Know to Knowingly

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

know, v. (888)

    Nat 1.31 15 We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
    Nat 1.35 16 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    Nat 1.38 9 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are not huddled and lumped...
    Nat 1.39 15 What we know is a point to what we do not know.
    Nat 1.47 15 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.51 26 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... not different from what we know them, but only lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Nat 1.56 22 We...know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
    Nat 1.65 12 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants...
    Nat 1.67 6 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom...
    Nat 1.67 7 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution...
    Nat 1.67 13 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Nat 1.76 7 Know then that the world exists for you.
    AmS 1.87 8 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    AmS 1.92 18 We all know, that...the human mind can be fed by any knowledge.
    AmS 1.95 3 Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
    AmS 1.95 3 Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
    AmS 1.95 16 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    AmS 1.96 11 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel the feet...
    AmS 1.109 18 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    AmS 1.110 12 This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
    AmS 1.111 14 What would we really know the meaning of?
    AmS 1.114 3 ...you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends;...
    AmS 1.114 5 ...it is for you to know all;...
    DSA 1.120 18 ...I would know...
    DSA 1.140 16 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to Sabbath meetings, when he and they all know what is the poor uttermost they can hope for therein.
    DSA 1.141 1 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    DSA 1.142 8 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline to make it know itself...
    DSA 1.144 27 [Men]...know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.
    DSA 1.146 19 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their doubts know that you have doubted...
    DSA 1.148 17 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element, a certain solidity of merit...
    LE 1.156 3 The few scholars in each country, whose genius I know, seem to me not individuals but societies;...
    LE 1.156 12 ...I know that a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails in this country...
    LE 1.158 12 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.
    LE 1.158 17 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power]...is the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    LE 1.161 5 If you would know the power of character, see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.162 11 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    LE 1.173 16 Let [the scholar] know that the world is his...
    LE 1.177 14 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets of tenderness...
    LE 1.177 26 Why should [the scholar]...not know, in his own beating bosom, [human life's] sweet and smart?
    LE 1.181 5 Let [the scholar] know that though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    LE 1.181 9 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LE 1.181 24 The good scholar will not refuse...to know...the uttermost secret of toil and endurance;...
    MN 1.198 10 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.200 22 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
    MN 1.207 11 A man should know himself for a necessary actor.
    MN 1.209 5 A man's wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary...
    MN 1.222 20 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...
    MN 1.223 13 We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine.
    MN 1.223 19 ...this one thing I know, that these qualities did not now begin to exist...
    MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.241 17 I know it often, perhaps usually, happens that where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.244 4 We spend our incomes...for a hundred trifles, I know not what, and not for the things of a man.
    MR 1.246 20 One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
    MR 1.247 15 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    MR 1.249 19 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    MR 1.250 22 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    MR 1.256 6 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man...
    LT 1.264 11 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.275 9 Do you suppose that the reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know?
    LT 1.282 21 We find it the worst thing about time that we know not what to do with it.
    LT 1.288 9 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far. But what know they more than we?
    LT 1.288 24 ...we...do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one;...
    Con 1.309 14 ...I know your ways; I know the symptoms of the disease.
    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?
    Tran 1.332 16 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;-but for these thoughts, I know not whence they are.
    Tran 1.338 4 ...we know of none but prophets and heralds of such a philosophy [Transcendendalism];...
    Tran 1.339 23 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    Tran 1.341 23 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    Tran 1.351 13 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
    Tran 1.351 16 I know that which shall come will cheer me.
    YA 1.374 25 We build railroads, we know not for what or for whom;...
    YA 1.381 20 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    YA 1.382 13 [The Associations] proposed, as you know, that all men should take a part in the manual toil...
    Hist 2.8 20 [Each man] must...know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world;...
    Hist 2.10 4 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself...
    Hist 2.10 6 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
    Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Hist 2.33 11 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts...know their master...
    Hist 2.39 17 ...what is the use of pretending to know what we know not?
    Hist 2.39 23 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. What do I know sympathetically, morally, of either of these worlds of life?
    Hist 2.40 14 What does Rome know of rat and lizard?
    SR 2.46 21 ...none but [man] knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    SR 2.48 21 ...[the youth] will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
    SR 2.53 12 I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    SR 2.53 25 ...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
    SR 2.53 26 ...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
    SR 2.54 15 ...do your work, and I shall know you.
    SR 2.54 18 If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.
    SR 2.54 22 Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
    SR 2.54 24 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    SR 2.54 26 Do I not know that [the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at one side...
    SR 2.55 12 ...we know not where to begin to set [conformists] right.
    SR 2.56 1 ...a man must know how to estimate a sour face.
    SR 2.61 23 Let a man then know his worth...
    SR 2.64 12 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    SR 2.66 13 If...a man claims to know and speak of God...believe him not.
    SR 2.67 23 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David...
    SR 2.85 12 ...the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    Comp 2.96 2 ...men are wiser than they know.
    Comp 2.102 24 If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
    Comp 2.105 10 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags that he does not know...
    Comp 2.106 19 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    Comp 2.108 11 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it; that which he does not know;...
    Comp 2.108 17 Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.
    Comp 2.112 14 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Comp 2.113 7 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant...
    SL 2.131 14 The soul will not know either deformity or pain.
    SL 2.132 20 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.
