Introduce to Irrespective

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

introduce, v. (20)

    Nat 1.45 10 [Words and actions] introduce us to the human form...
    DSA 1.134 5 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...is not explored...
    Hist 2.11 10 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then, and introduce in its place the Here and the Now.
    SL 2.149 14 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose;...
    Chr1 3.97 26 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.133 26 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other.
    NR 3.245 7 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    UGM 4.21 11 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    ET6 5.105 26 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons;...
    Wth 6.104 20 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Clbs 7.232 22 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    OA 7.326 17 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who... introduce him where he has no letters...
    SA 8.86 4 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection.
    SA 8.92 5 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    QO 8.198 22 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.
    SovE 10.212 13 America shall introduce a pure religion.
    LLNE 10.330 19 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    HDC 11.47 25 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.
    MLit 12.314 24 The great always introduce us to facts;...
    MLit 12.314 25 ...small men introduce us always to themselves.

introduced, v. (33)

    DSA 1.150 5 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    Con 1.315 8 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    SR 2.86 24 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Mrs1 3.144 25 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced...
    SwM 4.105 12 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    ET6 5.105 25 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye. It is almost an affront to look a man in the face without being introduced.
    ET6 5.106 6 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being introduced, is cold...
    ET11 5.189 6 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...
    ET19 5.309 19 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    Pow 6.67 10 [Boniface] introduced all the fiends, male and female, into the town...
    Pow 6.67 21 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
    Wth 6.85 1 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Bhr 6.183 14 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    CbW 6.253 12 There will not be a practice or an usage introduced [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers], of which [the fools] are not the authors.
    CbW 6.254 2 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East; introduced marriage;...
    Elo1 7.82 18 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;...
    WD 7.162 18 This thousand-handed art has introduced a new element into the state.
    Plu 10.319 21 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    LLNE 10.338 19 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...
    MMEm 10.399 24 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.
    Carl 10.490 23 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging... and, as in companies here (in England) no man is named or introduced, great is the effect...
    LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    EWI 11.112 2 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.
    War 11.153 23 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
    War 11.153 27 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life. It introduced the sacredness of marriage among them.
    War 11.159 10 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.
    EPro 11.319 24 [Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the nineteenth century.
    Bost 12.184 12 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
    Milt1 12.259 8 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    ACri 12.283 19 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
    AgMs 12.362 8 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman]...repeats his compliments as often as their names are introduced.
    Trag 12.408 14 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.

introducer, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.202 12 ...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.

introduces, v. (7)

    Pt1 3.32 19 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Exp 3.48 16 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality...
    Exp 3.70 11 The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element.
    ET10 5.162 13 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;...
    ET13 5.230 8 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    Elo1 7.89 24 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    ACri 12.287 3 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

introducing, v. (2)

    Grts 8.304 6 A sensible man...avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions...
    ACri 12.283 20 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.

introduction, n. (14)

    Nat 1.57 25 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called...the introduction of ideas into life, have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Lov1 2.169 7 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one...
    Mrs1 3.141 13 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    ShP 4.204 6 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ET10 5.162 1 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    Bhr 6.178 27 [Eyes] wait for no introduction;...
    Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Clbs 7.246 3 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.
    Plu 10.320 3 [Plutarch] has an objection to the introduction of music at feasts.
    LLNE 10.340 23 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished; there was mutual greeting and introduction...
    HDC 11.36 2 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    HDC 11.57 26 This expedition [against the Niantic Indians] was but the introduction of the war with King Philip.
    EWI 11.106 26 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    CInt 12.118 10 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction of gentleness into insane asylums...

introductions, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.212 15 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no introductions...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    ET6 5.106 1 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract. Introductions are sacraments.
    ET12 5.199 10 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...
    Let 12.397 5 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny...

introductory, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.63 16 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    Wom 11.413 1 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it. All these affections are only introductory to that which is beyond, and to that which is sublime.

introversion, n. (3)

    LLNE 10.328 22 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    LLNE 10.329 25 The young men were born with...a tendency to introversion...
    PLT 12.12 17 We have invincible repugnance to introversion...

Introversion, n. (1)

    AmS 1.109 14 Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.

introvert, v. (1)

    PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.

introverted, adj. (3)

    Int 2.328 3 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...
    SwM 4.98 11 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.130 10 Possibly Swedenborg paid the penalty of introverted faculties.

intrude, v. (10)

    Hist 2.6 18 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel that we intrude, that this is for better men;...
    Fdsp 2.193 4 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.
    Fdsp 2.212 14 We see the noble afar off and they repel us; why should we intrude?
    SwM 4.136 17 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    Bhr 6.179 4 ...[eyes]...intrude, and come again...
    Wsp 6.211 10 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...
    LVB 11.94 14 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...
    FSLC 11.181 15 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FRO2 11.485 20 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    CInt 12.113 14 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords...to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

intruded, v. (1)

    EWI 11.129 23 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.

intruder, n. (5)

    LE 1.169 8 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where...from year to year, the eagle and the crow see no intruder;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    PC 8.232 16 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.
    Chr2 10.97 12 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    LLNE 10.337 19 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism...
    MMEm 10.406 24 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?

intrudes, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.183 13 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women...
    SA 8.98 24 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes the orders of the house...

intruding, adj. (1)

    SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.

intruding, v. (2)

    YA 1.370 2 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    Fdsp 2.210 2 Why should we desecrate noble and beautiful souls by intruding on them?

intrusion, n. (6)

    Art1 2.366 5 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Nat2 3.190 18 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
    ET11 5.187 20 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
    SA 8.90 25 ...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
    PLT 12.63 8 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion.
    II 12.75 8 ...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion.

intrusive, adj. (2)

    MN 1.212 9 There is something social and intrusive in the nature of all things;...
    F 6.26 15 Where [the mind] shines, Nature is no longer intrusive...

intrusted, v. (4)

    ShP 4.205 9 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London...
    Cour 7.259 8 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals...
    PLT 12.48 12 ...idea and execution are not often intrusted to the same head.
    MAng1 12.226 7 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio...

intuition, n. (13)

    DSA 1.122 7 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.
    DSA 1.127 1 ...[this moral truth] is guarded by one stern condition; this, namely; it is an intuition.
    MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which we must necessarily appeal to the intuition...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    SR 2.68 19 ...all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition.
    Int 2.329 21 Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;...
    NER 3.260 12 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
    PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
    SwM 4.95 26 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...
    Elo1 7.63 12 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Chr2 10.93 16 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
    Chr2 10.93 23 The extreme simplicity of this [moral] intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
    Prch 10.225 4 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    PLT 12.39 1 A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition;...

