Instead to Instruments

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

instead, adv. (137)

    Nat 1.72 23 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch, instead of vaulting at once into his throne.
    AmS 1.83 24 [The planter]...sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.
    AmS 1.89 17 Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.
    AmS 1.90 3 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    AmS 1.90 27 ...instead of being its own seer, let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...and a fatal disservice is done.
    AmS 1.110 22 Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near...was explored and poetized.
    MN 1.202 17 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MR 1.239 11 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.239 13 ...instead of those strong and learned hands...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.243 23 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable? Does it raise and inspire us, or does it cripple us instead?
    MR 1.247 3 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...instead of being always prompt to grab?,
    LT 1.283 27 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    Con 1.321 18 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    YA 1.378 9 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...
    YA 1.386 21 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society,-only let us have the real instead of the titular.
    YA 1.392 27 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.40 24 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride...
    SR 2.60 11 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    SR 2.78 15 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health...
    Comp 2.95 12 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth;...
    SL 2.142 21 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
    SL 2.150 21 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    Fdsp 2.199 2 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
    Fdsp 2.209 26 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure, instead of the noblest benefit.
    Prd1 2.228 23 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    Cir 2.315 5 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    Int 2.345 4 Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
    Pt1 3.35 10 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have... universal signs, instead of these village symbols,--and we shall both be gainers.
    Exp 3.80 2 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Nat2 3.183 8 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks...
    Nat2 3.194 16 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    NR 3.234 13 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there...instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.
    NR 3.241 23 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you...instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.
    NER 3.273 25 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but...to be...made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.
    NER 3.275 26 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...
    UGM 4.3 24 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man]. But we are put off with fortune instead.
    SwM 4.98 8 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser: instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
    SwM 4.122 14 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    SwM 4.135 12 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment...
    SwM 4.136 9 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with pelican and stork, instead of thrush and robin;...seems the most needless.
    SwM 4.136 10 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.
    MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
    ShP 4.195 25 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.208 21 ...with Shakspeare for biographer, instead of Aubrey and Rowe, we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    nMW 4.231 12 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    NMW 4.242 7 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society. Instead of that vampyre, a man of themselves held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...
    NMW 4.247 13 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency, instead of abiding by rules and customs.
    GoW 4.276 25 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
    ET2 5.27 27 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety, or twelve days of danger instead of twenty-four.
    ET2 5.33 14 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day, instead of bubbles, we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
    ET3 5.34 10 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    ET8 5.128 15 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET10 5.159 8 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow, instead of the quarrelsome fellow God had made.
    ET11 5.186 11 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.
    ET12 5.202 25 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET14 5.255 19 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...
    ET16 5.275 6 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of manfully staying in London...
    F 6.34 20 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society,-grouping it on a level instead of piling it into a mountain...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Pow 6.70 11 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Pow 6.73 7 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Pow 6.73 22 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
    Pow 6.77 15 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
    Ctr 6.138 18 ...instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, [your man of genius] is some mad dominie.
    Bhr 6.191 2 We parade our nobilities in poems and orations, instead of working them up into happiness.
    Bhr 6.191 9 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    Bhr 6.193 25 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...
