Infantry to Inmates

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

infantry, n. (3)

    LE 1.180 9 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king, and kaisar...
    Boks 7.192 7 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Cour 7.272 7 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.

infants, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.145 27 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not... swaddle the infants...
    Plu 10.314 6 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    LS 11.3 16 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...

infant's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 17 Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.

infatuate, v. (1)

    F 6.40 13 All the toys that infatuate men and which they play for...are the selfsame thing...

infatuated, v. (6)

    Pt1 3.20 10 ...we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts.
    NR 3.237 14 If we were not thus infatuated, if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read...
    Ctr 6.143 7 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess;...
    CbW 6.266 15 My countrymen are not less infatuated with the rococo toy of Italy.
    SovE 10.199 4 Then you find so many men infatuated on that topic [religion]!
    SovE 10.199 15 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition. His face looks infatuated, and his conversation is.

infatuates, v. (1)

    YA 1.374 23 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.

infatuating, adj. (1)

    MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.

infatuation, n. (8)

    NMW 4.254 24 Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it [said Napoleon].
    ET4 5.70 19 Men and women [in England] walk with infatuation.
    CbW 6.257 24 We see those who surmount, by dint of some egotism or infatuation, obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Schr 10.264 23 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...share the infatuation of cities.
    EdAd 11.389 18 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    FRO1 11.479 4 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.
    PLT 12.55 23 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Let 12.399 5 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class...

infatuations, n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 11 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the infatuations no less than the wisdom of Cromwell;...

infect, v. (1)

    UGM 4.26 1 ...the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe it.

infected, v. (6)

    AmS 1.109 20 ...the time is infected with Hamlet's unhappiness...
    Comp 2.105 23 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
    Exp 3.50 24 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...is infected with egotism?...
    MoS 4.174 11 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
    Ctr 6.134 1 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    MLit 12.325 14 ...that other vicious subjectiveness, the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.

infecting, v. (1)

    War 11.151 15 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels,-when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...

infection, n. (1)

    Insp 8.271 26 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.

infects, v. (2)

    DSA 1.127 13 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    Bty 6.281 1 The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.

infer, v. (19)

    DSA 1.135 22 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay... of faith in society.
    Int 2.334 15 ...we have nothing to write, nothing to infer.
    NR 3.230 19 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...
    NR 3.244 17 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
    NR 3.244 23 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every other direction.
    UGM 4.32 22 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    ET11 5.186 10 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...
    Pow 6.81 3 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Ctr 6.134 4 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    CbW 6.248 1 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements. Let us infer his ends from this pomp of means.
    SS 7.9 26 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Boks 7.211 7 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
    Grts 8.304 17 I am to infer that you keep good company by your better information and manners...
    Grts 8.304 19 I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
    Imtl 8.334 13 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Imtl 8.336 18 We must infer our destiny from the preparation.
    SovE 10.198 15 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    Schr 10.278 21 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Plu 10.309 3 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.

inference, n. (8)

    Comp 2.95 2 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was,--We are to have such a good time as the sinners have now;...
    ET3 5.40 22 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    CbW 6.275 3 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    OA 7.336 6 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.12 8 God himself...communicates with us by hints, omens, inference...
    Imtl 8.346 10 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...
    Prch 10.223 25 My inference is that there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    Schr 10.278 15 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.

inferences, n. (2)

    Exp 3.54 7 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    LVB 11.95 23 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government, and what injurious inferences they draw as to the minds of the governors.

inferior, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.64 26 [The world] is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God...
    Nat 1.72 7 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    LT 1.287 6 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.
    YA 1.368 23 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
    OS 2.289 1 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    OS 2.296 16 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    NER 3.275 18 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    NER 3.277 1 ...every man at heart wishes the best and not inferior society...
    SwM 4.141 2 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    NMW 4.231 12 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself, like inferior men, on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    GoW 4.268 9 This disparagement [of speculative thought] will not come from the leaders, but from inferior persons.
    ET4 5.53 20 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race.
    ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
    F 6.40 1 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and...the inferior races it uses.
    Ctr 6.165 17 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Cour 7.272 25 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius.
    PI 8.8 26 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    PI 8.69 7 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible. We can find such a fabric at several mills, though a little inferior.
    FSLN 11.219 11 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
    FSLN 11.219 13 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
    FSLN 11.238 11 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    ACiv 11.304 25 ...the South, with its inferior numbers, is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.
    FRep 11.518 2 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...
    II 12.68 13 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order; the inferior recede or are forgotten...
    II 12.80 15 Why should we be...the victims of our own works, and always inferior to ourselves.
    WSL 12.341 24 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...

inferiority, n. (14)

    AmS 1.106 27 The poor and the low find some amends...for their acquiescence in a political and social inferiority.
    Comp 2.112 24 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment...of superiority and inferiority.
    OS 2.274 26 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard, and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority...
    Int 2.333 18 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    Mrs1 3.150 9 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    NER 3.284 23 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority...
    Ctr 6.140 7 ...poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.
    Elo1 7.87 15 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    QO 8.188 16 Quotation confesses inferiority.
    Aris 10.35 16 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me...
    Aris 10.35 18 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    LVB 11.90 12 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    SHC 11.430 8 In these times we see the defects of our old theology; its inferiority to our habit of thoughts.
    Shak1 11.452 16 ...Shakspeare, not by any inferiority of theirs, but simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...

inferiors, n. (3)

    MN 1.197 8 We can never be quite strangers or inferiors in nature.
    SA 8.86 15 A man makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.
    Grts 8.320 6 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?

infernal, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.131 25 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the infernal tun of the deceitful;...

infernalis, Furia, n. (1)

    CL 12.138 21 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule, which he called Furia infernalis...

Inferno [Dante Alighieri], (1)

    Prch 10.227 25 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language. Their statement is grown as fabulous as Dante's Inferno.

Inferno [Dante, Divine Com (1)

    PI 8.12 25 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...