Intuition, n. (1)

    SR 2.64 7 We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition...

intuitions, n. (10)

    LT 1.288 20 ...where but in the intuitions which are vouchsafed us from within, shall we learn the Truth?
    Tran 1.340 8 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself;...
    Tran 1.340 18 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Hist 2.28 2 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...
    Comp 2.93 22 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.109 4 Proverbs...are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
    Wsp 6.224 9 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in...the realm of intuitions and duty.
    PPo 8.237 22 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts...
    Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    Prch 10.229 4 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions...

intuitive, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.340 13 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    Int 2.329 15 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    UGM 4.17 27 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought.

inundate, v. (1)

    GoW 4.282 16 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men; his force and terror inundate every word;...

inundated, v. (2)

    ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...for this reason, that they would be inundated with base prints.
    Suc 7.307 3 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet, so that the whole system is inundated with the tides of joy.

inundates, v. (2)

    Pow 6.56 8 ...health...runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
    Elo1 7.68 3 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits...

inundating, v. (1)

    UGM 4.7 15 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic, inundating armies with his purpose, which is thus executed.

inundation, n. (7)

    LE 1.172 19 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
    MN 1.219 12 Has anything grand and lasting been done? Who did it? Plainly not any man, but all men: it was the prevalence and inundation of an idea.
    Comp 2.93 17 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love...
    Cir 2.318 3 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
    Wth 6.99 2 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Bhr 6.179 6 What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another, through [the eyes]!
    War 11.176 1 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...

inutility, n. (1)

    ET14 5.251 21 [Englishmen] are incapable of an inutility...

invade, v. (7)

    Hsm1 2.261 26 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    OS 2.296 8 ...pressed on our attention...[the saints and demigods] fatigue and invade.
    Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.
    Chr2 10.115 17 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...
    Edc1 10.137 9 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    EdAd 11.382 15 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./
    II 12.86 4 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor...

invaded, v. (5)

    OS 2.281 16 Every moment when the individual feels himself invaded by [the soul] is memorable.
    Gts 3.162 24 I am sorry when my independence is invaded...
    Wsp 6.214 11 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training,--religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
    Plu 10.307 24 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
    FSLC 11.199 27 When a moral quality comes into politics, when a right is invaded...general principles are laid bare...

invaders, n. (3)

    SR 2.71 9 Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet...
    Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
    Comc 8.163 26 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...

invades, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.192 9 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    Bost 12.184 2 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

invading, adj. (2)

    JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    CL 12.147 3 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...

invalid, adj. (2)

    OS 2.267 10 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    Ctr 6.145 13 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.

invalid, n. (4)

    ET14 5.247 16 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    Elo1 7.70 3 [The right eloquence] draws...the invalid from his warm chamber...
    Res 8.144 12 The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.
    LLNE 10.340 8 A poor little invalid all his life, [Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.

invalidated, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.345 1 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...

invalided, v. (1)

    QO 8.188 1 ...shall we say that...the existing generation is invalided and degenerate?

invalids, n. (8)

    SR 2.47 23 ...we are...not minors and invalids in a protected corner...
    SR 2.53 2 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,-as invalids and the insane pay a high board.
    ET4 5.65 8 Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside [the English], and invalids.
    F 6.13 21 [Conservatives]...can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Bhr 6.185 8 Here come the sentimentalists, and the invalids.
    CbW 6.248 14 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of distressing invalids...
    SovE 10.195 19 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest...

invaluable, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.70 14 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...

invariable, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.74 25 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    Con 1.301 25 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method of our training, we must give it allowance...
    YA 1.372 18 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes...
    SwM 4.123 17 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth...
    F 6.35 4 A learned physician tells us the fact is invariable with the Neapolitan...
    Civ 7.26 4 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities: the man is sensual and cruel. But this scale is not invariable.
    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one;...
    LLNE 10.347 9 [Robert Owen's] charitable construction of men and their actions was invariable.
    Bost 12.210 11 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

invariably, adv. (18)

    Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    Prd1 2.231 11 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman, as invariably as sensation;...
    Exp 3.65 25 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept if we would have it sweet and sound.
    UGM 4.24 7 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    PPh 4.56 7 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    ET9 5.151 2 America is the paradise of the [English] economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin;...
    ET13 5.223 12 ...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
    ET13 5.227 22 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
    Pow 6.73 11 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Elo1 7.98 8 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address nations.
    DL 7.126 20 ...beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.
    Farm 7.146 3 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a centripetence equal to the centrifugence; and this is invariably supplied.
    OA 7.335 1 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion...
    PI 8.31 25 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
    Elo2 8.125 3 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong...
    SovE 10.185 17 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone...
    CPL 11.508 10 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author.
    II 12.66 22 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.

Invasion, Harper's Ferry, (1)

    GSt 10.504 5 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

invasion, n. (7)

    YA 1.394 23 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
    Exp 3.78 2 Any invasion of [life's] unity would be chaos.
    Edc1 10.144 25 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    War 11.153 13 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    SMC 11.349 3 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.355 24 The invasion of Northern farmers, mechanics, engineers... did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    PPr 12.390 23 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature. This is the first invasion and conquest.

invasions, n. (3)

    ET4 5.61 27 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...
    ET4 5.72 13 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed...
    War 11.153 11 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.

invectives, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 3 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy, from which I only reap invectives and hatred.

invent, v. (10)

    Hist 2.19 13 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    NMW 4.249 7 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them. The art is, to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence.
    Ill 6.317 1 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    QO 8.193 7 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent.
    Dem1 10.11 18 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...
    PerF 10.83 9 [The susceptible man] does not then invent his sentiment or his act...
    Prch 10.233 22 ...[inspiration] will invent its own methods...
    SMC 11.363 17 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men...invent excellent means of their own.
    II 12.73 18 The mark of the spirit is...to invent means.
    PPr 12.380 3 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...

invented, v. (24)

    Nat 1.12 18 What angels invented these splendid ornaments...
    Comp 2.106 25 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.
    UGM 4.4 13 The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
    PPh 4.65 9 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    SwM 4.93 6 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom.
    ET4 5.56 11 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET5 5.75 13 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    ET5 5.84 14 The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
    ET5 5.100 24 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture, or in trade...
    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    ET10 5.157 20 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...invented gunpowder;...
    ET10 5.158 18 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse.
    F 6.17 14 [Particular inventions] have all been invented over and over fifty times.
    Civ 7.19 17 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    Clbs 7.229 22 Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep.
    Suc 7.284 12 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
    QO 8.179 2 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...
    QO 8.199 22 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...
    LLNE 10.328 12 ...government itself becomes the resort of those whom government was invented to restrain.
    Wom 11.410 24 ...[man] invented majesty and the etiquette of courts and drawing-rooms;...
    Wom 11.411 1 [Man] invented marriage;...
    FRep 11.513 12 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    Bost 12.200 7 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    MLit 12.322 14 Whatever the age inherited or invented, [Goethe] has made his own.

inventing, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.221 4 My prudence consists...not in the inventing of means and methods...
    PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.44 14 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men, instead of inventing them at his desk.
    QO 8.184 6 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    CInt 12.114 22 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...

invention, n. (64)

