Inmost to Instauration

ET1 5.16 15 At one time [Carlyle] had inquired and read a good deal about America.

ET1 5.16 21 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.

ET1 5.21 15 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.

Bty 6.285 12 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?

OA 7.333 17 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.

Comc 8.167 23 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired.

Imtl 8.350 1 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods;...

Imtl 8.350 5 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality].

Dem1 10.14 21 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still, and this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of their halting.

Chr2 10.120 22 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.

MoL 10.253 25 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem.

LLNE 10.328 13 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France.

Thor 10.463 25 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...

LVB 11.92 3 We have inquired if this [rumored relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the government...

FSLN 11.230 19 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?

inquirer, n. (2)

Int 2.335 8 [The thought] is...always a miracle...which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.

Chr1 3.100 3 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer, and every inquirer will have to dispose of him, in the first place.

inquirers, n. (4)

LE 1.160 25 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...

PI 8.8 16 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.

Dem1 10.25 5 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.

Dem1 10.25 7 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.

inquires, v. (6)

Lov1 2.180 13 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.

Pt1 3.36 17 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...

SwM 4.96 21 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all. How much more, if he that inquires be a holy and godlike soul!

Elo1 7.80 22 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions.

Schr 10.266 26 The cant of the time inquires superciliously after the new ideas;...

FRO2 11.484 6 ...Thou ask'st in fountains and in fires,/ He is the essence that inquires./

inquiries, n. (5)

Nat 1.4 3 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.

Nat 1.5 5 In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy [of terminology] is not material;...

Nat 1.56 15 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.

Nat 1.66 1 In inquiries respecting the laws of the world...the highest reason is always the truest.

SwM 4.120 27 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.

inquiring, adj. (1)

MN 1.213 26 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]: not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye.

inquiring, v. (1)

Schr 10.280 18 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn;...

inquiry, n. (31)

Nat 1.46 3 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education...

Nat 1.75 19 It were a wise inquiry for the closet, to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.

Nat 1.75 24 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect...

LE 1.167 22 Further inquiry will discover that nobody...knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...

LE 1.181 8 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...

LE 1.184 1 Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...

LE 1.186 17 Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.

LT 1.272 7 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...

LT 1.286 22 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love. But whose fault is this? and what a fault, and to what inquiry does it lead!

Hist 2.11 5 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...

SR 2.64 4 The inquiry leads us to that source...of life, which we call... Instinct.

Exp 3.85 10 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success. I say this...in reply to the inquiry, Why not realize your world?

SwM 4.96 20 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all.

SwM 4.113 9 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].

ET7 5.116 19 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.

ET12 5.210 1 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...

Pow 6.75 5 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.

DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid our practical inquiry.

WD 7.167 23 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.

Imtl 8.332 14 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.

Imtl 8.349 23 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry.

Dem1 10.3 4 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...

Dem1 10.25 7 Of course the inquiry [into Animal Magnetism] is pursued on low principles.

Dem1 10.25 12 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the thing, the commodity, the power...direct the course of inquiry.

Carl 10.490 23 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging... and, as in companies here (in England) no man is named or introduced, great is the effect and great the inquiry.

Carl 10.494 21 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle], previous, it would seem, to all inquiry whether the force be divine or diabolic.

EWI 11.109 6 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.

EWI 11.111 15 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager, without fine or inquiry.

NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...

MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.

Let 12.404 14 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

inquisition, n. (5)

NER 3.258 11 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.

ET15 5.261 10 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...

Thor 10.481 19 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight...

EWI 11.132 20 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.

FRep 11.528 20 We began well. No inquisition here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church.

Inquisition, n. (2)

ET8 5.132 22 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition...

Chr2 10.104 15 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Purgatory, the Indulgences, and the Inquisition of Popery...are examples of this perversion.

inquisitions, n. (2)

Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history,--persecutions, inquisitions...

PC 8.218 16 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...

inquisitive, adj. (5)

Nat2 3.177 10 Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft...

ET13 5.223 22 [The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive;...

Thor 10.473 22 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head...

TPar 11.286 2 Theodore Parker was...strong, eager, inquisitive of knowledge...

CL 12.166 15 I know that the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons.

inquisitiveness, n. (2)

Int 2.325 16 ...the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

PC 8.226 14 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.

inquisitor, n. (3)

MN 1.196 2 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line...

ET4 5.67 11 The fair Saxon man...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...

Cour 7.274 8 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...

inquisitorial, adj. (1)

ET13 5.223 21 [The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive;...

inquisitors, n. (1)

Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.

inroad, n. (2)

MR 1.238 10 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a planted field by...the inroad of cattle;...

Milt1 12.272 26 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.

inroads, n. (3)

OA 7.318 7 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...

FRep 11.542 24 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...hinders the inroads of the sea on the continent...

CInt 12.114 16 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...inroads and excursions round...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...

in-rushing, adj. (1)

CInt 12.116 17 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

insane, adj. (27)

Nat 1.71 7 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.

LE 1.157 20 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable, the despotism of the senses insane.

MN 1.199 23 ...insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought...

Con 1.302 1 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.

Tran 1.335 10 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.

SR 2.62 17 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane...symbolizes...the state of man...

Comp 2.119 21 [The mob's] actions are insane...

SL 2.151 14 Nothing is more deeply punished than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.

OS 2.287 12 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...

Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

Mrs1 3.154 18 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast, eccentric, or insane man...but fled at once to him;...

PPh 4.74 13 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.

ET1 5.21 17 [Wordsworth] said he thought [Carlyle] sometimes insane.

F 6.41 10 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations...

Dem1 10.5 9 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms...are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.

Aris 10.37 1 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct...the insane subordination of the end to the means.

CSC 10.376 11 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...

MMEm 10.400 22 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.

MMEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].

CPL 11.494 5 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.

PLT 12.8 27 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...

CInt 12.118 4 ...ambition makes insane.

CInt 12.118 10 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction of gentleness into insane asylums...

CL 12.159 13 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...

CL 12.159 17 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...

CL 12.159 21 ...there are more insane persons than are so called...

Let 12.404 25 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

insane, n. (5)

LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and affect us as the insane do.

SR 2.53 2 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,-as invalids and the insane pay a high board.