Inferno, n. (3)

    SwM 4.138 9 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    SwM 4.141 17 [Swedenborg's] Inferno is mesmeric.
    MoL 10.244 15 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...heaven walked on earth, and Earth could see with eyes the Paradise and the Inferno.

inferred, v. (6)

    Chr1 3.104 11 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    NR 3.226 5 ...that which we inferred from [men's] nature and inception, they will not do.
    ShP 4.195 9 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ET1 5.7 6 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...an impression of Achillean wrath...
    Thor 10.474 13 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    Pray 12.350 15 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes...

inferring, v. (2)

    LT 1.287 2 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    Res 8.138 10 A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is better than waking, and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.

infers, v. (2)

    Exp 3.59 12 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Supl 10.167 15 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character in speakers who use it.

infested, v. (10)

    Pt1 3.7 14 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism...
    SwM 4.125 27 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited, and these to be infested with mice.
    Bhr 6.172 26 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    Suc 7.285 1 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...
    SA 8.105 10 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    Insp 8.290 13 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses...
    HDC 11.65 27 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats, which infested the woods;...
    CInt 12.114 16 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked, the Thames infested...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CL 12.138 1 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
    CL 12.138 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...

infidel, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.182 22 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make believe them? Will any say, This is cold and infidel?

infidel, n. (1)

    Comc 8.166 8 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...

infidelities, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 2 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.

infidelity, n. (4)

    NER 3.268 25 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
    NER 3.269 8 ...even one step farther our infidelity has gone.
    Wsp 6.210 1 What proof of infidelity like the toleration and propagandism of slavery?
    Wsp 6.212 7 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are touched with the same infidelity...

infidels, n. (1)

    MoS 4.181 17 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...

infiltration, n. (1)

    Plu 10.322 10 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.

infinite, adj. (78)

    Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes.
    Nat 1.44 27 Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.
    Nat 1.55 14 That [universal] law, when in the mind, is an idea. Its beauty is infinite.
    Nat 1.61 10 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one, which yields the activity of man an infinite scope.
    AmS 1.115 7 ...for solace the perspective of your own infinite life;...
    DSA 1.120 16 Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
    DSA 1.131 19 ...you shall not dare and live after the infinite Law that is in you...
    DSA 1.131 20 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty...
    DSA 1.136 16 In how many churches...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    LE 1.165 5 ...[the able man's] fund of justice is not only vast, but infinite.
    LE 1.172 27 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason.
    LE 1.180 3 A man of infinite caution, [Napoleon] neglected never the least particular of preparation...
    LE 1.182 14 [The man of genius] must draw from the infinite Reason...
    MN 1.199 14 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.
    MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
    MN 1.219 8 What is all history but...a record of the incomputable energy which his infinite aspirations infuse into man?
    MR 1.249 1 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    Hist 2.13 10 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite diameters.
    Hist 2.14 13 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;...
    SR 2.61 7 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    SL 2.141 3 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
    SL 2.143 24 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.
    SL 2.164 2 All action is of an infinite elasticity...
    Lov1 2.171 16 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Fdsp 2.196 16 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    Hsm1 2.250 5 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.
    OS 2.271 26 ...there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens...
    OS 2.284 12 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite...
    OS 2.291 5 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    OS 2.292 27 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    Art1 2.357 22 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
    Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    Pt1 3.24 4 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap and pierce into the deeps of infinite time.
    Exp 3.72 16 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
    NR 3.241 25 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...
    NER 3.271 18 What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope...
    SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
    MoS 4.180 27 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night, but infinite invitation on the other side.
    MoS 4.183 2 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    MoS 4.184 8 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole; a desire raging, infinite;...
    ShP 4.205 26 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    NMW 4.248 7 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties,--made infinite objection...
    ET17 5.292 3 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    F 6.29 1 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...
    Wth 6.99 22 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Ctr 6.164 17 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.197 17 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Art2 7.42 25 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    DL 7.122 4 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland], so infinite a fancy...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Clbs 7.229 18 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him.
    Suc 7.295 24 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength.
    PI 8.49 16 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety...
    Elo2 8.121 8 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
    Res 8.137 24 These examples [of man's victory over Nature] wake an infinite hope...
    Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.
    Dem1 10.13 2 Nature...works...by infinite graduation;...
    PerF 10.83 21 The forces are infinite.
    Prch 10.226 3 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...
    Schr 10.280 7 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    MMEm 10.409 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
    MMEm 10.415 5 I am not infinite...
    EWI 11.127 16 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    War 11.172 7 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board; because in himself reside infinite resources;...
    EdAd 11.386 22 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy, and the infinite glut of their production, without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    Wom 11.412 21 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment, and the infinite enlargements to which they lead.
    FRO2 11.491 1 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
    FRep 11.513 7 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things...
    Bost 12.199 16 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    Bost 12.208 8 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city; infinite meanness, scarlet crime.
    MAng1 12.221 23 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
    MAng1 12.233 10 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty.
    ACri 12.288 10 In the infinite variety of talents, 't is certain that some men swear with genius.
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good...
    MLit 12.326 10 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through, although without any boasting and with an infinite fineness.
    MLit 12.331 2 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses, or cheered with an infinite tenderness...
    PPr 12.383 4 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of the infinite entanglements of the problem...

Infinite Counsels, n. (1)

    Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?

Infinite, Feeling of the, n. (1)

    MLit 12.316 20 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.

infinite, n. (4)

    Nat 1.74 16 Is not prayer also...a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite?
    MN 1.194 17 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MN 1.198 23 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite...
    SL 2.132 2 ...the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Infinite, n. (12)

    NER 3.271 27 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    MoS 4.149 22 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...
    Art2 7.57 15 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Insp 8.284 12 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.408 21 ...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 10.425 22 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    MMEm 10.426 25 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.426 26 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    MMEm 10.427 2 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.
    MLit 12.318 21 This feeling of the Infinite has deeply colored the poetry of the period.
    MLit 12.319 25 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...
    PPr 12.388 18 ...[Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.

infinitely, adv. (15)

    Lov1 2.172 26 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
    Cir 2.308 6 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday...
    Pol1 3.212 14 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.
    NMW 4.223 10 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...
    NMW 4.223 11 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs; the liver, of infinitely small livers;...
    Pow 6.82 6 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger...
    Suc 7.297 8 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and infinitely faintest voices and visions.
    PI 8.27 23 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    Prch 10.236 12 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...infinitely removed from all vaporing and bravado...
    Schr 10.263 3 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper, infinitely removed from sadness, which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    Schr 10.288 18 ...[the scholar's] use of books is occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
    EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according to the degree of reason in his own mind...
    War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
    Let 12.397 18 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.

infinitesimal, adj. (1)

    F 6.44 26 [The great man] feels the infinitesimal attractions.

infinitesimals, n. (1)

    Res 8.140 8 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!

infinitude, n. (11)

    Nat 1.15 21 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    DSA 1.144 20 The true Christianity, - a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man, - is lost.
    LE 1.158 13 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.
    Con 1.298 15 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations, reform on his indisputable infinitude;...
    Tran 1.353 25 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other: one prevails now...and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise;...
    Tran 1.354 10 When we pass...into some new infinitude...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    OS 2.287 13 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic, prophesying half insane under the infinitude of his thought,--is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Art1 2.356 10 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last...the opulence of human nature, which can run out to infinitude in any direction.
    PPh 4.53 26 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...
    Edc1 10.132 10 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world, which interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousness,-it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.136 8 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.