    AmS 1.93 3 When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    MN 1.192 12 There is in each of these works an act of invention...
    MR 1.246 11 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    LT 1.287 10 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    Con 1.299 2 Conservatism...has no invention;...
    YA 1.363 18 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...
    YA 1.364 12 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size...
    Hist 2.30 17 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.34 1 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    SR 2.47 11 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt...no invention, no hope.
    Comp 2.108 12 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which flowed out of his constitution and not from his too active invention;...
    Art1 2.365 24 The fountains of invention and beauty in modern society are all but dried up.
    Pt1 3.26 3 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits, and we participate the invention of nature?
    Mrs1 3.126 12 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have invention to take the lead...
    Nat2 3.173 15 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught the poorness of our invention...
    Nat2 3.195 14 We anticipate a new era from the invention of a locomotive...
    ShP 4.195 17 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    ShP 4.196 11 Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can.
    ShP 4.196 22 ...[the poet in illiterate times] comes to value his memory equally with his invention.
    ShP 4.205 27 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ShP 4.214 27 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    NMW 4.237 4 We are always...just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage.
    NMW 4.246 6 ...[Napoleon's] prompt invention;...
    NMW 4.252 6 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    GoW 4.286 25 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
    GoW 4.287 15 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.
    ET5 5.81 7 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET5 5.93 12 It is England whose opinion is waited for on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.
    ET5 5.93 19 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET8 5.132 4 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... invention in mechanics...
    ET10 5.158 19 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention...
    Ctr 6.149 8 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
    Bty 6.284 10 The invention is of use to the inventor...
    Bty 6.300 13 If...invention exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    Civ 7.21 20 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and art are born...
    Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or gunpowder...
    Art2 7.46 16 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
    WD 7.161 17 Invention breeds invention.
    WD 7.162 27 Malthus...forgot to say...that the augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of invention.
    Clbs 7.229 23 ...I prize the good invention whereby everybody is provided with somebody who is glad to see him.
    Suc 7.288 12 ...the public values the invention more than the inventor does.
    PI 8.20 19 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;...
    PI 8.45 5 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    SA 8.97 21 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;...
    Res 8.141 13 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the power and habit of invention in their brain.
    Res 8.153 17 Resources of Man...it is the whole of memory, the whole of invention;...
    QO 8.179 9 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    QO 8.179 20 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
    QO 8.180 13 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow are the limits of human invention.
    QO 8.183 3 A great man...will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
    Insp 8.270 18 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
    Aris 10.39 2 Men of aim must lead the aimless; men of invention the uninventive.
    PerF 10.85 1 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Supl 10.171 26 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish...to check the invention of wit or the sally of humor.
    Supl 10.178 18 Our modern improvements have been in the invention of friction matches;...
    Schr 10.279 20 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    LLNE 10.333 17 All [Everett's] speech was music, and with such variety and invention that the ear was never tired.
    War 11.160 20 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is no man's invention...
    FRep 11.527 21 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in the power of invention...
    FRep 11.534 7 We lose our invention and descend into imitation.
    PLT 12.33 6 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
    PLT 12.34 26 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention...
    Mem 12.99 12 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
    Mem 12.99 18 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion?...

inventions, n. (32)

    Tran 1.359 10 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...
    Tran 1.359 13 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions...
    SR 2.86 11 The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume...
    Pt1 3.19 11 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    PPh 4.52 19 ...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
    SwM 4.145 11 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    ET4 5.45 23 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may...they have made or applied the principal inventions.
    ET14 5.247 9 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is...to yield economical inventions;...
    ET18 5.307 16 ...the American people do not yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
    F 6.17 14 'T is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions.
    F 6.44 17 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.
    CbW 6.256 8 In America...the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Art2 7.57 2 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    WD 7.157 6 The human body is the magazine of inventions...
    WD 7.158 16 ...so many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over new;...
    WD 7.158 23 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.165 4 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    WD 7.166 1 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
    Boks 7.216 24 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions.
    Cour 7.272 16 The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions...
    OA 7.331 15 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs, the inventor his inventions...
    PC 8.210 19 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!...
    PC 8.211 26 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind, and imparts a sympathetic enlargement to its inventions and method.
    Supl 10.179 4 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking, which go to check the pedantry of our inventions...
    SovE 10.211 27 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from inventions to science...
    MMEm 10.421 18 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and inventions...
    EdAd 11.383 14 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.
    EdAd 11.384 23 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population, these surveys and inventions...
    Wom 11.410 14 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
    II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
    Mem 12.102 13 There are more inventions in the thoughts of one happy day than ages could execute...
    MAng1 12.239 27 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an inventor can use the inventions of others.

inventive, adj. (7)

    MR 1.245 2 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves. Expense will be inventive and heroic.
    Fdsp 2.206 10 [Friendship]...should be alert and inventive...
    Int 2.336 1 The rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
    Pow 6.58 1 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Edc1 10.150 16 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    EWI 11.140 4 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.
    Mem 12.100 12 ...it is remarked that inventive men have bad memories.

inventor, n. (32)

    AmS 1.92 25 One must be an inventor to read well.
    DSA 1.145 27 The inventor did it because it was natural to him...
    Pt1 3.33 19 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form...has yielded us a new thought.
    Exp 3.43 10 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Mrs1 3.146 3 ...there is still some absurd inventor of charities;...
    UGM 4.8 27 ...the makers of tools; the inventor of decimal notation;... severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.12 21 Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
    PPh 4.42 3 ...the inventor only knows how to borrow;...
    PPh 4.42 13 ...this grasping inventor [Plato] puts all nations under contribution.
    NMW 4.252 18 [Napoleon] was...the inventor of means...
    ET10 5.166 23 Man is a shrewd inventor...
    ET14 5.255 21 ...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.
    F 6.17 23 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...or Fulton; the indisputable inventor.
    Bty 6.284 10 The invention is of use to the inventor...
    DL 7.110 13 Another man is...an inventor of looms...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    Suc 7.288 13 ...the public values the invention more than the inventor does.
    Suc 7.288 13 The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
    Suc 7.288 16 Men see the reward which the inventor enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
    Suc 7.293 15 ...the mob uniformly cheers the publisher, and not the inventor.
    OA 7.331 14 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs, the inventor his inventions...
    QO 8.204 8 Only an inventor knows how to borrow...
    QO 8.204 9 Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
    PC 8.228 22 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers...
    Imtl 8.339 10 Every really able man...a man of large affairs, an inventor... considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Dem1 10.11 20 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not...be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor.
    LLNE 10.358 16 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    LLNE 10.358 21 Why could not the like partnership be formed between the inventor and the man of executive talent everywhere?
    HDC 11.42 22 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power. It is vain to look for the inventor.
    FRep 11.513 2 ...prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    II 12.69 2 [Instinct]...is the inventor of all arts...
    MAng1 12.239 26 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an inventor can use the inventions of others.
    ACri 12.297 22 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...

