Jabber to Joyfully

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

jabber, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.115 4 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical and treat such a visitant with the jabber and suspicion of the streets, argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.

Jack and his Beanstalk, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...Jack and his Beanstalk...

Jack, n. (1)

    ET2 5.30 24 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.

jackal, n. (3)

    SwM 4.145 15 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    ET4 5.61 8 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    LLNE 10.350 8 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...

jacket, n. (5)

    LT 1.284 17 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before...
    Con 1.322 1 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not take off the strait jacket from dangerous persons.
    SS 7.5 6 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket...
    Boks 7.192 7 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Supl 10.165 10 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...

Jacket, Red, n. (2)

    WD 7.178 12 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    OA 7.328 14 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

jack-knife, n. (2)

    Thor 10.464 21 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;... my jack-knife will cut nothing else;...
    Thor 10.469 23 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds, microscope, jack-knife and twine.

jack-knives, n. (1)

    WD 7.168 27 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch, somewhat hacked by jack-knives...

Jackson, Andrew, n. (5)

    Pow 6.63 18 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    EzRy 10.389 24 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    EzRy 10.390 1 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
    FRep 11.521 16 General Jackson was a man of will...
    WSL 12.339 4 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...

Jackson, Charles T., n. (1)

    CW 12.177 5 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines;...

Jackson's, Charles T., n. (1)

    Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...

jackstraws, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 12 You play with jackstraws, balls...estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.

Jacob, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.202 14 Jacob has no flocks or herds...and pays no tax to the officer.
    Pol1 3.202 16 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.202 18 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    Pol1 3.202 25 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, (3)

    Tran 1.336 19 Of this fine incident, Jacobi...makes use...
    Tran 1.336 21 Jacobi...remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    Bhr 6.191 12 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.

Jacobin, n. (2)

    NMW 4.241 24 [Napoleon] knew, as well as any Jacobin in France, how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    War 11.172 21 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.

Jacobin's, n. (1)

    UGM 4.27 15 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.

Jacobson, William, n. (1)

    ET12 5.202 17 My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.

jaculating, adj. (1)

    F 6.38 25 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin,- this reaching, radiating, jaculating fellow?

jaculator, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.64 13 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...

jade, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...

jaded, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 25 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.

jail, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.255 20 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.

Jail, Charlestown, West Vi (1)

    JBB 11.270 11 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...

jail, n. (11)

    LE 1.161 23 ...in spite of the...jail, have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    MR 1.252 12 We make, by our distrust, the thief...and by our court and jail we keep him so.
    SR 2.49 9 ...the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness.
    Pol1 3.221 1 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.
    NER 3.284 25 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we go to jail;...
    ET15 5.269 21 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England...
    Wth 6.103 15 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Thor 10.458 9 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    EWI 11.130 12 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    War 11.162 13 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    JBS 11.276 16 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/

jailer, n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 23 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.

jails, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.243 9 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And head-winds right for royal sails./
    SwM 4.138 23 ...man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.
    ET4 5.64 17 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...

jail-yard, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 9 ...[these stimulants] help [a man] to escape the custody...of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.

jakes, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.261 6 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.

Jamaica, n. (7)

    EWI 11.101 19 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.117 17 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
    EWI 11.119 25 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.120 14 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
    EWI 11.121 1 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...
    EWI 11.121 17 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    EWI 11.144 10 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

Jamblichus, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.13 17 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    ET11 5.179 22 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus...
    Boks 7.202 16 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists...Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus.
    Boks 7.202 16 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior to Plato in time, not in genius.
    Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Ammonius, Jamblichus...

Jamblichus's, n. (1)

    Boks 7.203 18 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...

James, Henry, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.121 22 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.

James I, of England, n. (6)

    OS 2.291 24 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    ShP 4.202 10 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James...
    ET3 5.42 6 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET5 5.79 4 Sir Kenelm Digby, a courtier of Charles and James...was a model Englishman in his day.
    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.
    Bost 12.189 6 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

James II, of England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 15 ...was [Stonehenge] a Roman work, as Inigo Jones explained to King James;...

James, n. (1)

    YA 1.391 27 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...

James River, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.372 26 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the James River...

Jameses, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 9 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises were painted sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].

Jameson, Anna, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 5 It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.

Jami, n. (2)

    PPo 8.237 9 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.259 1 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./

jamming, v. (1)

    Aris 10.56 20 Man should emancipate man. He does so, not by jamming him, but by distancing him.

Jamschid [Firdusi, Shah Na (1)

    PPo 8.242 2 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons...

Jamschid, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 14 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon.

Jane Eyre [Charlotte Bront (1)

    Boks 7.215 18 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central question was answered in some sort?

Janeiro, Rio de, Brazil, n. (1)

    ET17 5.295 13 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the world for a great capital city.

jangle, n. (5)

    Exp 3.62 5 I accept the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies.
    Exp 3.78 22 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    Chr1 3.112 25 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle...
    Insp 8.286 15 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and...to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
    EdAd 11.392 11 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

janitor, n. (2)

    ET12 5.212 22 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    Edc1 10.138 19 I like...boys...quite unsuspected, coming in as naturally as the janitor...

Januarius's, St., n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 19 ...at Naples [young Englishmen] put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic;...

January, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.17 21 Not less excellent...was the charm...of a January sunset.
    LE 1.158 25 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...its sparkling January heaven.

January, n. (10)

    ET13 5.218 15 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
    OA 7.318 11 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
    EzRy 10.384 12 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    GSt 10.504 6 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860...is a chapter well worth reading...
    HDC 11.60 19 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.68 6 On the 24th January, 1774, in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the... endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.72 8 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men.
    SMC 11.373 23 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...
    RBur 11.439 14 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    CL 12.150 15 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them;...

Janus-faced, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.214 20 A friend is Janus-faced;...

japan, n. (1)

    ET6 5.111 25 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. But this japan costs them dear.

Japan, n. (6)

    Bhr 6.174 26 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.
    Boks 7.219 23 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo.
    Suc 7.283 14 We interfere...at Canton and in Japan;...
    Res 8.142 19 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce; the like in Japan...
    EWI 11.123 2 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.
    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, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...

Japanese, adj. (1)

    PC 8.215 13 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.

Japanese, n. (1)

    Civ 7.19 23 The Chinese and Japanese...is different from the man of Madrid...

Japhet, n. (1)

    PPo 8.235 2 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./

jar, n. (4)

    Art1 2.368 18 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the electric jar...
    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    Wth 6.126 8 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
    Elo1 7.63 5 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.

