Intelligent to Intrinsically

Thor 10.453 1 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.

LVB 11.88 3 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...

II 12.84 27 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...

intent, n. (7)

Nat 1.28 20 ...is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons?

MN 1.198 1 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy impulse...

Nat2 3.179 5 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone);...

PNR 4.89 6 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought.

ET18 5.304 17 ...[the English] read with good intent...

Wth 6.115 4 ...with firm intent, the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.

Comc 8.161 3 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...pretending to patriotism and to parental virtues, not with any intent to deceive...

intention, n. (11)

MN 1.201 6 ...intention might be signified by a straight line of definite length.

Con 1.324 19 If there be power in good intention...the north wind shall be purer...that I have lived.

SL 2.134 7 There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it.

NR 3.237 8 ...it is not the intention of Nature that we should live by general views.

F 6.48 2 A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

F 6.48 22 ...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of Nature to be harmony and joy.

DL 7.126 1 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.

LS 11.5 26 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.

LS 11.6 19 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 a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.

LS 11.8 1 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].

FSLC 11.190 16 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...

intentional, adj. (1)

CbW 6.256 18 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy on record.

intentions, n. (1)

MMEm 10.409 27 ...we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others.

intents, n. (1)

EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...

interact, v. (2)

Nat 1.47 22 ...what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

DSA 1.121 20 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.

interacting, v. (1)

ET14 5.260 7 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...

interaction, n. (1)

PI 8.41 23 ...the poet sees...the interaction of the elements...

intercalated, adj. (1)

Prch 10.236 19 We want some intercalated days...

intercalated, v. (1)

Exp 3.46 18 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere...

intercede, v. (1)

HDC 11.83 4 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.

intercepted, v. (2)

MR 1.237 17 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...

NMW 4.255 17 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...

interchangeable, adj. (1)

MLit 12.330 4 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...

intercourse, n. (47)

Nat 1.9 4 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.

Nat 1.46 12 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...

AmS 1.98 4 Years are well spent...in frank intercourse with many men and women;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.

MR 1.227 18 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world.

YA 1.367 22 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.

Lov1 2.172 10 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?

Fdsp 2.215 27 ...I will owe to my friends this evanescent intercourse.

OS 2.285 22 The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation of character.

Chr1 3.111 7 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.

Pol1 3.216 2 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...

UGM 4.16 9 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...

UGM 4.28 11 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds.

PPh 4.67 15 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be;...

GoW 4.272 6 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition, with its international intercourse of the whole earth's population, researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...

ET3 5.34 19 ...the new arts of intercourse meet you every where [in England];...

ET4 5.48 5 The French in Canada, cut off from all intercourse with the parent people, have held their national traits.

ET8 5.138 2 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities wear off...

Ctr 6.134 18 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse...

Ctr 6.151 9 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...

SS 7.11 24 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.

Elo1 7.83 12 This balance [between the orator and the occasion] is observed in the privatest intercourse.

DL 7.128 10 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...

WD 7.162 1 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.

WD 7.162 4 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems. The intercourse is not new, but the scale is new.

Boks 7.203 27 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.

Clbs 7.227 4 ...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.

Clbs 7.244 9 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.

SA 8.86 5 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection. After the pause, all resume their usual intercourse from a vantage-ground.

SA 8.97 22 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind;...

Elo2 8.126 3 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...

PC 8.227 17 In our daily intercourse, we go with the crowd...

Dem1 10.12 16 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

Aris 10.53 19 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse...

PerF 10.80 26 I knew a stupid young farmer...with whom the only intercourse you could have was to buy what he had to sell.

SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.

Plu 10.319 13 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.

LS 11.7 20 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...

HDC 11.70 26 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...

War 11.156 26 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.

ACiv 11.299 8 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.

EdAd 11.384 9 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...

Wom 11.411 5 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

ChiE 11.474 1 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.

CL 12.159 19 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse...

Milt1 12.259 1 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.

ACri 12.284 10 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...

MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.

interdependence, n. (1)

Wsp 6.217 11 There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

interdicted, v. (1)

ET13 5.221 22 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror.

interest, n. (228)

Nat 1.35 20 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...

Nat 1.37 11 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest...

Nat 1.39 19 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.

DSA 1.128 12 As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.

DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak...as interest commands, babbles.

MN 1.191 3 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.

MN 1.191 10 ...[the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...

MN 1.191 12 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.

MN 1.205 12 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.

MN 1.217 12 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?

MR 1.240 7 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.

MR 1.253 12 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice...and to their own interest.

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.

LT 1.268 21 It is...the aspirant...who engages our interest.

LT 1.287 22 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them...

Con 1.310 5 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...every interest did by right, or might, or sleight get represented;-the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

Tran 1.343 16 To behold the beauty of another character, which inspires a new interest in our own;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...

YA 1.369 2 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is to remain half the year on their estates...

YA 1.374 24 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.

Hist 2.7 3 We have the same interest in condition and character.

Hist 2.23 5 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.

Hist 2.23 26 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...

SR 2.73 21 It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's...to live in truth.

Comp 2.118 6 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point.

Comp 2.119 11 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

SL 2.145 22 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners and name of that interest...

Lov1 2.172 16 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.

Hsm1 2.257 1 The interest these fine stories have for us...our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.

OS 2.285 15 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.

Pt1 3.11 8 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet...

Exp 3.82 20 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth...

Mrs1 3.121 6 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.

Nat2 3.174 7 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].

Pol1 3.201 24 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a democracy.

Pol1 3.204 9 ...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for the consideration of the State is persons;...

Pol1 3.209 7 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...

Pol1 3.212 12 ...everybody's interest requires that [a mob] should not exist...

NR 3.227 10 All our poets, heroes and saints...fail to draw our spontaneous interest...

NER 3.266 18 I do not wonder at the interest these projects [of association] inspire.

SwM 4.134 7 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....

ShP 4.192 6 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...