inventories, n. (2)

    PPh 4.56 9 Things added to things...are inventories.
    PPh 4.56 20 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.

inventors, n. (9)

    DSA 1.120 5 The planters, the mechanics, the inventors...history delights to honor.
    UGM 4.8 24 The inventors of fire, electricity...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ET18 5.302 26 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what inventors and engineers...
    Ctr 6.133 14 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge...of artists, inventors and philosophers.
    CbW 6.256 9 In America...the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    WD 7.166 17 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack;...
    Res 8.137 3 We are all inventors...
    QO 8.199 15 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits...
    PC 8.216 1 The founders of nations, the wise men and inventors who shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in their own time.

inventory, n. (10)

    Hsm1 2.253 5 What a disgrace is it to me...to bear the inventory of thy shirts...
    Int 2.346 20 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Exp 3.53 7 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    ShP 4.202 24 Bacon, who took the inventory of the human understanding for his times, never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
    ET5 5.91 5 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven...
    Pow 6.53 1 There is not yet any inventory of a man's faculties...
    Wth 6.91 14 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
    Boks 7.211 4 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    Res 8.153 15 Resources of Man,--it is the inventory of the world...
    PerF 10.77 1 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!

invents, v. (5)

    Bhr 6.170 7 Genius invents fine manners...
    PI 8.39 1 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.
    PI 8.39 2 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.
    Plu 10.302 6 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    Wom 11.410 21 ...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and degrees...

inverse, adj. (2)

    OS 2.272 19 ...time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
    AsSu 11.248 22 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit, but oftener in the inverse ratio...

inversion, n. (1)

    PI 8.12 5 [Conversation] is ever enlivened by inversion and trope.

invert, v. (1)

    EurB 12.378 13 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.

inverted, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.165 22 ...there is an inverted superlative...which shivers, like Demophoon, in the sun...

inverted, v. (1)

    Comc 8.169 14 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.

inverting, v. (1)

    CL 12.158 10 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.

inverts, v. (1)

    Nat 1.59 15 Culture inverts the vulgar view of nature...

invest, v. (9)

    Tran 1.359 21 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    Fdsp 2.192 4 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Exp 3.46 1 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about, but not an ounce to impart or to invest.
    Wth 6.92 10 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wth 6.125 23 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals;...
    Wth 6.126 1 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...
    Wth 6.126 7 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest?
    Wth 6.126 23 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...
    Bhr 6.179 24 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.

invested, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.192 19 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
    Prd1 2.234 27 ...money...if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.
    PerF 10.79 11 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    MMEm 10.401 13 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine...

investigated, v. (1)

    PNR 4.85 22 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.

Investigation, Committee of, (1)

    AKan 11.256 10 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated?

investigation, n. (3)

    OS 2.285 24 The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    ShP 4.195 16 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    PLT 12.8 13 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...

investigators, n. (1)

    Thor 10.467 17 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used, more important to him than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...

investing, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.50 17 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.

investing, v. (1)

    Farm 7.141 21 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field, investing his labor in the land, and making a product with which no forced labor can compete.

investitures, n. (1)

    Wom 11.425 14 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write...the strong investitures;...

investment, n. (11)

    Cir 2.302 22 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...
    Wth 6.112 2 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe...
    Wth 6.119 23 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
    Wth 6.125 18 ...The right investment is in tools of your trade;...
    Wth 6.125 27 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of its life, and still to ascend in its investment.
    Wsp 6.215 26 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment, being to doing;...
    WD 7.166 25 It appears that we have not made a judicious investment.
    SA 8.100 25 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    EPro 11.322 16 ...this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    Mem 12.91 13 Opportunities of investment are useful only to those who have capital.
    CL 12.159 24 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...

investments, n. (3)

    LT 1.264 6 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital...
    ET8 5.143 6 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.
    ACri 12.302 24 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.

invests, v. (2)

    Nat 1.52 10 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity...
    Comp 2.105 8 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...

inveterate, adj. (3)

    NER 3.263 22 ...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...
    Bty 6.286 18 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    War 11.174 24 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...

inveterately, adv. (1)

    LS 11.16 8 We know how inveterately [the primitive Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...

invidiousness, n. (1)

    Aris 10.47 1 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...

invigorate, v. (3)

    Hist 2.22 16 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    SR 2.86 13 The arts and inventions of each period...do not invigorate men.
    CL 12.149 2 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind!

invigorated, v. (5)

    Hist 2.31 18 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    NER 3.269 23 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated...
    SwM 4.123 1 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
    Res 8.138 21 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...
    Prch 10.234 10 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...

invigorates, v. (1)

    Comp 2.98 4 The cold climate invigorates.

invigorating, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.69 23 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command...

invigorating, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.97 24 [The moral sentiment]...has the property of invigorating the hearer;...
    Boks 7.199 22 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating.

invincibility, n. (2)

    F 6.26 5 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind...seeing its invincibility, he says, I am strong.
    Civ 7.30 11 ...ideas...bestow on the hero their invincibility.

invincible, adj. (20)

    MN 1.196 24 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
    Hsm1 2.245 20 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Nat2 3.174 7 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
    PPh 4.74 12 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    MoS 4.165 19 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    ET8 5.131 12 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness...
    ET14 5.250 18 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology...a rhetoric like the armory of the invincible knights of old.
    ET15 5.272 15 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    F 6.24 6 Rude and invincible except by themselves are the elements.
    Ctr 6.134 16 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture...
    Elo1 7.94 1 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible.
    Aris 10.37 22 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...
    Prch 10.234 3 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    HDC 11.76 15 We hold by the hand the last of the invincible men of old...
    FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    PLT 12.12 17 We have invincible repugnance to introversion...
    PLT 12.35 7 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...lurking, surly, invincible...
    CInt 12.129 19 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered;...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    MAng1 12.241 16 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
    AgMs 12.359 3 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.

invincibly, adv. (1)

    Chr1 3.91 15 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact,--invincibly persuaded of that fact in himself...

inviolable, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.65 4 [The world's] serene order is inviolable by us.
    AmS 1.102 9 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    MR 1.234 16 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    Tran 1.355 23 [Transcendentalists]...find an indemnity in the inviolable order of the world for the violated order and grace of man.
    YA 1.375 6 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    Hist 2.5 26 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    Imtl 8.344 16 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Chr2 10.98 13 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls, but because he is inviolable...
    Shak1 11.451 18 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency...

inviolate, adj. (5)

    Comp 2.120 1 The inviolate spirit turns [the mob's] spite against the wrongdoers.
    Mrs1 3.137 10 In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate.
    PC 8.228 4 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events...
    MoL 10.242 7 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events.
    HDC 11.70 1 ...we will...to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.

invisible, adj. (52)

