    NMW 4.246 27 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    Comc 8.167 2 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Edc1 10.150 10 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm.
    Plu 10.315 8 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    LLNE 10.365 26 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    AsSu 11.250 1 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    PLT 12.59 17 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...

indolent, adj. (10)

    AmS 1.114 14 The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant.
    LE 1.161 1 There is a better way than this indolent learning of another.
    Exp 3.46 11 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
    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;...
    Bhr 6.171 23 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we return to the indolent state...
    Bhr 6.178 23 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Civ 7.26 2 Where the banana grows the animal system is indolent...
    Elo1 7.71 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    EWI 11.119 2 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
    MAng1 12.243 5 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened, which no profane eye and no indolent eye can behold...

indolently, adv. (1)

    SovE 10.205 10 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...

indomitable, adj. (1)

    SR 2.80 13 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light...indomitable, will break into any cabin...

indomitably, adv. (1)

    AmS 1.115 3 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... the huge world will come round to him.

in-doors, adv. [indoors,] (3)

    YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
    MoS 4.166 9 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick;...
    CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].

indorsed, v. (1)

    Boks 7.195 23 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!--it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had indorsed the writing.

indubitable, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.390 7 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has...shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;- the indubitable champion of England.

indubitably, adv. (1)

    Nat 1.8 15 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.

induce, v. (1)

    Pow 6.60 19 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...

induced, v. (3)

    Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Art2 7.55 17 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    Elo2 8.116 11 [The people] have sent their best men;...and it is not easy to see who else can be spared or can be induced to go.

inducements, n. (1)

    CInt 12.116 15 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

induces, v. (5)

    F 6.23 22 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Dem1 10.27 15 ...the attraction which this topic [demonology] has had for me and which induces me to unfold its parts before you is precisely because I think the numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
    II 12.67 15 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...

induction, n. (1)

    NR 3.237 4 [Nature]...will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.

indulge, v. (21)

    Tran 1.348 12 What right, cries the good world, has the man of genius to retreat from work, and indulge himself?
    Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...
    Nat2 3.169 5 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring;...
    Nat2 3.177 1 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    UGM 4.29 13 ...if we indulge [children] to folly, they learn the limitation elsewhere.
    MoS 4.166 6 ...[Montaigne] will indulge himself with a little cursing and swearing;...
    NMW 4.225 19 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    ET1 5.9 17 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
    Farm 7.149 11 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite...even now and then for a dead hog, he will indulge them.
    Edc1 10.153 3 [The teacher] cannot indulge his genius...when his eye is always on the clock...
    LLNE 10.354 8 The Stoic said, Forbear, Fourier said, Indulge.
    MMEm 10.408 19 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.431 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...
    ACiv 11.302 26 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in compliment.
    CPL 11.506 6 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me. Nothing holds me. I will indulge in my sacred fury.
    II 12.75 5 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...
    II 12.75 12 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them?
    Milt1 12.263 9 [Milton] tells us...that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    WSL 12.338 21 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.

indulged, v. (9)

    Fdsp 2.198 25 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are... not for life. They are not to be indulged.
    Exp 3.78 14 ...every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another.
    Chr1 3.115 16 Nature is indulged by the presence of this guest [the holy sentiment].
    ET14 5.235 11 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    SA 8.98 7 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    EWI 11.115 14 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    FSLC 11.203 7 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
    FSLN 11.222 7 ...[Webster]...never indulged in a weak flourish...
    Bost 12.192 11 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice. Nature has never again indulged in these exasperations.

indulgence, n. (13)

    AmS 1.115 22 The study of letters shall be no longer a name...for sensual indulgence.
    MR 1.240 4 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the indulgence of his sentiment;...
    Fdsp 2.191 12 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Pt1 3.28 14 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    ET5 5.88 5 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence is expensive to them...
    ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
    ET18 5.307 27 Every man [in England]...is guarded in the indulgence of his whim.
    Wsp 6.208 2 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    CbW 6.260 11 Human nature is prone to indulgence...
    Aris 10.51 13 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    Plu 10.314 19 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to...a stoic resistance to low indulgence;...
    LLNE 10.335 6 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...
    Thor 10.467 18 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...

indulgences, n. (3)

    MN 1.215 11 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    Insp 8.291 2 These indulgences [in favorite places of retirement] are to be used with great caution.
    Chr2 10.114 13 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with no sale of indulgences...