Jardin des Plantes, Paris, (1)

    PLT 12.22 13 If we go through...the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, or any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

jarring, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.165 27 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...

jars, n. (3)

    F 6.10 1 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...
    Farm 7.135 6 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
    MMEm 10.423 6 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.

jasmines, n. (1)

    PPo 8.243 3 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

Jason, n. (1)

    ET16 5.282 20 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass...

jasper, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 18 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with jasper and sardonyx...

javelins, n. (1)

    PPo 8.259 4 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./

jaw, n. (4)

    SwM 4.108 9 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw...
    SwM 4.108 10 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw, the feet the lower jaw...
    F 6.8 7 ...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.15 7 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the ponderous, rock-like jaw;...

jawing, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.75 8 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than...the vituperative style well described in the street-word jawing.

jaws, n. (3)

    MR 1.240 15 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    Edc1 10.133 26 A treatise on education...affects us with a slight paralysis and a certain yawning of the jaws.
    Mem 12.97 21 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

jays, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.114 7 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was the companion...of jays and foxes...

jealous, adj. (12)

    ShP 4.189 21 The Genius of our life is jealous of individuals...
    ET1 5.6 6 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    ET5 5.80 1 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association...
    Wth 6.114 16 Art is a jealous mistress...
    Bty 6.284 14 Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory...
    Dem1 10.4 20 Dreams are jealous of being remembered;...
    Edc1 10.137 8 ...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.
    Thor 10.481 26 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well, was so happy in her solitude, that he became very jealous of cities...
    HDC 11.80 15 [The country towns] were jealous lest the General Court should pay itself too liberally...
    PLT 12.61 4 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.
    Bost 12.209 14 ...[Boston] is very jealous of any superiority in these, its natural instinct and privilege.
    Milt1 12.254 8 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.

jealousies, n. (2)

    QO 8.190 3 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they sink their jealousies in God's love...
    ALin 11.334 18 In the midst of fears and jealousies...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.

jealously, adv. (1)

    SHC 11.430 16 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...

jealousy, n. (14)

    LE 1.159 23 If any person have...less jealousy to guard his integrity, shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    Con 1.305 21 ...among the lovers of the new I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest...
    Nat2 3.192 17 It is an odd jealousy, but the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    SwM 4.129 21 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.130 24 ...after his fiftieth year, [Swedenborg] falls into jealousy of his intellect;...
    ET11 5.187 21 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    Elo1 7.80 17 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    SA 8.90 20 The delight in good company...doubles the value of life. It is this that justifies to each the jealousy with which the doors are kept.
    FSLC 11.183 27 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility, as the jealousy of liberty.
    FSLC 11.184 12 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    TPar 11.289 17 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.
    Scot 11.467 2 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him...from...sham modesty or jealousy.
    CInt 12.124 27 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    MAng1 12.239 2 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.

Jeanne [George Sand], n. (1)

    Boks 7.214 13 ...Jeanne and Consuelo...are great steps from the novel of one termination...

jeer, v. (1)

    War 11.165 8 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea; though he alone of all men has that thought, and they all jeer,-it will build ships;...

jeering, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 24 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...least of all of scoffing and profligate jeering at all that is stable and good.

Jefferson, Thomas, n. (13)

    UGM 4.19 18 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...
    Pow 6.63 18 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Ctr 6.161 17 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    OA 7.323 1 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams...
    OA 7.333 16 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age, General Washington was about fifty-eight, and I was about fifty-eight, and Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Madison, and Mr. Monroe.
    Aris 10.51 23 To a right aristocracy...to...Mirabeau, Jefferson, O'Connell... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    EWI 11.137 3 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in this country, all recorded their votes.
    FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLC 11.204 18 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
    FSLC 11.204 19 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
    FSLC 11.204 20 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain. A present Adams and Jefferson he would denounce.
    FSLN 11.227 3 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
    FRep 11.537 10 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab, nor was Martin Luther...nor Thomas Jefferson...

Jeffrey, Francis, n. (5)

    ET1 5.3 21 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review,--to Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Hallam...
    ET17 5.294 4 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance of DeQuincey, of Lord Jeffrey...
    ET17 5.294 24 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English...
    Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Scot 11.467 23 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...

Jeffreys [Jeffries], George (1)

    FSLN 11.225 21 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.

Jeffreys, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 11 The Cannings and Jeffreys of the capital, the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

Jehovah, n. (2)

    DSA 1.129 11 The understanding...said...This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
    MMEm 10.402 27 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?

jejune, adj. (1)

    SL 2.138 7 We pass in the world...for erudition and piety, and we are all the time jejune babes.

Jelaleddin, n. (2)

    PPo 8.236 3 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    PPo 8.237 9 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...

jelly, n. (2)

    MR 1.254 22 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its... gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    ET4 5.50 11 The low organizations are simplest; a mere mouth, a jelly, or a straight worm.

Jemin, Ibn, n. (1)

    PPo 8.258 19 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./

Jena, Germany, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 9 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...

Jenckes, Hon. Mr., n. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.

Jennison, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?

Jenny, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.237 5 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will fatten Jenny.

jeopardize, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.165 8 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.

jeopardizes, v. (1)

    YA 1.388 19 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist...what jeopardizes any of these is damnable.

jeopardous, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.155 2 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.

Jeremiad, n. (1)

    Let 12.399 21 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

Jeremiah [Jeremy], n. (1)

    SR 2.67 24 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what...Jeremiah...

Jeremy [Jeremiah], n. (2)

    SR 2.67 24 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what...Jeremiah...
    Wsp 6.203 23 No Isaiah or Jeremy has arrived.

jerkin, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 7 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

Jerome, St., Communion of [ (1)

    Exp 3.62 27 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

Jerome, St., n. (1)

    Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.

Jerrold, Douglas William, n (2)

    ET15 5.271 17 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England--as in Punch, so in the humorists, Jerrold, Dickens, Thackeray, Hood--have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET19 5.309 17 Mr. Jerrold, who had been announced [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], did not appear.

Jersey, New, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 4 John Woolman of New Jersey, whilst yet an apprentice, was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.

Jerseys, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.258 1 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...

Jerusalem, New, Church, n. (1)

    OS 2.282 15 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

Jerusalem, New, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.244 21 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

Jerusalem, Palestine, n. (6)

    MR 1.251 24 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    LT 1.274 8 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
    ET3 5.40 19 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal. The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre.
    Wsp 6.203 1 ...whether your community is made in Jerusalem or in California...it coheres in a perfect ball.
    LS 11.7 12 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.9 6 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.

jest, n. (12)

    Hsm1. 2.252 7 [Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life.
    SwM 4.94 26 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    ShP 4.218 1 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    Comc 8.155 1 The glory, jest and riddle of the world. Pope.
    Comc 8.163 16 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    Comc 8.166 25 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
    Comc 8.169 6 The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the jest.
    QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest...
    Dem1 10.11 15 The jest and byword to an intelligent ear extends its meaning to the soul and to all time.
    HDC 11.35 5 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...
    SMC 11.359 8 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott] as too kind for a captain...
    FRO2 11.487 10 ...every pregnant jest, travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

jest, v. (4)

    PI 8.3 19 ...the universe does not jest with us...
    Comc 8.157 6 ...the lower nature does not jest...
    Comc 8.163 19 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak, but their philosophy even whilst they are silent or jest merrily;...
    Supl 10.175 21 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us.

jests, n. (3)

    PPh 4.59 24 [Plato's] illustrations are poetry and his jests illustrations.
    Comc 8.164 1 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    ALin 11.333 13 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...

jests, v. (1)

    Nat 1.48 14 God never jests with us...