ShP 4.201 24 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...

NMW 4.240 13 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.

NMW 4.245 20 ...in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest;...

NMW 4.254 23 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering. There are two levers for moving men,--interest and fear.

NMW 4.255 12 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.

NMW 4.257 18 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...

GoW 4.269 1 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

GoW 4.280 23 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.

GoW 4.283 21 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...

GoW 4.287 3 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest.

ET1 5.11 18 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.

ET4 5.57 16 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...

ET5 5.97 6 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions. Their property, a scrip or certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.

ET10 5.164 21 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.

ET11 5.173 13 The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same direction with the interest of the patricians.

ET11 5.174 12 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.

ET15 5.263 4 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics...

ET18 5.299 19 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views, but by internal intrigues and personal and family interest.

ET18 5.301 8 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade...

ET19 5.311 27 ...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...

F 6.26 1 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe...

Pow 6.60 27 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.

Pow 6.61 8 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

Wth 6.96 12 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...

Wth 6.96 17 It is the interest of all that there should be Exploring Expeditions;...

Wth 6.97 1 ...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living... should exist somewhere...

Wth 6.106 22 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...

Wth 6.126 19 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest;...

Ctr 6.133 9 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...

Ctr 6.135 2 Yet is this private interest and self so overcharged that if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...

Ctr 6.135 14 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...

Ctr 6.158 1 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.

Bhr 6.191 27 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.

CbW 6.252 19 ...in the passing moment the quadruped interest is very prone to prevail;...

CbW 6.252 25 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil.

Bty 6.302 22 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it, only transferring our interest to interior excellence.

Ill 6.323 19 The permanent interest of every man is never to be in a false position...

Elo1 7.81 6 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to...give days and weeks to a new interest?

Elo1 7.84 15 Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator conspire.

Elo1 7.86 20 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.

DL 7.107 19 It is what is done and suffered in the house...in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us.

DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from their relation to that.

Farm 7.150 12 ...these [drainage] tiles have acquired by association a new interest.

Farm 7.154 5 What possesses interest for us is the naturel of each [man]...

WD 7.159 20 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must calculate interest and logarithms.

Boks 7.202 22 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...

Boks 7.208 15 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called Table-Talks...

Cour 7.274 1 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish to succor some partial and temporary interest...it is not imparted...

Suc 7.286 10 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.

Suc 7.305 19 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...

OA 7.315 15 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.

PI 8.5 23 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.

PI 8.26 5 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in the landscape...

PI 8.42 12 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...

PI 8.42 13 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...

SA 8.79 7 ...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.

SA 8.91 1 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions...

SA 8.102 15 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...

Elo2 8.111 3 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...

Elo2 8.112 15 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc. These must have their advocates of each improvement and each interest.

Elo2 8.118 20 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.

Elo2 8.118 23 ...deep interest or sympathy thaws the ice...

Res 8.143 24 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.

Comc 8.160 15 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice...tragic to the interest...

Comc 8.161 19 We have no deeper interest than our integrity...

QO 8.194 17 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering...

QO 8.195 15 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.

PC 8.217 9 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes wonderful interest.

PPo 8.247 7 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...

Insp 8.282 26 [Herbert's] poem called The Forerunners also has supreme interest.

Imtl 8.324 9 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...

Dem1 10.23 25 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.

Aris 10.31 4 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is an interest of the human race...

Aris 10.34 9 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners;...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...

Aris 10.34 17 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...

Aris 10.54 3 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to their neighbors by interest in the same things.

Aris 10.64 27 It is the interest of society that good men should govern...

Aris 10.65 11 ...it suffices...that the interest of intellectual and moral beings is paramount with [the man of generous spirit]...

PerF 10.79 22 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then sold out his interest...

Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.

Edc1 10.135 9 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself;...

Supl 10.173 1 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.

Prch 10.229 9 ...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion], is the shallowness which impoverishes.

Schr 10.272 4 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him.

Schr 10.272 14 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest in ships or in shops...

Plu 10.311 2 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...

Plu 10.311 14 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things;...

LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.

LLNE 10.362 3 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man...with a persevering interest in education...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...

LLNE 10.368 14 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred...or a common interest in their business...

LLNE 10.369 18 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest...

CSC 10.373 23 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.

EzRy 10.393 1 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest the garden, the field...

MMEm 10.398 19 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity.

MMEm 10.399 7 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest.

MMEm 10.405 25 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.

MMEm 10.406 9 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without remembering her with interest...

MMEm 10.417 22 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.

SlHr 10.439 25 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms...

SlHr 10.440 12 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to...industrious men, and by no means eager to reclaim of them either the interest or the principal.

Thor 10.471 5 [Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the bird lay very deep in his mind...

Thor 10.481 4 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes, and to hear his adventures. They possessed every kind of interest.

GSt 10.501 21 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.

GSt 10.502 22 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.

GSt 10.505 3 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.

LS 11.12 11 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...

HDC 11.47 18 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...

HDC 11.50 17 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.

LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.

LVB 11.89 21 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

LVB 11.90 2 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population-an interest naturally growing as that decays,-has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

EWI 11.100 21 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.

EWI 11.101 17 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

EWI 11.103 25 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.

EWI 11.109 10 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost.

EWI 11.114 9 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.

EWI 11.125 8 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.

EWI 11.127 10 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.

EWI 11.137 19 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground of interest...

EWI 11.141 7 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt, who saw and handled them with extreme interest.

EWI 11.147 12 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;...

War 11.153 17 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...

War 11.163 3 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.

FSLC 11.179 20 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.

FSLC 11.206 11 If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out...

FSLC 11.208 5 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].

FSLN 11.239 18 The national spirit in this country is so...preoccupied with interest...

AKan 11.255 3 I regret...the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting.

JBB 11.267 8 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.

TPar 11.286 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] information would have been excessive, but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity.

ACiv 11.298 1 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor;...