infinitum, n. (2)

    ET16 5.286 3 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is, and that ad infinitum.
    SA 8.98 12 ...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. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them; and so on, ad infinitum, without end.

infinity, n. (9)

    OS 2.293 2 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    PPh 4.52 20 If the East loved infinity, the West delighted in boundaries.
    PPh 4.68 8 [Plato] said then, Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence.
    SwM 4.109 4 We are adapted to infinity.
    SwM 4.131 22 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations; he saw their tormentors, who increase and strain pangs to infinity;...
    Imtl 8.333 9 The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world;...
    Imtl 8.333 10 The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world; which infinity reappears in every particle...
    FRO1 11.476 2 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    PPr 12.390 10 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.

infirm, adj. (9)

    MR 1.246 7 Society is full of infirm people...
    Comp 2.92 5 Fear not, then, thou child infirm,/ There 's no god dare wrong a worm./
    Cir 2.307 1 Alas for this infirm faith...
    Chr1 3.100 18 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...
    Cour 7.259 6 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always-accelerated march.
    MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    Wom 11.412 10 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    ACri 12.303 16 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer, an infirm, capricious, fragmentary soul, is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

infirmities, n. (8)

    SwM 4.124 19 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it...lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind.
    SwM 4.146 4 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure;...
    ET19 5.313 6 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...with the infirmities of a thousand years gathering around her...
    Ctr 6.154 10 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Dem1 10.20 8 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character.
    SovE 10.195 7 The new saint gloried in infirmities.
    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;...
    Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

infirmity, n. (16)

    SR 2.78 9 Discontent...is infirmity of will.
    Fdsp 2.217 4 [Friendship] must not surmise or provide for infirmity.
    Prd1 2.239 17 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
    Mrs1 3.146 25 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.
    NER 3.281 22 Each [man] seems to have some compensation yielded to him by his infirmity...
    GoW 4.288 9 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...
    ET7 5.126 6 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/...
    Wsp 6.201 10 I have no infirmity of faith;...
    Art2 7.47 11 Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius.
    Cour 7.261 27 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.
    Grts 8.303 17 They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim;...
    Chr2 10.100 19 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth.
    LLNE 10.333 26 [Everett] had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity...
    LLNE 10.354 15 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    FSLN 11.223 17 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    Milt1 12.272 7 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...

infix, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.23 20 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men.

inflame, v. (3)

    YA 1.367 14 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works...which might well...inflame patriotism.
    Lov1 2.182 5 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty, more and more inflame their love of it...
    Edc1 10.135 12 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives.

inflamed, adj. (4)

    LE 1.162 20 With inflamed eye...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    MoS 4.179 26 ...the excellence of each [man] is an inflamed individualism which separates him more.
    ET8 5.142 4 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    II 12.82 17 All excellence is only an inflamed personality.

inflamed, v. (10)

    Nat 1.30 27 The moment our discourse...is inflamed with passion...it clothes itself in images.
    LE 1.183 5 They whom [the student's] thoughts have entertained or inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard conditions of thought.
    Int 2.330 24 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Pt1 3.32 10 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    NR 3.236 19 ...when each person, inflamed to a fury of personality, would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    ET1 5.22 5 [Wordsworth's] eyes are much inflamed.
    Bty 6.299 27 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but when the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
    Elo1 7.93 6 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is...inflamed by the contemplation of the whole...
    DL 7.131 8 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years inflamed the imagination...of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    PLT 12.22 25 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...

inflames, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius...

inflaming, v. (1)

    ET1 5.5 27 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it...

inflammability, n. (1)

    MN 1.193 23 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...

inflammations, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.131 9 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...

inflate, v. (1)

    YA 1.374 16 We inflate our paper currency...and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.

inflated, v. (2)

    AmS 1.114 20 Young men...inflated by the mountain winds...turn drudges...
    SL 2.164 3 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.

inflation, n. (2)

    Supl 10.169 10 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    EPro 11.317 11 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it, without inflation or surplusage,-all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

inflexibility, n. (1)

    SR 2.46 4 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility...

inflexible, adj. (3)

    Pow 6.82 10 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    Wsp 6.219 5 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Humb 11.459 5 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class, with a clear head and an inflexible will [Humboldt].

inflexions, n. (1)

    SwM 4.126 16 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.

inflict, v. (1)

    Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.

inflicted, v. (5)

    Comp 2.120 4 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;...
    Hsm1. 2.252 2 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    ET3 5.34 4 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former because there Nature...triumphs over the evils inflicted by the governments;...
    SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
    Mem 12.105 4 The memory of all men is robust on the subject...of an insult inflicted on them.

inflicting, v. (2)

    Comp 2.119 24 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have [a principle, right, justice].
    Edc1 10.158 7 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.

infliction, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.263 13 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    Bhr 6.186 10 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth...

inflictions, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 17 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions which the magistrate cannot cure or defend you from...

inflicts, v. (3)

    NMW 4.257 27 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it...
    NMW 4.258 4 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.
    PPr 12.385 8 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

influence, n. (165)