Jesuit, Barcena the, n. (1)

    Grts 8.313 15 ...Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.

Jesuit, n. (1)

    ET4 5.69 27 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.

Jesuits, n. (2)

    MR 1.228 16 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
    Pow 6.66 2 The communities hitherto founded by socialists,--the Jesuits... are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

Jesus Christ [Michelangelo] (1)

    MAng1 12.229 23 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ;...

Jesus Christ, n. (129)

    Nat 1.22 8 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
    Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus, have drawn deeply from this source [of nature].
    Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...
    Nat 1.73 3 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the history of Jesus Christ...
    DSA 1.126 20 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    DSA 1.128 19 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.
    DSA 1.130 17 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    DSA 1.131 2 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...
    DSA 1.132 16 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me...to Be. And thus...Jesus serves us...
    DSA 1.132 19 A true conversion, a true Christ, is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
    DSA 1.133 10 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    DSA 1.133 23 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...
    DSA 1.134 2 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    DSA 1.136 2 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
    DSA 1.136 3 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    DSA 1.142 19 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...
    DSA 1.144 14 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    Tran 1.335 14 Jesus acted so, because he thought so.
    Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
    Hist 2.30 20 Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.
    Hist 2.31 13 When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Socrates and Shakspeare were not.
    Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Advent of Christ...
    SR 2.58 1 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Jesus...
    SR 2.61 12 Christ is born...
    SR 2.69 23 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
    Comp 2.124 13 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul...
    OS 2.273 13 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    OS 2.283 17 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrogatories.
    OS 2.283 22 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    OS 2.287 20 Jesus speaks always from within...
    OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door, as Jesus said.
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
    Cir 2.309 27 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
    Int 2.343 15 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Art1 2.362 13 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise...
    Exp 3.73 2 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Jesus and the moderns by love;...
    Exp 3.76 22 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Nat2 3.188 3 ...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.
    NR 3.227 14 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus...such as we have made.
    NR 3.239 19 Jesus would absorb the race;...
    NR 3.244 10 Jesus is not dead;...
    UGM 4.27 12 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    SwM 4.94 17 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].
    SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
    ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ET1 5.11 12 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.13 11 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    F 6.6 15 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...
    F 6.11 8 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.
    Wsp 6.205 24 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.
    Wsp 6.209 11 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Civ 7.33 4 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    WD 7.176 5 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn...
    Clbs 7.235 27 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates.
    Suc 7.307 12 'T is presumed...there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus...
    PI 8.14 8 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    Imtl 8.347 22 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    Imtl 8.348 1 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Chr2 10.97 14 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
    Chr2 10.109 7 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Chr2 10.110 20 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...
    Chr2 10.110 23 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents, who only wear and misrepresent the name of Christ.
    Chr2 10.114 26 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment], of course, the history of Jesus...
    Chr2 10.115 6 Jesus has immense claims on the gratitude of mankind...
    SovE 10.200 20 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
    Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...
    LLNE 10.353 16 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law, like that of Plato, and of Christ.
    MMEm 10.402 27 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    MMEm 10.427 5 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    LS 11.4 26 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
    LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 26 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.
    LS 11.6 11 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus.
    LS 11.7 1 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover].
    LS 11.7 17 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
    LS 11.7 27 Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus, you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.9 2 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
    LS 11.9 20 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.11 6 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    LS 11.11 9 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...
    LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.12 12 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest, but never intended by Jesus to be the foundation of a perpetual institution.
    LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.12 22 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ...
    LS 11.12 25 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...
    LS 11.15 2 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LS 11.15 9 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples, during the life and after the ascension of Christ, to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    LS 11.15 23 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    LS 11.16 10 We know...how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge [the primitive Church's] views.
    LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it;...
    LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    LS 11.17 18 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.17 21 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority. It is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ.
    LS 11.17 22 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.
    LS 11.17 24 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...
    LS 11.18 1 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
    LS 11.18 16 ...is not Jesus called in Scripture the Mediator?
    LS 11.18 21 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...
    LS 11.19 11 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    LS 11.19 18 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me.
    LS 11.19 20 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    LS 11.20 25 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
    LS 11.22 13 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.34 7 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...
    HDC 11.51 26 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?
    HDC 11.66 27 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    HDC 11.67 4 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
    EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    FSLN 11.234 12 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.
    FSLN 11.234 24 To interpret Christ it needs Christ in the heart.
    ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    FRO1 11.480 13 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
    FRO2 11.486 19 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    FRO2 11.488 23 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    FRO2 11.490 27 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who do not wonder that there was a Christ...
    FRO2 11.491 3 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.
    CPL 11.501 20 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter...
    MAng1 12.221 15 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.229 2 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
    MAng1 12.229 27 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
    ACri 12.283 16 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters, the new dispensation by Jesus, or by Angels;...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
    Pray 12.351 1 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.

Jesus Christ's, n. (3)

    DSA 1.131 22 ...you must subordinate your nature to Christ's nature;...
    DSA 1.144 19 The true Christianity, - a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man, - is lost.
    Hist 2.2 4 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain./

jet, n. (3)

    LE 1.183 13 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a jet of luminous thought...
    Art1 2.358 13 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul, a jet of pure light...
    F 6.32 1 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.

jets, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.193 13 What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?
    ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and action with fine jets of mead.
    EPro 11.315 4 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs...

Jew, n. (9)

    ET4 5.48 1 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew...
    F 6.16 13 We follow the step of the Jew...
    F 6.16 15 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    F 6.35 13 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
    Dem1 10.14 25 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
    Dem1 10.15 1 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew.
    Dem1 10.15 7 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.
    LS 11.7 2 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover].
    FRO2 11.489 26 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men, whether Jew or Indian, or Greek or Persian, only for friendship...

Jew, Wandering, n. (4)

    Boks 7.216 26 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...
    QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Wandering Jew...
    Imtl 8.339 16 The fable of the Wandering Jew is agreeable to men, because they want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
    SHC 11.436 13 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?