ACiv 11.300 26 Can you convince the shoe interest, or the iron interest...by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?

ACiv 11.300 27 Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?

ACiv 11.301 21 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...

ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...

ACiv 11.301 23 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

ACiv 11.302 18 We want men...who...act in the interest of civilization.

ACiv 11.307 14 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor;...

ACiv 11.307 16 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be to let it in...

ACiv 11.307 23 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer.

EPro 11.315 11 Every step in the history of political liberty...has the interest of genius...

SMC 11.349 7 ...the facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree personal and local here;...

SMC 11.376 10 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.

EdAd 11.388 2 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.

EdAd 11.389 21 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men.

EdAd 11.389 23 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...

EdAd 11.389 26 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people; for the reason that this is simply a formal and superficial interest;...

EdAd 11.390 9 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.

Wom 11.417 26 There are plenty of people who believe women to be... incapable of interest in affairs.

Wom 11.422 7 Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own...

CPL 11.501 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house...

CPL 11.501 15 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude.

FRep 11.512 18 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.

FRep 11.514 14 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...

FRep 11.514 26 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society.

FRep 11.515 3 No interest now attaches to the wars of York and Lancaster...

FRep 11.515 7 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved. These are read with passionate interest...

FRep 11.523 10 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

FRep 11.523 12 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

FRep 11.524 16 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.

FRep 11.536 18 ...it is in the interest of civilization and good society and friendship, that I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.

FRep 11.537 5 We want men...who...can act in the interest of civilization;...

PLT 12.4 8 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and recorded, like stamens and vertebrae. At the same time they have a deeper interest...

PLT 12.38 10 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.

PLT 12.57 27 ...there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people.

II 12.77 10 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.

Mem 12.96 24 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest; one by passion;...

Mem 12.96 26 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.

Mem 12.101 17 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest.

CInt 12.115 8 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...

CInt 12.115 18 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a representative in their halls...

CL 12.140 16 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.

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

CL 12.163 18 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man.

CL 12.165 17 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.

CW 12.178 25 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...

MAng1 12.226 19 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

MAng1 12.236 8 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

Milt1 12.251 26 We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted disputant of a sect;...

Milt1 12.265 17 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest in chivalry, in courtesy...

MLit 12.313 26 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality.

MLit 12.314 5 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and nothing else.

MLit 12.320 26 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.

WSL 12.343 25 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.

AgMs 12.358 15 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

AgMs 12.358 16 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

AgMs 12.361 17 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates...

interest, v. (23)

MR 1.240 13 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...

Hist 2.17 19 There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us...

SR 2.55 23 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on...in answer to conversation which does not interest us.

Hsm1 2.258 14 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should...act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days.

Cir 2.308 1 How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

SwM 4.118 18 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.

GoW 4.286 4 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person; therefore his faults and delusions interest him equally with his successes.

ET3 5.37 10 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years;...

Ctr 6.157 12 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.

Bhr 6.182 16 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners...

Wsp 6.238 5 Talent and success interest me but moderately.

Ill 6.317 13 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...

Clbs 7.246 9 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.

PI 8.11 10 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.

SA 8.106 22 ...those people, and no others, interest us, who believe in their thought...

Res 8.151 6 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.

Insp 8.282 4 Another consideration, though it will not so much interest young men, will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.

Grts 8.318 8 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies...

MMEm 10.401 24 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...

PLT 12.3 11 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency. They ought to interest you; if they do not, the fault lies with you.

PLT 12.7 4 ...these questions which really interest men, how few can answer.

PLT 12.39 20 ...[an intellectual man's] defects and delusions interest him as much as his successes.

Bost 12.200 9 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions...

interested, adj. (12)

Con 1.318 10 ...beside that charity which should make all adult persons interested for the youth...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.

ET3 5.36 23 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party.

Imtl 8.335 10 We...really are interested in nothing that ends.

Aris 10.39 6 I wish...men of universal politics, who are interested in things in proportion to their truth and magnitude;...

SovE 10.200 23 You are really interested in your thought.

Plu 10.306 9 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well.

Plu 10.308 12 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method.

Thor 10.474 10 [Thoreau] was equally interested in every natural fact.

LS 11.24 17 That is the end of my opposition [to the Lord's Supper], that I am not interested in it.

ACiv 11.301 19 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are inert...

FRep 11.518 11 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

FRep 11.523 13 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...

interested, v. (24)

GoW 4.286 8 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about [the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.

ET1 5.22 13 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.

F 6.26 24 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence...we forget very fast what he says, much more interested in the new play of our own thought than in any thought of his.

Ctr 6.157 19 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him...

Bty 6.282 7 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system.

Clbs 7.241 10 We consider those who are interested in thoughts...

Suc 7.301 22 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.

Suc 7.303 13 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly.

PI 8.27 17 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...

Elo2 8.116 26 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are interested like so many children...

Aris 10.53 25 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...

Edc1 10.146 6 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones; he interested Gibson the sculptor;...

Edc1 10.146 22 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars whom he had interested in his pursuit;...

LLNE 10.363 26 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm], and more or less directly interested in the leaders and the success.

MMEm 10.405 21 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...

Thor 10.453 16 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.

Thor 10.457 21 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...

EWI 11.108 2 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting;...

EWI 11.108 18 [Thomas Clarkson] himself interested Mr. Wilberforce in the matter [slavery in the West Indies].

JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father, largely interested as a raiser of stock, became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

JBB 11.269 6 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him.

EdAd 11.389 27 ...men of a solid genius are only interested in substantial things.

CPL 11.496 25 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...

PLT 12.39 24 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about are only interested in a success to their egotism.

interesting, adj. (24)

MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.

SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.

Elo1 7.69 19 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting;...

Elo1 7.87 23 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.

SA 8.105 9 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it, makes all its acts and words gracious and interesting.

Insp 8.270 17 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature...

Dem1 10.24 1 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts are interesting...