    Nat 1.7 22 ...all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
    Nat 1.16 14 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.27 4 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    Nat 1.42 17 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    Nat 1.57 4 [Ideas'] influence is proportionate.
    Nat 1.68 13 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric influence...
    AmS 1.87 11 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past...
    AmS 1.87 15 Books are the best type of the influence of the past...
    AmS 1.87 17 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.99 23 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct, screened from influence.
    AmS 1.107 26 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    MN 1.206 13 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...an influence.
    MN 1.216 12 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    MN 1.216 13 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    MN 1.216 20 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    MN 1.216 22 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence...
    LT 1.261 9 The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy and religion...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Tran 1.346 10 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...
    YA 1.370 12 ...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and Americanizing influence...
    YA 1.390 20 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist; as the organs of influence and opinion are swift to do.
    Hist 2.10 27 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
    Hist 2.28 20 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.29 2 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    Hist 2.33 18 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    SR 2.43 3 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate;/...
    Comp 2.93 12 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the influence of character...
    Comp 2.100 22 Under all governments the influence of character remains the same...
    Lov1 2.178 6 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Prd1 2.224 1 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune... great personal influence...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    OS 2.272 13 The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    Int 2.343 14 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence...
    Int 2.344 3 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn...
    Exp 3.74 21 ...the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.
    Chr1 3.94 9 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic!
    Chr1 3.94 19 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici; and the answer was, Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one.
    Chr1 3.96 21 [A healthy soul] is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
    Mrs1 3.129 25 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Nat2 3.171 19 There are all degrees of natural influence...
    Nat2 3.196 14 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects...
    Pol1 3.204 8 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading;...
    Pol1 3.205 22 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix...
    Pol1 3.215 23 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...
    Pol1 3.217 2 In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
    NR 3.229 3 A personal influence is an ignis fatuus.
    NR 3.229 23 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
    NER 3.268 23 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    NER 3.272 23 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    NER 3.284 22 Obedience to [a man's] genius is the only liberating influence.
    UGM 4.27 3 ...a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.
    UGM 4.29 15 We need not fear excessive influence.
    SwM 4.95 7 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others...
    SwM 4.122 5 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    SwM 4.124 9 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    SwM 4.129 19 ...I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife. He aspires to a higher worth in another spirit, and is wife or receiver of that influence.
    SwM 4.133 14 Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world] comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround it...
    SwM 4.134 26 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    SwM 4.135 15 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    MoS 4.177 13 What can I do against the influence of Race, in my history?
    ShP 4.197 15 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
    NMW 4.254 21 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering.
    ET3 5.36 7 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility...
    ET3 5.43 18 With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil influence radiate.
    ET4 5.48 1 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew...
    ET7 5.125 20 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET7 5.125 21 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power;...
    ET11 5.198 8 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence.
    ET12 5.213 10 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET13 5.219 8 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by name; and this lifelong consecration cannot be without influence on his opinions.
    ET14 5.238 7 The influence of Plato tinges the British genius.
    ET14 5.258 14 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action...
    ET15 5.267 4 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe...
    ET16 5.273 10 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced in every contemporary book.
    F 6.30 12 A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy...
    Pow 6.53 3 Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Wth 6.98 13 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
    Ctr 6.129 5 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/...
    Ctr 6.160 7 The influence of fine scenery...appeases our irritations...
    Bhr 6.170 16 No man can resist [manners'] influence.
    Wsp 6.204 9 The decline of the influence of Calvin...need give us no uneasiness.
    CbW 6.249 7 Masses are...pernicious in their demands and influence...
    CbW 6.251 9 The good men are employed...for larger influence.
    Bty 6.286 15 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.298 3 We observe [women's] intellectual influence on the most serious student.
    Ill 6.312 10 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Civ 7.24 8 ...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
    Civ 7.26 11 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence...
    Civ 7.32 15 ...when I...see...the refining influence of women...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.37 11 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the principles and history of Art.
    Elo1 7.77 26 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound...men of influence and power...
    Elo1 7.80 15 ...among our cool and calculating people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Elo1 7.84 17 It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's] influence is complete;...
    Farm 7.152 22 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.
    Farm 7.153 1 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    Clbs 7.249 4 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    OA 7.331 1 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    PI 8.67 16 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    SA 8.93 13 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    Elo2 8.115 6 Who can wonder at [eloquence's] influence on young and ardent minds?
    PC 8.211 9 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    PC 8.221 18 ...from each atom rays out illimitable influence.
    PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Imtl 8.347 23 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    Dem1 10.16 10 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Dem1 10.18 20 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures, and even over the elements; who shall say how far such an influence may extend?
    Aris 10.33 12 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.39 1 ...to [aristocracy] belongs without assertion a proper influence.
    Aris 10.65 10 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...
    Chr2 10.101 6 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul.
    Edc1 10.152 27 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.
    SovE 10.188 5 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence over nations, intelligent beings...
    SovE 10.199 1 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    Prch 10.228 10 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
    Schr 10.262 12 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness:-the influence I speak of is of a higher strain.
    LLNE 10.330 7 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.330 12 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius and character of Dr. Channing.
    LLNE 10.330 27 There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens.
    LLNE 10.334 5 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice. This influence went much farther...
    LLNE 10.335 18 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    MMEm 10.399 13 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    MMEm 10.403 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    MMEm 10.430 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    SlHr 10.442 9 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was reckoned despotic...
    GSt 10.503 19 ...there are few men with real or supposed influence, North or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
    GSt 10.506 4 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    LS 11.6 17 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind, as they should come... within the influence of the Christian religion, would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.15 17 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah, which kept its influence even over so spiritual a man as St. Paul, would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    LS 11.16 9 We know...how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge [the primitive Church's] views.
    HDC 11.31 21 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.
    HDC 11.45 2 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
    EWI 11.139 16 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard. There is direct conversation and influence.
    War 11.169 6 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 whose influence is felt to the end of the earth;...
    War 11.172 21 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    FSLN 11.219 6 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.235 23 Why have the minority no influence? Because they have not a real minority of one.
    TPar 11.292 22 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.
    EPro 11.324 1 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    HCom 11.343 22 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state bigger than I knew
    SMC 11.362 9 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
    SMC 11.366 18 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    EdAd 11.385 24 The moral influence of the intellect is wanting.
    EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
    Wom 11.409 3 Women are, by [conversation] and their social influence, the civilizers of mankind.
    Wom 11.415 5 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    Wom 11.418 20 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...unhindered by any influence of constitution.
    SHC 11.435 18 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence;...
    FRO2 11.489 23 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition...removed out of the range of influence with thoughtful men.
    CPL 11.508 16 ...there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population...
    PLT 12.23 19 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    II 12.67 14 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    CL 12.141 12 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.
    CL 12.152 24 The influence of the ocean on the love of liberty, I have mentioned elsewhere.
    CL 12.166 22 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons must have had the influence of Nature...
    CW 12.169 9 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Bost 12.184 5 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...
    Bost 12.184 22 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach, and an exalted influence on the genius of man.
    MAng1 12.215 15 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    Milt1 12.253 19 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries (always an incalculable influence) we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    Milt1 12.254 7 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
    MLit 12.312 4 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    MLit 12.312 11 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
    MLit 12.322 7 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.
    MLit 12.326 13 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions, but to lower the moral influence of the man.
    MLit 12.328 16 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    EurB 12.369 16 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in the air...
    EurB 12.378 3 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...

influence, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.161 16 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Ill 6.324 13 The notions, I am, and This is mine, which influence mankind, are but delusions of the mother of the world...