Jewdom, n. (1)

    Carl 10.489 23 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom...

jewel, n. (8)

    NER 3.263 6 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? This is a jewel amidst the rags of a beggar.
    ShP 4.196 19 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    PI 8.54 15 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...
    QO 8.194 11 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before,-whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.
    Aris 10.60 22 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested.
    PerF 10.78 5 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience and brings up every lost jewel;...
    Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins, a jewel...constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    EWI 11.123 18 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls.

jewel-case, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 18 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom? I cry you mercy, good shoe-box! I did not know you were a jewel-case.

jeweller, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.35 1 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a jeweller polishing a gem.

jewellers, n. (2)

    FRep 11.512 6 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune. The jewellers imitated the revived models in silver and gold.
    PLT 12.57 15 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...

jewelry, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 22 [The English] are...not good in jewelry or mosaics...

jewels, n. (11)

    Gts 3.161 10 Rings and other jewels are not gifts...
    MoS 4.164 20 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.
    ET5 5.83 17 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, [the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    WD 7.175 24 'T is the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.
    Clbs 7.228 17 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    SA 8.106 18 Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels.
    PPo 8.260 16 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    PPo 8.261 25 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PLT 12.32 27 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it...
    PLT 12.57 15 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
    WSL 12.339 25 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose...the jewels of his ring.

Jewish, adj. (11)

    PPh 4.44 19 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    ET10 5.153 15 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    ET13 5.224 14 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history...
    ET18 5.305 14 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic emancipation...
    PPo 8.240 9 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    MoL 10.244 19 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    LS 11.7 9 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation.
    LS 11.13 5 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...
    LS 11.16 9 We know how inveterately [the primitive Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...
    LS 11.22 19 The Jewish was a religion of forms;...
    EdAd 11.392 7 The Jewish cultus is declining;...

Jews, n. (17)

    PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.
    ET1 5.11 12 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET3 5.40 19 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal. The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre.
    ET4 5.64 5 The Jews have been the favorite victims [in England] of royal and popular persecution.
    ET4 5.64 7 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...
    ET13 5.224 23 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
    SA 8.104 4 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as the Jews, the Greeks...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    Chr2 10.97 8 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    EzRy 10.384 5 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews...
    LS 11.8 26 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
    LS 11.9 7 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
    LS 11.9 15 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    LS 11.10 18 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
    LS 11.10 21 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.12 25 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...
    LS 11.13 17 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...
    FRO2 11.490 11 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews.

jewsharp, adj. (1)

    PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune.

jews-harp, n. (1)

    SL 2.143 3 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut, and Eulenstein from a jews-harp...

jigs, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...dance jigs...

jilt, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.182 7 The flowers jilt us...

Jimenez de Cisneros [Ximene (1)

    Boks 7.206 11 Ximenes, Columbus...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.

Jimenez [Ximenes] de Cisner (1)

    Elo1 7.82 16 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, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...

jingle, n. (1)

    PI 8.40 9 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.

jingle, v. (1)

    ET14 5.256 3 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!

jingles, n. (1)

    NR 3.234 19 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.

jingling, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.228 9 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.

Joan, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 2 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service...

Job, Book of, n. (1)

    Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...

job, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.250 12 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness... nor job...

jobber, n. (1)

    F 6.10 22 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as expect...a chemical discovery from that jobber.

jobs, n. (1)

    Civ 7.29 18 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.

job-work, n. (1)

    Wth 6.112 18 The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work;...

Jock, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.131 20 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...

jockey, n. (1)

    ET13 5.230 1 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...the Gypsy jockey squinted worst of all.

Jockey of Norfolk, n. (1)

    ET11 5.178 18 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

jockeys, n. (2)

    ET11 5.194 4 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    Bhr 6.178 2 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.

jocose, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.7 27 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose.

jocosely, adv. (1)

    Plu 10.310 2 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor...

jocular, adj. (2)

    ALin 11.332 25 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    Milt1 12.276 19 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.

Joel's, Uncle, n. (1)

    Supl 10.168 13 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...

John Anderson my jo's, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

John Baptist, n. (1)

    TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...Latimer, and John Baptist, to speak tart truth...

John Baptists, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men, John Baptists...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.

John Brown [Edmund Clarenc (1)

    JBB 11.266 24 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

John, I:7, n. (1)

    SovE 10.201 5 ...up comes a man with a text of I John v. 7...which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.

John, King, of England, n. (1)

    CbW 6.253 19 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.

John, n. (7)

    SR 2.62 25 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    OS 2.274 25 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
    NR 3.240 7 If John was perfect, why are you and I alive?
    WD 7.178 7 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    WD 7.178 8 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    SovE 10.202 23 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    CL 12.165 8 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

John of Bologna, n. (1)

    ET1 5.7 26 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo;...

John of Meung [Meun], n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 2 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...

John, Sir, n. (1)

    ET7 5.125 3 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...

John Smith and Co., n. (1)

    MR 1.237 10 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque in favor of John Smith and Co. traders, get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...

John, St., n. (18)

    Prd1 2.239 2 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Pt1 3.31 19 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse, the ruin of the world through evil...
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
    MoS 4.160 17 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
    Ctr 6.161 11 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    DL 7.116 7 What kind of a house was kept by Paul and John...
    Suc 7.296 12 We should know how to praise...Saint John, without impoverishing us.
    PI 8.14 7 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    Carl 10.492 20 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 19 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John, although other occurrences of the same evening are related, this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    LS 11.5 23 Two of the Evangelists, namely, Matthew and John, were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.5 27 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    LS 11.8 14 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.10 14 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.11 18 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John...
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.

John the Baptist, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.345 8 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...

John vi. 27-60. (1)

    LS 11.10 17 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already (John vi. 27-60).

John's, St., College, Camb (1)

    CPL 11.498 4 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, sometime fellow of Saint John's College in Cambridge, England, testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

Johnson, Edward, n. (2)

    HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
    HDC 11.33 24 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had himself heard from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.

Johnson, Life of [James Bo (1)

    Boks 7.208 19 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Boswell's Life of Johnson;...

Johnson, Mr., n. (1)

    YA 1.386 9 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...put up his sign-board...Mr. Johnson, Working king.

Johnson, Samuel, n. (29)

    AmS 1.112 9 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    Prd1 2.228 11 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    ET5 5.80 19 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET14 5.246 4 ...better than Johnson [Hallam] appreciates Milton.
    Pow 6.76 27 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    CbW 6.263 16 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.
    Elo1 7.88 15 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Samuel Johnson...
    DL 7.116 8 What kind of a house was kept...by Samuel Johnson...
    Boks 7.194 23 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Boks 7.196 8 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...
    Boks 7.209 1 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Samuel Johnson;...
    Clbs 7.236 11 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind...
    Clbs 7.236 19 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.
    Clbs 7.244 2 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith...
    Elo2 8.125 24 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
    QO 8.195 17 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Dr. Johnson...or other historian of literature.
    Grts 8.303 23 There is something...in Samuel Johnson that needs no protection.
    MoL 10.251 18 Learn of Samuel Johnson...that it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    Carl 10.493 27 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    CPL 11.503 27 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    Mem 12.105 5 The memory of all men is robust on the subject...of an insult inflicted on them. They can remember, as Johnson said, who kicked them last.
    CL 12.154 20 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
    CL 12.158 19 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk...
    CL 12.158 20 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk, and it is certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of the few.
    Milt1 12.252 16 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.255 12 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
    Milt1 12.267 20 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    ACri 12.297 11 There's more character than intellect in every sentence - herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
    WSL 12.338 26 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere and, like those of Johnson and Coleridge, are easily separable from the man.