Exp 3.55 15 We house with the insane, and must humor them;...

SA 8.105 26 ...heal the insane...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

II 12.66 12 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...of a balance which is never lost, not even in the insane.

insanities, n. (7)

YA 1.392 2 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...

NR 3.237 3 ...the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

UGM 4.26 4 Viewed from any high point...the Western civilization, would seem a bundle of insanities.

Ctr 6.136 14 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Comc 8.162 3 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.

Schr 10.266 6 ...[Nature] has balsams for our hurts, and hellebores for our insanities.

Scot 11.467 14 [Humor] is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

insanity, n. (24)

AmS 1.113 9 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory of insanity...

Comp 2.118 3 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...is cured of the insanity of conceit;...

Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels;... insanity that makes him eat grass;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...

OS 2.272 18 ...to speak with levity of these limits [of time and space] is, in the world, the sign of insanity.

OS 2.281 27 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...

Cir 2.319 7 ...old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names,--fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime;...

Int 2.339 15 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic. It is incipient insanity.

Pt1 3.32 14 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he...heeds only this one dream which holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.

Chr1 3.115 7 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.

Nat2 3.195 11 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men.

NR 3.234 5 ...the wonder and charm of [art] is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

GoW 4.265 18 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.

ET4 5.53 16 In Scotland...among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics.

Bhr 6.181 7 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Wsp 6.217 19 ...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;...

Boks 7.213 5 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it do not find vent.

Suc 7.289 7 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity...

PC 8.230 17 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amidst insanity, to calm and guide it;...

LLNE 10.330 9 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...

EzRy 10.386 9 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity;...are well remembered...

War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...

ALin 11.333 9 ...[good humor]...is the protection of the overdriven brain against rancor and insanity.

Scot 11.467 7 ...[Scott] had no insanity, or vice, or blemish.

insatiable, adj. (16)

MN 1.209 24 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...

MN 1.212 14 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable.

MR 1.256 19 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications.

Tran 1.346 25 ...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable expectation;...

Hist 2.21 4 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Cir 2.321 21 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves...

NER 3.257 7 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.

NMW 4.244 24 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.

Wsp 6.238 22 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the insatiable curiosity and appetite for its continuation.

Chr2 10.119 27 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.

Edc1 10.149 18 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts, is insatiable for this nourishment...

EPro 11.323 10 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the insatiable temper of the South made it impossible...

PLT 12.43 21 [Genius] is insatiable for expression.

CL 12.161 10 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the white man about the Indian...

MLit 12.313 8 [Subjectiveness] is founded on that insatiable demand for unity...

MLit 12.333 24 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And this is the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at this day.

insatiably, adv. (1)

Mrs1 3.134 10 ...do we not insatiably ask, Was a man in the house?

inscribe, v. (5)

Art1 2.351 21 In a portrait [the painter] must inscribe the character and not the features...

Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.

Elo1 7.66 26 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe...

WD 7.169 15 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

SMC 11.367 13 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...

inscribed, v. (10)

Nat 1.48 4 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

AmS 1.87 14 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form...that mind is inscribed.

LE 1.183 9 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.

LT 1.259 18 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves, whereon a weighty sense is inscribed...

SwM 4.120 15 The very organic form resembles the end inscribed on it.

GoW 4.269 11 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls.

Art2 7.54 23 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.

PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...

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

FRep 11.542 10 Use is inscribed on all [man's] faculties.

inscribes, v. (2)

Nat2 3.188 12 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.

GoW 4.261 19 Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.

inscribing, v. (1)

PI 8.19 21 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world;...

inscription, n. (4)

PPh 4.58 24 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.

Imtl 8.326 20 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...

Imtl 8.328 18 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living. That inscription describes a progress in opinion.

ACri 12.297 24 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

inscriptions, n. (4)

Int 2.330 22 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

MoS 4.163 10 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and...had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.

WD 7.174 20 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...

SMC 11.351 10 The sense of the town, the eloquent inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.

inscrutable, adj. (4)

LE 1.163 18 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...

Exp 3.53 21 I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities;...

ET16 5.277 24 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.

Bty 6.302 7 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.

insect, adj. (2)

NER 3.253 3 Even the insect world was to be defended...

QO 8.177 1 Whoever looks at the insect world...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...

insect, n. (9)

Nat 1.28 8 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...the organs, or work, or noise of an insect, applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.

Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

F 6.20 11 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes, from insect and crawfish up to elephant;...

Art2 7.53 1 The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.

Farm 7.135 4 [Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;/...

Res 8.153 1 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...

PPo 8.242 14 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem...

Insp 8.286 5 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./

SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...

insects, n. (11)

Nat 1.18 25 The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other...

Nat 1.42 6 ...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm] is a sacred emblem...

AmS 1.92 14 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants, like the fact observed in insects...

MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... an orchard by insects;...

SR 2.58 19 My book should...resound with the hum of insects.

ET2 5.28 24 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.

Suc 7.285 1 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...

Grts 8.305 9 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals; others in ornithology, or fishes, or insects;...

CL 12.136 26 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs.

CL 12.138 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber...

CL 12.138 26 [Linnaeus]...examined fishes, insects, birds, quadrupeds;...

insecure, adj. (1)

Supl 10.177 18 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

insecurity, n. (5)

ET14 5.234 6 Defoe has no insecurity or choice.

Wth 6.108 12 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.

Insp 8.273 11 This insecurity of possession...tantalizes us.

Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of...poverty, insecurity...

Trag 12.408 22 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals, and this in the particulars of disease, want, insecurity and disunion.

insensibility, n. (3)

Gts 3.163 20 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.

Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering, the later hurts being lost on insensibility.

GSt 10.501 7 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility...

insensible, adj. (8)

PNR 4.81 5 ...[nature] is insensible to what you say of tedious preparation.

ET17 5.293 13 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England]...

SA 8.95 4 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather...

Comc 8.164 2 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...

Dem1 10.22 17 The deepest flattery, and that to which we can never be insensible, is the flattery of omens.

Thor 10.464 26 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and, though insensible to some fine traits of culture, could very well report his weight and calibre.

WSL 12.344 12 [Landor]...is not insensible to the beauty of his watch-seal...