    Nat 1.33 3 The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
    Nat 1.35 1 The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
    Nat 1.63 19 ...when, following the invisible steps of thought, we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    Nat 1.68 4 The American...is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also, - faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    MN 1.222 22 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    LT 1.259 4 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    Tran 1.334 4 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    Tran 1.335 5 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould.
    Tran 1.345 20 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Cir 2.303 4 Better than the hand and nimbler was the invisible thought which wrought through it;...
    Int 2.335 22 The ray of light passes invisible through space...
    Exp 3.67 20 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.
    UGM 4.17 1 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind...
    UGM 4.28 12 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds. The boundaries are invisible, but they are never crossed.
    SwM 4.114 8 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    ShP 4.198 24 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    ET6 5.108 9 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature...
    ET14 5.259 25 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone and suggests the presence of the invisible gods.
    F 6.37 26 These are coarse adjustments, but the invisible are not less.
    F 6.38 4 [A creature] is not possible until the invisible things are right for him...
    Wsp 6.215 5 In our definitions we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible.
    Wsp 6.219 26 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Civ 7.28 13 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Civ 7.28 14 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Art2 7.50 5 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...
    DL 7.125 18 ...[the men we see] all seem the hacks of some invisible riders.
    Farm 7.144 25 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
    Cour 7.274 26 Sacred courage indicates...that [a man]...will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind.
    PI 8.5 18 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
    PI 8.7 15 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.66 15 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...
    SA 8.80 21 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
    Elo2 8.111 21 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic...all are invisible and unknown.
    PC 8.215 20 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    PC 8.220 5 Often the master is a hidden man, but not to the true student; invisible to all the rest, resplendent to him.
    Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and shield to him, is no longer present and active.
    Dem1 10.20 21 ...the fabled ring of Gyges, making the wearer invisible...is simply mischievous.
    PerF 10.72 13 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind...
    Chr2 10.101 8 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul. They feel that the invisible world sympathizes with him.
    Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    SovE 10.197 21 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?
    Schr 10.271 26 ...the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases...
    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...
    SMC 11.348 17 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    CPL 11.501 24 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    CPL 11.502 1 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man.
    PLT 12.42 11 To every soul that is created is its path, invisible to all but itself.
    II 12.80 20 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains.
    CInt 12.131 13 ...your conditions, the invisible world, are the interrogators.
    CL 12.164 5 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language, and our only means of uttering the invisible thought.
    Bost 12.187 21 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion.
    MLit 12.315 16 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature, to the invisible awful facts...

invisible, n. (5)

    MN 1.198 18 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    ShP 4.206 12 It is the essence of poetry to spring...from the invisible...
    Wsp 6.204 26 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible...
    Wsp 6.237 24 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    PI 8.18 14 The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.

invisibly, adv. (2)

    PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    ACiv 11.303 9 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts...

invitation, n. (27)

    DSA 1.119 21 ...what invitation from every property [the world] gives to every faculty of man!
    DSA 1.140 22 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain, than that [the poor preacher] can face a man of wit and energy and put the invitation without terror.
    DSA 1.151 2 What hinders that now...wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.155 1 The invitation to address you this day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
    LE 1.166 26 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. ... We have not heeded the invitation it holds out.
    Nat2 3.174 14 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
    MoS 4.180 27 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night, but infinite invitation on the other side.
    GoW 4.265 6 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side, invitation...
    ET1 5.7 1 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET2 5.25 2 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET2 5.26 2 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment of more leisure...
    ET6 5.113 25 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon, coming from Henri Quatre of France by invitation of James I., was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
    Bhr 6.173 10 I have seen...the overbold, who make their own invitation to your hearth;...
    Bty 6.290 7 ...beauty is only an invitation from what belongs to us.
    Civ 7.32 15 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    DL 7.113 11 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us...
    Cour 7.260 10 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant...
    OA 7.332 10 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
    SA 8.83 19 Whilst certain faces are...decorated with invitation, others are marked with warnings...
    Plu 10.319 25 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    MMEm 10.399 1 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    FSLC 11.179 2 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    FSLN 11.240 1 To faint hearts the times offer no invitation...
    FRep 11.522 13 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.
    FRep 11.541 19 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make to every nation...
    CInt 12.126 24 ...a college...should aim at a reverent discipline and invitation of the soul...

invitations, n. (9)

    YA 1.366 6 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    PPh 4.44 3 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...
    ShP 4.206 23 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
    ET12 5.199 9 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford...
    Pow 6.75 12 [Pericles] declined all invitations to banquets...
    WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the sea with its invitations;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Thor 10.455 2 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties...
    FRep 11.522 22 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    PLT 12.58 8 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...

invite, v. (24)

    Nat 1.3 11 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life...invite us...to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    DSA 1.140 18 Will [the poor preacher] invite [people] privately to the Lord' s Supper?
    LT 1.259 21 Nature itself seems...to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    LT 1.271 27 Why should [the manner of life we lead] not...invite and raise us?
    Lov1 2.176 24 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
    OS 2.293 23 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you...
    Nat2 3.174 9 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    PPh 4.60 27 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    PPh 4.61 1 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power; and you too I in turn invite to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    PPh 4.71 13 The young men...invite [Socrates] to their feasts...
    ET6 5.113 12 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat...
    ET6 5.113 15 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    F 6.23 24 They who talk much of destiny...invite the evils they fear.
    SS 7.14 22 Assort your party, or invite none.
    WD 7.167 24 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.
    Suc 7.282 3 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
    Suc 7.308 23 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches. Nature does not invite such exhibition.
    OA 7.325 1 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst, which so easily overdo their office, and invite disease.
    Schr 10.287 16 I invite you [scholars] not to cheap joys...
    HDC 11.48 18 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations.
    War 11.168 8 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes, you only invite the robber and assassin;...
    ACiv 11.307 18 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 get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
    II 12.79 5 ...we will by all means invite [inspiration].
    MLit 12.310 1 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand...

invited, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.375 20 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance]......[the reader] too had been an invited and eternal guest;...

invited, v. (26)

    AmS 1.100 8 ...always we are invited to work;...
    LT 1.274 13 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...
    Lov1 2.173 18 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...who was invited to the party...
    Pt1 3.12 14 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real.
    NER 3.270 12 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend;...
    PPh 4.71 5 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    ET1 5.8 10 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday.
    ET2 5.25 9 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET3 5.38 22 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET4 5.47 19 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET6 5.113 16 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET19 5.309 4 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be present and to address the company.
    SS 7.7 20 Dante...was never invited to dinner.
    Clbs 7.237 18 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall...
    Edc1 10.132 8 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    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.
    MoL 10.246 8 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    Plu 10.309 19 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    Plu 10.319 20 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    Plu 10.320 1 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
    LLNE 10.341 6 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen.
    Thor 10.460 20 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come.
    HDC 11.39 6 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    ACiv 11.303 19 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every compromise...invited new demands.
    FRep 11.520 13 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    MLit 12.315 22 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.

invites, v. (19)