    SL 2.142 18 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate, or men will never know and honor him aright.
    SL 2.145 12 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it.
    SL 2.151 9 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    SL 2.152 16 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    SL 2.153 22 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    SL 2.157 21 If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
    SL 2.159 9 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression. Men know not why they do not trust him, but they do not trust him.
    SL 2.163 8 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...and that the soul did not know its own needs?
    SL 2.163 18 We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought.
    SL 2.166 14 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
    Lov1 2.170 3 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    Lov1 2.171 15 Alas! I know not why, but infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Lov1 2.172 4 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Lov1 2.173 23 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Lov1 2.181 2 ...we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself and can never know.
    Fdsp 2.195 4 Will these [friends] too separate themselves from me again, or some of them? I know not, but I fear it not;...
    Fdsp 2.196 20 Shall I not be a real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
    Fdsp 2.200 18 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
    Fdsp 2.201 13 When [friendships] are real, they are...the solidest thing we know.
    Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
    Fdsp 2.201 25 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Fdsp 2.210 4 Why...know [your friend's] mother and brother and sisters?
    Fdsp 2.215 16 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
    Prd1 2.226 23 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Prd1 2.230 9 Let us know where to find [the figures in this picture of life].
    Prd1 2.230 25 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...
    Prd1 2.238 26 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
    Prd1 2.240 27 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...
    Hsm1 2.246 14 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/
    Hsm1 2.250 19 ...[heroism] seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it;...
    Hsm1 2.253 27 The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger...do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    OS 2.268 4 Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
    OS 2.269 22 ...by yielding to the spirit of prophecy which is innate in every man, we can know what [the soul] saith.
    OS 2.271 4 What we commonly call man...does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
    OS 2.271 21 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable; but we know that it pervades and contains us.
    OS 2.271 22 We know that all spiritual being is in man.
    OS 2.272 4 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power.
    OS 2.278 16 We know better than we do.
    OS 2.278 17 We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
    OS 2.279 17 We know truth when we see it...
    OS 2.279 20 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    OS 2.279 22 We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
    OS 2.279 23 We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
    OS 2.280 9 We are wiser than we know.
    OS 2.280 11 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.283 14 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-morrow you arrive there and know them by inhabiting them.
    OS 2.285 6 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    OS 2.285 16 We know each other very well...
    OS 2.288 9 ...[scholars and authors] have a light and know not whence it comes...
    OS 2.290 15 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know;...
    OS 2.294 20 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    Cir 2.307 18 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Cir 2.319 17 ...the man and woman of seventy assume to know all...
    Cir 2.320 15 I can know that truth is divine and helpful;...
    Cir 2.320 17 I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
    Cir 2.320 24 Now for the first time seem I to know any thing rightly.
    Cir 2.320 25 The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
    Int 2.330 7 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
    Int 2.331 15 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Int 2.334 8 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Int 2.334 20 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Int 2.336 10 There is an inequality, whose laws we do not yet know, between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Int 2.337 4 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Int 2.342 16 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    Int 2.345 18 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;-- The cherubim know most; the seraphim love most.
    Art1 2.351 10 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
    Art1 2.351 12 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;...
    Art1 2.362 24 ...the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Pt1 3.4 20 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.
    Pt1 3.5 20 I know not how it is that we need an interpreter...
    Pt1 3.10 27 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Pt1 3.11 10 We know that the secret of the world is profound...
    Pt1 3.11 12 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.
    Pt1 3.12 9 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency, and to know what I am doing.
    Pt1 3.12 11 ...now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans.
    Pt1 3.12 22 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
    Pt1 3.19 20 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses and know that he never saw such before...
    Pt1 3.20 11 ...we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts.
    Pt1 3.30 25 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.
    Pt1 3.35 18 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    Pt1 3.40 1 What a little of all we know is said!
    Pt1 3.41 9 [O poet] Thou shalt leave the world, and know the muse only.
    Pt1 3.41 10 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.45 2 Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
    Exp 3.45 17 Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
    Exp 3.46 9 If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know!
    Exp 3.46 9 We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle.
    Exp 3.48 14 The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Exp 3.52 27 I know the mental proclivity of physicians.
    Exp 3.53 22 I had fancied that the value of life lay...in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new individual, what may befall me.
    Exp 3.53 27 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear. I know he is in the neighborhood...
    Exp 3.60 21 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
    Exp 3.64 4 Nature, as we know her, is no saint.
    Exp 3.65 18 ...know that thy life is a flitting state...
    Exp 3.69 20 The years teach much which the days never know.
    Exp 3.75 7 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Exp 3.81 16 It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own [facts] from another's.
    Exp 3.83 4 I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture.
    Exp 3.83 22 All I know is reception;...
    Exp 3.84 17 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know.
    Exp 3.84 19 To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.
    Exp 3.84 24 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think.
    Exp 3.84 27 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.
    Chr1 3.90 16 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god?
    Chr1 3.91 8 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Chr1 3.92 4 Our frank countrymen of the west and south...like to know whether the New Englander is a substantial man...
    Chr1 3.92 12 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.99 25 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;...
    Chr1 3.103 14 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    Chr1 3.104 18 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Chr1 3.110 5 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Chr1 3.110 6 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Chr1 3.111 9 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Chr1 3.113 21 ...we have never seen a man: that divine form we do not yet know...