Indulgences, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.104 14 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Purgatory, the Indulgences, and the Inquisition of Popery...are examples of this perversion.

indulgent, adj. (3)

    Plu 10.319 11 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    EPro 11.317 19 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction.
    Bost 12.210 24 ...in Boston, Nature is more indulgent, and has given good sons to good sires...

indulges, v. (2)

    Cour 7.268 22 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it, and so the fair singer indulges her instinct...
    Chr2 10.120 27 [Character] indulges no enmity against any...

indulging, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.

indurated, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.125 6 ...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...

indurates, v. (1)

    Carl 10.496 4 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...

industrial, adj. (6)

    ET3 5.39 14 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky.
    ET11 5.196 5 The great powers of industrial art have no exclusion of name or blood.
    Pow 6.69 21 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Wth 6.87 8 ...coal...with its comfort brings its industrial power.
    Prch 10.217 15 ...material and industrial activity have materialized the age...
    MoL 10.245 12 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...

Industrial Statistics, n. (1)

    YA 1.380 14 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the whole Industrial Statistics, so called.

industries, n. (1)

    CbW 6.270 6 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted, with whatever virtues and industries they have, into contradictors...

industrious, adj. (19)

    MN 1.192 5 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village...
    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.
    NMW 4.240 13 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    ET10 5.159 13 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    ET13 5.220 1 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
    ET14 5.246 21 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...
    Pow 6.54 14 ...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one.
    Wth 6.85 7 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
    Elo1 7.81 4 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his work...
    Res 8.154 3 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    SlHr 10.440 10 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to...industrious men...
    Thor 10.463 1 A very industrious man...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    EWI 11.140 5 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.
    FSLC 11.207 11 [Slavery] is very industrious, gives herself no holidays.
    EPro 11.326 15 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
    FRep 11.518 7 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place...of the good, industrious, well-taught but unambitious population...
    MAng1 12.227 23 ...[Michelangelo] was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.263 8 [Milton] was...industrious.
    WSL 12.340 19 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an industrious observation in every department of life...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

Industrious Fleas, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.139 12 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.

industrious, n. (2)

    Con 1.310 15 ...[existing institutions] second the industrious and the kind;...
    Wth 6.106 4 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Industry, Attractive, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.350 2 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...
    LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.

industry, n. (42)

    Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Con 1.312 2 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    YA 1.382 16 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    Hist 2.35 16 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.
    Art1 2.366 1 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry.
    Pt1 3.9 1 ...we do not speak now of men...of industry and skill in metre...
    UGM 4.14 7 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 an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious...of Falkland...
    UGM 4.15 7 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not again shame us.
    MoS 4.155 9 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool; no unadvised industry...
    NMW 4.224 15 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and skill.
    ET3 5.34 12 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET5 5.96 4 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET6 5.106 26 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this moment.
    ET8 5.135 13 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...rich by his own industry;...
    ET10 5.167 13 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    ET11 5.183 10 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
    ET11 5.196 22 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry and administrative talent should administer;...
    ET13 5.229 5 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations. The French relinquish all that industry to them.
    Wth 6.86 6 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
    Wsp 6.225 10 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs, with their committees and prizes on all kinds of industry, are the result of this feeling.
    Civ 7.22 7 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a vent for industry.
    Civ 7.23 26 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Civ 7.32 14 ...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion, of longer or better-directed industry;...I see what cubic values America has...
    Cour 7.257 25 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    Suc 7.286 27 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
    PI 8.40 23 [The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
    PI 8.74 20 We too shall know how to take up all this industry and empire... into thought...
    Insp 8.285 2 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    PerF 10.77 19 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it a piece of industry, or the founding of a colony or a college...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    SovE 10.191 8 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    MoL 10.245 18 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    MMEm 10.411 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights.
    MMEm 10.425 24 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    War 11.169 5 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men of immense industry;...
    FSLC 11.182 6 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    ACiv 11.298 5 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    EdAd 11.393 20 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us...
    Humb 11.458 14 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history, who surpass all others in industry, space and endurance.
    CL 12.153 21 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
    Bost 12.206 5 When men saw that these people [of Boston], besides their industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and live here.
    MLit 12.323 13 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before. What sagacity, what industry of observation.
    MLit 12.327 20 [Goethe's letters] cannot be read without shaming us into an emulating industry.

indwelling, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.127 16 ...the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of...
    F 6.48 20 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...

indwelling, n. (1)

    LT 1.286 7 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly, the doctrine, namely, of the indwelling of the Creator in man.

inebriated, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.27 10 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.

inebriating, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.267 8 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts...

ineffable, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.61 21 Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
    OS 2.292 15 Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.
    Exp 3.72 25 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause, which refuses to be named,--ineffable cause...
    Nat2 3.173 13 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.
    Nat2 3.193 2 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset!
    Bty 6.306 17 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners, up to the ineffable mysteries of the intellect.
    MMEm 10.413 2 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
    MLit 12.320 24 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the ineffable secret of solitude.
    Pray 12.356 3 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!