Let 12.399 11 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity...

insensibly, adv. (2)

Int 2.327 23 Out of darkness [the mind] came insensibly into the marvellous light of to-day.

ET2 5.30 3 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind, steadily and insensibly.

inseparable, adj. (11)

Comp 2.103 6 The retribution in the circumstance...is inseparable from the thing...

Nat2 3.178 18 ...our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.

ET8 5.136 11 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours. They are meditating opposition. This gravity is inseparable from minds of great resources.

Art2 7.53 3 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty that it has been taken for it.

Clbs 7.226 25 ...opinion native to the speaker is...inseparable from his image.

OA 7.318 20 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature, which are inseparable from our condition...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.

PI 8.54 16 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...

LLNE 10.333 23 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him, with inseparable association with his voice and genius.

MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.

ACri 12.291 2 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

PPr 12.386 19 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

inseparably, adv. (2)

Mrs1 3.130 13 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;--the persons seem to draw inseparably near;...

Plu 10.300 9 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.

insert, v. (7)

MN 1.200 9 How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom;...the dance of the hours goes forward still.

Int 2.347 4 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...

SwM 4.137 23 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.

Wth 6.92 23 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

SS 7.5 19 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...

PPo 8.252 4 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.

Dem1 10.17 24 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal...

inserted, v. (2)

PI 8.14 12 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.

ACri 12.291 10 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag. 'T is like a pebble inserted in a mosaic.

inserting, v. (1)

ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.

inside, adv. (3)

Wth 6.109 11 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.

PerF 10.73 21 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge, being inside of them and dealing with them as the Creator does.

CInt 12.116 6 ...[the college] deals with a force which It cannot monopolize or confine;... I have no doubt of the force, and for me the only question is, whether the force is inside.

inside, n. (7)

Comp 2.105 5 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...

Exp 3.64 3 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom, shows that the world is all outside; it has no inside.

Exp 3.78 16 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;...

ET1 5.4 18 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...

Wsp 6.204 15 ...the public and the private element...like inside and outside...adhere to every soul...

Edc1 10.138 22 I like...boys...putting nobody on his guard, but seeing the inside of the show...

Mem 12.94 13 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man was so sharp-sighted, or could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.

insidious, adj. (1)

LLNE 10.345 18 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.

insight, n. (98)

Nat 1.3 8 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition...

Nat 1.39 8 [Man's] insight refines him.

AmS 1.86 14 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...by insight.

AmS 1.98 3 Years are well spent...in the insight into trades and manufactures;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.

AmS 1.111 12 Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.

DSA 1.122 8 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.

MN 1.222 18 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight.

SL 2.134 27 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods?

Fdsp 2.203 8 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty.

Fdsp 2.214 2 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...

OS 2.281 13 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience...

OS 2.289 27 ...[the energy of the soul] comes as insight;...

Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.

Pt1 3.18 26 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,--re-attaching even artificial things and violation of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,--disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.

Pt1 3.26 4 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...

Exp 3.71 21 ...every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial...

Exp 3.85 19 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Chr1 3.92 22 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...

Chr1 3.107 25 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...

Mrs1 3.141 4 Insight we must have...

NR 3.241 17 ...is not munificence the means of insight?

NER 3.268 24 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.

NER 3.274 5 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so...those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.

PPh 4.47 10 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.

PPh 4.58 13 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...

SwM 4.117 16 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...

SwM 4.124 4 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...

MoS 4.168 4 There have been men with deeper insight [than Montaigne' s];...

MoS 4.174 9 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...

ShP 4.208 19 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...which gives the most historical insight into the man.

NMW 4.229 13 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...

NMW 4.232 10 [Bonaparte] is strong in the right manner, namely by insight.

ET14 5.243 25 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...

F 6.21 17 The limitation [of Fate] is impassable by any insight of man.

F 6.21 18 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.

F 6.25 27 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe...

F 6.26 3 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...

F 6.29 18 ...insight is not will...

Ctr 6.160 21 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.

Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.

Wsp 6.227 15 [As we grow older] We have...an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer;...

SS 7.16 2 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...

Elo1 7.74 19 It requires no special insight to edit one of our country newspapers.

Elo1 7.97 6 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.

WD 7.178 21 Moments of insight...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Boks 7.204 3 What is really best in any book is translatable,--any real insight or broad human sentiment.

Suc 7.309 25 Good will makes insight...

PI 8.17 21 A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

PI 8.27 13 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...

PI 8.30 9 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight...

PI 8.35 5 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation...

SA 8.97 18 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real...

QO 8.203 24 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse, as if he avowed want of insight.

PPo 8.244 13 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...

PPo 8.254 2 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./

Insp 8.271 13 The man's insight and power are interrupted and occasional;...

Insp 8.272 24 ...not the immortality of the private soul is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...

Insp 8.272 27 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life... sometimes an intellectual insight.

Grts 8.311 26 [The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central courage of insight.

Aris 10.59 27 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself, and falls abroad with too much freedom. But in the hours of insight we rally against this skepticism.

PerF 10.72 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

PerF 10.77 26 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.

Chr2 10.103 8 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...but it is a sovereign rule...

Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] confers perpetual insight.

Edc1 10.154 14 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event...

Supl 10.176 3 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...

SovE 10.192 12 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art. But it ought to come; it...is an insight which we cannot spare.

SovE 10.212 21 ...what divination or insight belongs to [ethical truth]!

Prch 10.218 9 [Those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have insight and truthfulness;...

Prch 10.234 4 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.

Schr 10.267 22 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...

Schr 10.269 18 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.

Plu 10.304 20 Another [sentence] gives an insight into [Plutarch's] mystic tendencies...

Thor 10.464 16 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery... was in him an unsleeping insight;...

War 11.171 3 ...the only hope of this cause [of peace] is in the increased insight...

War 11.174 17 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have, by their intellectual insight or else by their moral elevation, attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.

FSLN 11.236 14 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.

EdAd 11.390 7 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.

Wom 11.421 1 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight...

ChiE 11.473 4 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his unerring insight...

FRO2 11.490 11 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews.

FRep 11.532 13 [Our people] all lean on some other, and this superstitiously, and not from insight of his merit.