    Wsp 6.229 10 When the parent, instead of thinking how it really is, puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    CbW 6.271 22 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    Bty 6.282 8 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star.
    Bty 6.302 12 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him; making use of geometry, instead of expense;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.321 19 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...
    Elo1 7.84 19 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    DL 7.115 6 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.
    WD 7.176 23 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned...
    Boks 7.194 8 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim, instead of a desultory miscellany.
    OA 7.318 14 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    PI 8.30 27 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is...
    PI 8.42 8 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.
    PI 8.44 14 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men, instead of inventing them at his desk.
    PI 8.51 4 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
    PI 8.53 4 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    SA 8.96 7 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    Res 8.138 13 ...if instead of these negatives you give me affirmatives;...I am invigorated...
    QO 8.188 21 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
    PC 8.229 9 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    PC 8.231 4 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains...
    PC 8.234 3 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...reaching millions instead of hundreds.
    Insp 8.285 1 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Aris 10.31 9 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of spurious pictures of excellence...
    Aris 10.36 22 ...instead of this idolatry, a worship;...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Aris 10.36 23 ...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    PerF 10.83 11 We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours.
    PerF 10.85 4 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    PerF 10.85 22 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends...
    Chr2 10.104 11 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity.
    Edc1 10.131 23 Instead of the timid stripling he was, [man] is to be the stalwart Archimedes...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    Edc1 10.141 17 The obscure youth learns [in solitude] the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
    Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...
    SovE 10.186 12 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    MoL 10.244 17 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    MoL 10.245 21 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils, the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    LLNE 10.329 15 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...with instincts instead of science...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.329 16 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.329 20 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation.
    LLNE 10.346 11 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...
    Thor 10.480 19 ...instead of engineering for all America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a huckleberry-party.
    Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    HDC 11.52 19 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...instead of taking away, are ready to give to you.
    War 11.151 15 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels,-when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    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.
    FSLN 11.239 11 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close...instead of good fortune, there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    AKan 11.258 12 We adore the forms of law, instead of making them vehicles of wisdom and justice.
    SMC 11.362 9 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
    SHC 11.434 22 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.
    FRep 11.518 22 Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of character.
    FRep 11.526 20 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    PLT 12.12 18 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see;...
    PLT 12.42 15 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...it were a wide prairie.
    II 12.67 12 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    II 12.73 9 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us...how the daily sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada thistle;...
    II 12.85 15 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands, he may have instead the riches of riches,-creative supplying power.
    Mem 12.108 1 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will.
    Mem 12.109 4 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    Mem 12.110 10 When we live by principles instead of traditions...the Great Mind will enter into us...
    Mem 12.110 12 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CInt 12.116 14 ...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.
    CInt 12.117 7 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...and instead of overawing the strong, and upholding the good, it is a hospital for decayed tutors.
    CL 12.139 1 ...if, instead of running about in the hotels and theatres of Europe, we, would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    Bost 12.191 13 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Milt1 12.266 20 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    MLit 12.329 16 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of good fortune. [Men] do so daily.
    EurB 12.370 21 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.
    EurB 12.378 11 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...instead of a noble high-bred ease, to have the courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...
    PPr 12.386 10 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