Supl 10.174 14 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.

Prch 10.225 21 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.

Plu 10.311 17 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...is less interesting, because less humane;...

LLNE 10.345 27 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor, and his anecdotes were interesting...

Thor 10.457 11 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...

Thor 10.466 7 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...

HDC 11.64 5 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.

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

FSLC 11.185 23 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.

ACiv 11.310 19 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...

SMC 11.356 3 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.

Wom 11.405 8 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman. And none is more seriously interesting to every healthful and thoughtful mind.

Humb 11.458 25 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.

CW 12.172 9 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...

Bost 12.200 6 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth (always interesting, since from wealth power cannot be divorced) is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.

ACri 12.298 7 Until history is interesting, it is not yet written.

EurB 12.373 17 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...

interesting, n. (1)

Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting...

interesting, v. (5)

YA 1.376 4 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...

ET11 5.184 4 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...

Elo1 7.74 7 There are all degrees of power [in eloquence], and the least are interesting...

Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense, alike interesting to laymen as to clerks.

II 12.70 17 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of interesting us once more...

interests, n. (66)

MR 1.255 1 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.

YA 1.387 21 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity...

Hist 2.36 23 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.

SR 2.49 6 [The boy] cumbers himself never...about interests;...

Lov1 2.171 27 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.

OS 2.272 7 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures...tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

Pol1 3.208 21 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part...stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

NMW 4.223 22 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor...

NMW 4.224 3 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor...

NMW 4.240 15 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor...

ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?

ET13 5.225 1 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...

ET18 5.300 1 [Englishmen] cannot see beyond England, nor in England can they transcend the interests of the governing classes.

ET18 5.300 3 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.

F 6.26 18 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history;...

Pow 6.61 15 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...

Bhr 6.174 26 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...

CbW 6.278 3 ...to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Civ 7.30 20 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...

Art2 7.56 21 In this country, at this time, other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant...

Elo1 7.99 18 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our interests and affections.

OA 7.331 18 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reducing tangled interests to order...

PI 8.32 4 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle, but it is never quite the time for its adoption without prejudicing actual interests.

Elo2 8.112 12 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private...

Elo2 8.117 20 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...

Elo2 8.118 8 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.

PC 8.234 12 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.

Imtl 8.342 22 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.

Aris 10.59 1 ...to the grand interests, a superficial success is of no account.

Aris 10.64 16 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests...

Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of trade...

Chr2 10.94 8 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.

Edc1 10.158 12 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.

SovE 10.194 26 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...

Prch 10.218 17 ...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...

MMEm 10.401 7 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests.

SlHr 10.440 25 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...

SlHr 10.448 11 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...

GSt 10.501 17 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.

GSt 10.503 6 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...

GSt 10.505 21 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...

War 11.153 8 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues...

FSLC 11.184 5 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?

FSLC 11.203 2 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years...the champion of the interests of the Northern seaboard...

AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with long prospective interests...

AKan 11.263 3 ...now, vast property, gigantic interests...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.

JBS 11.280 11 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.

ACiv 11.300 25 ...interests were never persuaded.

ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...

EPro 11.315 9 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.

EPro 11.316 6 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...working on a long future and on permanent interests...

EPro 11.318 8 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...

EdAd 11.385 2 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys. Has it generated, as some great interests do, any intellectual power?

EdAd 11.386 5 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...

Koss 11.399 10 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...crossing parties, nationalities, private interests and self-esteems;...

Wom 11.422 20 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.

Wom 11.422 21 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.

Wom 11.425 17 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.

ChiE 11.474 21 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.

FRO1 11.481 1 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.

FRep 11.530 15 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.

FRep 11.541 9 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful for the interests of women...

FRep 11.543 14 We shall stand...for vast interests;...

FRep 11.543 21 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.

Milt1 12.254 11 [Milton] is identified in the mind...with the supreme interests of the human race.

Milt1 12.279 2 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.

interests, v. (16)

YA 1.372 1 Only what is inevitable interests us...

MoS 4.170 9 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.

NMW 4.240 10 [Napoleon] interests us as he stands for France and for Europe;...

ET19 5.310 24 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...

Bty 6.286 3 No object really interests us but man...

Bty 6.292 3 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded...

Schr 10.269 13 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...

HDC 11.59 15 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.

EWI 11.101 21 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...

EWI 11.142 22 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites;...

War 11.156 6 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.

Wom 11.425 6 ...forever it is individual force that interests.

ChiE 11.473 14 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.

PLT 12.4 12 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us...

Mem 12.97 2 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...

CL 12.164 25 'T is true, that man only interests us.

interfere, v. (17)

SL 2.135 12 We interfere with the optimism of nature;...

Fdsp 2.211 26 Let us not interfere.

OS 2.280 9 If we will not interfere with our thought...we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Int 2.345 17 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;...

Mrs1 3.139 26 [Society]...hates whatever can interfere with total blending of parties;...

NER 3.284 7 ...the good globe...carries us securely through the celestial spaces anxious or resigned, we need not interfere to help it on;...

ET6 5.105 1 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion, only careful not to interfere with them or annoy them;...

ET8 5.127 22 The police [in England] does not interfere with public diversions.

ET9 5.144 8 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.

Ill 6.311 8 The senses interfere everywhere...

Cour 7.260 25 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.

Suc 7.283 12 We interfere in Central and South America...

Comc 8.160 20 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.

Dem1 10.23 22 The fault of most men is that they...interfere and thwart the instructions of their own minds.

SovE 10.196 21 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere.

EWI 11.127 6 The House of Commons would...interfere in English politics in the [West Indian] island legislation...

PLT 12.12 1 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves...

interfered, v. (11)

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

SwM 4.122 18 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died, and, for the rest, never interfered with him,--here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...

NMW 4.240 22 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.

NMW 4.255 20 ...[Napoleon]...interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women;...