PLT 12.5 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

PLT 12.6 26 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.

PLT 12.40 11 Insight assimilates the thing seen.

PLT 12.42 21 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...

PLT 12.56 23 We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we have;...

PLT 12.61 27 Good will makes insight.

II 12.69 10 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...

Mem 12.92 7 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight...

Mem 12.101 12 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...

Mem 12.110 6 With every broader generalization which the mind makes, with every deeper insight, its retrospect is also wider.

Mem 12.110 7 With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we come into new possession of the past.

CInt 12.129 22 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.

Milt1 12.276 24 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.

MLit 12.330 15 In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the insight;...

EurB 12.367 14 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.

PPr 12.381 3 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight.

Insight, n. (1)

Boks 7.212 8 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.

insights, n. (5)

NR 3.235 7 ...these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and things of course.

SwM 4.126 19 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.

GoW 4.278 5 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many...just insights into life and manners and characters;...

PC 8.228 19 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Grts 8.307 22 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to him...

insignificance, n. (10)

Tran 1.346 8 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction [youths] expose our poverty and the insignificance of man to man.

Fdsp 2.208 9 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.

ET14 5.237 23 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.

Wth 6.92 24 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...made the insignificance of the thing forgotten...

Ctr 6.145 21 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.

Insp 8.272 19 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...

Chr2 10.93 5 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.

MoL 10.244 3 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...

LLNE 10.336 13 Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature;

EWI 11.144 17 ...if you have man, black or white is an insignificance.

insignificant, adj. (25)

Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant...that... they do not vary the result.

YA 1.378 6 Trade goes to make the governments insignificant...

SR 2.58 8 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.

Cir 2.321 19 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result...

Int 2.330 15 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.

NR 3.234 27 Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing...

ET12 5.205 17 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.

ET13 5.218 26 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant.

Ctr 6.153 16 ...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you to a cloud of insignificant annoyances...

Wsp 6.207 22 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant or unmanly and effeminating.

Bty 6.300 16 The great orator was an emaciated, insignificant person, but he was all brain.

Ill 6.325 18 ...[the young mortal] fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant.

Art2 7.42 8 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.

Elo1 7.75 27 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...is insignificant...

Suc 7.304 22 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!

Res 8.152 14 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...

QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant...that...one would say there is no pure originality.

Insp 8.297 8 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.

Imtl 8.334 15 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?

Dem1 10.10 2 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints...

Prch 10.232 27 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can, no matter how insignificant our aid may be.

MoL 10.248 2 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.

Thor 10.470 1 ...[Thoreau's] strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor.

SMC 11.352 12 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant.

ACri 12.299 8 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...

insincere, adj. (3)

NR 3.247 24 I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

MoS 4.168 6 ...[Montaigne] is never dull, never insincere...

EdAd 11.389 8 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition.

insincerity, n. (2)

Clbs 7.237 2 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.

Prch 10.217 3 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...

insinuate, v. (1)

PI 8.30 18 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...

insinuated, v. (1)

Cour 7.273 27 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted...

insinuates, v. (2)

Nat2 3.195 1 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.

Ill 6.316 10 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...

insinuating, v. (1)

NR 3.247 1 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.

insinuation, n. (2)

ET8 5.130 17 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...

Dem1 10.19 16 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...

insipid, adj. (4)

CbW 6.255 3 The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.

Bty 6.301 16 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...

MMEm 10.411 22 How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views!

FRep 11.535 18 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.

insist, v. (20)

LE 1.182 25 The student, as we all along insist, is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit.

MR 1.240 19 I do not wish to...insist that every man should be a farmer...

Con 1.312 13 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims...

Tran 1.356 11 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect to this institution and that usage;...which they resist as what does not concern them.

SR 2.83 6 Insist on yourself;...

Fdsp 2.210 3 Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?

Mrs1 3.136 23 ...that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.

Mrs1 3.142 23 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its foundation.

MoS 4.180 16 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way?

ET1 5.12 15 ...[Coleridge said] this also, that if you should insist on your faith here in England, and I on mine, mine would be the hotter side of the fagot.

ET9 5.151 15 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones; but we must not insist on these accidental lines.

Wth 6.120 23 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...

Ctr 6.154 19 'T is a superstition to insist on a special diet.

CbW 6.259 19 ...there is no man who is not at some time indebted to his vices, as no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist that the man meliorate...

Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or gunpowder...

Suc 7.291 17 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands...

Grts 8.307 12 A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey...

Edc1 10.158 16 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children...

PLT 12.6 25 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.

ACri 12.291 17 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...

insisted, v. (11)

Tran 1.340 2 ...the skeptical philosophy of Locke...insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses...

NR 3.241 7 ...when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...

ET16 5.287 22 ...I insisted that the manifest absurdity of the view to English feasibility could make no difference to a gentleman;...

OA 7.335 15 [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...

Insp 8.286 24 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day...

Imtl 8.333 4 When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails... do we thank him for the gracious instruction?

MoL 10.246 11 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

LS 11.11 5 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

EWI 11.105 8 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.

TPar 11.289 20 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted beyond all men in pulpits... that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...

EPro 11.323 17 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore. Give them these, and they would have insisted on Washington.

insisting, v. (2)

Milt1 12.271 27 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man...

EurB 12.376 21 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should be cleared of privilege,

insists, v. (7)

Tran 1.329 21 The materialist insists on facts...

PPh 4.66 15 In the Republic [Plato] insists on the temperaments of the youth, as first of the first.

Boks 7.215 2 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...

Chr2 10.92 7 When a man, through stubbornness, insists to do this or that... only because he will, he is weak;...

Prch 10.237 6 Truth...insists on being of this age and of this moment.

Plu 10.314 22 [Plutarch] insists that the highest good is in action.

Milt1 12.257 22 [Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous education.

insoluble, adj. (1)

MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve, insoluble by the last age.

insolvency, n. (1)

Gts 3.159 5 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...

insolvent, adj. (2)

SR 2.75 16 ...we see that most natures are insolvent...

Imtl 8.338 27 Most men are insolvent...

insomuch, adv. (1)

SwM 4.116 7 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world; insomuch that if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms, and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...

inspect, v. (6)

AmS 1.104 19 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...