Johnsons, n. (1)

    Boks 7.192 26 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear,--the...Mirandolas, Bayles, Johnsons...

Johnson's, Samuel, n. (3)

    ET11 5.196 1 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
    ET14 5.245 5 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...
    Civ 7.23 12 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.

join, v. (30)

    AmS 1.85 18 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature;...
    Comp 2.104 6 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Gts 3.165 14 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
    NR 3.247 7 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    NER 3.267 7 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
    PPh 4.54 3 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...
    SwM 4.129 3 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought, and part, as though we parted not, to join another thought in other fellowships of joy.
    GoW 4.289 15 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET16 5.282 24 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    Wsp 6.239 4 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle.
    Bty 6.301 5 If a man...can join oceans by canals...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft.
    Clbs 7.247 14 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    OA 7.332 15 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    Elo2 8.122 12 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Res 8.144 3 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Aris 10.63 9 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw?
    MMEm 10.419 17 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    HDC 11.31 26 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    War 11.166 7 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join...
    FSLC 11.208 7 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.244 19 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it.
    FSLN 11.244 20 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it.
    FSLN 11.244 21 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it.
    Scot 11.463 8 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday, which we gladly join with Scotland...to keep, [Scott] is not less entitled...
    CPL 11.504 19 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    FRep 11.515 17 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat;...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.
    FRep 11.524 23 These [the good and wise] we just join to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age maintain./
    Trag 12.414 6 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...

joined, v. (20)

    Nat 1.49 17 In [the senses' and the unrenewed understanding's] view man and nature are indissolubly joined.
    Con 1.297 24 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
    Fdsp 2.205 25 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    Exp 3.66 24 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
    ET3 5.41 12 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...
    F 6.28 15 ...we can see that with the perception of truth is joined the desire that it shall prevail;...
    Civ 7.17 24 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...
    WD 7.167 26 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own.
    WD 7.181 16 The days at Belleisle were all different, and only joined by a perfect love of the same object.
    PC 8.234 7 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    LLNE 10.360 12 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    Thor 10.451 14 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    HDC 11.32 3 With [Bulkeley's party] joined Mr. Simon Willard, a merchant from Kent in England.
    HDC 11.45 2 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
    HDC 11.50 24 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form...was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    HDC 11.75 1 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers...
    HDC 11.81 12 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion, and joined the authorities in putting it down.
    JBB 11.268 14 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
    Mem 12.91 24 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    CL 12.161 13 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.

joiner, n. (4)

    Con 1.312 12 The king on the throne governs for thee...the joiner hammers...
    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got a good joiner, a good cook...and so on.
    FSLN 11.222 24 [Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...

joiners, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.360 5 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm],- shoemakers, joiners, sempstresses.

joining, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...weaving, joining, masonry...

joining, v. (3)

    ET11 5.173 18 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy. Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect in every part.
    Bty 6.290 22 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    PerF 10.88 2 Every new asserter of the right surprises us, like a man joining the church...

joins, v. (9)

    NR 3.228 6 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    Pow 6.54 8 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    PI 8.29 7 Fancy joins by accidental resemblance...
    Aris 10.43 9 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...
    Aris 10.63 13 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder, and the student recoils,-and joins the rich.
    PerF 10.77 18 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    JBB 11.268 15 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    JBB 11.270 19 ...a common feeling joins the people of Massachusetts with [John Brown].
    PLT 12.30 21 When, moved by love, a man...joins with his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

joint, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.83 5 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work...
    Con 1.323 26 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Pol1 3.206 26 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs...

joint, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 16 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

joints, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 5 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its joints observed...

joint-stock, adj. (3)

    YA 1.383 3 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    SR 2.49 27 Society is a joint-stock company...
    Art1 2.368 15 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the joint-stock company;...

joke, n. (17)

    MR 1.246 26 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel joke of their lives...
    Prd1 2.224 10 [The spurious prudence, making the senses final] is nature's joke, and therefore literature's.
    PPh 4.71 4 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...
    F 6.18 26 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...
    Comc 8.159 27 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Comc 8.160 11 [The disparity between the rule and the fact] is the radical joke of life...
    Comc 8.161 11 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke.
    Comc 8.161 20 We have no deeper interest than...that we should be made aware by joke and by stroke of any lie we entertain.
    Comc 8.164 23 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion. This is the joke of jokes.
    Comc 8.169 4 If the man is not ashamed of his poverty, there is no joke.
    Comc 8.174 5 The same scourge whips the joker and the enjoyer of the joke.
    QO 8.197 14 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    LLNE 10.342 5 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke.
    FSLC 11.190 7 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    Wom 11.417 4 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes, in whose comedies I confess my dulness to find good joke, to Rabelais...
    Wom 11.417 9 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to charge women with termperament;...
    Wom 11.417 22 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect. The good easy world took the joke which it liked.

joke, v. (2)

    Comc 8.159 19 Reason does not joke...
    Comc 8.159 22 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...these do not joke...

joker, n. (2)

    Comc 8.157 2 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species, which is the only joker in Nature.
    Comc 8.174 5 The same scourge whips the joker and the enjoyer of the joke.

jokes, n. (14)

    Chr1 3.115 16 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time, and suspend my gloom and my folly and jokes.
    NR 3.235 17 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time with jokes...
    DL 7.124 22 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The same jokes pleased, the same straws tickled;...
    SA 8.97 25 ...beware of jokes;...
    Comc 8.157 18 The essence of all jokes...seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...
    Comc 8.159 25 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Comc 8.164 23 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion. This is the joke of jokes.
    Comc 8.171 15 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
    Dem1 10.4 15 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
    Chr2 10.104 24 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Chr2 10.110 14 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...
    PLT 12.7 22 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PPr 12.385 5 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet these dire jokes...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
    PPr 12.391 11 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

jolly, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.153 22 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air...
    Clbs 7.232 19 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly...

Jonas, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 17 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 Edgar and Jonas and Almira...

Jonathanization, n. (1)

    Bost 12.200 11 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions, come and see the Jonathanization of John.

Jones, Inigo, n. (3)

    ET10 5.163 17 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET16 5.281 15 ...was [Stonehenge] a Roman work, as Inigo Jones explained to King James;...
    ET16 5.285 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...