instep, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 13 No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.

instigation, n. (1)

    II 12.69 18 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself, though now dim and hard to read. All depends on some instigation...

instil, v. (1)

    SR 2.45 5 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.

instilled, v. (1)

    Exp 3.48 1 What opium is instilled into all disaster!

instinct, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.88 3 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;...

instinct, n. (99)

    Nat 1.72 8 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will. It is instinct.
    AmS 1.81 14 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct.
    AmS 1.85 20 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    AmS 1.95 12 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
    AmS 1.99 22 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct...
    AmS 1.103 5 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.
    LT 1.268 15 ...this [conservative] class...relying not on the intellect but on the instinct, blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    Tran 1.338 17 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...
    Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct...
    Hist 2.9 3 The instinct of the mind...betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.
    Comp 2.112 10 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    Comp 2.122 15 [The soul's] instinct is trust.
    Comp 2.122 15 Our instinct uses more and less in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...
    Lov1 2.184 6 Cause and effect...the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later...
    Fdsp 2.198 6 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates...
    Cir 2.313 21 ...the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Int 2.330 2 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge...
    Int 2.330 4 Trust the instinct to the end...
    Art1 2.363 15 [The arts] are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.
    Art1 2.368 11 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts...
    Pt1 3.27 12 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road...
    Pt1 3.27 16 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature;...
    Exp 3.61 13 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...
    Mrs1 3.150 1 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
    Mrs1 3.154 24 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side.
    UGM 4.7 8 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
    PPh 4.62 12 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe... returns;...
    NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    NMW 4.253 3 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET6 5.110 26 ...[every Englishman's] instinct is to search for a precedent.
    ET7 5.117 1 Veracity derives from instinct...
    ET13 5.218 6 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
    ET13 5.223 25 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
    ET14 5.239 7 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    ET15 5.270 13 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies...
    ET18 5.303 24 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for liberty...
    ET18 5.305 9 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
    ET19 5.313 14 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day...
    Pow 6.60 22 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.63 13 The instinct of the people is right.
    Wsp 6.233 20 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct...
    Wsp 6.233 21 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct, under the guidance of a deeper instinct.
    Wsp 6.240 1 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them?
    CbW 6.270 22 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    Bty 6.288 23 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
    Art2 7.37 14 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Art2 7.39 11 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    Elo1 7.95 15 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    DL 7.130 24 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...for they know by heart the whole instinct of majesty.
    Clbs 7.245 9 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
    Cour 7.255 22 Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common;...
    Cour 7.268 23 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it, and so the fair singer indulges her instinct...
    Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at bay...
    Cour 7.273 1 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    OA 7.324 25 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct...
    OA 7.329 3 The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
    OA 7.330 18 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, and justifies the superstitious instinct with which we have hoarded it.
    PI 8.39 27 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation] is resistless...
    PC 8.227 13 Every soliciting instinct is only a hint of a coming fact...
    Grts 8.320 16 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    Imtl 8.336 20 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value...
    Imtl 8.349 10 The human mind takes no account of geography, language or legends, but in all utters the same instinct.
    Aris 10.51 9 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
    SovE 10.184 6 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
    SovE 10.211 15 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    Schr 10.279 19 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    Schr 10.280 9 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours...to the wise instinct...
    Plu 10.308 13 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He has a just instinct of the presence of a master...
    LLNE 10.338 2 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    LLNE 10.345 1 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...
    MMEm 10.412 22 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason...
    MMEm 10.433 12 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
    Thor 10.456 6 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...
    War 11.155 3 Nature implants with life the instinct of self-help...
    War 11.155 12 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct;...
    War 11.155 18 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    FSLN 11.232 12 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
    FSLN 11.232 13 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise, and the instinct to love and help his brother.
    EPro 11.325 3 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.
    ALin 11.333 4 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
    HCom 11.340 12 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    PLT 12.21 2 ...[this reduction to a few laws, to one law]...is the tyrannical instinct of the mind.
    PLT 12.34 1 Instinct is our name for the potential wit.
    PLT 12.34 26 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct...
    PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    PLT 12.37 14 'T is the barbarian instinct within us which culture deadens.
    PLT 12.58 16 The condition of sanity is...to enthrone the instinct.
    PLT 12.58 25 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    II 12.67 5 All true wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to this instinct...
    II 12.67 7 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...
    II 12.67 12 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    CInt 12.122 14 Instinct is the name for the potential wit...
    CL 12.136 5 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...
    CL 12.154 15 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.
    CL 12.164 11 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an instinct that they express a grander law.
    Bost 12.198 21 By this [religious] instinct we are lifted to higher ground.
    Bost 12.202 25 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Bost 12.209 15 ...[Boston] is very jealous of any superiority in these, its natural instinct and privilege.

Instinct, n. (18)

    SR 2.64 6 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
    Dem1 10.27 24 [Man] is sure the great Instinct...has not been searched.
    PLT 12.15 11 Thirdly I proceed to the fountains of thought in Instinct and Inspiration...
    PLT 12.34 11 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages; and we are sure that it can do more than ever was done. It was the same mind that built the world. That is Instinct.
    PLT 12.34 12 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say.
    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...
    PLT 12.35 3 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...
    PLT 12.35 18 The Instinct begins at this low point, at the surface of the earth...
    PLT 12.36 21 The action of the Instinct is for the most part negative...
    PLT 12.37 20 Perception differs from Instinct by adding the Will.
    II 12.65 13 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is commonly called Instinct.
    II 12.65 16 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say;...
    II 12.68 16 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
    II 12.68 21 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
    II 12.68 24 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct...
    II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    II 12.76 22 ...the Instinct, the Intellect...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    CInt 12.123 13 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is...to enthrone the Instinct.