LE 1.163 21 ...the more quaintly you inspect its evanescent beauties...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...

MN 1.202 20 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take...the eminent souls, and narrowly inspect their biography.

Int 2.332 17 Inspect what delights you in Plutarch...

Mrs1 3.147 27 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review, in such manner as that we could at leisure and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman and no lady;...

MAng1 12.224 5 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications...

inspection, n. (4)

NR 3.232 5 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.

ET15 5.261 18 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states. Of course, this inspection is feared.

Boks 7.193 24 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...

PI 8.6 14 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...

inspects, v. (1)

DL 7.123 21 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their aims are low...

inspirable, adj. (2)

II 12.74 13 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men,-for all are inspirable, and sometimes inspired,-that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.

II 12.79 15 All men are inspirable.

Inspiration [Henry Thoreau] (1)

Insp 8.268 13 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

inspiration, n. (90)

DSA 1.127 20 The doctrine of inspiration is lost;...

DSA 1.144 13 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.

LE 1.174 26 Inspiration makes solitude anywhere.

LE 1.182 7 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration,-then he has health;...

MN 1.213 13 The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright casualty;...

Tran 1.330 1 ...the idealist [insists]...on inspiration...

Tran 1.335 25 ...[the Transcendentalist] believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy.

Tran 1.336 4 ...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought...

YA 1.386 22 Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best.

SR 2.64 20 Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom...

Comp 2.96 19 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals;...

Comp 2.102 7 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; but there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Lov1 2.177 17 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.

Prd1 2.231 3 ...the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult...

OS 2.281 22 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...

OS 2.288 8 Among the multitude of scholars and authors...we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than inspiration;...

OS 2.289 18 The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.

OS 2.290 3 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone.

Pt1 3.12 2 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!

Pt1 3.28 26 That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury.

Pt1 3.29 16 ...the air should suffice for [the poet's] inspiration...

Chr1 3.113 17 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence [from character].

PPh 4.70 14 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that [virtue] is not a science, but an inspiration;...

ShP 4.196 26 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by inspiration;...

ShP 4.202 16 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him...

ShP 4.219 17 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler...who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.

NMW 4.237 10 [Napoleon's] very attack was never the inspiration of courage...

GoW 4.269 27 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration?

GoW 4.289 3 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. ... The surrender to the torrent of poetic inspiration is higher;...

ET13 5.222 9 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.

ET14 5.252 10 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure, as if inspiration had ceased...

Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...

Pow 6.74 26 The poet Campbell said...that, for himself, necessity, not inspiration, was the prompter of his muse.

Wth 6.99 15 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.

Wsp 6.221 8 In us, [the law] is inspiration;...

Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...

CbW 6.245 5 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

PI 8.39 4 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...

PI 8.54 18 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...and we measure the inspiration by the music.

PI 8.70 25 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.

PI 8.72 25 Let the poet, of all men, stop with his inspiration.

PI 8.72 27 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.

PI 8.73 3 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words, and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity.

PI 8.73 15 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration...

SA 8.82 16 ...we are awkward for want of thought. The inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.

SA 8.93 10 ...[women's] presence and inspiration are essential to [conversation's] success.

Elo2 8.116 22 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people] with his tidings...

Elo2 8.120 5 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.

QO 8.182 15 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.

Insp 8.271 12 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except by inspiration...

Insp 8.271 18 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means. It cannot so be done. That ulterior step is to be also by inspiration;...

Insp 8.271 25 Inspiration is like yeast.

Insp 8.273 16 We cannot make the inspiration consecutive.

Insp 8.273 19 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...

Insp 8.274 15 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration?

Insp 8.274 17 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge.

Insp 8.279 22 How many sources of inspiration can we count?

Insp 8.281 15 The experience of writing letters is one of the keys to the modus of inspiration.

Insp 8.295 23 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought...

Dem1 10.26 8 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration.

Aris 10.39 18 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis, and dare trust their inspiration for their welcome;...

Chr2 10.121 25 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.

Edc1 10.144 18 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...

Supl 10.172 27 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.

SovE 10.202 12 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...

SovE 10.205 20 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs...

SovE 10.207 5 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions...

Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance, affirmation...

Prch 10.236 3 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.

Plu 10.306 14 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.

LLNE 10.331 3 [Everett] had an inspiration which did not go beyond his head...

FSLN 11.220 27 There are those...who have power and inspiration only to do ill.

FSLN 11.223 26 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of inspiration.

ACiv 11.302 27 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would leave the government behind...

EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... suddenly, lending himself to some happy inspiration, announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...

SMC 11.348 18 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

EdAd 11.391 2 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?

Wom 11.405 4 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...rather than the single inspiration of one mind, is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.

FRep 11.525 13 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration, God only knows whence; a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...

FRep 11.534 6 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is...to extinguish individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.

FRep 11.539 20 ...liberty...like all power subsists only by new rallyings on the source of inspiration.

PLT 12.14 18 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...

PLT 12.59 22 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.

II 12.70 19 Inspiration is vital and continuous.

II 12.79 3 The whole ethics of thought...is a sort of religious office. If there is inspiration let there be only that.

II 12.86 10 His art shall suffice this artist...his inspiration this poet.

CL 12.156 23 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?

MAng1 12.234 6 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.

PPr 12.384 1 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.

Let 12.394 25 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society...would give their genius that inspiration which it seems to wait in vain.

Inspiration, n. (6)

Insp 8.271 10 In the mind we call this enlarged power Inspiration.

PLT 12.15 11 Thirdly I proceed to the fountains of thought in Instinct and Inspiration...

PLT 12.35 1 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power excited...

II 12.68 21 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.

II 12.75 2 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious;...

II 12.76 23 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

inspirations, n. (29)

DSA 1.141 12 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers, as in...the truer inspirations of all...

LT 1.286 25 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 2.335 20 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Art1 2.360 3 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations...

NER 3.272 9 ...we are all the children of genius, the children of virtue,--and feel their inspirations in our happier hours.

ShP 4.208 10 [Shakespeare] cannot...give us anecdotes of his inspirations.

ET14 5.244 9 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.

ET17 5.298 7 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.

Wsp 6.234 13 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.

CbW 6.253 18 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.