Jones, John, n. (2)

    HDC 11.32 11 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.55 26 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...

Jones, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 16 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Jones, Brown, Buttrick, Brooks...

Jonson, Ben, n. (22)

    MoS 4.163 24 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ShP 4.202 26 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ShP 4.203 20 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Jonson, Beaumont...
    ET14 5.237 15 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
    Ctr 6.161 24 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Bty 6.300 25 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Boks 7.207 6 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Jonson...
    Boks 7.207 19 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Clbs 7.243 21 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare, Ben Jonson...
    Clbs 7.243 24 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
    Clbs 7.248 15 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact...
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PI 8.38 21 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.44 18 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    PI 8.53 10 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
    PPo 8.252 13 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son,- Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry;...
    Insp 8.295 13 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton...
    Shak1 11.452 15 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.
    WSL 12.341 13 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    EurB 12.371 15 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
    EurB 12.371 15 Jonson is rude, and only on rare occasions gay.

Jonson's, Ben, n. (8)

    ET11 5.190 4 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques... record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.243 2 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    PI 8.55 26 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs...
    PPo 8.252 11 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son...
    Plu 10.300 17 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
    MLit 12.330 16 ...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's, [Wilhelm Meister] is rammed with life.
    EurB 12.371 17 ...Jonson's beauty is more grateful than Tennyson's.
    EurB 12.371 19 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's...

jo's, John Anderson my, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

Joseph, n. (1)

    SR 2.57 15 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot...

Josephine, Empress of the F (2)

    NMW 4.250 13 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    NMW 4.252 8 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.

Josephine, of France, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 20 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police, whose omniscience made it believed that the Empress Josephine must be in his pay.

Joshua, n. (1)

    SovE 10.202 23 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?

jot, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.200 26 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...
    MoS 4.182 26 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief, without losing a jot of strength.
    Ctr 6.141 17 ...we must not omit any jot of our system...
    Aris 10.58 24 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...bates no jot of heart or hope...

Jotun, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.237 16 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...
    Clbs 7.238 1 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun...etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily. Then it is his turn to interrogate, and he is answered well for a time by the Jotun.

Jotuns, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.237 13 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.

Journal, Court, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 24 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in...any Court Journal...

Journal, Daily and Yearly [ (1)

    GoW 4.287 1 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal, his Italian Travels... have the same interest.

Journal, Extracts from my [ (1)

    Boks 7.205 15 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Extracts from my Journal...

Journal [John Sterling], n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 11 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

journal, n. (28)

    Nat 1.39 16 Open any recent journal of science...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    YA 1.388 25 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit...the secret of heroism?
    NR 3.232 19 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    GoW 4.282 8 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form;...
    ET15 5.262 24 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    ET15 5.263 10 What you read in the morning in that journal [London Times], you shall hear in the evening in all society.
    ET15 5.264 26 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
    ET15 5.267 4 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe...
    ET15 5.268 19 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET15 5.271 27 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
    ET15 5.272 17 ...no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    ET17 5.292 2 ...the editor of a powerful local journal, [my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    Bhr 6.191 21 Novels are the journal or record of manners...
    Wsp 6.209 21 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    Boks 7.195 14 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Cour 7.258 7 Lord Wellington said...When my journal appears many statues must come down.
    QO 8.198 16 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
    Grts 8.308 20 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Plu 10.297 1 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...
    LLNE 10.343 23 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing more serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...
    Thor 10.454 19 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    SMC 11.370 7 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    EdAd 11.390 14 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    EdAd 11.393 5 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    EdAd 11.393 15 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously open...
    CPL 11.499 6 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
    ACri 12.299 15 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it in any newspaper or journal...
    MLit 12.325 22 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

journalism, n. (2)

    ET12 5.207 17 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune his orations and point his pen. Hence the style and tone of English journalism.
    Elo2 8.115 13 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...

Journalism, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.339 16 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.

journalist, n. (3)

    ET12 5.211 20 ...pamphleteer or journalist...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    Ctr 6.159 3 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a partisan journalist, his devotion to ornithology.
    Supl 10.167 7 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...

journalists, n. (2)

    ET8 5.127 13 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    HCom 11.343 24 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.

Journals, Court, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 11 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

journals, n. (33)

    PNR 4.80 7 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.
    GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    GoW 4.288 1 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like.
    ET1 5.4 6 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...
    ET6 5.102 14 The cabmen [in England] have [pluck];...the journals have it;...
    ET15 5.262 12 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable, and the ability of its journals is the driving force.
    ET15 5.262 18 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance. Valuable or not, it is a skill that is rarely found, out of the English journals.
    ET15 5.263 5 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics, the facility of experimenting in the journals...
    F 6.3 8 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    F 6.18 26 ...the journals contrive to furnish one good piece of news every day.
    Ctr 6.157 15 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.
    Wsp 6.234 24 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals;...
    CbW 6.252 24 [Good men] find the journals, the clubs...to be in the interest and the pay of the devil.
    WD 7.165 15 What sickening details in the daily journals!
    Cour 7.259 9 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...
    Cour 7.275 26 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if...a brutal act is recorded in the journals.
    SA 8.86 17 Why need you, who are not a gossip...tell eagerly what the neighbors or the journals say?
    Res 8.153 10 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...
    QO 8.194 5 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    QO 8.194 17 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering... As the journals say, the italics are ours.
    Insp 8.290 10 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
    PerF 10.80 9 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court...
    Chr2 10.112 13 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
    EzRy 10.389 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] was no reader of books or journals...
    FSLC 11.181 16 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...
    ACiv 11.300 10 The journals have not suppressed the extent of the calamity.
    EPro 11.321 11 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    EdAd 11.383 20 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    ChiE 11.472 7 ...China...had codes, journals, clubs, hackney coaches...
    ChiE 11.474 12 ...I have read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    CPL 11.504 19 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    Milt1 12.247 4 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
    ACri 12.291 26 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn...to gazette those Americanisms which offend us in all journals.

journey, n. (25)

    Nat 1.19 16 ...[the moon] will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
    Comp 2.94 1 ...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...crooked passages in our journey...
    Mrs1 3.136 9 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    MoS 4.166 20 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease, and his journey to Italy is quite full of that matter.
    ET1 5.5 8 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    ET1 5.19 9 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a journey.
    ET2 5.31 12 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET17 5.291 1 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.292 8 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
    Wsp 6.203 11 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    Wsp 6.228 3 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims, and Philip coming in from a journey one day, he consulted him.
    DL 7.107 2 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.125 6 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a third, his journey to the West...
    Clbs 7.228 25 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    Res 8.144 9 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track, put the disabled engine together and continued their journey.
    Grts 8.309 23 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey...
    EzRy 10.384 16 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York.
    MMEm 10.426 17 Number the waste places of the journey...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    Thor 10.462 1 [Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most countrymen in a day's journey.
    HDC 11.32 18 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.
    HDC 11.35 16 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    CL 12.155 15 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.
    Bost 12.190 4 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth pierce many days' journey into the entrails of that country.
    Bost 12.192 1 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...