Ineffable, n. (1)

    PPh 4.62 4 No man ever more fully acknowledged the Ineffable [than Plato].

ineffaceable, adj. (3)

    Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    Art1 2.352 19 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art]...
    MAng1 12.216 4 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.

ineffaceably, adv. (1)

    ACri 12.299 9 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...

ineffectual, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.54 27 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science].

inefficiency, n. (1)

    MoL 10.254 18 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army.

inefficient, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.258 19 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon.

inelegance, n. (1)

    Thor 10.454 15 [Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.

inelegant, adj. (1)

    MR 1.247 6 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few...

inelegantly, adv. (1)

    Bty 6.290 25 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.

inequalities, n. (6)

    Nat 1.38 6 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    SR 2.58 7 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    Comp 2.123 18 In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition.
    Comp 2.124 1 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish.
    Aris 10.36 1 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of expression and action;...
    FRep 11.516 21 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to...the removal of absurd restrictions and antique inequalities.

inequality, n. (11)

    Int 2.336 9 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Exp 3.77 8 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
    Chr1 3.89 16 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    NER 3.281 4 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    ET11 5.172 4 The inequality of power and property [in England] shocks republican nerves.
    ET18 5.306 11 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    Wsp 6.239 23 Men are too often unfit to live, from their obvious inequality to their own necessities;...
    Aris 10.34 24 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.
    Aris 10.34 25 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.
    SlHr 10.440 15 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    MLit 12.330 9 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...

ineradicable, adj. (1)

    CL 12.165 16 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.

inert, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    Cir 2.304 7 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Exp 3.77 24 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    GoW 4.262 12 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert;...
    F 6.38 21 You may be sure the new-born man is not inert.
    ACiv 11.301 19 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are inert...

inertia, n. (6)

    Nat 1.36 11 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...its inertia...
    Cir 2.319 9 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...
    UGM 4.24 13 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    UGM 4.30 2 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there.
    ET18 5.305 12 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...
    Comc 8.164 25 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...

inertness, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 11 The [American] universities are...the seat of inertness.

inestimable, adj. (19)

    DSA 1.150 15 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us;...
    ET2 5.31 11 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET11 5.182 4 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    ET12 5.202 20 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    Ctr 6.149 15 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    CbW 6.256 17 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
    CbW 6.269 8 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.
    Elo1 7.67 25 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.
    Elo1 7.89 3 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me...inestimable to such as have something to say.
    Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes...
    Boks 7.200 19 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    PI 8.32 17 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.
    PI 8.74 3 Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith...
    SA 8.79 21 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    SA 8.89 13 He must be inestimable to us to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.
    SA 8.97 26 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    Prch 10.230 17 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Wom 11.408 14 So much sympathy as [women] have makes them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and those who want it...
    PLT 12.41 4 ...a thought...is of inestimable value.

inevitabilities, n. (1)

    SovE 10.189 22 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.

inevitable, adj. (49)