instinctive, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.49 15 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Fdsp 2.214 8 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    Int 2.331 1 This instinctive action never ceases in a healthy mind...
    Pol1 3.204 5 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    MoS 4.181 8 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    ET5 5.80 3 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    F 6.23 26 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    Dem1 10.6 12 In a dream we have the instinctive obedience, the same torpidity of the highest power...as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
    SovE 10.188 23 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right...
    MAng1 12.221 26 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...

instinctive, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.189 18 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.

instinctively, adv. (2)

    Hist 2.6 5 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Art2 7.39 8 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively;...

instincts, n. (43)

    Nat 1.28 23 The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's;...
    AmS 1.92 17 I would not be hurried...by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
    AmS 1.115 3 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... the huge world will come round to him.
    AmS 1.115 9 ...for work...the making those instincts prevalent...
    DSA 1.146 17 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
    LE 1.164 16 ...the soul has assurance, by instincts and presentiments, of all power in the direction of its ray...
    Hist 2.33 7 ...if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    SR 2.84 18 Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
    SL 2.132 26 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    Lov1 2.174 9 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
    Lov1 2.188 2 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
    OS 2.276 21 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    Pol1 3.208 13 Parties are also founded on instincts...
    PNR 4.81 10 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass...before the map of the instincts and cultivable powers can be drawn.
    SwM 4.94 12 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    ET4 5.71 16 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.
    ET8 5.130 12 [Englishmen's] habits and instincts cleave to nature.
    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...
    F 6.38 1 [Every creature's] instincts must be met...
    Pow 6.70 6 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence...
    Bhr 6.186 4 Society is very swift in its instincts...
    Bty 6.295 3 The fine arts...spring from the instincts of the nations that created them.
    WD 7.162 10 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
    OA 7.328 25 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    Grts 8.316 23 ...natural is really allied to moral power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts.
    Dem1 10.23 7 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his instincts...
    PerF 10.73 11 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...
    Chr2 10.95 1 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    Chr2 10.116 8 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Edc1 10.135 25 ...I am very far from wishing that [the moral nature of man] should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    SovE 10.190 1 ...all the instincts of man, good and bad, work...
    SovE 10.198 19 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    LLNE 10.329 14 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...with instincts instead of science...all gone;...
    HDC 11.51 1 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    HDC 11.75 20 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
    War 11.155 14 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...
    War 11.155 21 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded...only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts...
    War 11.160 13 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers, new instincts...
    SMC 11.351 20 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...having no reference to utilities, but only to the grand instincts of the civil and moral man, mixes with surrounding nature...
    Wom 11.413 4 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother...
    FRep 11.542 19 ...man seems to play, by his instincts and activity, a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    CL 12.135 16 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...

Institute, French, n. (1)

    Boks 7.220 17 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...

Institute, n. (1)

    Exp 3.54 6 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.

institute, v. (3)

    PNR 4.89 7 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought. You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
    Suc 7.286 13 We have seen women who could institute hospitals and schools in armies.
    Milt1 12.255 26 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...

instituted, v. (3)

    Art2 7.56 9 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose...
    DL 7.133 7 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted...
    CL 12.136 23 At Upsala...[Linnaeus] instituted what were called herborizations...

Institutes, Mechanics', n. (3)

    ET2 5.25 3 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET10 5.170 1 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    ET13 5.224 1 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Mechanics' Institutes...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

Institutes [Menu], n. (1)

    PC 8.214 12 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the Institutes of Menu...

Institution, British, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.232 10 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

Institution, Feudal, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 5 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.

institution, n. (49)