journey, v. (1)

    ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not...

journeyed, v. (1)

    SwM 4.99 21 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe to examine mines and smelting works.

journeying, n. (2)

    F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... an athletic frame for wide journeying...
    CPL 11.499 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] was much addicted to journeying...

journeying, v. (2)

    Exp 3.71 4 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the Ideal journeying always with us...
    Dem1 10.11 24 ...Pancrates, journeying from Memphis to Coppus, and wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

journeymen, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 19 ...Dumas has journeymen;...

journeys, n. (9)

    AmS 1.110 26 That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    LE 1.169 22 What mean these journeys to Niagara;...
    SR 2.81 22 Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    ET2 5.25 24 I am not a good traveller, nor have I found that long journeys yield a fair share of reasonable hours.
    ET17 5.291 10 My journeys [in England] were cheered by so much kindness from new friends, that my impression of the island is bright with agreeable memories...
    WD 7.174 23 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
    Insp 8.295 3 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...
    GSt 10.505 10 When one remembers...[George Stearns's] journeys and residences in many states;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    ACiv 11.298 19 The boys have no new clothes, no gifts, no journeys;...

journey's, n. (1)

    Exp 3.60 5 ...to find the journey's end in every step of the road...is wisdom.

journeys, v. (4)

    Exp 3.75 2 I exert the same quality of power in all places. Thus journeys the mighty Ideal before us;...
    Chr1 3.96 19 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person.
    GoW 4.273 8 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty to trifles...
    Boks 7.219 25 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them journeys faster than he...

jousts, n. (1)

    War 11.171 22 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the jousts of chivalry, the shock of hosts...

Jovaire, Monsieur, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 7 ...here is...Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon;...

Jove, n. (35)

    MN 1.212 21 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    Hist 2.19 8 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.24 10 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Hist 2.30 26 ...where [the story of Prometheus] departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Comp 2.106 16 Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva another.
    OS 2.278 21 ...Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.
    OS 2.278 22 ...Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.
    Pt1 3.6 23 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    Chr1 3.98 6 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...
    Chr1 3.108 23 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.
    Mrs1 3.155 10 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    Gts 3.162 13 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    PPh 4.54 24 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 12 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    PPh 4.57 22 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PNR 4.87 6 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation; Saturn, the contemplative; Jove, the regal soul;...
    F 6.6 12 The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
    Ctr 6.154 1 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Wsp 6.199 19 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./
    Elo1 7.71 27 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...
    WD 7.176 4 In the Greek legend...Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians.
    WD 7.184 22 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    PI 8.25 22 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.
    PI 8.69 10 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset...
    PC 8.216 18 ...Jove is in his reserves.
    Insp 8.274 8 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself...
    Dem1 10.25 26 Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of Olympus.
    Chr2 10.105 3 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Edc1 10.140 11 ...Jove and Achilles, partridge and trout...dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    Schr 10.277 25 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy; Jove, and the thunderbolt launched from his hand.
    Bost 12.187 27 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.
    Bost 12.194 21 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    MAng1 12.228 17 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    ACri 12.286 27 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    PPr 12.390 24 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...

Jove, Osiris-, n. (1)

    Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination, but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...

Jove [Phidias], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.222 18 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias, to the Apollo, the Jove...

Jove-like, n. (1)

    EurB 12.377 24 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm,-Festus-like, Faust-like, Jove-like...

Jove's, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.243 4 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons/...
    Supl 10.161 1 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./

jovial, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.218 10 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.
    Edc1 10.134 9 If [a man] is jovial, if he is mercurial...society has need of all these.

joy, n. (175)