    Nat 1.41 22 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    Tran 1.342 3 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be...the inevitable flower of the Tree of Time.
    YA 1.372 1 Only what is inevitable interests us...
    YA 1.372 2 ...it turns out that love and good are inevitable...
    Comp 2.97 3 An inevitable dualism bisects nature...
    Comp 2.105 8 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...
    OS 2.286 8 By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered...
    Cir 2.302 17 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Art1 2.353 14 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.366 6 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely that they were inevitable;...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Mrs1 3.129 7 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.
    MoS 4.161 16 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...
    MoS 4.172 8 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    ShP 4.217 9 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    NMW 4.253 13 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon]...
    ET14 5.250 8 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET14 5.253 17 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    ET15 5.262 11 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...
    F 6.13 24 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots...
    Wth 6.107 2 ...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Wth 6.111 2 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics;...
    Wsp 6.218 16 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...and the inevitable loss of attraction to other minds.
    CbW 6.277 24 It is inevitable to name particulars of virtue and of condition...
    Elo1 7.84 12 This rivalry between the orator and the occasion is inevitable...
    DL 7.128 6 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    Farm 7.145 15 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
    Boks 7.204 6 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PI 8.75 4 The grandeur of our life exists...in what of us is inevitable and above our control.
    QO 8.190 9 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends. Nay, it is an inevitable fruit of our social nature.
    QO 8.200 1 It is inevitable that you are indebted to the past.
    Imtl 8.343 23 As soon as thought is exercised, this belief [in immortality] is inevitable;...
    Aris 10.31 5 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...inevitable, sacred...
    PerF 10.81 13 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her...
    Chr2 10.108 7 The changes are inevitable;...
    Edc1 10.141 27 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Prch 10.220 17 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of unbelief. This analysis was inevitable and useful.
    Prch 10.235 14 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    Plu 10.311 9 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca...
    Thor 10.452 13 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Carl 10.497 15 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been embroiled with.
    EWI 11.127 12 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives.
    FSLC 11.196 13 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
    FSLC 11.204 25 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand. This is all inevitable from his constitution.
    EdAd 11.393 15 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance;...
    FRep 11.522 2 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...
    PLT 12.51 14 If you ask what compensation is made for the inevitable narrowness, why, this, that in learning one thing well you learn all things.
    II 12.75 17 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    Mem 12.109 22 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

Inevitable, n. (2)

    Con 1.302 8 That which is best about conservatism...is the Inevitable.
    Art1 2.352 25 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders...the Inevitable...

inevitableness, n. (1)

    EPro 11.323 1 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.

inevitably, adv. (17)

    MR 1.253 17 [The people] inevitably prefer wit and probity.
    YA 1.370 9 ...looking...only at what is inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    Exp 3.79 22 Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color...
    NR 3.225 5 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    PPh 4.75 25 ...the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    MoS 4.181 14 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position, whilst he as inevitably advances;...
    ET1 5.15 23 ...books inevitably made [Carlyle's] topics.
    ET2 5.33 8 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side.
    ET16 5.275 19 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    Pow 6.70 12 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Wth 6.99 16 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties;...
    Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    PI 8.67 6 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by...inevitably prompting their daily action.
    PC 8.208 21 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    LLNE 10.354 22 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...
    GSt 10.505 22 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    SHC 11.434 2 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...

inexact, adj. (1)

    MN 1.200 14 ...like a sleep, [the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.

inexhaustible, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.64 11 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...draws at his need inexhaustible power.
    MN 1.221 24 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power.
    SL 2.137 26 The simplicity of nature...is inexhaustible.
    Int 2.336 4 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Chr1 3.103 9 Love is inexhaustible...
    NMW 4.246 7 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    ET1 5.9 19 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible...
    ET8 5.130 26 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET13 5.229 12 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. Punch finds an inexhaustible material.
    CbW 6.264 26 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
    Elo1 7.76 22 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources...
    DL 7.127 9 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age. There lie the inexhaustible magazines.
    Res 8.137 21 We like to see the inexhaustible riches of Nature...
    Res 8.139 18 Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature.
    Dem1 10.27 21 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature, inexhaustible and sublime...
    MoL 10.258 4 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    Milt1 12.266 16 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood. They give an inexhaustible truth to all his compositions.

inexhaustibleness, n. (1)

    SL 2.138 1 ...the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

inexhaustibly, adv. (4)

    LE 1.173 9 ...by virtue of the Deity, thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day...
    Prd1 2.226 19 ...nature is inexhaustibly significant...
    PPh 4.56 10 Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
    CL 12.136 17 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was inexhaustibly rich...

inexorable, adj. (14)

    NMW 4.250 15 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church], on which the bishop [Fournier] was inexorable.
    ET6 5.107 2 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion...but inexorable on points of form.
    ET14 5.255 6 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims...
    PI 8.72 26 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    SA 8.82 3 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable.
    PPo 8.238 26 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny.
    Grts 8.320 21 The man...sportive in manner, but inexorable in act;...he it is whom we seek...
    PerF 10.72 25 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    Supl 10.177 7 ...the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
    Schr 10.265 1 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.
    Thor 10.478 17 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    II 12.68 25 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct, but we found it dumb and inexorable.
    II 12.76 20 The inexorable Laws, the Ideas...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    WSL 12.338 3 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.

inexperience, n. (3)

    Int 2.337 23 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states] has no awkwardness or inexperience...
    Wsp 6.213 20 ...our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.
    DL 7.125 27 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society.