Influenced, n. (1)

    MN 1.210 16 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...

influenced, v. (1)

    LS 11.23 20 Influenced by these considerations, I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...

influences, n. (58)

    Nat 1.18 12 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.
    AmS 1.84 22 Let us...consider [the scholar] in reference to the main influences he receives.
    AmS 1.84 24 The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
    DSA 1.147 19 There are persons who are...not speakers, but influences;...
    LE 1.178 12 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    MN 1.208 27 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    Tran 1.342 12 ...[Transcendentalists] repel influences;...
    YA 1.366 1 The land, with its tranquillizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    YA 1.370 7 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    Comp 2.98 2 The influences of climate and soil in political history is another [instance of Compensation].
    Comp 2.126 24 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...
    SL 2.143 27 A man's genius...the susceptibility to one class of influences... determines for him the character of the universe.
    Hsm1 2.256 27 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    Hsm1 2.259 24 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    Art1 2.358 19 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Art1 2.363 8 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
    Pt1 3.29 13 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Exp 3.52 26 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.
    Chr1 3.110 19 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
    Mrs1 3.151 8 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks...
    Nat2 3.183 3 We may easily hear too much of rural influences.
    ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences...which affect their fortunes;...
    ET2 5.26 7 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction and salutary influences of the sea.
    ET4 5.49 11 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.52 22 Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    Wth 6.101 16 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
    Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    Civ 7.26 5 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Cour 7.253 5 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...
    Cour 7.271 11 The true temper has genial influences.
    Insp 8.284 11 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    Insp 8.284 16 The fine influences of the morning few can explain, but all will admit.
    Grts 8.312 8 The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Prch 10.227 18 The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and influences.
    Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
    Schr 10.262 2 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
    Schr 10.269 2 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with influences impossible to parry or resist.
    LLNE 10.337 3 Whether from these influences [of Modern Science], or whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.361 20 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm]...
    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...
    HDC 11.86 6 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    FSLN 11.223 16 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    Wom 11.406 1 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    Wom 11.424 22 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds...of the same influences that make the sun and moon.
    Scot 11.465 18 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.
    FRep 11.533 12 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    II 12.72 27 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.75 22 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare. Our only security is in our rectitude, whose influences must be salutary.
    CInt 12.129 9 Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play with all their magic undulations?
    CL 12.140 26 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape, with any leisure to attend to its soothing and expanding influences.
    CL 12.151 2 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    CL 12.156 12 Of the finer influences [of nature], I shall say that they are not less positive, if they are indescribable.
    Bost 12.184 13 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
    Bost 12.187 10 Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.
    Bost 12.198 8 It is the property of the religious sentiment to be the most refining of all influences.
    Milt1 12.259 21 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton], none upon whom its influences could have fallen more congenially.
    ACri 12.283 13 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...
    MLit 12.320 27 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.

influences, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.15 18 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...

influential, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.282 8 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form;...

influenza, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.132 23 [Egotism] is a disease that like influenza falls on all constitutions.
    War 11.151 14 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...

influx, n. (16)

    Nat 1.76 21 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
    DSA 1.148 5 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit...
    Tran 1.335 24 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...
    Hist 2.40 21 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience...
    Comp 2.99 22 With every influx of light comes new danger.
    Comp 2.121 6 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence.
    OS 2.281 4 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.
    OS 2.292 18 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
    Cir 2.309 4 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind.
    Int 2.341 16 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost, and may well study the laws of its influx.
    SwM 4.120 21 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.126 23 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head; for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.
    ET10 5.169 3 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET14 5.238 27 ...[Bacon]...marks the influx of idealism into England.
    ET14 5.239 20 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    Ctr 6.160 17 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...

Influx, n. (1)

    SwM 4.105 19 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.

infolds, v. (1)

    ET11 5.179 8 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body. What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation it infolds!

inform, v. (9)

    Civ 7.21 1 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must...have the sympathy, language and gods of those he would inform.
    PI 8.38 22 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    LVB 11.90 26 The newspapers now inform us that, in December, 1835, a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 27 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal. In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you if this be so? Do the newspapers rightly inform us?
    LVB 11.96 7 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
    War 11.163 10 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    SMC 11.370 22 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied...
    PLT 12.8 11 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    MAng1 12.221 8 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made with a pen...

informant, n. (1)

    ET9 5.150 3 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance...

information, n. (42)

    AmS 1.92 23 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    LT 1.289 7 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    YA 1.377 13 [Traders'] information, their wealth...have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.377 27 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    YA 1.381 26 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.
    Hist 2.14 16 Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius.
    SR 2.85 11 ...being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    Exp 3.73 25 ...information is given us not to sell ourselves cheap;...
    Chr1 3.110 4 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Mrs1 3.141 10 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent.
    ShP 4.204 25 The Shakspeare Society have...offered money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what result?
    ShP 4.205 22 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information.
    ShP 4.205 24 ...whatever scraps of information concerning [Shakespeare's] condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ShP 4.208 23 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    NMW 4.239 24 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    ET7 5.124 9 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET8 5.142 20 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in...every mode of exact information...
    ET9 5.150 2 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh!...
    ET15 5.263 12 [The London Times] has ears everywhere, and its information is earliest, completest and surest.
    ET15 5.266 17 [The London Times's] private information is inexplicable...
    ET15 5.267 22 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    ET15 5.268 20 The English like [the London Times] for its complete information.
    Pow 6.59 15 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    Wsp 6.229 23 Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
    Elo1 7.74 17 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly; without new information, or precision of thought...
    Elo1 7.89 11 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not...
    Boks 7.196 12 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information.
    Boks 7.196 17 ...in the best circles is the best information.
    Clbs 7.232 16 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they give information...
    Clbs 7.249 7 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    PC 8.228 6 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has earlier information...
    PC 8.234 8 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Grts 8.304 18 I am to infer that you keep good company by your better information and manners...
    Edc1 10.141 11 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires good will, beauty, wit and select information;...
    MoL 10.242 9 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has earlier information...
    Thor 10.455 24 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses... because there he could better find the men and the information he wanted.
    LS 11.14 20 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    HDC 11.83 19 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information respecting your character and customs.
    FSLC 11.194 2 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law. Oh, Mr. President, trust not the information!
    TPar 11.286 17 ...[Theodore Parker's] information would have been excessive, but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity.
    II 12.71 19 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
    Let 12.393 7 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

informations, n. (6)

    Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
    Nat 1.45 21 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    LT 1.286 26 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
    Int 2.331 3 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    WD 7.161 12 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first...
    Mem 12.97 9 It sometimes occurs that Memory...volunteers or refuses its informations at its will...

informed, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.223 6 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...

informed, v. (18)