    Chr1 3.113 23 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Chr1 3.114 25 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character...
    Chr1 3.115 9 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Chr1 3.115 27 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    Mrs1 3.133 27 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...
    Mrs1 3.134 26 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house...
    Mrs1 3.135 6 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens...
    Mrs1 3.137 27 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    Mrs1 3.143 16 I know that a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Mrs1 3.146 26 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.
    Mrs1 3.150 23 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Mrs1 3.152 10 I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Mrs1 3.155 22 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    Gts 3.162 25 I am sorry...when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit...
    Nat2 3.184 15 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?
    Nat2 3.189 9 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    Pol1 3.200 7 ...the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand...
    Pol1 3.217 19 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    NR 3.248 2 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the incapacity of the parties to know each other...
    NR 3.248 4 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought...
    NR 3.248 20 Could [my good men] but once understand that I loved to know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.255 27 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
    NER 3.257 15 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
    NER 3.257 17 We do not know an edible root in the woods...
    NER 3.273 17 ...[men] know the truth for their own.
    NER 3.274 7 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade...
    NER 3.274 14 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst...
    NER 3.276 3 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why his eye sinks...in this presence.
    NER 3.281 13 ...[lovers of truth] know the tax of talent...
    NER 3.282 16 ...I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    UGM 4.5 14 We must not...deny the substantial existence of other people. I know not what would happen to us.
    UGM 4.6 26 I cannot tell what I would know [from great men];...
    UGM 4.7 10 ...the great are near; we know them at sight.
    UGM 4.10 15 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them;...
    UGM 4.12 6 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
    UGM 4.14 5 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    UGM 4.20 17 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics.
    UGM 4.20 23 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence. What they know, they know for us.
    UGM 4.25 22 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.
    UGM 4.26 11 We learn of our contemporaries what they know without effort...
    UGM 4.31 8 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
    UGM 4.33 22 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals, and know that they are made of the substance which ordaineth and doeth.
    PPh 4.43 15 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
    PPh 4.45 4 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well...
    PPh 4.56 4 Thought seeks to know unity in unity;...
    PPh 4.64 8 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    PPh 4.64 11 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    PPh 4.66 25 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it.
    PPh 4.73 11 Nobody can refuse to talk with [Socrates], he is so honest and really curious to know;...
    PPh 4.76 12 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    PPh 4.77 10 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
    PPh 4.78 17 The way to know [Plato] is to compare him, not with nature, but with other men.
    PPh 4.78 23 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    PNR 4.83 23 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows both itself and vice.
    SwM 4.95 24 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
    SwM 4.123 13 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer, and of things which most import us to know.
    SwM 4.126 25 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...
    SwM 4.128 11 I know how delicious is this cup of love...
    SwM 4.137 19 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    SwM 4.140 4 What God is, [Socrates] said, I know not; what he is not, I know.
    SwM 4.140 5 What God is, [Socrates] said, I know not; what he is not, I know.
    MoS 4.152 25 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    MoS 4.155 17 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river, you know not whither or whence...
    MoS 4.156 7 [The skeptic says] I know that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
    MoS 4.157 1 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.157 7 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    MoS 4.157 9 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    MoS 4.159 3 ...true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    MoS 4.159 4 ...true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    MoS 4.159 13 ...let us know what we know, for certain;...
    MoS 4.163 18 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
    MoS 4.167 4 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...
    MoS 4.168 9 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays].
    MoS 4.169 4 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things; as we pinch ourselves to know that we are awake.
    MoS 4.169 24 Que scais je? What do I know?
    MoS 4.170 14 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
    MoS 4.171 22 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
    MoS 4.173 25 I know the quadruped opinion will not prevail.
    MoS 4.174 2 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect; as if it were fatal to earnestness to know much.
    MoS 4.174 3 Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
    MoS 4.183 12 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
    ShP 4.193 7 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
    ShP 4.197 4 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    ShP 4.203 5 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    ShP 4.208 26 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...that which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.
    NMW 4.229 8 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    NMW 4.232 25 [Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
    NMW 4.244 27 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and draught of water of every one of my general.
    NMW 4.247 7 The Austrians, [Napoleon] said, do not know the value of time.
    NMW 4.247 27 I think all men know better than they do;...
    NMW 4.248 1 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...
    NMW 4.251 5 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about.
    NMW 4.255 4 For my part [said Napoleon] I know very well that I have no true friends.
    GoW 4.268 23 Be real and admirable, not as we know, but as you know.
    GoW 4.284 22 There is nothing [Goethe] had not right to know...
    GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    GoW 4.290 19 The secret of genius is...to realize all that we know;...
    ET1 5.7 9 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath,--an untamable petulance. I do not know whether the imputation were just or not...
    ET1 5.13 6 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET1 5.13 20 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...
    ET1 5.18 25 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET1 5.20 15 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET4 5.46 14 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET4 5.50 6 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
    ET4 5.68 24 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie.
    ET4 5.69 4 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
    ET5 5.82 12 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
    ET5 5.88 24 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    ET5 5.92 14 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET5 5.95 25 Steam is almost an Englishman. I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next...
    ET5 5.100 21 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...
    ET6 5.105 7 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England]...
    ET6 5.115 3 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing...
    ET7 5.117 19 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth.