    Nat 1.50 12 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.
    AmS 1.90 13 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.
    DSA 1.150 24 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...
    MR 1.234 4 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...
    LT 1.263 10 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    Con 1.310 23 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    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.
    YA 1.366 9 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment, which...has interrogated every institution...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    SR 2.54 25 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    SR 2.61 15 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man;...
    SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...is called an institution.
    SL 2.161 8 We adore an institution...
    OS 2.274 7 ...Boston, London, are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    Int 2.335 16 [The thought]...goes to fashion every institution.
    Chr1 3.101 20 No institution will be better than the institutor.
    Mrs1 3.142 27 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
    NER 3.253 13 [Other reformers] attacked the institution of marriage as the fountain of social evils.
    NER 3.262 9 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life...in the institution of property, as well as out of it?
    NER 3.262 13 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.
    PPh 4.52 16 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia; and it realizes this faith in the social institution of caste.
    PNR 4.89 4 [Plato] did not, like Pythagoras, break himself with an institution.
    MoS 4.157 19 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged...that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    GoW 4.274 10 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of man.
    ET6 5.113 11 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.
    ET11 5.185 14 [English nobility's] institution is one step in the progress of society.
    ET13 5.214 12 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET15 5.271 20 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.
    ET18 5.304 20 The English mind turns every abstraction it can receive into a portable utensil, or a working institution.
    Wth 6.104 20 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Civ 7.26 19 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...
    Civ 7.34 4 ...if there be...a country...where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    DL 7.132 2 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the institution had become.
    Supl 10.177 2 ...[Nature]...in the East...makes ecstasy an institution.
    Prch 10.217 5 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    MoL 10.253 3 Does any one doubt between the strength of a thought and that of an institution?
    LLNE 10.335 17 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution.
    LS 11.4 27 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.6 14 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.12 13 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest, but never intended by Jesus to be the foundation of a perpetual institution.
    LS 11.13 22 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.16 25 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    LS 11.24 12 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper];...
    HDC 11.49 6 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    EWI 11.100 12 The institution of slavery seems to its opponent to have but one side...
    FSLN 11.226 8 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was no longer doubtful...
    ACiv 11.297 8 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it an institution, I call it a destitution...
    ChiE 11.470 6 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality, and makes ecstasy an institution.
    CInt 12.127 9 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City...
    MLit 12.324 21 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.

Institution, Royal, n. (1)

    Grts 8.306 7 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver, in the Royal Institution in London, a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...

Institution, Slave, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.228 20 I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from the Slave Institution.

institutions, n. (103)