    AmS 1.84 13 ...[the scholar] the future invites.
    DSA 1.130 18 [The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe...
    DSA 1.133 7 ...the gift of God to the soul is...a goodness...that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.
    LT 1.283 21 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth...
    YA 1.367 2 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    Prd1 2.237 3 ...frankness invites frankness...
    SwM 4.143 9 It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.
    Ctr 6.133 20 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it...
    Wsp 6.233 3 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences; whilst fear invites them.
    CbW 6.272 8 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    Grts 8.301 19 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all...
    Chr2 10.95 10 The moral element invites man to great enlargements...
    Chr2 10.117 17 [The Sunday] invites to the noblest solitude and the noblest society...
    War 11.169 12 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
    FSLC 11.208 2 Everything invites emancipation.
    Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    FRO1 11.477 20 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites all classes...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    Bost 12.207 22 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm. That is...what the land wants and invites.

inviting, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.92 25 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau, inviting to strangers;...
    Aris 10.55 16 ...the thought has...large leisures and an inviting future.

inviting, v. (11)

    AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now...inviting nations to the harvest.
    DSA 1.132 14 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me to resist evil;...
    SL 2.140 26 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man]. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion.
    UGM 4.18 18 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
    Clbs 7.243 7 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    QO 8.198 13 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame...
    PC 8.205 8 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
    PerF 10.84 26 A man has a rare mathematical talent, inviting him to the beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    CSC 10.373 5 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    War 11.166 20 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves...inviting the attendance only of relations and friends;...
    CL 12.136 12 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.

invocation, n. (1)

    LT 1.283 22 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth...

Invocation of the Wind [Tal (1)

    PI 8.58 3 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...

invocations, n. (2)

    ET13 5.227 22 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];, and, after these invocations, invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
    Milt1 12.268 14 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...

invoke, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.

invoked, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.146 7 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he invoked the assistance of the English Government;...

invokes, v. (3)

    DL 7.113 6 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    Comc 8.161 1 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...coolly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...
    MMEm 10.427 11 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, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes...

invoking, v. (1)

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

involuntarily, adv. (8)

    Hist 2.6 13 ...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
    Comp 2.106 12 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
    OS 2.286 12 That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily but involuntarily.
    OS 2.286 25 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    Mrs1 3.129 17 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    CbW 6.269 9 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others are involuntarily hurtful to us...
    Res 8.141 1 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Schr 10.269 17 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.

involuntary, adj. (12)

    LT 1.283 14 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne, if it were great and involuntary;...
    Tran 1.339 6 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal, and in the involuntary functions of his own body;...
    SR 2.65 5 Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions...
    SR 2.65 6 Every man...knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due.
    PNR 4.84 5 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    PNR 4.84 6 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    CbW 6.256 22 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    SS 7.8 25 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation is involuntary...
    PI 8.75 5 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to fill the mind...
    Dem1 10.23 19 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
    Chr2 10.100 24 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
    MAng1 12.222 10 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

involve, v. (5)

    MR 1.234 20 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections...
    SwM 4.114 11 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    NMW 4.253 25 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy...
    Suc 7.288 11 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit, and some of them involve power of a high kind.
    Milt1 12.269 4 Questions that involve all social and personal rights were hasting to be decided by the sword...

involved, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.88 21 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved...

involved, v. (10)

    PPh 4.48 23 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and affirms the necessary existence of variety, the self-existence of both, as each is involved in the other.
    SwM 4.117 13 ...[Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
    MoL 10.257 4 It is impossible to extricate oneself from the questions in which our age is involved.
    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...
    FSLC 11.181 9 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    EPro 11.316 19 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EdAd 11.390 6 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    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.
    FRep 11.539 8 It is not possible to extricate yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.
    Bost 12.194 16 This [Christian] spirit, of course, involved that of Stoicism, as, in its turn, Stoicism did this.

involves, v. (7)

    Gts 3.159 5 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world], which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    F 6.35 19 Fate involves the melioration.
    Wsp 6.216 22 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    QO 8.189 18 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    Edc1 10.154 12 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    FRep 11.517 24 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties. And look what revolution that attempt involves.
    PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.

involving, v. (1)

    ET5 5.87 27 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

invulnerable, adj. (8)

    Comp 2.107 2 Achilles is not quite invulnerable;...
    Comp 2.118 10 ...when [the wise man's assailants] would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable.
    Pt1 3.42 10 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain, copious, but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence.
    NMW 4.237 8 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon] was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
    PerF 10.78 18 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand, these our immortal, invulnerable guardians.
    SovE 10.197 18 ...the good of the whole, or what I call the right, makes me invulnerable.
    MoL 10.251 4 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    Mem 12.103 1 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

inward, adj. (33)

    Nat 1.9 1 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.24 22 [Beauty in nature] is the herald of inward and eternal beauty...
    Nat 1.25 13 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    MN 1.209 3 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
    LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they do not trust it...
    Lov1 2.170 27 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
    Fdsp 2.191 18 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...are these fine inward irradiations.
    Prd1 2.222 3 [Prudence] is the outmost action of the inward life.
    NER 3.267 1 ...this union [of men] must be inward...
    UGM 4.15 17 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal inward force to guide the great machine!
    GoW 4.266 23 Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    GoW 4.285 6 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
    F 6.25 16 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    Ctr 6.147 18 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Ctr 6.157 1 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
    PI 8.16 2 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.41 25 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    PI 8.55 24 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    SA 8.88 26 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.89 5 We want...a more inward existence to read the history of each other.
    Grts 8.300 2 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.310 14 I mean that there is for you the following of an inward leader...
    Imtl 8.344 10 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    SovE 10.212 25 What armor [innocence] is to protect the good from outward or inward harm...
    Prch 10.225 16 ...[the moral sentiment] is so near and inward and constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in authority.
    LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...
    CSC 10.376 16 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    PLT 12.13 6 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
    PLT 12.46 8 Will is the advance to that...to which the inward magnet ever points...
    MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense, beauty inward and outward... this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    Pray 12.356 9 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct;...
    EurB 12.367 21 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...

inward, adv. (5)

    MN 1.218 5 ...Talent goes from without inward.
    YA 1.371 3 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and thence proceeding inward...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    SwM 4.113 5 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena, or, in other words, withdraws herself inward, she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    Chr2 10.119 9 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    Edc1 10.132 8 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.

inward, n. (1)

    PLT 12.16 5 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature.

inwardly, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.70 25 We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature.
    SL 2.140 13 ...that which I call heaven, and inwardly aspire after, is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
    Elo1 7.92 21 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Grts 8.310 22 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...

inwardness, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 9 The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.

in-working, n. (1)

    Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.

inwrought, v. (1)

    War 11.155 10 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct;...