inexpert, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 6 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet, and the population neither loath nor inexpert to use their advantages.

inexplicable, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.4 21 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable;...
    AmS 1.85 6 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
    Chr1 3.110 19 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
    ET15 5.266 18 [The London Times's] private information is inexplicable...
    II 12.71 22 The poet is incredible, inexplicable.

inexpressible, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.352 20 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art] and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination.

inexpressive, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.134 22 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.

inexpugnable, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.117 13 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use of lamps...

inextinguishable, adj. (7)

    Hsm1 2.264 8 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
    Suc 7.287 10 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
    Insp 8.270 19 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
    Imtl 8.335 20 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...
    Aris 10.33 18 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.
    Aris 10.34 3 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    PLT 12.34 17 [Instinct] is that glimpse of inextinguishable light by which men are guided;...

inextinguishableness, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.27 18 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...

inextricable, adj. (2)

    MR 1.234 19 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil...
    ET13 5.219 21 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.

inextricably, adv. (1)

    Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines, inextricably national;...

infallibility, n. (1)

    Nat 1.66 20 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...

infallible, adj. (5)

    OS 2.286 17 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    OS 2.293 3 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust.
    Clbs 7.249 13 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him out, namely, by having as good as he.
    Dem1 10.24 6 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    II 12.75 4 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...

infamous, adj. (5)

    NMW 4.255 16 ...[Napoleon]...delighted in his infamous police...
    ET10 5.154 1 Sydney Smith said, Poverty is infamous in England.
    Aris 10.52 4 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury. These are the heads of party...everything short of infamous crime will pass.
    MoL 10.256 11 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    EWI 11.102 9 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.

infamously, adv. (1)

    FSLN 11.233 24 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.

infamy, n. (7)

    F 6.30 11 [The hero's] approbation is honor; his dissent, infamy.
    Pow 6.69 2 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Suc 7.290 21 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that; these are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind.
    LVB 11.93 14 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    FSLC 11.179 8 There is infamy in the air.
    FSLC 11.196 3 This [Fugitive Slave] law comes with infamy in it, and out of it.
    Bost 12.203 23 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who will not stoop to infamy when all are gone mad...

infancy, n. (25)

    Nat 1.9 3 The lover of nature is he...who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
    Nat 1.29 7 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...
    Nat 1.32 4 At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave, the pines murmur...as [the poet] saw and heard them in his infancy.
    Nat 1.71 9 [The world] is kept in check by death and infancy.
    Nat 1.71 10 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah...
    AmS 1.97 3 Cradle and infancy...are gone already;...
    MN 1.194 20 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and in infancy.
    LT 1.279 2 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    Con 1.316 25 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled...in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Hist 2.27 15 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.48 9 Infancy conforms to nobody;...
    Comp 2.126 18 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed...
    Lov1 2.188 1 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Cir 2.319 13 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...counts itself nothing...
    Int 2.327 24 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions...
    Pol1 3.217 2 In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
    ET13 5.219 4 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
    DL 7.103 24 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity...
    Suc 7.287 7 The Saxon is taught from his infancy to wish to be first.
    OA 7.313 3 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    OA 7.333 10 [John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been laborious, child and man, from infancy.
    OA 7.335 24 ...the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years...
    SovE 10.213 21 [The man of this age]
    War 11.151 17 War...when seen...in the infancy of society, appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.151 23 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...

infant, adj. (9)

    DSA 1.125 14 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...
    MN 1.202 27 All is nascent, infant.
    OS 2.279 6 [The soul] is adult already in the infant man.
    PPh 4.54 19 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    QO 8.177 3 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites, and even at the infant mammals, must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    Grts 8.302 10 What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience.
    Chr2 10.119 6 ...this infant soul must learn to walk alone.
    LLNE 10.335 25 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    MMEm 10.400 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...

infant, n. (4)

    SR 2.51 14 ...why should I not say to [the angry Abolitionist], Go love thy infant;...
    Art1 2.354 16 The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
    F 6.29 7 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.
    OA 7.317 15 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days, speaks articulately to those who discover him...

infantile, adj. (4)

    OA 7.320 24 Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls who would keep the infantile bloom on their cheeks.
    PC 8.228 14 Science...sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms...
    Insp 8.270 24 In the savage man, thought is infantile;...
    SlHr 10.440 26 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile innocence...

infantine, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.71 24 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    LLNE 10.333 1 In the pulpit...with an infantine simplicity still, of manner, [Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.

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