    AmS 1.87 14 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed.
    DSA 1.134 11 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
    MN 1.193 23 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
    MR 1.229 1 What if some of the objections whereby our institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative...
    MR 1.229 15 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.236 4 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    MR 1.243 18 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    MR 1.248 1 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than...the institutions of property.
    MR 1.250 9 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are...
    MR 1.253 24 It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
    LT 1.259 16 The Times-the nations, manners, institutions, opinions, votes, are to be studied as omens...
    LT 1.269 6 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    LT 1.276 4 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.
    LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    Con 1.310 7 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.314 15 ...there is...no man who from the beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective institutions;...
    Con 1.321 9 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    Con 1.321 20 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Tran 1.349 2 What you call your fundamental institutions...seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    YA 1.370 21 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.395 1 ...Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Hist 2.27 17 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all...the caricature of institutions.
    SR 2.51 5 ...how easily we capitulate...to large societies and dead institutions.
    SR 2.54 21 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    SR 2.71 8 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of...institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    SR 2.87 23 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Comp 2.118 24 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions...
    Cir 2.302 7 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
    Mrs1 3.150 6 Our American institutions have been friendly to [woman]...
    Pol1 3.199 2 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal...
    Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...
    Pol1 3.204 13 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement...
    Pol1 3.207 10 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions...
    Pol1 3.207 26 ...our institutions...have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
    Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
    Pol1 3.220 16 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of institutions of art and science can be answered.
    NER 3.253 21 ...there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    NER 3.261 12 The criticism and attack on institutions...has made one thing plain...
    NER 3.262 3 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
    UGM 4.7 19 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... institutions for expression...
    PPh 4.52 12 The country...of immovable institutions...is Asia;...
    PPh 4.64 17 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized...the hope of education.
    SwM 4.127 10 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis of all institutions, customs and manners.
    MoS 4.151 9 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire.
    MoS 4.172 17 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.
    NMW 4.248 1 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...
    NMW 4.254 18 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation] continues...
    ET4 5.49 11 'T is said that the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions.
    ET11 5.172 14 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions.
    ET15 5.261 4 In England, [the power of the newspaper] stands in antagonism with the feudal institutions...
    ET15 5.262 11 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...
    ET17 5.291 18 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET18 5.304 26 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    Wth 6.99 12 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    SS 7.10 16 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and institutions...
    Art2 7.56 25 Popular institutions, the school...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Art2 7.57 5 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings. These are superficial wants; and their fruits are these superficial institutions.
    SA 8.107 10 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action; whether political, or in the leading of social institutions.
    Comc 8.160 2 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Comc 8.160 6 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    PC 8.208 12 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    Grts 8.302 14 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art.
    Aris 10.32 20 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently...under the shadow of all institutions...
    Aris 10.39 26 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be truth,-the doing what elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would gladly see all our institutions rightly aristocratic in this wise.
    Aris 10.41 3 Do not hearken to the men, but to the Destiny in the institutions.
    Aris 10.41 10 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    PerF 10.88 21 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    Edc1 10.151 9 Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope...
    Edc1 10.157 2 ...[these difficulties and perplexities in education] solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
    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.
    SovE 10.192 1 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SovE 10.203 17 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have...organized [men's] devout impulses or oracles into good institutions.
    SovE 10.206 22 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...
    MoL 10.253 6 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.
    MoL 10.258 10 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    Plu 10.297 9 Whatever is eminent...in institutions, in science...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.307 6 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions...
    LLNE 10.355 14 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...
    LLNE 10.365 3 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic. The institutions were whispering-galleries...
    CSC 10.373 6 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    MMEm 10.423 27 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions?
    Carl 10.492 6 [Young men] go for free institutions...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
    LS 11.21 23 [Christianity] has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men.
    War 11.151 7 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions...
    AKan 11.261 13 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.
    AKan 11.261 18 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.
    ACiv 11.309 17 It is not free institutions, it is not a republic, it is not a democracy, that is the end...
    EPro 11.321 19 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and pretenders, but what we have styled our free institutions will be such.
    ALin 11.329 14 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions of America.
    FRO1 11.480 11 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.
    FRO1 11.480 22 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    FRep 11.527 15 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are all educational...
    FRep 11.540 26 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation. 'T is not free institutions, 't is not a democracy that is the end,-no, but only the means.
    FRep 11.541 8 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful for the interests of women...
    FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will find their home in our institutions...
    II 12.71 4 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in institutions, in social arrangements...
    II 12.80 26 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves. Not less are the arts and institutions of men created out of thought.
    CInt 12.122 1 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges; and in the institutions of education a want of faith in their own cause.
    CInt 12.126 2 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.126 3 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.132 1 ...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 high calling...
    PPr 12.385 15 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...

institutor, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 21 No institution will be better than the institutor.

in-streaming, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.73 15 These are examples of...an instantaneous in-streaming causing power.

instrinsic, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.12 16 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by instrinsic likeness...
    Hist 2.14 11 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.

instruct, v. (20)

    Nat 1.37 12 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest, - and all...to instruct us that good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!
    LT 1.270 13 The political questions touching...the right of the constituent to instruct the representative;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    YA 1.381 3 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    SL 2.153 10 ...if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour.
    SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    Chr1 3.104 18 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    SwM 4.93 16 Then, also, the philosopher has his value, who flatters the intellect of this laborer by engaging him with subtleties which instruct him in new faculties.
    Bhr 6.182 25 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.
    Elo1 7.84 20 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
    Chr2 10.99 25 There are...men who instruct and guide.
    Edc1 10.158 23 By simple living, by an illimitable soul...you instruct...all.
    Schr 10.268 9 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...
    HDC 11.51 8 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians]...
    HDC 11.57 6 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    HDC 11.65 13 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    EWI 11.132 14 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...
    War 11.169 27 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event. Nature and God will instruct him in that hour.
    II 12.73 6 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
    Bost 12.195 21 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    MLit 12.315 6 The great never with their own consent become a load on the minds they instruct.

instructed, adj. (9)