    ET7 5.124 15 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know...
    ET7 5.126 4 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET7 5.126 9 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/ For they 're so open-hearted, you may know/ Their own most secret thoughts, and others' too./
    ET8 5.127 2 I do not know that [the English] have sadder brows than their neighbors of northern climates.
    ET8 5.132 21 ...[young Englishmen] saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks;...
    ET9 5.145 24 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET11 5.180 9 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who was born by them...
    ET11 5.196 24 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown. I know that not this, but something else is pretended.
    ET12 5.202 5 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...
    ET12 5.204 14 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse;...
    ET12 5.204 15 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse;...
    ET12 5.209 26 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...
    ET13 5.223 1 I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican than in other churches...
    ET13 5.228 1 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET13 5.230 26 Electricity cannot be made fast...so that you shall know where to find it...
    ET14 5.241 15 A few generalizations always circulate in the world, whose authors we do not rightly know...
    ET14 5.245 3 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    ET14 5.259 16 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET15 5.268 23 ...[the English] do not know, when they take [the London Times] up, what their paper is going to say...
    ET15 5.270 10 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
    ET15 5.271 24 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who dare to print all they know...
    ET15 5.271 24 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who... dare to know all the facts...
    ET16 5.275 2 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.275 17 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    ET16 5.277 23 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET16 5.285 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name...
    ET16 5.285 17 I know not why, but I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry...
    ET16 5.285 27 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    ET17 5.295 10 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    ET17 5.295 12 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    ET17 5.297 18 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    ET19 5.312 21 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long...
    F 6.4 17 We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty...
    F 6.14 12 All we know of the egg...is, another vesicle;...
    F 6.16 6 We know in history what weight belongs to race.
    F 6.18 15 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year...
    F 6.18 16 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year...
    F 6.27 20 I know not whether there be...a permanent westerly current...
    F 6.29 6 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    F 6.30 17 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
    F 6.41 8 We know what madness belongs to love...
    F 6.42 24 We know in Massachusetts who built New Bedford...
    Pow 6.53 24 A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works...
    Pow 6.76 15 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.78 12 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them...
    Pow 6.79 15 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Pow 6.80 12 I know what I abstain from.
    Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Wth 6.98 12 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Wth 6.98 27 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.118 12 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny...
    Wth 6.121 2 I know not how to build or to plant;...
    Wth 6.122 11 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...
    Wth 6.123 5 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Wth 6.123 20 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are matters on which I neither know nor need to know anything.
    Wth 6.123 21 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are matters on which I neither know nor need to know anything.
    Ctr 6.139 20 We know that an army which can be confided in may be formed by discipline;...
    Ctr 6.139 24 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    Ctr 6.146 27 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    Ctr 6.157 3 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.
    Ctr 6.158 12 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions...
    Ctr 6.159 16 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished...
    Ctr 6.161 23 We must know our friends under ugly masks.
    Bhr 6.172 23 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
    Bhr 6.179 15 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self...
    Bhr 6.182 14 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.188 18 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him;...
    Bhr 6.193 4 It is sublime to feel and say of another...if he did thus or thus, I know it was right.
    Wsp 6.212 4 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    Wsp 6.215 2 I know no words that mean so much [as the words moral and spiritual].
    Wsp 6.216 3 What a day dawns when we...have come to know that justice will be done to us;...
    Wsp 6.217 10 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.223 26 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    Wsp 6.223 27 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals.
    Wsp 6.226 5 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.
    Wsp 6.228 1 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...
    Wsp 6.233 12 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Wsp 6.234 20 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until I know that I am beaten.
    Wsp 6.235 7 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I have never been beaten;...
    Wsp 6.235 13 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    Wsp 6.236 8 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship or favor. When I come to my own, we shall both know it.
    Wsp 6.239 26 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    Wsp 6.241 21 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...make [man] know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend.
    Wsp 6.242 3 ...the good Laws themselves are alive, they know if [man] have kept them...
    CbW 6.252 16 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority...do not yet know their opinion.
    CbW 6.261 2 He [who is to be wise for many] must know the huts where poor men lie...
    CbW 6.261 27 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    CbW 6.265 8 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    CbW 6.265 14 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    CbW 6.273 24 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship]...
    CbW 6.274 25 ...there is a great deal of good in us that does not know itself...
    CbW 6.275 8 ...we live...not only with the young whom we are to teach all we know...
    Bty 6.281 3 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
    Bty 6.281 8 ...what does the botanist know of the virtues of his weeds?
    Bty 6.281 11 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Bty 6.287 6 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.287 26 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...
    Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too...
    Bty 6.293 13 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Bty 6.295 5 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    Bty 6.297 22 We all know this magic [of beautiful women] very well...
    Bty 6.304 17 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.
    Bty 6.305 15 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things. The laws of this translation we do not know...
    Ill 6.307 16 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./
    Ill 6.308 8 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.317 12 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Ill 6.318 2 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it...
    Ill 6.319 24 ...the soul doth not know itself in its own act when that act is perfected.
    Ill 6.324 3 We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of nature.
    SS 7.9 16 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know!
    SS 7.13 17 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies;...
    SS 7.14 19 I know that my friend can talk eloquently;...
    SS 7.14 20 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
    Civ 7.20 26 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must not know too much...