    LT 1.266 11 Now and then comes...a more surrendered soul, more informed and led by God...
    Exp 3.48 27 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    SwM 4.139 19 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    MoS 4.163 22 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph (as I was informed in the Museum), turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    Elo2 8.127 14 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Comc 8.167 19 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who, I was informed, was in a dying condition...
    QO 8.194 12 We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
    HDC 11.40 20 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    HDC 11.47 6 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.63 18 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.64 13 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    EWI 11.105 7 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
    EWI 11.116 4 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...
    SMC 11.362 2 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families and keep them informed about the men;...
    SMC 11.370 21 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied...
    MAng1 12.224 25 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
    MAng1 12.234 8 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.242 11 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

informer, n. (3)

    ET9 5.152 4 A rogue and informer, [George of Cappadocia] got rich and was forced to run from justice.
    OA 7.335 14 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house...
    FSLC 11.198 15 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...

informing, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.55 24 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    OS 2.289 3 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
    PPh 4.66 4 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...
    MLit 12.321 19 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...

informing, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.84 9 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Wom 11.421 24 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.

informs, v. (1)

    Art2 7.39 13 ...recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature, Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.

infraction, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 6 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...

infractions, n. (1)

    Comp 2.111 6 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.

infrequent, adj. (3)

    LE 1.183 15 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...
    Nat2 3.188 9 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words. A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.
    SS 7.5 26 These conversations [with my friend] led me...to the discovery that [similar cases] are not of very infrequent occurrence.

infringed, v. (1)

    HDC 11.70 15 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...

infuriated, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 4 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?--how...among an infuriated populace...

infuse, v. (9)

    MN 1.219 9 What is all history but...a record of the incomputable energy which his infinite aspirations infuse into man?
    YA 1.369 9 Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.370 26 To men legislating for the area...somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    Lov1 2.177 23 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world...
    Elo1 7.77 2 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    Elo2 8.110 4 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.262 7 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.277 9 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    Pray 12.351 8 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...

infused, v. (5)

    YA 1.372 3 That Genius has infused itself into nature.
    SL 2.139 5 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
    Nat2 3.196 23 ...wisdom is infused into every form.
    SovE 10.209 26 Here is now a new feeling of humanity infused into public action.
    Bost 12.207 18 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies...until it has infused all the Union with its blood.

infuses, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.96 7 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach;...
    Boks 7.213 22 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
    PI 8.18 22 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.

infusing, v. (2)

    Elo2 8.114 18 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who conquers his audience by infusing his soul into them...
    War 11.153 19 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.

infusion, n. (8)

    DSA 1.126 23 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    Chr1 3.91 25 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
    Mrs1 3.140 3 ...besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    ET5 5.81 18 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;...
    HDC 11.85 18 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been, in having received so large an infusion of the spirit of both of those periods [the Planting and the Revolution of the colony].
    HCom 11.342 16 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges!
    HCom 11.342 18 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges! What an infusion of character down to the ranks!
    HCom 11.343 4 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.

infusions, n. (6)

    LT 1.281 10 By new infusions alone of the spirit by which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.
    Hist 2.23 14 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration, if not stimulated by foreign infusions.
    UGM 4.29 6 How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of evil persons...
    EWI 11.146 4 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    II 12.75 18 ...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.
    Bost 12.187 7 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.

infusories, n. (3)

    MN 1.222 22 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    UGM 4.30 5 The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.
    CL 12.154 2 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle, and the phosphorescent infusories;...

infusory, adj. (2)

    F 6.8 5 Without...groping after intestinal parasites or infusory biters...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    WD 7.171 2 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...which the prior races, from infusory and saurian, existed to ripen;...are given immeasurably to all.

ingenii, n. (1)

    Mem 12.95 26 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius. Tantum ingenii quantum memoriae.

ingenious, adj. (20)

    LE 1.175 11 The reason why an ingenious soul shuns society, is to the end of finding society.
    SL 2.149 9 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    Fdsp 2.212 1 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious...
    Chr1 3.99 21 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Chr1 3.107 10 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    ET3 5.34 15 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    ET3 5.41 2 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
    Wth 6.123 16 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will, and in what ingenious forms, for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Elo2 8.131 11 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    Elo2 8.131 16 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    PC 8.227 22 It is only in the sleep of the soul that we help ourselves by so many ingenious crutches and machineries.
    Aris 10.59 11 I know the feeling of the most ingenious and excellent youth in America;...
    Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...ingenious, useful...society has need of all these.
    MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show... ingenious contrivance...
    LLNE 10.331 18 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.
    PLT 12.8 20 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?
    PLT 12.33 25 ...the ingenious person is warped by his ingenuity and mis-sees.
    CInt 12.120 6 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not an ingenious special pleading...
    CL 12.158 14 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...

ingenuity, n. (15)

    LT 1.283 12 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which... ingenuity...could suggest.
    Comp 2.103 22 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem...
    Fdsp 2.204 3 ...a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
    Int 2.328 10 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.
    Wsp 6.217 20 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of the ingenuity of arguments...
    SA 8.93 4 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
    PPo 8.260 5 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps...
    Supl 10.171 2 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    Schr 10.279 10 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...ingenuity for poetry...
    FSLN 11.225 13 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South. But this is not a question of ingenuity, not a question of syllogisms, but of sides. How came [Webster] there?
    FRep 11.544 4 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    PLT 12.33 18 Newton did not exercise more ingenuity but less than another to see the world.
    PLT 12.33 26 ...the ingenious person is warped by his ingenuity and mis-sees.
    EurB 12.372 16 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...

ingenuous, adj. (5)

    LE 1.183 19 The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...
    MR 1.233 12 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    Comp 2.95 25 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience...
    Ctr 6.143 1 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
    Milt1 12.257 8 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.

Ingiald, Norway [Sturluson, (1)

    ET4 5.59 7 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...

inglorious, adj. (1)

    DL 7.114 15 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution.

ingot, n. (1)

    CInt 12.112 11 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

ingots, n. (2)

    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...ingots that cost too much.
    Wth 6.84 17 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./

ingrained, adj. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 11 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.

ingrained, v. (1)

    AmS 1.98 22 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity...

ingrate, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.415 10 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself. But you are ingrate to tire of me...

ingratitude, n. (3)

    UGM 4.24 9 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
    EzRy 10.391 3 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
    ALin 11.336 5 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen...the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...

ingredient, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.122 2 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...

ingredients, n. (2)

    DSA 1.120 1 ...in its chemical ingredients;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    Elo2 8.117 11 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...

ingress, n. (1)

    Int 2.342 24 The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.

inhabit, v. (13)

    LT 1.267 26 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    YA 1.365 26 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    Hist 2.18 13 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...
    Hist 2.36 15 [A man's] faculties...predict the world he is to inhabit...
    SR 2.89 1 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you...
    Lov1 2.186 27 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...
    Pt1 3.12 27 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
    Pt1 3.20 7 We are symbols and inhabit symbols;...
    MoS 4.160 21 We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.
    PI 8.5 7 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PI 8.57 15 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    PPo 8.257 1 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them...are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    Imtl 8.341 23 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit.