GoW 4.287 19 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it...that his sight was microscopic and interfered with the just perspective...

Elo1 7.78 10 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...

Thor 10.479 2 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.

JBB 11.269 9 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.

JBB 11.269 13 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong, but right.

PLT 12.37 11 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods. But we have interfered too often;...

MAng1 12.236 23 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...

interference, n. (14)

SL 2.133 14 ...our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.

Hsm1 2.259 22 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.

Gts 3.159 24 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.

NER 3.255 12 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.

PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...

Ill 6.311 14 The same interference from our organization creates the most of our pleasure and pain.

SS 7.14 17 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.

PI 8.39 21 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also, can you only wile it from interference and marring.

SA 8.99 7 What we want is not your activity or interference with your mind...

SovE 10.194 11 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...

MMEm 10.427 8 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...

HDC 11.30 11 In the country, without any interference of the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

EWI 11.130 23 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.

MAng1 12.235 23 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.

interferences, n. (1)

SL 2.139 26 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work...of men would go on far better than now...

interfering, adj. (2)

Comp 2.108 23 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.

UGM 4.29 4 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where almost all men are too social and interfering.

interfering, v. (1)

Art2 7.41 17 Nature is ever interfering with Art.

interfused, v. (1)

MLit 12.330 5 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...

interim, n. (1)

Exp 3.64 24 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books for the most we can.

interior, adj. (22)

LT 1.272 4 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.

Lov1 2.184 2 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.

OS 2.279 2 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.

UGM 4.5 2 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.

PPh 4.44 14 ...the biography of Plato is interior.

GoW 4.280 20 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is...a habitual reference to interior truth.

ET3 5.43 23 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.

Wth 6.124 24 ...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one glance into the interior recesses.

Wsp 6.205 12 The interior tribes of our Indians and some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.

Bty 6.301 24 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared; that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

Bty 6.302 22 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it, only transferring our interest to interior excellence.

Bty 6.305 12 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted...

Boks 7.214 1 ...what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy;...

PI 8.16 11 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced...

Imtl 8.347 3 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.

Chr2 10.102 15 Character denotes...habitual regard to interior and constitutional motives...

Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.

MoL 10.243 24 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.

LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...its deep interior life...

HDC 11.62 7 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken. They never more disturbed the interior settlements...

MAng1 12.219 19 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies...

ACri 12.299 19 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...

interior, n. (12)

Hist 2.20 8 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen or lean on the pillars of the interior.

Mrs1 3.144 6 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain; and Captain Symmes, from the interior of the earth;...

ET2 5.25 19 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...

ET16 5.285 25 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle...

Ctr 6.160 10 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.

Wsp 6.231 27 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...

CbW 6.268 25 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth, but one interior...

Edc1 10.134 14 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature...

EWI 11.108 22 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.

ACiv 11.305 20 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are...

EdAd 11.384 1 ...the train...darts away into the interior...

Bost 12.196 11 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

interiors, n. (7)

SwM 4.125 6 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up. Interiors associate all in the spiritual world.

ET11 5.190 2 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of noble houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

F 6.8 10 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

Boks 7.214 22 ...the novel will find the way to our interiors one day...

OA 7.325 7 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.

Insp 8.287 20 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; if you have sensibility, it admits you to sacred interiors;...

SovE 10.188 10 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops-but her interiors are terrific...

interlarded, v. (1)

Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions to Homer, to Virgil...

interlock, v. (1)

EdAd 11.384 10 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...

interlocutors, n. (1)

SwM 4.133 18 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize.

interloper, n. (2)

SR 2.61 26 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of...an interloper...

SR 2.81 9 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he... visits cities and men...not like an interloper or a valet.

intermarriage, n. (1)

War 11.154 7 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.

intermarrying, v. (1)

WD 7.162 14 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...

intermeddle, v. (4)

SL 2.135 27 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way...

Fdsp 2.209 8 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes.

Fdsp 2.209 9 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes. Let him not intermeddle with this.

FSLC 11.212 15 We will never intermeddle with your slavery...

intermeddling, adj. (1)

Edc1 10.148 9 It is curious how perverse and intermeddling we are...

intermeddling, n. (1)

Let 12.395 13 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life...

intermediate, adj. (2)

ET3 5.38 11 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].

Bty 6.293 8 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...

intermediation, n. (1)

SwM 4.133 8 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg' s system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.

interment, n. (1)

LS 11.10 8 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment.

interminable, adj. (5)

Exp 3.73 20 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall, but at interminable oceans.

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

Elo1 7.91 6 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.

CSC 10.375 23 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.

MMEm 10.409 18 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.

intermingle, v. (3)

Nat 1.47 23 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

Elo1 7.69 26 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination, though it may have no lasting effect. Some portion of this sugar must intermingle.

Dem1 10.22 26 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.

intermission, n. (1)

PLT 12.26 13 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.

intermixture, n. (2)

NR 3.245 2 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...

ACri 12.294 13 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.

internal, adj. (15)

Nat 1.37 27 ...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery...

YA 1.363 9 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.

YA 1.391 17 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...

SR 2.71 17 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home to put itself in communication with the internal ocean...

Prd1 2.224 13 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Pol1 3.213 21 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.

SwM 4.119 25 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.

NMW 4.252 17 [Napoleon] was...the internal improver...

ET18 5.299 18 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views, but by internal intrigues and personal and family interest.

Farm 7.145 17 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...

Boks 7.203 26 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.

HDC 11.45 18 [The settlers] were to settle the internal constitution of the towns...

CPL 11.499 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.

MAng1 12.219 22 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.

Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...

Internal, Check, n. (1)

SwM 4.140 6 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.

international, adj. (3)

Exp 3.64 23 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...

GoW 4.272 5 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition, with its international intercourse of the whole earth's population, researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...

PC 8.209 7 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the incipient series of international congresses;...

International Congress, n. (1)

ET15 5.272 24 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet come to pass, an International Congress;...

interpenetrate, v. (2)

PPh 4.51 14 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things...