    Civ 7.31 10 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much.
    Art2 7.43 5 A great deduction is to be made before we can know [a man's] proper contribution to [his work of art].
    Elo1 7.63 22 ...they are not kings who sit on thrones, but they who know how to govern.
    Elo1 7.66 24 [Every audience] know so much more than the orator...
    Elo1 7.69 23 As we know, the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    Elo1 7.74 3 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but cotton-wool...
    Elo1 7.75 22 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how to deal with the facts before them...
    Elo1 7.80 11 I know very well that among our cool and calculating people... there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Elo1 7.84 21 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
    Elo1 7.85 11 ...[the orator]...must have the fact, and know how to tell it.
    Elo1 7.85 23 In a court of justice...[the audience] really wish to sift the statements and know what the truth is.
    DL 7.117 25 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates know what they want;...
    DL 7.121 11 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man! too happy, could they know their advantages.
    DL 7.125 20 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man]...
    DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...for they know by heart the whole instinct of majesty.
    Farm 7.135 3 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is an armory of powers/ Which, one by one, they know to draw and use./
    Farm 7.150 5 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know...
    Farm 7.153 8 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin;...
    WD 7.165 11 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...
    WD 7.174 5 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...who can know surely that one will be like another to the end of the world...
    WD 7.179 24 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
    Boks 7.189 15 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated. If you know that...your opinion has some value;...
    Boks 7.191 13 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value; if you do not know these, you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject.
    Boks 7.192 1 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they know us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.195 26 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    Boks 7.201 21 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes...
    Boks 7.214 18 ...the day, as we know it, has not yet found a tongue.
    Clbs 7.228 27 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...
    Clbs 7.232 4 I know well the rusticity of the shy hermit.
    Clbs 7.233 10 Able people, if they do not know how to make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.
    Clbs 7.234 8 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do.
    Clbs 7.235 5 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit.
    Clbs 7.236 27 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree of shortcoming...yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    Clbs 7.243 20 We know well the Mermaid Club...
    Clbs 7.245 17 [A club] requires people...who sink trifles and know solid values...
    Clbs 7.246 22 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning artisans of his craft;...
    Clbs 7.246 27 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
    Clbs 7.247 2 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable; things which you reckon superstitious they know to be true.
    Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...
    Cour 7.261 3 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Cour 7.261 15 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I cannot afford to misbehave; and I do not know how I shall feel.
    Cour 7.267 6 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know what that was which others called fear...
    Cour 7.271 9 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it, but because they know how potent it is with themselves?
    Suc 7.283 6 We have the power of territory and of seacoast, and know the use of these.
    Suc 7.284 18 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The gun-carriages I know how to construct.
    Suc 7.284 23 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know
    Suc 7.285 17 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua lies.
    Suc 7.285 20 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they do not know the way to return thither...
    Suc 7.287 2 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.292 18 ...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
    Suc 7.294 1 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Suc 7.295 3 I know it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Suc 7.295 8 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the central intelligence...
    Suc 7.296 11 We should know how to praise Socrates...without impoverishing us.
    Suc 7.301 22 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    Suc 7.302 18 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Suc 7.307 23 We know the satisfactoriness of justice...
    Suc 7.307 24 We know the answer that leaves nothing to ask.
    Suc 7.307 25 We know the Spirit by its victorious tone.
    OA 7.313 5 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 7.316 18 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which does not impose on us who know how innocent of sanctity or of Platonism he is...
    OA 7.318 13 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    OA 7.320 24 We know the value of experience.
    OA 7.330 2 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    OA 7.330 3 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    OA 7.332 20 [John Adams said]...I am astonished that I have lived to see and know of this event.
    OA 7.332 25 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    OA 7.333 4 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    OA 7.333 8 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...
    PI 8.1 11 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
    PI 8.10 24 Science does not know its debt to imagination.
    PI 8.12 24 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
    PI 8.18 18 What is the term of the ever-flowing metamorphosis? I do not know what are the stoppages...
    PI 8.25 7 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me...I know not what volumes of rhymed English...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.25 16 Lear and Macbeth and Richard III. [people] know pretty well without guide.
    PI 8.26 22 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn...
    PI 8.29 21 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.32 10 Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all tribes,--but this legend is different.
    PI 8.33 8 Write, that I may know you.
    PI 8.36 8 I know there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    PI 8.41 7 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.42 11 The poet is enamoured of thoughts and laws. These know their way...
    PI 8.42 24 We cannot know things by words and writing...
    PI 8.47 5 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.49 22 Every good poem that I know I recall by its rhythm also.
    PI 8.50 16 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    PI 8.52 16 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...
    PI 8.56 8 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists...
    PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...
    PI 8.61 5 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me? How, said the voice, Sir Gawain, know you me not?
    PI 8.61 5 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well...
    PI 8.61 14 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well...
    PI 8.62 14 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be, when he shall know it...
    PI 8.63 15 There is something--our brothers on this or that side of the sea do not know it or own it;...which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    PI 8.65 9 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    PI 8.69 4 To know the merit of Shakspeare, read Faust.
    PI 8.74 19 We too shall know how to take up all this industry and empire... into thought...
    SA 8.87 11 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.104 7 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... they are sublime; and we know that in this abstraction they are executing excellent work.
    SA 8.104 14 We have come...to know the vast resources of the continent...