Clbs 7.241 3 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the inspirations of powerful and public men, with the rest.

Cour 7.272 16 The charm of the best courages is that they are... inspirations...

Cour 7.277 8 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...

OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

PC 8.211 18 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic inspirations.

PC 8.212 5 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.

PC 8.233 27 ...[the educated class here] believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect, and draw greatness from its inspirations.

Imtl 8.342 3 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.

PerF 10.78 20 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations flow to us...

Chr2 10.117 5 ...the inspirations are never withdrawn.

SovE 10.209 12 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not continuous and technical...

Prch 10.238 5 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.

GSt 10.502 16 Mr. [George] Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations...

FSLC 11.189 22 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...instead of noble motives and inspirations...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.

TPar 11.292 15 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it, the stars in their courses, and the inspirations of youth;...

RBur 11.439 10 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.

CPL 11.508 8 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the sentiment,-and in their inspirations we dispense with books.

PLT 12.10 12 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things against the sanitary and legitimate inspirations of the intellectual nature.

Milt1 12.255 16 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.

inspire, v. (37)

AmS 1.89 27 [Books] are for nothing but to inspire.

AmS 1.114 24 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...

MR 1.243 22 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable? Does it raise and inspire us...

Tran 1.349 13 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...

YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...

OS 2.269 27 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will...

Int 2.332 8 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...

Art1 2.367 3 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

Chr1 3.102 3 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...and could not inspire enthusiasm.

Mrs1 3.143 12 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.

Mrs1 3.151 1 ...are there not women...who inspire us with courtesy;...

Pol1 3.209 15 Parties of principle...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.

Pol1 3.221 3 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.

NER 3.266 19 I do not wonder at the interest these projects [of association] inspire.

NMW 4.243 23 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.

GoW 4.289 7 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth.

ET6 5.108 14 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

ET11 5.187 5 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.

ET14 5.250 24 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...

Ctr 6.156 1 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men...

Bty 6.287 7 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.

Boks 7.218 6 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe...inspire hope and generous attempts.

Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.

Cour 7.274 4 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted, and cannot inspire or create.

Suc 7.311 3 ...to help the young soul, add energy, inspire hope...that is not easy...

Insp 8.274 9 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...

Grts 8.318 13 ...there are always men who...inspire universal enthusiasm.

Edc1 10.135 8 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself;...

Edc1 10.150 26 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character? What abiding Hope can it inspire?

Edc1 10.156 16 Have the self-command you wish to inspire.

Edc1 10.158 23 By simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire...all.

Prch 10.228 25 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?

HDC 11.61 21 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.

War 11.161 3 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization, or the measures it should inspire, predicted according to the light of each seer.

Wom 11.406 12 [Women] inspire by a look...

FRO1 11.478 10 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm which is the parent of everything good in history...

Milt1 12.253 16 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history, and so (shall we not say?) of all men, in the power to inspire.

inspired, adj. (10)

OS 2.284 8 No inspired man ever asks this question [concerning the immortality of the soul]...

Int 2.336 13 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired...

PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul...

PPo 8.254 8 [Hafiz] asserts his dignity as bard and inspired man of his people.

Imtl 8.346 22 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime. And hence the fact that in the minds of men the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and penetration.

Chr2 10.116 9 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.

LLNE 10.347 21 [The Socialists] appeared the inspired men of their time.

EdAd 11.393 13 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...

II 12.72 19 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man.

II 12.78 1 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...

inspired, v. (42)

AmS 1.112 4 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper...

AmS 1.115 26 ...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

LT 1.286 20 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love.

Con 1.320 20 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class; inspired with a taste for the same competitions and prizes, they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...

Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.

Prd1 2.231 14 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired;...

NMW 4.226 26 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...

ET1 5.4 2 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...

ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the crusades...

ET13 5.215 21 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired resistance to tyrants, inspired self-respect...

ET13 5.215 27 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible...

ET14 5.234 23 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...

ET14 5.235 23 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The English mind flowered in every faculty. The common sense was surprised and inspired.

ET14 5.257 11 [Wordsworth] has written longer than he was inspired.

Bhr 6.196 3 ...[beautiful manners] must be inspired by the good heart.

CbW 6.258 5 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.

Art2 7.47 2 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us

Boks 7.202 21 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus, indicating the respect he inspired among his contemporaries.

Cour 7.273 5 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.

Suc 7.307 13 'T is presumed...there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus,--not that all are or shall be inspired.

SA 8.82 23 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...

Dem1 10.10 3 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense.

Chr2 10.118 3 The power that in other times inspired crusades...flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...

Edc1 10.126 10 When a man stupid becomes a man inspired...all limits disappear.

SovE 10.203 18 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...

LLNE 10.341 25 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who...inspired his companions only in proportion as they were intellectual...

LLNE 10.361 2 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were of course persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...

SlHr 10.439 17 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...

Thor 10.481 1 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes...

HDC 11.77 17 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have deeply inspired many of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].

War 11.166 4 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he could be inspired with a tender kindness to the souls of men...

FSLC 11.200 8 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired.

EPro 11.315 5 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when, roused by danger or inspired by genius, the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...

ALin 11.331 18 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which inspired confidence...

Scot 11.463 14 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].

CPL 11.503 8 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand,-are cheered, inspired...

PLT 12.56 2 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.

II 12.74 14 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men,-for all are inspirable, and sometimes inspired,-that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.

CInt 12.125 15 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but inspired with an enthusiasm which finds nothing there to feed it, it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.

Milt1 12.256 3 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.

Milt1 12.263 19 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.

Milt1 12.263 20 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.

inspirer, n. (3)

Cir 2.301 22 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success, may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.

Schr 10.262 17 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty, the inspirer...comes in and puts a new face on the world.

CPL 11.497 26 A deep religious sentiment is...an inspirer of the intellect...

Inspirer, n. (1)

Aris 10.51 18 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...

inspirers, n. (3)

PI 8.65 23 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.

CInt 12.115 24 ...[the college] is there for us, is training our teachers, civilizers and inspirers.

CInt 12.126 21 All that is sought in the instruction [at Harvard College] is drill; tutors, not inspirers.

inspires, v. (32)

Nat 1.68 15 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert...