Edc1 10.140 19 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience, as he has more of both, will interpenetrate each other.

interpenetrated, v. (1)

PPh 4.63 14 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature...

interpenetration, n. (1)

Comp 2.111 12 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature.

interpolated, v. (1)

Nat2 3.170 20 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.

interpolation, n. (1)

QO 8.193 9 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration...of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.

interpose, v. (5)

SR 2.65 25 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Mrs1 3.135 2 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest.

ET14 5.255 23 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.

LVB 11.95 9 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens, whose agents the government are, have no place to interpose...

CInt 12.125 3 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.

interposed, adj. (1)

Fdsp 2.216 24 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad...

interposed, v. (2)

ET1 5.11 4 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.

ACri 12.297 15 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped. You have no board interposed between you and the writer's mind...

interposes, v. (2)

YA 1.373 26 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.

NR 3.247 10 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench, and never interposes an adamantine syllable;...

interposing, v. (1)

Bty 6.293 15 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.

interpositions, n. (1)

Chr2 10.114 7 The soul...asks no interpositions...

interpret, v. (9)

AmS 1.113 6 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...

LE 1.159 7 There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man; and therefore there is none but the soul of man can interpret.

MN 1.214 6 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.

SL 2.144 15 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness...

ET14 5.244 3 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind.

PI 8.22 23 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.

Edc1 10.132 10 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world, which interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousness,-it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.

FSLN 11.234 24 To interpret Christ it needs Christ in the heart.

Koss 11.400 13 You [Kossuth] have achieved your right to interpret our Washington.

interpretation, n. (17)

LE 1.160 9 ...we will put our own interpretation on things...

LE 1.160 10 ...we will put our own interpretation on things, and our own things for interpretation.

LT 1.261 13 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation of these things;...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.

Chr1 3.92 25 ...[the natural merchant] communicates to all his own faith that contracts are of no private interpretation.

UGM 4.11 6 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.

SwM 4.121 22 [Swedenborg's] theological bias thus fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature...

MoS 4.173 4 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.

NMW 4.250 7 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire: at another time...the interpretation of dreams.

Wsp 6.205 12 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths, which...are speedily dragged down into a savage interpretation.

PI 8.67 23 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the largest interpretation.

PC 8.223 23 ...the universe at last is only prophetic, or, shall we say, symptomatic, of vaster interpretation and results.

PPo 8.249 20 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical interpretation...

Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.

Chr2 10.114 12 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...not subject to doubtful interpretation...

Prch 10.227 27 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet.

FSLN 11.233 16 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves, and give to all the law a wolfish interpretation?

CL 12.165 15 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man. They may have been right or wrong in any particulars of their interpretation...

interpretations, n. (2)

DSA 1.131 23 ...you must accept our interpretations...

AKan 11.261 1 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law...

interpreted, v. (7)

Nat 1.35 11 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth...

Nat 1.35 25 That which was unconscious truth, becomes, when interpreted and defined in an object, a part of the domain of knowledge...

ET14 5.242 9 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...

PI 8.68 24 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted.

LLNE 10.347 11 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of the Holy Alliance...

SHC 11.429 17 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.

Humb 11.458 9 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...

interpreter, n. (14)

Nat 1.30 6 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...

MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.

Int 2.343 24 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...such has Hegel or his interpreter Cousin seemed to many young men in this country.

Pt1 3.5 21 I know not how it is that we need an interpreter...

Pt1 3.11 11 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is;...

PPh 4.61 10 A great common-sense is [Plato's] warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter.

SwM 4.121 23 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].

ET11 5.188 22 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken and waiting for its interpreter...

WD 7.180 1 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.

PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Hermes, interpreter; and so on.

Schr 10.270 16 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.

CL 12.155 16 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.

CL 12.167 5 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then Nature has a lord.

interpreters, n. (3)

QO 8.203 1 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding; but to the crowd they need interpreters.

Plu 10.295 2 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.

EdAd 11.391 13 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...

interpreting, v. (1)

Insp 8.282 12 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.

interprets, v. (5)

Hist 2.27 8 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...

Hist 2.31 22 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.

SwM 4.122 13 [Swedenborg's religion]...interprets and dignifies every circumstance.

Chr2 10.103 4 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.

PLT 12.21 9 Every new thought modifies, interprets old problems.

interrogate, v. (4)

Nat 1.4 7 Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.

WD 7.180 18 ...you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Clbs 7.237 27 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily. Then it is his turn to interrogate...

MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate?

interrogated, v. (3)

YA 1.366 8 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.

Elo1 7.82 19 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus, being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge could aid the cabinet;...

Thor 10.454 3 [Thoreau] interrogated every custom...

interrogates, v. (1)

Suc 7.304 25 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.

interrogation, n. (3)

MR 1.247 20 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...

MoS 4.172 7 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...

EdAd 11.385 19 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.

interrogations, n. (1)

ET13 5.230 6 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.

interrogatories, n. (1)

OS 2.283 18 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrogatories.

interrogators, n. (2)

Schr 10.284 13 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...the invisible world, are the interrogators...

CInt 12.131 14 ...your conditions, the invisible world, are the interrogators.

interrupt, v. (1)

EzRy 10.390 25 ...[Ezra Ripley] had no studies, no occupations, which company could interrupt.

interrupted, adj. (4)

MR 1.255 19 He who would help himself and others should not be a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue...

Insp 8.271 14 The man's insight and power are interrupted and occasional;...

Thor 10.464 14 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...

GSt 10.505 20 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...of feebler and interrupted action.

interrupted, v. (8)

Con 1.321 2 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree that...seriously interrupted the progress of the work.

YA 1.376 4 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him...

Nat2 3.191 25 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.

OA 7.334 26 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences, which are interrupted by want of breath...

Prch 10.219 19 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...