    Elo2 8.110 3 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.111 1 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
    Elo2 8.116 19 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but for the present business, we know all about it...
    Elo2 8.129 26 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence]...know your fact; hug your fact.
    Elo2 8.130 1 Speak what you do know and believe;...
    Elo2 8.130 26 If [the eloquent man] does not know your fact, he will show that it is not worth the knowing.
    Res 8.144 15 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Res 8.150 26 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
    Res 8.151 1 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame. I know its repute...
    Res 8.151 4 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Res 8.151 23 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Res 8.152 8 Well for [the scholar] if he can say with the old minstrel, I know where to find a new song.
    Comc 8.157 17 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the ridiculous]...does not say all we know.
    QO 8.184 25 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    QO 8.188 11 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who...know that it is foreign to them.
    QO 8.191 5 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
    QO 8.191 8 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    QO 8.191 14 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.
    QO 8.197 12 ...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.
    PC 8.215 23 If [your public] know what is good, and require it, you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.
    PC 8.217 19 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him;...
    PC 8.217 21 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know the power of numbers...
    PC 8.221 14 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...
    PC 8.227 24 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.
    PC 8.230 5 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    PC 8.232 11 The community of scholars do not know their own power...
    PC 8.233 14 We know that in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    PC 8.234 1 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PPo 8.243 23 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.254 24 Scorn me not, But know I have the pearl,/ And am only seeking one to receive it./
    PPo 8.255 3 ...the cultivated Persians know [Hafiz's] poems by heart.
    PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    PPo 8.260 25 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    Insp 8.269 4 ...the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Insp 8.269 13 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is.
    Insp 8.272 12 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern, but the poet does not know the pitcher that holds his nectar.
    Insp 8.272 13 Every youth should know the way to prophecy...
    Insp 8.276 16 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no use that your engine is made like a watch,-that you are a good workman, and know how to drive it, if there is no coal.
    Insp 8.282 10 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.
    Insp 8.283 18 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    Insp 8.283 23 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    Insp 8.286 27 I don't know but we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Insp 8.289 21 I know there is room for whims here; but in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
    Insp 8.292 15 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation]...at least as curious to know what can be drawn from himself as what can be drawn from [others].
    Grts 8.304 13 ...you shall not tell me that you have learned to know men;...
    Grts 8.306 17 I do not know how far [Faraday's] experiments and others have been pushed in this matter [of Diamagnetism]...
    Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...know Newton, Faraday...
    Grts 8.313 3 ...do you know what the right meaning of Fame is?
    Grts 8.317 15 Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect; but those two elements know each other...
    Grts 8.320 3 Do you not know that people are as those with whom they converse?
    Imtl 8.321 1 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    Imtl 8.324 11 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.325 2 ...as we know, the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    Imtl 8.327 13 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;...
    Imtl 8.330 8 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I avow that I am not so humble as the atheist; I know not how they think, but for me, I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Imtl 8.333 12 I know against all appearances that the universe can receive no detriment;...
    Imtl 8.334 12 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Imtl 8.337 19 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Imtl 8.340 4 I know not whence we draw the assurance of prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.341 10 What we know is a point to what we do not know.
    Imtl 8.341 11 What we know is a point to what we do not know.
    Imtl 8.341 27 Courage comes naturally to those...who...know the power of their arms and bodies;...
    Imtl 8.342 2 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Imtl 8.346 26 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other?...
    Imtl 8.349 25 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know...
    Imtl 8.351 13 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient...
    Dem1 10.6 8 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when.
    Dem1 10.6 22 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down there? Does he know it?
    Dem1 10.7 26 [Dreams] pique us by independence of us, yet we know ourselves in this mad crowd...
    Dem1 10.8 20 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character of Rupert, but do not think what he may do.
    Dem1 10.13 14 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know...
    Dem1 10.22 21 ...we know that the law of the Universe is one for each and for all.
    Dem1 10.26 14 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Dem1 10.26 17 [Adepts in occult facts] are ignorant of all that is healthy and useful to know...
    Aris 10.35 7 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that this is not removable...
    Aris 10.39 8 I wish...men...who know the beauty of animals and the laws of their nature...
    Aris 10.46 9 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...
    Aris 10.47 1 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...
    Aris 10.47 13 There are men who may dare much and will be justified in their daring. But it is because they know they are in their place.
    Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...
    Aris 10.50 10 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.55 20 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere;...
    Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
    Aris 10.58 19 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    Aris 10.59 11 I know the feeling of the most ingenious and excellent youth in America;...
    Aris 10.61 24 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
    Aris 10.61 26 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    Aris 10.63 5 I know the difficulties in the way of the man of honor.
    Aris 10.65 17 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    PerF 10.81 15 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...
    PerF 10.85 8 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    PerF 10.86 21 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not know enough to be free.
    PerF 10.88 7 ...the cause of right for which we labor...will know how to compensate our extremest sacrifice.
    Chr2 10.97 13 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me; deal THOU with me; let me know it is thy will, and I ask no more.
    Chr2 10.120 7 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Edc1 10.125 11 We have already taken...(for aught I know for the first time in the world), the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.128 8 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know health and sickness...
    Edc1 10.136 1 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth.
    Edc1 10.137 3 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    Edc1 10.138 24 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...