AmS 1.88 2 [Nature] now endures...it now inspires.

AmS 1.115 27 ...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

MN 1.192 8 ...I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires;...

Con 1.302 8 That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.

Tran 1.343 15 To behold the beauty of another character, which inspires a new interest in our own;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...

YA 1.379 9 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...

Hsm1 2.259 25 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.

OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air.

OS 2.292 20 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment.

OS 2.293 2 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust.

Chr1 3.92 27 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...

UGM 4.17 14 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit.

NMW 4.233 12 ...[Napoleon] inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action.

ET14 5.245 27 Hallam inspires respect by his knowledge and fidelity...

ET16 5.275 19 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...

Bhr 6.189 8 A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

Bhr 6.197 11 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.

Bty 6.299 20 ...it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion.

Boks 7.191 6 ...only poetry inspires poetry.

Cour 7.273 19 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him...

PI 8.54 17 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body...

Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...

Edc1 10.129 3 ...what activity the desire of power inspires!

Edc1 10.136 10 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.

Schr 10.274 3 [The scholar] is brave, because he sees the omnipotence of what which inspires him.

Plu 10.302 14 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity...to read them.

LLNE 10.370 4 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal... and so inspires the hope of steady strength advancing on itself...

HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.

ALin 11.337 27 [Providence]...creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.

SHC 11.429 15 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words which the serious and tender occasion inspires.

PLT 12.64 3 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.

inspiring, adj. (7)

LE 1.172 6 The book of philosophy is...no more inspiring fact than another, and no less;...

Mrs1 3.150 14 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.

Bhr 6.172 8 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...

Boks 7.211 26 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius, but no high method, no inspiring efflux.

Clbs 7.250 2 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.

QO 8.191 3 If an author give us...inspiring lessons...it is not so important to us whose they are.

CInt 12.132 6 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of... your vast possibilities and inspiring duties.

inspiring, v. (7)

AmS 1.98 19 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...

SwM 4.95 1 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will...seems to convert the universe into a person;...

QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.

Aris 10.34 12 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...

Aris 10.50 3 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.

Aris 10.54 18 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...

Bost 12.185 3 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

instal, v. (1)

Chr1 3.112 21 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus, and as they can instal themselves by seniority divine.

install, v. (1)

Cir 2.312 6 We...install ourselves the best we can in Greek...houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.

installed, v. (2)

SR 2.76 2 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...

Milt1 12.269 18 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

installing, v. (1)

Pow 6.66 5 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

instals, v. (1)

YA 1.377 27 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.

instance, n. (28)

LE 1.179 8 In this instance...that man [Napoleon]...represented performance in lieu of pretension.

YA 1.393 5 One thing for instance, the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.

Comp 2.98 1 The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance [of Compensation].

Cir 2.304 9 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance an empire...to heap itself on that ridge...

Exp 3.78 11 It is an instance of our faith in ourselves that men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...

Nat2 3.185 7 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance a slight generosity...

NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...

ET7 5.124 26 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts;...

Civ 7.28 24 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...

DL 7.110 2 Let [a man]...never subscribe at others' instance...

DL 7.121 25 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...

Farm 7.146 22 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements; for instance, the powers of a fence.

Boks 7.191 11 ...for instance in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...

OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.

PI 8.50 10 Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, for instance, is really a better man of imagination, a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.

Comc 8.169 1 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.

Comc 8.170 17 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort...the majesty of man is violated.

QO 8.201 23 Genius is in the first instance, sensibility...

LLNE 10.365 18 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...

SlHr 10.443 11 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...

HDC 11.54 1 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...

HDC 11.60 1 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.

LVB 11.89 12 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...

War 11.165 5 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build ships;...

FSLC 11.191 4 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...

FRep 11.540 7 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.

AgMs 12.362 20 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.

EurB 12.373 22 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked...with a courage of experiment which in each instance had its degree of success.

instanced, v. (2)

PNR 4.83 17 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...

SwM 4.117 3 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.

instances, n. (12)

MR 1.255 3 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.

Tran 1.336 21 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use, with other parallel instances, in his reply to Fichte.

OS 2.282 9 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.

OS 2.288 12 In these instances [the scholar and author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue...

Chr1 3.95 23 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...

Ctr 6.131 20 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...

Clbs 7.247 4 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...

LLNE 10.360 8 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.

HDC 11.37 6 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.

HDC 11.59 27 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides, and, in many instances, by women.

MAng1 12.233 6 Grace in living forms, except in very rare instances, did not satisfy [Michelangelo].

MLit 12.312 2 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.

instant, adj. (34)

Nat 1.60 9 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...

DSA 1.122 12 ...in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire.

DSA 1.147 17 ...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.

MR 1.235 14 I see no instant prospect of a virtuous revolution;...

Comp 2.112 22 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 benefit on the one part and of debt on the other;...

Art1 2.365 9 The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Pt1 3.3 17 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.

Exp 3.83 19 I should feel it pitiful to demand...an overt effect on the instant month and year.

Chr1 3.91 24 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;...

Chr1 3.100 26 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of supreme power.

PNR 4.83 16 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe...

NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...compact, instant, selfish, prudent...

ET9 5.146 16 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...

Bhr 6.185 24 ...[Blanche] can afford to express every thought by instant action.

Bhr 6.192 12 ...the victories of character are instant...

Art2 7.37 9 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...

Cour 7.266 7 [Courage] is directness,--the instant performing of that which [a man] ought.

Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication!

PI 8.17 10 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind...

PI 8.47 5 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...

Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.

QO 8.204 17 The divine gift is ever the instant life...

Aris 10.61 18 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.

PerF 10.85 11 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.

Edc1 10.157 11 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].

LLNE 10.341 9 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of this attempt...

LLNE 10.344 5 ...some numbers [of The Dial] had an instant exhausting sale, because of papers by Theodore Parker.

HDC 11.42 25 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.

FSLC 11.208 13 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?

AKan 11.262 15 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence...

Humb 11.458 2 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.

PLT 12.48 3 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos...

Mem 12.108 19 The divine is the instant life that receives and uses...

CL 12.153 20 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.

instant, n. (34)

LE 1.175 2 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...