LLNE 10.342 9 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?

EzRy 10.382 14 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.

Thor 10.463 19 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.

interruption, n. (8)

MoS 4.155 23 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption...

Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...

Bty 6.292 17 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...

Boks 7.190 18 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were...impatient of interruption...

Clbs 7.229 7 In youth...the day is too short for books and the crowd of thoughts, and we are impatient of interruption.

QO 8.177 9 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption...

HDC 11.64 18 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...

FRep 11.533 6 Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new activity...

interruptions, n. (3)

ET10 5.158 27 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...

Insp 8.288 16 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...

Mem 12.97 6 ...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together has its own vagaries and interruptions.

interrupts, v. (1)

SovE 10.201 10 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... He interrupts for the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.

intersect, v. (1)

Prch 10.226 23 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...that block and intersect our old parish highways.

intersection, n. (2)

OS 2.294 10 ...not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature...

Ill 6.311 21 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.

interspaces, n. (1)

Exp 3.64 1 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...

intertwined, v. (1)

Hist 2.36 2 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.

interval, n. (12)

LT 1.266 24 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...

Hsm1. 2.252 16 There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness.

NER 3.284 2 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.

PPh 4.76 10 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval;...

MoS 4.178 26 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years, and again found for an interval, to be lost again.

ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose. For a long interval afterwards, it is not found.

Insp 8.284 1 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day, or, rather, in an interval of twelve hours.

Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed.

PLT 12.44 15 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval is as good as a thousand miles...

PLT 12.44 19 The intellect that sees the interval partakes of it...

PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.

Trag 12.416 21 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune...

intervals, n. (22)

AmS 1.91 15 ...when the intervals of darkness come...we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.

Hist 2.27 19 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...

SR 2.69 10 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.

Comp 2.124 19 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.

Comp 2.126 9 ...the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Int 2.345 26 When at long intervals we turn over [the Greek philosophers'] abstruse pages, wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few...

Exp 3.71 16 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals...

Chr1 3.107 24 There is a class of men, individuals of which appear at long intervals, so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...

Nat2 3.182 17 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.

NER 3.271 12 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...

UGM 4.20 4 Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.

UGM 4.20 14 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...

PPh 4.60 18 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only at intervals...

NMW 4.252 1 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius...

ET11 5.183 7 All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles...

Bty 6.287 27 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...

Farm 7.146 24 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared...

Boks 7.220 8 ...these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one or a few at a time, at long intervals...

Dem1 10.3 12 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by...wide intervals of time...

PLT 12.34 24 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention...

MAng1 12.216 19 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.

Let 12.403 6 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides, and long intervals between hamlets and houses.

intervened, v. (1)

Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.

intervenes, v. (1)

Exp 3.54 25 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...

intervention, n. (3)

ET6 5.114 12 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits...of practical intervention...

Wom 11.415 16 [The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without the intervention of one elder and one elderess.

MAng1 12.226 5 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the work [of rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his rivals, this work was taken from him...

interview, n. (1)

ET17 5.294 14 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.

interviews, n. (5)

DSA 1.147 2 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...

Fdsp 2.199 21 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.

Cour 7.271 14 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.

LLNE 10.347 14 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of...Prince Metternich, with whom the persevering doctrinaire had obtained interviews;...

CSC 10.377 3 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations...

interweave, v. (3)

SR 2.58 20 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.

ShP 4.209 8 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers...which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours.

ET14 5.235 2 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...

interweaved, v. (2)

F 6.36 23 Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved and endless.

Elo1 7.72 13 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...

interwoven, v. (2)

PI 8.61 6 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but thus things are interwoven...

PPo 8.252 7 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.

intestinal, adj. (1)

F 6.8 4 Without...groping after intestinal parasites or infusory biters...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

intimacies, n. (2)

Elo1 7.78 16 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most extraordinary intimacies...

MMEm 10.406 1 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...

intimacy, n. (8)

Prd1 2.240 3 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.

Prd1 2.240 4 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.

Wsp 6.219 19 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...

Wsp 6.231 24 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...

EzRy 10.389 23 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.

Thor 10.472 2 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.

CL 12.159 2 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year, and obtain at last an intimacy with the country...these we call professors.

MAng1 12.240 27 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...

intimate, adj. (18)

Nat 1.44 15 So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit.

MN 1.221 19 I draw from nature the lesson of an intimate divinity.

UGM 4.33 13 ...the union of all minds appears intimate;...

SwM 4.100 14 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII....

Wth 6.85 19 Intimate ties subsist between thought and all production;...

Wsp 6.217 11 There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Wsp 6.217 22 So intimate is this alliance of mind and heart, that talent uniformly sinks with character.

Boks 7.202 4 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.

Clbs 7.229 3 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became...more intimate in a day than if they had been neighbors for years.

Imtl 8.331 19 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...

Dem1 10.27 26 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...

LLNE 10.361 25 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm and the most intimate friend of Mr. Ripley, was a frequent visitor.

EzRy 10.394 15 This intimate knowledge of families...made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...

MMEm 10.405 22 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...

Thor 10.453 19 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.

Wom 11.421 15 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.

Milt1 12.252 18 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...the praise of intimate knowledge and delight;...

MLit 12.318 9 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.

intimate, v. (2)

Mrs1 3.122 22 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.

NER 3.281 24 These and the like experiences intimate that man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.

intimated, adj. (1)

SL 2.156 3 ...the intimated purpose, expresses character.

intimated, v. (4)

AmS 1.109 6 With the views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals, I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].

Mrs1 3.140 27 ...society demands in its patrician class another element already intimated, which it significantly terms good-nature...

NER 3.263 18 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.

HDC 11.51 14 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

intimately, adv. (7)

SL 2.150 19 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately...that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...

Exp 3.63 19 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.

ShP 4.204 10 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.

ET5 5.92 10 The commercial relations of the world are so intimately drawn to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.

Wth 6.96 24 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!...