Io [Aeschylus, The Supplia (1)

    Hist 2.14 5 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...

iodine, n. (5)

    UGM 4.9 18 Justice has already been done to steam...to iodine...
    ShP 4.214 5 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    F 6.44 25 ...the great man...is...of a fibre irritable and delicate, like iodine to light.
    Res 8.137 8 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light;...
    Wom 11.405 13 [Women] are more delicate than men,-delicate as iodine to light...

iodized, v. (1)

    Mem 12.93 22 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.

Iole, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.90 16 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god?
    Chr1 3.90 17 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.

Iona, Saint of, n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 27 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.

Ionian Islands, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 16 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the Ionian Islands, the Pandects of Justinian.

Ionians, n. (1)

    PLT 12.26 7 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.

Ionic, adj. (2)

    ET17 5.293 21 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Edc1 10.146 15 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...

Iphigenia [Johann Wolfgang (2)

    GoW 4.287 14 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not...
    GoW 4.287 15 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.

Ippolito, Cardinal, n. (1)

    Suc 7.291 2 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.

Iranis, n. (2)

    Exp 3.59 9 There is now no longer any right course of action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
    Let 12.398 12 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.

Ireland, British, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 22 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of British Ireland, and British India.

Ireland, Lord Lieutenant of (1)

    ET6 5.102 6 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...

Ireland, n. (12)

    PPh 4.53 7 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Ireland;...
    ET2 5.33 16 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
    ET4 5.52 25 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It excludes Ireland and Scotland and Wales...
    ET4 5.53 17 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less food...
    ET15 5.264 3 [The London Times] declared war against Ireland, and conquered it.
    ET16 5.281 11 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland...
    ET18 5.300 4 England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the [English] colonies.
    Wth 6.105 9 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland.
    Grts 8.317 2 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Grts 8.317 4 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Aris 10.62 20 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland...
    FSLC 11.186 9 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation; England has its Ireland;...

Iris, n. (1)

    PPo 8.256 7 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/

Irish, adj. (17)

    Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    ET1 5.17 21 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET4 5.53 6 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English and not American, no, nor Scotch, nor Irish...
    ET7 5.122 1 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET7 5.122 6 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.
    ET11 5.179 26 'T is an old sneer that the Irish peerage drew their names from playbooks.
    ET13 5.227 5 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET18 5.300 5 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    ET18 5.300 22 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    F 6.16 23 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.
    Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
    Pow 6.78 16 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year.
    Cour 7.258 15 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
    Supl 10.167 14 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian...
    SovE 10.206 2 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    Carl 10.490 26 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something.
    ACiv 11.307 18 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 get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.

Irish, n. (7)

    ET1 5.17 26 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it.
    ET7 5.122 14 ...[Englishmen] hate the Irish, as aimless;...
    ET17 5.295 27 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    Elo1 7.69 4 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    Farm 7.142 22 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...
    FSLC 11.210 19 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton, whether the working out this race by Irish and Germans, none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    WSL 12.344 9 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.

Irishman, n. (2)

    YA 1.390 2 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf...of the Irishman... that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    Trag 12.415 23 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month.

Irishman's, n. (1)

    SS 7.12 24 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as...an Irishman's day's work on the railroad.

Irishwoman, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.68 20 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.

irk, v. (2)

    Aris 10.35 4 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society...irk and sting him...
    MMEm 10.429 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] irk under contact with forms of depravity...

irksome, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.57 12 ...life is no longer irksome...
    Wom 11.419 5 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.

iron, adj. (54)

    Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...
    Nat 1.37 17 Debt...whose iron face the widow, the orphan...fear and hate;... is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    AmS 1.81 17 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...
    YA 1.376 12 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    Hist 2.17 20 There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe...
    SR 2.47 13 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
    SR 2.75 5 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
    Comp 2.107 21 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Exp 3.50 18 Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
    Chr1 3.94 23 Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond?
    Chr1 3.95 9 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    Mrs1 3.131 23 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.
    Pol1 3.212 7 Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
    NER 3.271 4 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity...
    PNR 4.83 9 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the golden, silver, brass and iron temperaments;...
    MoS 4.175 26 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
    F 6.5 11 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf... rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    Pow 6.64 15 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Wth 6.88 2 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    Wth 6.94 2 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    CbW 6.276 23 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    Civ 7.22 2 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Civ 7.24 23 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Art2 7.50 22 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    DL 7.121 3 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band of poverty...
    PI 8.14 18 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    SA 8.91 10 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Res 8.137 2 We are magnets in an iron globe.
    Res 8.142 2 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    QO 8.187 23 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.193 3 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    PC 8.208 4 Who would live in the stone age...or the iron...
    PC 8.231 17 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PC 8.231 19 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose...
    Grts 8.311 5 Labor, iron labor, is for [the scholar].
    Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Aris 10.42 22 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast. Richard can sever the iron bolt with his sword.
    Aris 10.53 27 ...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 iron boundary lines had all faded away;...
    SovE 10.204 5 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...
    SovE 10.206 17 The Orientals believe in Fate. That which shall befall them is written on the iron leaf;...
    MoL 10.251 12 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.
    Schr 10.278 4 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    EzRy 10.389 19 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.
    EWI 11.111 10 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...
    EWI 11.111 11 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...
    FSLC 11.183 26 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility...
    JBS 11.278 9 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave; he saw him beaten with an iron shovel...
    ACiv 11.300 26 Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
    EPro 11.323 6 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf...
    Bost 12.198 22 The religious sentiment gave the iron purpose and arm.
    MLit 12.331 24 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which dissipate by dreadful melody all this iron network of circumstance...
    Let 12.392 21 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.
    Let 12.393 24 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...

iron, n. (64)