    Pol1 3.220 21 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    ET10 5.170 8 At present [England] does not rule her wealth. She is simply a good England, but no divinity, or wise and instructed soul.
    Farm 7.152 25 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
    Res 8.140 14 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Insp 8.287 18 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...
    Dem1 10.10 25 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    FSLN 11.241 15 I wish to see the instructed class here know their own flag...
    Bost 12.209 2 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...and where is the middle class so able, virtuous and instructed?
    MLit 12.327 3 It is all design with [Goethe], just thought and instructed expression...

instructed, v. (23)

    DSA 1.120 23 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is above him.
    Con 1.320 19 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Hist 2.4 18 ...the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
    SR 2.63 9 The world has been instructed by its kings...
    SR 2.83 15 Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin...
    Prd1 2.226 5 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.
    UGM 4.18 11 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    PPh 4.67 8 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    PNR 4.84 19 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls...
    ShP 4.210 7 What gentleman has [Shakespeare] not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
    SA 8.101 2 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts of life;...
    Elo2 8.124 28 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    Imtl 8.349 26 Nachiketas said [to Yama], there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know, instructed by thee.
    Aris 10.63 19 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...
    LS 11.10 6 [Jesus] instructed the woman of Samaria respecting living water.
    HDC 11.44 11 Instructed by necessity, each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    FSLN 11.236 3 ...we are in this world...to be instructed in realities...
    SMC 11.352 5 Instructed by events, after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground...
    Koss 11.401 7 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    FRO1 11.478 18 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he...finds himself continually instructed.
    FRep 11.517 20 [The American people] are now proceeding, instructed by their success and by their many failures, to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    CInt 12.121 21 With this divine oracle [thought], we somehow do not get instructed.
    MLit 12.330 18 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...instructed in the possibility of a highly accomplished society...

instructing, v. (2)

    PNR 4.84 14 [Plato affirms that] The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them.
    WD 7.167 12 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might safely sow...

instruction, n. (30)

    DSA 1.127 2 ...it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
    DSA 1.131 8 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...
    MR 1.227 14 ...some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us;...
    Lov1 2.171 14 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
    Cir 2.319 15 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
    Int 2.337 4 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Int 2.337 8 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing...
    SwM 4.126 18 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    MoS 4.180 12 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men...
    ShP 4.190 19 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    ET18 5.304 7 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people...
    Bhr 6.170 10 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction.
    Civ 7.30 12 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
    DL 7.130 25 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.
    Cour 7.273 23 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Res 8.149 14 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful, for solid instruction or to save the ship or army.
    Imtl 8.333 6 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Chr2 10.104 18 Every particular instruction is speedily embodied in a ritual...
    Edc1 10.150 13 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    Prch 10.231 3 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    Plu 10.309 5 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    LLNE 10.352 1 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.364 14 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 16 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    LLNE 10.365 21 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction;...
    EzRy 10.381 23 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
    LS 11.18 25 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments, commemorations, but the use of that instruction.
    FSLN 11.232 15 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    Shak1 11.451 4 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are...clumsy pupils of [Shakespeare's] instruction.
    CInt 12.126 20 All that is sought in the instruction [at Harvard College] is drill; tutors, not inspirers.

instructions, n. (10)

    OS 2.270 10 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams... we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    NMW 4.238 16 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering.
    Wth 6.116 18 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation...
    Dem1 10.23 23 The fault of most men is that they...interfere and thwart the instructions of their own minds.
    Edc1 10.131 14 In our condition are the roots of language and communication, and these instructions we never exhaust.
    HDC 11.67 24 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.80 2 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    HDC 11.81 14 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    HDC 11.83 15 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
    JBB 11.271 17 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.

instructive, adj. (7)

    LE 1.178 21 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    SwM 4.119 17 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    GoW 4.270 4 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe...
    ET11 5.192 13 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    CSC 10.376 21 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
    EWI 11.109 15 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive...
    CL 12.161 15 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side...

instructor, n. (8)