Con 1.317 8 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

YA 1.383 15 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour. They have paid it so; but not an instant would a dime remain a dime.

SR 2.69 16 Power ceases in the instant of repose;...

Fdsp 2.208 19 Let [my friend] not cease an instant to be himself.

Mrs1 3.151 15 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She... astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after day radiating, every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her?

Nat2 3.173 11 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.

NER 3.273 20 ...[Men] resent your honesty for an instant, they will thank you for it always.

PPh 4.46 26 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant, extends across the entire scale...

SwM 4.129 2 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought...

ET5 5.80 21 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...

ET13 5.227 11 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?

ET15 5.271 9 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.

Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.

Wsp 6.203 11 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...

Ill 6.325 13 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they...beckoning him up to their thrones. On the instant, and incessantly, fall snow-storms of illusions.

Ill 6.325 24 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant, the air clears...there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.

SS 7.15 6 I find out in an instant if my companion does not want me...

Elo1 7.91 22 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.

Suc 7.288 26 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.

PC 8.213 16 ...we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch' s heroes.

Aris 10.40 5 In every company one finds the best man; and if there be any question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical enterprise.

Edc1 10.158 9 ...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.

Schr 10.277 5 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past, and rendering them in the instant when they can serve the possessor;...

EzRy 10.394 20 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He...said on the instant the best things in the world.

Thor 10.463 27 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere, and, stooping forward, picked one on the instant from the ground.

Carl 10.493 17 [Carlyle] detects weakness on the instant, and touches it.

Carl 10.494 4 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.

GSt 10.501 6 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility...

War 11.174 14 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle...

SMC 11.353 3 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear, and must be corrected. It was done on the instant.

SMC 11.356 14 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

Mem 12.94 11 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years that they should lie...so nigh that they come on the instant when they are called for, never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.

Milt1 12.249 9 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice.

instantaneous, adj. (5)

Nat 1.73 14 These are examples of...an instantaneous in-streaming causing power.

Con 1.321 21 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.

ET5 5.98 24 The nation [England] is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth.

Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...

MAng1 12.232 4 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.

instantaneously, adv. (3)

OS 2.276 13 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...

Mrs1 3.130 24 [Fashion's] doors unbar instantaneously to a natural claim of their own kind.

SovE 10.197 26 ...every act is not hereafter but instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.

instantaneousness, n. (1)

Bhr 6.188 5 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness.

instantly, adv. (85)

AmS 1.88 27 Instantly the book becomes noxious...

AmS 1.95 3 Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

AmS 1.96 17 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured;...

AmS 1.111 23 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...

DSA 1.122 13 He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled.

DSA 1.123 11 The least admixture of a lie...will instantly vitiate the effect.

DSA 1.140 8 Instantly [the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame...

DSA 1.148 2 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.

LE 1.172 13 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.

MN 1.222 19 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we are higher poets...

Tran 1.343 18 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...

YA 1.373 20 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred...

SR 2.89 13 He who knows that power is inborn...instantly rights himself...

Comp 2.112 7 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.

SL 2.135 2 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...

SL 2.166 5 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...

Lov1 2.172 25 ...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...

OS 2.273 9 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.

Cir 2.310 11 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.

Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.

Int 2.341 8 ...though we make [the new thought] our own we instantly crave another;...

Pt1 3.36 17 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...

Mrs1 3.150 1 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...

UGM 4.17 17 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies...

SwM 4.113 5 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...

SwM 4.131 2 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces and blasphemes it. The violence is instantly avenged.

MoS 4.158 24 ...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness.

NMW 4.238 22 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.

ET7 5.117 13 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.

ET7 5.121 23 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him, as it would instantly to an American.

ET10 5.165 5 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...

ET11 5.183 26 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.

ET13 5.228 22 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.

Wth 6.103 22 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity?

Bhr 6.184 4 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives that he has the key of the situation...

Wsp 6.228 17 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...

Bty 6.303 5 [Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon.

Clbs 7.239 10 The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested...

Cour 7.270 3 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...

OA 7.326 8 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...

OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power...

PI 8.45 14 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...

SA 8.80 7 He...who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly,--that man rules.

SA 8.82 22 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...

SA 8.82 25 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars...

SA 8.84 3 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...

SA 8.84 9 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...

SA 8.87 16 ...one word or two in regard to dress, in which our civilization instantly shows itself.

PC 8.210 5 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly the units part, and form a new order...

Insp 8.290 2 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Dem1 10.4 21 ...[dreams] dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them.

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

Chr2 10.116 10 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.

Chr2 10.119 5 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat, instantly tries it again...

Prch 10.220 3 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.

Schr 10.265 18 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees. Instantly he casts in his lot with the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant.

Schr 10.269 20 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...

LLNE 10.332 16 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

LLNE 10.355 23 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way...

LLNE 10.358 19 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business, who knew how to direct his faculty and make it instantly and permanently lucrative.

EzRy 10.391 18 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.

MMEm 10.410 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece].

HDC 11.74 20 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun...then a volley, by which Captain Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer of Acton were instantly killed.

EWI 11.105 21 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.

EWI 11.106 2 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...

War 11.157 3 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread; but trade is instantly endangered and destroyed.

War 11.164 3 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...

War 11.170 24 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...

FSLN 11.218 21 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.

ACiv 11.305 23 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...

SMC 11.353 9 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who...went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.

SMC 11.353 22 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...

SMC 11.355 4 ...cities of men are the first effects of civilization, and also instantly causes of more civilization...

Wom 11.426 10 Woman should find in man her guardian. Silently she looks for that, and when she finds that he is not, as she instantly does, she betakes her to her own defences...

CPL 11.503 7 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...

CPL 11.508 2 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books...are forgotten...

FRep 11.525 9 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.

FRep 11.529 3 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.

PLT 12.60 18 Instantly [man] is dwarfed by self-indulgence.

Mem 12.95 3 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always; but they are apt to be instantly forgotten.

CL 12.138 14 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly...

CL 12.140 5 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

MAng1 12.225 9 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence].

WSL 12.337 4 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...

Pray 12.353 13 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands, but instantly I must seek some cover.

Instauration [Francis Bacon] (1)

QO 8.188 21 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.

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