    Edc1 10.139 9 [Boys] know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist does.
    Edc1 10.143 16 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do.
    Edc1 10.147 4 The very definition of the intellect is Aristotle's: that by which we know terms or boundaries.
    Edc1 10.148 11 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Edc1 10.155 6 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest...
    Supl 10.168 9 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    SovE 10.195 3 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    SovE 10.196 11 We are to know that we are never without a pilot.
    SovE 10.196 12 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.
    SovE 10.196 16 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
    SovE 10.198 15 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    SovE 10.198 17 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    SovE 10.201 12 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    SovE 10.201 24 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
    SovE 10.210 11 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is...
    Prch 10.225 12 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.
    Prch 10.225 20 I know there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    Prch 10.228 26 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Prch 10.238 2 We [in the Church] come...to know that though ministers of justice and power fail, Justice and Power fail never.
    MoL 10.242 16 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind. This is the theory, but you know how far this is from the fact...
    MoL 10.246 2 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. After some time the question was, to know how many great cattle it would feed.
    MoL 10.256 16 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not?
    MoL 10.256 17 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know.
    Schr 10.272 1 ...men know that ideas are the parents of men and things;...
    Schr 10.284 25 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations, to be the guidance and delight of all who know them.
    Schr 10.286 13 [The scholar] is to know that in the last resort he is not here to work, but to be worked upon.
    Schr 10.287 23 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
    Schr 10.288 26 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius;...
    Plu 10.294 5 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.300 16 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
    Plu 10.306 12 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
    Plu 10.317 17 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.320 14 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old book was...
    LLNE 10.345 25 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor...
    LLNE 10.351 6 ...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural capital of the globe.
    LLNE 10.354 25 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    EzRy 10.387 5 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud...and seemed to say, You know me; this field is mine...
    EzRy 10.388 24 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    EzRy 10.394 23 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon...
    MMEm 10.410 6 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.
    MMEm 10.410 9 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons?
    MMEm 10.410 20 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar.
    MMEm 10.417 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds...
    MMEm 10.420 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain, and I can't bear to take i, and don't know what to do.
    MMEm 10.422 25 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the journey...the narrow limits which know no outlet...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    Thor 10.457 22 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    Thor 10.465 17 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. Would he not walk with them? He did not know.
    Thor 10.474 12 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    Thor 10.476 2 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.
    Carl 10.489 9 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    Carl 10.492 3 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says...I know not what they would have done to anybody that had got in there and attempted to tell out of doors what they did.
    GSt 10.501 1 We do not know how to prize good men until they depart.
    GSt 10.506 27 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns] did not know an idle day;...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.6 9 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the account of Luke.
    LS 11.16 7 We know how inveterately [the primitive Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...
    LS 11.17 26 I know our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    HDC 11.51 17 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.53 25 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.59 7 We know beforehand who must conquer in that unequal struggle [with the Indian].
    HDC 11.75 20 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts. They did not know it was a deed of fame they were doing.
    EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies], [the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would make;...
    EWI 11.121 5 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are as free...as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.121 9 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.125 8 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
    EWI 11.128 13 I know that England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    EWI 11.133 5 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    War 11.156 27 Trade, as all men know, is the antagonist of war.
    War 11.157 26 ...the art of war...has made, as all men know, battles less frequent and less murderous.
    War 11.169 2 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;...
    War 11.169 23 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man; nor are we careful to say, or even to know, what in such crises is to be done.
    FSLC 11.181 7 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    FSLC 11.192 25 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    FSLC 11.198 21 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make it a lesson for all ages.
    FSLC 11.200 23 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves. We know what we are doing.
    FSLC 11.213 19 Let us know that not by the public, but by ourselves, our safety must be bought.
    FSLN 11.217 9 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is, not to know their own task...
    FSLN 11.217 20 [Intellectual people who take their ideas from others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    FSLN 11.228 16 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    FSLN 11.230 13 In Massachusetts, as we all know, there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.
    FSLN 11.231 11 I know how deeply founded [conservatism] is in our nature...
    FSLN 11.232 11 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
    FSLN 11.235 21 ...[the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
    FSLN 11.236 8 ...our education is...to know that Paradise is under the shadow of swords;...
    FSLN 11.241 15 I wish to see the instructed class here know their own flag...
    FSLN 11.241 23 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    AsSu 11.251 22 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    AKan 11.257 8 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    AKan 11.257 14 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state. I know that the last legislature refused that aid.
    AKan 11.257 15 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    AKan 11.259 5 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    AKan 11.261 20 The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of the land.
    JBS 11.279 16 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know;...
    TPar 11.291 6 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking.
    TPar 11.291 13 ...the brave know the brave.
    ACiv 11.305 21 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are...
    EPro 11.316 11 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.
    ALin 11.331 12 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash, though they did not begin to know the riches of his worth.
    ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar, and we know all that befell.
    HCom 11.342 27 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier.
    HCom 11.344 9 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...
    SMC 11.355 14 ...the noble know the noble, everywhere they meet;...
    SMC 11.361 7 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me, for I know she would not have had me stay at home...
    SMC 11.361 18 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
    SMC 11.361 20 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart.
    SMC 11.361 21 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot...
    SMC 11.363 8 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to?...
    EdAd 11.392 14 ...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...