    Comp 2.111 22 Fear is an instructor of great sagacity...
    UGM 4.14 17 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    ET8 5.137 20 England is the lawgiver, the patron, the instructor, the ally.
    Ctr 6.156 15 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Wsp 6.218 6 ...the redeemer and instructor of souls, as it is their primal essence, is love.
    Plu 10.295 15 [Henry IV wrote] To love [Plutarch] is to love me; for he has been long time the instructor of my youth.
    LS 11.18 19 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
    Mem 12.92 23 Memory is...a living instructor...

instructors, n. (3)

    AmS 1.95 23 ...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
    LT 1.262 17 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who thrill the heart of each of us...
    MMEm 10.429 20 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind...

instructs, v. (11)

    AmS 1.84 13 [the scholar] the past instructs;...
    OS 2.284 21 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
    Cir 2.318 27 ...that which is made instructs how to make a better.
    Nat2 3.196 22 Every moment instructs, and every object;...
    PPh 4.41 8 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
    PI 8.15 3 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    Elo2 8.115 1 [Eloquence] instructs in the power of man over men;...
    Edc1 10.143 13 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Mem 12.92 4 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    MLit 12.333 2 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    WSL 12.344 16 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...

instrument, n. (23)

    YA 1.379 4 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    YA 1.379 21 Trade was one instrument, but Trade is also but for a time...
    Mrs1 3.139 16 This perception [of measure] comes in to polish and perfect the parts of the social instrument.
    NR 3.229 17 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.245 20 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit...
    PPh 4.59 17 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...
    SwM 4.106 21 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was...an instrument through which the soul feeds and is fed by the whole of matter;...
    Pow 6.79 18 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the command of the instrument.
    Bty 6.283 8 [A man's] duties are measured by that instrument he is;...
    Art2 7.42 18 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Elo1 7.99 13 If [eloquence] do not so become an instrument, but aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    WD 7.157 4 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle; the hand is the instrument of instruments...
    Boks 7.210 19 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air;...
    Insp 8.287 17 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
    Schr 10.275 23 There is no power in the mind but in turn becomes an instrument.
    MMEm 10.411 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument...
    LVB 11.93 14 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    FSLC 11.210 17 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    EPro 11.317 16 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    PLT 12.31 19 [A man's aptitude] is a wonderful instrument...
    CInt 12.113 5 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...
    Milt1 12.261 9 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...
    PPr 12.382 19 ...[a man's] speech is a perpetual and public instrument;...

instrumentalities, n. (5)

    F 6.8 13 ...it is of no use to try to whitewash [Providence's] huge, mixed instrumentalities...
    Pow 6.53 11 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.
    Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    PLT 12.19 1 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass...
    PLT 12.19 7 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope, whilst the old instrumentalities and incarnations are decomposed and recomposed into new.

instrumentality, n. (2)

    PPh 4.52 1 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.67 27 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.

instruments, n. (29)

    Nat 1.31 11 [This imagery] is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
    AmS 1.91 11 Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
    Tran 1.358 11 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...
    Fdsp 2.196 1 Every thing that is [our friend's],--his name, his form, his dress, books and instruments,--fancy enhances.
    Exp 3.75 22 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments.
    PPh 4.70 23 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    GoW 4.284 26 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with peremptory heed that he should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.
    ET18 5.306 5 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...which makes all these its instruments.
    Wth 6.90 4 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
    Wth 6.95 21 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Ctr 6.166 9 [Man] is to convert all impediments into instruments...
    Ill 6.310 6 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    Art2 7.40 1 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...
    Elo1 7.62 24 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
    WD 7.157 4 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle; the hand is the instrument of instruments...
    PI 8.42 4 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls.
    PC 8.219 5 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    Grts 8.315 19 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Imtl 8.350 20 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots, with their musical instruments;...
    PerF 10.73 20 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...
    Edc1 10.145 12 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    SovE 10.204 3 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation-yes, and into wills and legal instruments also...
    LLNE 10.331 14 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    JBB 11.268 18 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    ACiv 11.302 9 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will create the instruments it requires...
    ALin 11.337 26 [Providence] makes its own instruments...
    Wom 11.419 7 Providence is always surprising us with new and unlikely instruments.
    CL 12.160 19 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived, and will not lie. They are instruments by the best maker.
    MAng1 12.227 15 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

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