    MR 1.238 7 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as iron by rust;...
    YA 1.364 18 Railroad iron is a magician's rod...
    YA 1.365 13 ...the mineral riches are explored; limestone, coal, slate, and iron;...
    Prd1 2.234 21 Iron, if kept at the ironmonger's, will rust;...
    Prd1 2.235 2 Strike, says the smith, the iron is white;...
    Prd1 2.235 8 Iron cannot rust, nor beer sour...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Int 2.325 4 Water dissolves wood and iron and salt;...
    Pt1 3.16 3 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest...of stone and wood and iron.
    Chr1 3.95 4 Is there nothing but rope and iron?
    Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    Pol1 3.197 1 Gold and iron are good/ To buy iron and gold;/...
    Pol1 3.197 2 Gold and iron are good/ To buy iron and gold;/...
    UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire...iron...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.9 18 Justice has already been done to steam, to iron...
    UGM 4.23 7 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...
    PPh 4.66 5 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...iron and brass for husbandmen and artificers.
    SwM 4.106 11 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...an arm of iron... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    NMW 4.228 25 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass, in iron...
    NMW 4.229 21 [Bonaparte] knew the properties of gold and iron...
    NMW 4.230 26 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man of stone and iron...
    NMW 4.231 8 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said, was not at the extremity of my arm, it was immediately connected with my head.
    NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron...
    NMW 4.253 1 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair...would cling to red-hot iron...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET3 5.39 3 [England] has plenty...of salt and of iron.
    ET5 5.92 18 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...
    ET10 5.159 1 Iron and steel are very obedient.
    ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET10 5.164 25 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England]...
    ET10 5.166 25 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    ET11 5.180 8 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the iron of Wales...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    ET14 5.234 24 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat.
    F 6.43 24 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    Pow 6.72 10 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Wth 6.83 21 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ .../ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Wth 6.89 21 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead, quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.276 12 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    CbW 6.276 13 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    CbW 6.276 14 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    Civ 7.19 15 A nation that has no clothing, no iron...we call barbarous.
    Civ 7.28 22 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to...split stone, and roll iron.
    Farm 7.149 9 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite for potash, or salt, or iron...he will indulge them.
    WD 7.158 26 ...the vast production and manifold application of iron is new;...
    WD 7.159 11 Why need I speak of steam...which...can twist beams of iron like candy-braids...
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...wood, iron, stone, vapor, have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant: the iron becomes steel.
    PI 8.61 25 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
    PC 8.232 2 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
    PerF 10.82 15 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables, but experiments on the same iron at white heat.
    PerF 10.88 16 The world stands on ideas, and not on iron or cotton;...
    PerF 10.88 16 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    Supl 10.178 5 ...all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.
    Supl 10.178 7 One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is the skill in the fabric of iron.
    Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...by iron...
    Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron;...
    SovE 10.211 6 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    MoL 10.242 21 The country was full of activity, with its wheat, coal, iron, cotton;...
    MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    PLT 12.18 24 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves wood and stone and iron;...
    PLT 12.35 15 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    Mem 12.98 27 Only so much iron will the loadstone draw;...
    Bost 12.184 17 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?
    ACri 12.283 7 The secondary services of literature...are quite as important in letters as iron is in war.

iron-bound, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.242 18 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    PerF 10.84 22 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.

iron-dealer's, n. (1)

    Carl 10.489 6 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman, such as you would find in any saddler's or iron-dealer's shop...

iron-gray, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 23 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little box under the pulpit...

ironical, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.201 6 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.

ironically, adv. (1)

    ET14 5.247 17 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;-- this not ironically, but in good faith;...

ironmaster, n. (1)

    CbW 6.276 11 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.

iron-masters, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.

ironmonger's, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.234 21 Iron, if kept at the ironmonger's, will rust;...

irons, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.94 21 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
    EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with, in whose filthy hold he sat in irons...
    MAng1 12.227 14 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

irony, n. (3)

    PPh 4.57 19 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance, edged by an irony so subtle that it stings and paralyzes, adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    PPh 4.59 23 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
    CbW 6.253 1 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...

irradiate, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 19 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...

irradiations, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.191 18 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...are these fine inward irradiations.

irrational, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 5 Young men, I warn you...against irrational labor;...

irreclaimable, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.

irreconcilable, adj. (3)

    Con 1.295 19 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    ShP 4.215 1 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    Edc1 10.144 9 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...

irreconcilable, n. (1)

    MN 1.208 24 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth...to reconcile the irreconcilable?

irreconcilableness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 17 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.

irreconcilably, adv. (1)

    Prd1 2.231 6 Poetry and prudence should be coincident. ... But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.

irrecoverable, adj. (1)

    WD 7.173 22 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?

irrecoverably, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.23 21 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men.
    HDC 11.62 5 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken.

irreducibleness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.70 4 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity;...

irrefragable, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.56 5 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis...
    LE 1.161 17 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare, and Milton,-three irrefragable facts.

irregular, adj. (12)

    MR 1.255 19 He who would help himself and others should not be a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue...
    ET3 5.41 16 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three hundred miles;...
    CbW 6.258 24 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.
    Bty 6.299 5 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...
    Grts 8.316 10 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Dem1 10.19 1 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    HDC 11.50 23 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form, though disclosing some irregular virtues, was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    FRep 11.527 27 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public even when irregular and vicious...
    PLT 12.37 7 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and the want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
    Milt1 12.264 23 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring...
    Trag 12.412 24 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catilinarian gait;...
    Trag 12.412 25 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech...

irregularities, n. (2)

    PNR 4.89 20 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    MMEm 10.432 1 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him...with whom all miseries and irregularities are conforming to universal good!

irregularity, n. (2)

    Bty 6.300 9 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Insp 8.290 6 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity...

irrelevant, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.53 20 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.

irreligion, n. (1)

    PPo 8.248 16 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of irreligion.

irreligious, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.107 14 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...

irremediably, adv. (1)

    Con 1.313 23 Is [this manner of living] so irremediably bad?

irrepealable, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 27 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.

irrepressible, adj. (1)

    MR 1.233 13 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find these ways of trade unfit for them...

irreproachable, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.245 27 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...

irreproachably, adv. (1)

    SA 8.88 16 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.

irresistibility, n. (2)

    ET6 5.111 11 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom...
    Prch 10.223 3 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age...needing no voucher, no prophet and no miracle besides their own irresistibility...

irresistible, adj. (35)

    LE 1.180 10 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king, and kaisar, as with irresistible thunderbolts.
    Comp 2.110 5 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
    Prd1 2.229 14 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Exp 3.66 14 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out. Irresistible nature made men such...
    UGM 4.23 15 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...this subtilizer and irresistible upward force...
    ET5 5.77 20 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET14 5.258 16 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    F 6.3 17 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.
    F 6.4 4 ...if there be irresistible dictation, this dictation understands itself.
    Wth 6.115 20 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wsp 6.209 8 By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
    CbW 6.245 4 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    DL 7.103 12 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's...
    Farm 7.146 9 Water...sets its irresistible shoulder to your mills or your ships...
    PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
    SA 8.96 6 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
    PC 8.231 19 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose, to give it irresistible force in one direction.
    PerF 10.72 8 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom...he sails the way these irresistible winds blow.
    PerF 10.80 6 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
    PerF 10.88 11 ...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last.
    Edc1 10.142 6 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit. The bias of mind is sometimes irresistible in that direction.
    SovE 10.188 5 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SlHr 10.438 19 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...
    Thor 10.466 3 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    EPro 11.321 6 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    HCom 11.343 27 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    Wom 11.425 5 All that is spontaneous is irresistible...
    SHC 11.430 10 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    RBur 11.440 19 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible.
    ChiE 11.471 10 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    FRep 11.523 1 [Americans] feel strong and irresistible.
    PLT 12.19 21 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot help it, the irresistible meliorations bear him forward.
    PLT 12.24 14 The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental activity.
    II 12.79 13 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.

irresistibly, adv. (7)

    MoS 4.186 3 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    Bhr 6.191 15 ...What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
    SS 7.9 23 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Art2 7.53 25 ...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...
    Clbs 7.233 23 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    Schr 10.262 5 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the face of Nature remains irresistibly alluring.
    FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...

irrespective, adj. (2)

    UGM 4.23 14 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons...
    QO 8.202 22 All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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