    Nat 1.45 15 [The spirit] says, From such as this [human form] have I drawn joy and knowledge;...
    AmS 1.92 1 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...
    AmS 1.92 4 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.100 3 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
    AmS 1.110 14 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days...
    AmS 1.115 24 The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
    DSA 1.125 10 ...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy.
    DSA 1.134 20 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...
    DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law, the joy of the whole earth...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    LE 1.155 19 [The scholar's] successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men.
    LE 1.170 5 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds. Every man, when this is told, hearkens with joy...
    MN 1.194 15 We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy.
    MN 1.195 1 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips, but paeans of joy and praise.
    MN 1.222 27 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.
    MR 1.232 24 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;...
    MR 1.256 1 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength...
    LT 1.262 22 I would die for [persons] with joy.
    LT 1.263 3 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    LT 1.279 1 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    YA 1.386 26 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    SR 2.69 5 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude, nor properly joy.
    SR 2.78 18 The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
    SL 2.136 2 Love should make joy;...
    SL 2.162 20 Epaminondas...would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.
    Lov1 2.171 17 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Lov1 2.171 25 With thought, with the ideal, is...the rose of joy.
    Lov1 2.181 16 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.182 20 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
    Fdsp 2.194 10 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Fdsp 2.195 17 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day;...
    Fdsp 2.200 6 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Fdsp 2.201 19 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
    Fdsp 2.208 20 The only joy I have in [my friend's] being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
    Fdsp 2.214 4 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature...though it seem to rob us of some joy, will repay us with a greater.
    Fdsp 2.215 13 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Prd1 2.227 20 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood...
    Pt1 3.12 1 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
    Pt1 3.30 3 The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
    Pt1 3.41 16 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
    Exp 3.71 25 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    Exp 3.73 19 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall...
    Chr1 3.98 22 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
    Mrs1 3.151 15 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She... astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after day radiating, every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her?
    NR 3.233 16 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
    NR 3.240 23 We want the great genius only for joy;...
    NER 3.272 4 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    NER 3.285 9 The life of man is the true romance, which...will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
    PPh 4.52 27 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    PPh 4.63 19 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    SwM 4.97 6 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude, but without any sign of joy;...
    SwM 4.118 9 ...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this centre?
    SwM 4.129 4 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought, and part, as though we parted not, to join another thought in other fellowships of joy.
    SwM 4.145 26 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt, and abandoned himself to his joy and worship.
    ShP 4.191 25 The [English] people had tasted this new joy [the theatre];...
    ShP 4.215 27 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, [the poet] sheds over the universe.
    ShP 4.216 11 [Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and emancipation to the heart of men.
    NMW 4.255 17 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...
    GoW 4.262 17 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    ET2 5.32 4 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you...seize with the joy of a collector.
    ET9 5.146 3 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET12 5.206 7 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET14 5.252 12 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    F 6.48 23 ...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of Nature to be harmony and joy.
    Pow 6.68 21 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for hair-breadth adventures, huge risks and the joy of eventful living.
    Pow 6.68 25 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once, his eyes dim with tears of joy, to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Ctr 6.158 6 As soon as [the poet] sides with his critic against himself, with joy, he is a cultivated man.
    Ctr 6.165 22 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Bhr 6.178 11 ...by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
    Bhr 6.196 6 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    CbW 6.264 13 The joy of the spirit indicates its strength.
    CbW 6.268 26 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    CbW 6.272 9 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.
    Bty 6.296 7 Wherever [the human form] goes it creates joy and hilarity...
    Bty 6.304 20 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact...
    Bty 6.306 19 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.311 17 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    SS 7.1 20 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...
    Civ 7.31 14 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    DL 7.106 20 The first ride into the country...the books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    DL 7.107 4 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...
    DL 7.111 23 A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
    WD 7.158 4 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
    WD 7.175 16 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    WD 7.180 9 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face.
    WD 7.182 10 The masters painted for joy...
    Clbs 7.227 26 Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.
    Cour 7.278 7 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    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.
    OA 7.313 6 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    OA 7.313 22 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
    OA 7.332 24 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life. I said, The world thinks a good deal of joy has been mixed with it.
    PI 8.10 20 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
    PI 8.56 7 As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.
    PI 8.67 1 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who read it with joy...
    PI 8.71 24 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    SA 8.83 5 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him...the joy of life.
    SA 8.87 5 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.97 16 Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
    SA 8.107 2 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit...
    Elo2 8.113 7 ...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding men with hope and joy.
    Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes.
    PC 8.207 6 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    PC 8.228 3 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PC 8.230 3 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PPo 8.250 3 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.250 7 ...it is the play of wit and the joy of song that [Hafiz] loves;...
    PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is...created...to vent the joy of a supernal intelligence.
    PPo 8.256 8 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/
    Insp 8.281 17 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.286 27 If a new view of life or mind gives us joy, so does new arrangement.
    Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./
    Insp 8.292 3 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy.
    Imtl 8.351 18 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Aris 10.45 23 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    PerF 10.81 19 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity; there in the centre of fellowship and joy is Scheherazade again.
    PerF 10.82 23 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    Chr2 10.98 12 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls...
    Chr2 10.101 3 They who deal with [a man of profound moral sentiment] are elevated with joy and hope;...
    Chr2 10.113 25 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Edc1 10.148 22 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    Edc1 10.149 20 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend,-who finds equal joy in dealing out his treasures.
    Prch 10.225 8 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    MoL 10.241 16 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters,-the power and joy that belong to it...
    MoL 10.249 8 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
    MoL 10.257 23 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Schr 10.289 8 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history, and rise on the same stairs to science and to joy.
    Plu 10.302 12 This facility and abundance make the joy of [Plutarch's] narrative...
    Plu 10.303 18 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias...
    LLNE 10.338 1 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    LLNE 10.367 13 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped with joy.
    LLNE 10.367 17 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
    CSC 10.374 7 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    MMEm 10.405 2 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
    MMEm 10.409 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy...
    MMEm 10.416 1 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
    MMEm 10.416 11 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    MMEm 10.418 17 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...
    MMEm 10.426 23 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.432 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's] friends used to say to her, I wish you joy of the worm.
    GSt 10.507 5 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.3 2 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
    LS 11.20 20 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    LVB 11.89 11 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate; and the good magistrate will feel a joy in meeting such confidence.
    LVB 11.90 6 We have learned with joy [the Cherokees'] improvement in the social arts.
    EWI 11.114 27 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they were wild with joy...
    EWI 11.120 20 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
    FSLC 11.178 6 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy,/ And their coming triumph hide/ In our downfall, or our joy/...
    EPro 11.316 8 These measures [for liberty] provoke no noisy joy...
    EPro 11.325 21 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has greeted it in all generous hearts...
    SMC 11.361 11 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    EdAd 11.386 2 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
    Shak1 11.449 4 ...[Shakespeare] is...the fountain of joy which honors him who tastes it;...
    Shak1 11.451 11 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    Scot 11.463 18 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book.
    Scot 11.464 1 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again. We tread over our youthful grounds with joy.
    FRO2 11.490 1 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us...
    CPL 11.508 17 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    PLT 12.20 6 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    II 12.89 1 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.104 12 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.
    CL 12.138 13 ...the joy in [Kalm's] return...restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
    CL 12.151 7 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...and the first northward flight of the geese...who cannot keep their joy to themselves,
    CW 12.172 13 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.
    CW 12.173 26 The place where a thoughtful man in the country feels the joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
    MAng1 12.242 17 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    Milt1 12.276 5 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
    ACri 12.293 26 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself, uproarious with laughter and animal joy, on the scene...
    ACri 12.298 15 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...
    MLit 12.320 24 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was a great joy.
    Pray 12.353 3 ...I will not forget that joy has been, and may still be.
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.
    Trag 12.411 23 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

Joy, n. (2)

    DSA 1.151 23 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing... with Joy.
    LLNE 10.324 1 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./

joyed, v. (1)

    ALin 11.328 13 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/

joyful, adj. (33)

    SR 2.63 13 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.80 19 ...the immortal light, all young and joyful...will beam over the universe...
    SL 2.150 23 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...it is a sort of joyful solitude.
    OS 2.281 15 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience, and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception.
    Pt1 3.1 2 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.30 22 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Chr1 3.111 7 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Chr1 3.113 16 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence [from character].
    Ill 6.315 22 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    SS 7.9 9 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions, tears and glory...
    Civ 7.17 10 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.25 22 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action.
    DL 7.128 10 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Clbs 7.248 25 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Suc 7.296 2 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
    Suc 7.310 10 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    PI 8.34 6 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law and draw all tragic or joyful illustration, as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    PI 8.62 28 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful;...
    PI 8.62 29 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
    Res 8.152 19 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    PPo 8.255 1 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs, not so much for the thought as for their joyful temper and tone;...
    Insp 8.282 11 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive...light as joyful...as on the first day.
    SovE 10.191 6 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows...
    SovE 10.209 13 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful sparkles...
    LLNE 10.362 6 Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
    RBur 11.440 19 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible.
    FRO1 11.480 23 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up, like joyful plants of wholesomeness, all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    CL 12.157 25 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...
    CW 12.169 5 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    ACri 12.286 22 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced with joyful discourse...
    MLit 12.336 3 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole...

joyfully, adv. (7)

    Lov1 2.185 14 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    UGM 4.24 2 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life...
    Wsp 6.240 21 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    Chr2 10.121 6 In a sensible family...all conspire and joyfully cooperate.
    Schr 10.265 20 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    CInt 12.128 13 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher...
    Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

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