PLT 12.22 22 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.

Milt1 12.253 10 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work, with the utmost advantage for seeing intimately its power and beauty.

intimates, v. (3)

Tran 1.349 27 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates a frightful skepticism...

Bty 6.299 25 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...

HDC 11.33 25 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.

intimating, v. (5)

DSA 1.138 1 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept...

Pol1 3.208 7 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?

LS 11.5 12 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated.

ACiv 11.305 2 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.

MAng1 12.218 10 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.

intimation, n. (4)

Nat 1.49 3 The broker...the tollman, are much displeased at the intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].

LE 1.164 1 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.

LS 11.5 15 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded, and still with no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered.

LS 11.5 25 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.

intimations, n. (4)

F 6.29 7 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.

Wsp 6.236 15 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again; concluding that he had misinterpreted the intimations.

Art2 7.42 9 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...

EWI 11.127 1 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...

Intimations..., Ode on [Wm. (1)

Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].

intimidate, v. (3)

Nat 1.21 14 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...

Mrs1 3.124 10 The society of the energetic class...is full...of attempts which intimidate the pale scholar.

Mrs1 3.126 25 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate;...

intimidated, v. (2)

Elo1 7.96 2 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob...

HDC 11.85 27 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of John Eliot...who had a courage that intimidated those savages whom his love could not melt;...

intimidates, v. (1)

DSA 1.149 7 There are...men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.

intimidating, adj. (1)

LT 1.262 6 They indicate,-these...intimidating figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...

intolerable, adj. (7)

YA 1.394 5 ...in England, the fact seems to me intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.

ET7 5.116 15 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.

Pow 6.64 19 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.

Bty 6.300 3 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced to suffer some intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

EWI 11.124 8 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...

AKan 11.256 1 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

Trag 12.410 20 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

intolerably, adv. (1)

Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...

intonation, n. (1)

FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation, attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.

intoxicate, v. (3)

PI 8.63 9 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread! The most they have done is to intoxicate us once and again with its taste.

Insp 8.297 6 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain, a new thought intoxicate...

PLT 12.36 4 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe...

intoxicated, adj. (1)

PPo 8.250 17 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan? what is the wise man or the intoxicated?

intoxicated, v. (8)

LE 1.162 16 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.

SR 2.81 25 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty...

SR 2.82 4 I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.

SR 2.82 5 I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.

Pt1 3.16 12 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.

SwM 4.143 27 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...

ET18 5.303 16 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...like that which intoxicated France in 1789.

Res 8.147 16 Against the terrors of the mob, which, intoxicated with passion...is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.

intoxicates, v. (5)

Pt1 3.30 1 If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.

Bty 6.305 17 ...[we do not know] why one word or syllable intoxicates;...

PC 8.217 26 ...if [a man] has imagination, he intoxicates men.

Aris 10.52 25 ...[Genius] raises men above themselves, intoxicates them with beauty.

PLT 12.11 1 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.

intoxicating, adj. (5)

NR 3.225 10 The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student...

PPh 4.58 21 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates...and hears the intoxicating hum of their spindle.

ET10 5.163 1 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.

Bty 6.301 15 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...

SovE 10.197 9 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...

intoxication, n. (4)

Pt1 3.28 2 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... animal intoxication...

Boks 7.213 23 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.

PI 8.18 23 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.

SA 8.95 3 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather...

intoxications, n. (1)

Insp 8.292 7 [Another source of inspiration is] Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications.

intractable, adj. (2)

MoS 4.182 6 The generosities of the day prove an intractable element for [the spiritualist].

HDC 11.51 4 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at catechism.

intrance, v. (1)

Nat2 3.170 12 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...suffer nature to intrance us.

intransitive, adj. (1)

DSA 1.125 5 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity;...

intrenched, v. (1)

ET6 5.112 4 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets intrenched...

intrenchment, n. (1)

Res 8.145 16 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.

intrenchments, n. (1)

NMW 4.237 9 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon] was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.

intrepid, adj. (4)

Cir 2.309 13 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...may at any time be superseded...

Pow 6.55 11 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins. This condition is constant with intrepid persons.

PI 8.57 23 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards...

EdAd 11.391 14 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].

intrepidly, adv. (1)

Carl 10.497 22 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...intrepidly and scornfully...

intricacy, n. (1)

F 6.46 18 Wonderful intricacy in the web...this vagabond life admits.

intricate, adj. (1)

F 6.36 23 Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved and endless.

intrigue, n. (4)

NMW 4.231 21 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte], 't is in vain to ascribe it to intrigue or crime;...

ET7 5.126 3 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...

Aris 10.55 14 ...the thought has...no intrigue or business...

ACiv 11.304 5 [Emancipation] is a principle; all else is an intrigue.

intrigue, v. (1)

Ctr 6.154 7 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.

intriguer, n. (1)

Supl 10.165 3 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor each unpleasing person a dark, diabolical intriguer;...

intriguers, n. (1)

EdAd 11.388 12 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

intrigues, n. (1)

ET18 5.299 18 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views, but by internal intrigues and personal and family interest.

intriguing, v. (1)

NMW 4.253 25 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy...

intrinsic, adj. (15)

DSA 1.122 26 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere...

MN 1.198 21 There is an intrinsic defect in the organ.

SR 2.53 15 I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.

Comp 2.124 22 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...

SL 2.154 13 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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

Fdsp 2.202 9 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness...

Int 2.326 20 The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote things...

Mrs1 3.130 27 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.

PPh 4.57 18 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.

PNR 4.83 27 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic...

LLNE 10.327 12 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical, the detachment intrinsic and progressive.

Carl 10.494 18 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor.

War 11.174 19 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.

Milt1 12.277 8 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight. Their intrinsic beauty is their excuse for being.

intrinsically, adv. (3)

MR 1.230 23 The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for a man...

Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...

UGM 4.4 9 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...

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