inhabitant, n. (20)

    Nat 1.68 9 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart...
    MR 1.229 18 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart...of every inhabitant of every city.
    Tran 1.345 26 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?
    YA 1.369 16 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    Prd1 2.225 12 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties which impose new restraints on the young inhabitant.
    Prd1 2.226 7 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Bhr 6.179 17 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.
    Bty 6.286 24 ...we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
    Elo1 7.69 5 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    OA 7.320 11 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    PPo 8.258 25 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Edc1 10.128 7 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant.
    MMEm 10.425 10 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    HDC 11.47 24 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...inhabitant or not-might introduce any business into a public meeting.
    HDC 11.47 27 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    JBB 11.272 6 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant not a criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    CL 12.148 4 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty...it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guests to the deference due to each.
    CW 12.175 24 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;-as it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guest to the deference due to each.
    MAng1 12.221 24 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
    ACri 12.301 21 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.

inhabitants, n. (29)

    Nat 1.18 8 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.
    Prd1 2.226 20 ...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always excelled the southerner in force.
    Mrs1 3.119 6 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault.
    ET1 5.14 1 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET3 5.40 26 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
    ET4 5.69 21 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water...
    Bty 6.281 14 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf? what on the inhabitants of marl and of alluvium?
    Art2 7.54 15 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    Res 8.141 3 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    Imtl 8.339 22 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet, and let us digest for its inhabitants what we could of the wisdom of this.
    Plu 10.314 23 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.
    CSC 10.375 27 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    HDC 11.30 18 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years;...
    HDC 11.42 12 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.55 1 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
    HDC 11.55 25 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...
    HDC 11.64 19 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    HDC 11.65 26 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
    HDC 11.70 3 ...if any person or persons, inhabitants of this province...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.71 9 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    HDC 11.78 16 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.78 22 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    HDC 11.80 1 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    FSLC 11.192 8 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    SHC 11.429 8 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.434 1 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...
    CInt 12.122 4 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined, the inhabitants of cities...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    MAng1 12.237 4 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.

inhabitation, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.196 13 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation.

inhabited, v. (4)

    Hsm1 2.258 7 That country is the fairest which is inhabited by the noblest minds.
    NMW 4.250 2 One day [Napoleon] asked whether the planets were inhabited?
    PI 8.50 27 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Bost 12.189 19 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;...

inhabiting, v. (1)

    OS 2.283 14 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-morrow you arrive there and know them by inhabiting them.

inhabits, v. (8)

    MN 1.200 6 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed, which not only inhabits the organ but makes the organ.
    OS 2.290 1 When we see those whom [the soul] inhabits, we are apprised of new degrees of greatness.
    OS 2.296 11 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it.
    UGM 4.6 10 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...
    Bty 6.281 13 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf?...
    PPo 8.255 25 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    LLNE 10.349 21 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man and to redress the disorders of the planet he inhabits.
    CL 12.135 5 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America.

inhalation, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 18 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.

inhale, v. (2)

    Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    F 6.28 2 [The breath of will] is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale...

inhaled, v. (2)

    Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.
    PPo 8.254 13 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled from the musk-bladder of the merchant...that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.

inhales, v. (2)

    LE 1.158 23 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...
    MN 1.217 8 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...inhales an odorous and celestial air...

inharmonious, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.71 3 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection;...
    Cour 7.276 13 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature...

inherit, v. (2)

    Int 2.335 13 [The thought] seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed...
    Wth 6.118 1 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor;...

inheritance, n. (8)

    SR 2.88 4 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by inheritance...
    Pol1 3.203 7 ...property passes through donation or inheritance to those who do not create it.
    Wth 6.88 5 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...
    Wth 6.119 26 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    PC 8.207 12 We may be well contented with our fair inheritance.
    EWI 11.107 17 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for debt or by inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...
    AgMs 12.359 8 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.
    AgMs 12.363 7 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who, by the sweat of their face, without an inheritance and without offence to their conscience have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

inherited, v. (9)

    DSA 1.142 20 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
    Chr1 3.104 15 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money, the fortune I inherited...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    ET6 5.110 6 Terms of service and partnership [in England] are lifelong, or are inherited.
    Wth 6.93 23 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it.
    WD 7.158 13 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
    QO 8.200 13 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.
    Aris 10.42 8 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
    MLit 12.322 14 Whatever the age inherited or invented, [Goethe] has made his own.
    AgMs 12.362 13 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...

inheritor, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 27 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.

inhospitable, adj. (3)

    LT 1.263 2 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    SA 8.96 16 When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable.
    PLT 12.28 27 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.

inhuman, adj. (3)

    Ctr 6.140 3 'T is inhuman to want faith in the power of education...
    Prch 10.232 7 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    ALin 11.337 22 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...crushes everything immoral as inhuman...

inhumanity, n. (1)

    Bty 6.284 16 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose. There 's a revenge for this inhumanity.

inimitable, adj. (7)

    Chr1 3.101 16 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit.
    ShP 4.214 15 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
    Elo1 7.93 2 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the order...inimitable by any art.
    PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim, or whatever wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
    MMEm 10.404 1 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy, but inimitable...
    MAng1 12.232 15 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    ACri 12.297 21 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...

iniquities, n. (1)

    EWI 11.105 26 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal.

iniquo, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 5 Ab iniquo certamine indignabundus recessit.

initial, adj. (9)

    DSA 1.129 27 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    SL 2.148 21 [A man] is like...an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic.
    Cir 2.316 27 There is no virtue which is final; all are initial.
    Art1 2.356 16 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Art1 2.362 25 ...the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Exp 3.71 21 ...every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial...
    PPh 4.70 7 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    Edc1 10.125 11 We have already taken...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...

initials, n. (1)

    ET17 5.297 10 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton, whose initials are engraved on its face.

initiate, v. (1)

    EPro 11.316 7 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...honoring alike those who initiate and those who receive them.

initiated, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.409 11 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.

initiated, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.179 25 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature...
    GoW 4.276 21 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well initiated in the life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...
    Suc 7.298 12 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    SovE 10.201 19 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...

initiation, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 14 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.

initiative, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.36 22 The action of the Instinct is for the most part...regulative, rather than initiative or impulsive.

initiative, n. (3)

    ET6 5.104 17 ...[the Englishman] can take the initiative in emergencies.
    Cour 7.259 26 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault, not that we have taken the initiative and given the law.
    Suc 7.292 16 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent, and thus throw on a bolder party the onus of an initiative.

inject, v. (1)

    CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.

injunction, n. (1)

    Hist 2.21 27 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

injure, v. (6)

    Wsp 6.224 25 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield. Let him accuse none, let injure him none.
    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.
    MMEm 10.413 23 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    HDC 11.55 13 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    EWI 11.145 24 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
    TPar 11.291 6 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking.

injured, adj. (3)

    ET6 5.109 26 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
    EWI 11.135 1 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    EdAd 11.382 11 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./

injured, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.230 11 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured...

injured, v. (6)

    NER 3.260 14 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition...that man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.
    Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land...
    ACiv 11.308 17 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little (the parties being injured by it being such a handful that they can very easily be indemnified) rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    EdAd 11.390 2 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...
    PLT 12.47 1 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured.
    MAng1 12.231 23 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.

injurer, n. (1)

    DSA 1.130 23 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity...the friend of man is made the injurer of man.

injuries, n. (3)

    ET10 5.169 21 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. And, in view of these injuries, some compensation has been attempted in England.
    Elo2 8.124 17 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him...who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive them.
    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.

injurious, adj. (25)

    DSA 1.131 7 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...
    LE 1.183 4 There is somewhat inconvenient and injurious in [the student's] position.
    MR 1.241 4 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...
    Con 1.306 8 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Con 1.318 16 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Comp 2.110 20 No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, said Burke.
    Comp 2.117 3 ...no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him...
    Prd1 2.225 24 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    Pol1 3.204 7 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    UGM 4.22 19 ...our system is one...of an injurious superiority.
    UGM 4.30 15 ...great men:--the word is injurious.
    ET10 5.155 5 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
    ET13 5.225 1 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...
    Wth 6.107 21 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    Insp 8.283 20 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    Dem1 10.16 10 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Aris 10.38 19 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    LVB 11.95 23 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government, and what injurious inferences they draw as to the minds of the governors.
    EWI 11.128 26 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    War 11.173 8 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    ACiv 11.302 11 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it may disturb.
    PLT 12.53 20 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.
    PLT 12.61 5 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.
    MAng1 12.215 15 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    Let 12.395 26 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

injuriously, adv. (4)

    Nat2 3.189 14 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    Bhr 6.186 12 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right one.
    Civ 7.34 5 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Edc1 10.153 2 ...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.

injury, n. (24)

    Nat 1.45 24 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms] bears the marks as of some injury;...
    DSA 1.134 10 The injury to faith throttles the preacher;...
    LE 1.164 2 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    SR 2.66 25 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    Exp 3.73 12 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    Gts 3.163 21 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.
    OA 7.320 9 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    Grts 8.302 8 Greatness,-what is it? Is there not some injury to us, some insult in the word?
    Aris 10.59 20 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself...does not exist...
    Edc1 10.128 9 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the fear of injury...
    Edc1 10.158 6 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    EzRy 10.381 17 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    Thor 10.484 26 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task...
    HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    LVB 11.96 12 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.145 25 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
    War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel injury...
    War 11.169 12 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
    FSLC 11.182 7 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    SMC 11.352 23 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    Wom 11.414 7 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
    Milt1 12.258 9 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    PPr 12.383 21 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.

injustice, n. (27)

    DSA 1.133 9 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    DSA 1.141 23 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    MN 1.198 21 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    Tran 1.356 24 [The Transcendentalist] cannot help the reaction of this injustice in his own mind.
    Tran 1.357 1 ...it is well if [the Transcendentalist] can keep from lying, injustice, and suicide.
    Comp 2.123 26 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God. What should they do? It seems a great injustice.
    Cir 2.315 26 One man's justice is another's injustice;...
    Cir 2.316 20 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    Cir 2.316 22 If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice?
    UGM 4.33 21 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.
    PNR 4.84 2 Plato affirms...that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it;...
    PNR 4.85 16 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    PNR 4.85 23 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    SwM 4.120 16 A man is in general and in particular an organized justice or injustice...
    Wsp 6.223 4 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out;...
    Comc 8.163 20 ...it is the highest degree of injustice not to be just and yet seem so...
    SovE 10.191 16 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    LVB 11.93 18 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling.
    FSLC 11.183 23 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
    FSLC 11.187 2 ...it is not to be presumed that [laws] can so stultify themselves as to command injustice.
    FSLC 11.211 27 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
    JBB 11.271 21 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision; namely, the doing substantial injustice.
    ACiv 11.307 10 [Slavery] cannot live but by injustice...
    Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    Milt1 12.253 11 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.
    Milt1 12.257 10 [Milton's] manners and his carriage did him no injustice.

ink, n. (6)

    YA 1.383 22 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    ET2 5.32 13 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    Wsp 6.201 18 I dip my pen in the blackest ink...
    Grts 8.315 5 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.
    ACri 12.289 20 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades; ink of Erebus-night of Chaos.

inkpot, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.201 19 I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

inks, n. (1)

    ACri 12.289 20 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades;...

inkstand, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 18 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...

inland, adj. (5)

    Exp 3.71 18 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...
    Res 8.138 26 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming from a wretched garret in an inland manufacturing town for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    PC 8.210 15 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the mines, the inland and marine explorations...have evoked!...
    HDC 11.29 8 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
    EdAd 11.386 18 ...who can see the continent with its inland and surrounding waters...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?

inland, adv. (1)

    CbW 6.267 27 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will go inland;...

inlay, v. (1)

    Aris 10.34 5 ...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...

inlays, v. (1)

    Aris 10.42 6 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree and inlays it with gold and ivory.

inlet, n. (9)

    DSA 1.125 19 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...by showing...that he...is an inlet into the deeps of Reason.
    Hist 2.3 2 Every man is an inlet to the [common mind] and to all of the same.
    Comp 2.116 10 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Hsm1 2.249 14 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Cir 2.320 17 I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
    Art1 2.352 3 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    PerF 10.76 24 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet...
    ACiv 11.305 13 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to...get possession of an inlet...
    PLT 12.15 17 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.

inlets, n. (1)

    LE 1.155 21 [The scholar's] failures...are inlets to higher advantages.

inly, adv. (5)

    DSA 1.147 6 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that gave us leave to be what we inly were.
    SR 2.73 14 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me...
    Hsm1 2.263 22 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    Imtl 8.321 6 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Plu 10.312 7 [Seneca] ventured far-apparently too far-for so keen a conscience as he inly had.

inmates, n. (3)

    CbW 6.270 5 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into contradictors...
    DL 7.117 24 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates know what they want;...
    Trag 12.416 7 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.

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