    EdAd 11.393 13 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    Koss 11.399 16 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart. I do not know but you will have the million yet.
    Koss 11.399 22 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...
    Wom 11.408 27 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play...
    Wom 11.414 3 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    RBur 11.439 2 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    RBur 11.439 13 At the first announcement, from I know not whence, 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.
    RBur 11.443 7 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].
    Shak1 11.450 27 'T is fine for Englishmen to say, they only know history by Shakspeare.
    Humb 11.457 9 As we know, a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    Humb 11.458 26 I know that we have been accustomed to think [the Germans] were too good scholars...
    ChiE 11.472 3 As we know, China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    ChiE 11.473 27 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
    CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
    CPL 11.507 4 You meet with...a good thinker or good wit,-but you do not know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
    FRep 11.524 12 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know...
    FRep 11.524 25 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...
    FRep 11.542 27 ...I know that the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.
    FRep 11.543 17 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures the foundations of the state...
    PLT 12.6 15 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall come to know that in seeing and in no tradition he must find what truth is;...
    PLT 12.8 5 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    PLT 12.10 18 By how much we know, so much we are.
    PLT 12.14 1 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.
    PLT 12.25 17 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be turned.
    PLT 12.29 18 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm...
    PLT 12.31 7 ...[intellectual persons who believe in the ideas of others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    PLT 12.32 7 I know well what a sieve every ear is.
    PLT 12.37 24 The senses minister to a mind they do not know.
    PLT 12.39 22 ...[the intellectual man] wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    PLT 12.40 6 The animal, the low degrees of intellect, know only individuals.
    PLT 12.46 24 All men know the truth, but what of that?
    PLT 12.47 15 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.
    PLT 12.52 9 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another...
    PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
    PLT 12.60 3 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth;...
    II 12.66 6 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.
    II 12.66 23 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
    II 12.69 9 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius. We ought to know the way to our nectar.
    II 12.69 10 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.73 17 The mark of the spirit is to know its way...
    II 12.74 3 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    II 12.74 9 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?
    II 12.76 16 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us,-I know not;...
    II 12.76 27 I know not why, but our thoughts have a life of their own...
    II 12.78 23 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither you nor I know the value of what we say;...
    II 12.81 16 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.
    II 12.87 19 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know, it is secure.
    Mem 12.91 19 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
    Mem 12.101 11 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    Mem 12.105 22 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.
    Mem 12.109 8 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CInt 12.112 1 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.112 3 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.112 14 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.112 15 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.112 16 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.113 3 The brute noise of cannon has, I know, a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...
    CInt 12.117 12 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands...
    CInt 12.117 20 I presently know whether my companion has more candor or less...
    CInt 12.127 12 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...
    CInt 12.130 12 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
    CL 12.139 23 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.
    CL 12.142 8 Few men know how to take a walk.
    CL 12.142 13 If a man tells me that he has an intense love of Nature, I know, of course, that he has none.
    CL 12.146 13 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    CL 12.149 14 What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what countless uses that we know not!
    CL 12.149 15 What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what countless uses that we know not!
    CL 12.150 16 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them;...
    CL 12.152 18 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
    CL 12.156 14 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    CL 12.158 19 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk...
    CL 12.159 2 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know all the good points within ten miles...these we call professors.
    CL 12.159 4 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills...these we call professors.
    CL 12.160 25 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    CL 12.161 20 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.
    CL 12.163 13 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know.
    CL 12.165 3 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CL 12.166 6 We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
    CL 12.166 13 I know that the imagination...is a coy, capricious power...
    CL 12.166 23 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
    CL 12.166 23 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
    CL 12.166 27 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements, or we shall know no Olympus.
    CW 12.171 1 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...
    CW 12.171 21 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...
    CW 12.172 9 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...
    CW 12.173 2 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...
    CW 12.173 13 As you know, nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    CW 12.174 5 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that the birds know him and trust him...
    CW 12.174 27 Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens...
    CW 12.176 21 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    CW 12.176 23 A man...should know the solstice and the equinox...
    Bost 12.186 24 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
    Bost 12.196 9 As you know, too, New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.
    Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MAng1 12.216 6 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
    MAng1 12.222 27 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    MAng1 12.240 26 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    Milt1 12.253 26 ...Shakspeare is a voice merely; who and what he was that sang, that sings, we know not.
    Milt1 12.262 6 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    ACri 12.285 7 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    ACri 12.285 9 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
    ACri 12.285 13 You know the history of the eminent English writer on gypsies, George Borrow;...
    ACri 12.290 10 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    ACri 12.302 22 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    MLit 12.313 14 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and what art thou?
    MLit 12.315 24 Would you know the genius of the writer? Do not enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself, What spirit is he of?
    Pray 12.350 12 If we can overhear the prayer we shall know the man.
    Pray 12.351 9 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.
    Pray 12.353 24 I know that sorrow comes not at once only.
    Pray 12.354 18 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Pray 12.355 5 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...
    Pray 12.355 19 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve.
    AgMs 12.361 17 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates...
    AgMs 12.362 20 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
    AgMs 12.362 27 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes. What does the Agricultural Surveyor know of all this?
    AgMs 12.363 1 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes. What does the Agricultural Surveyor know of all this? What can he know?
    AgMs 12.363 3 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms. He cannot go behind the estimates to know how the contracts were made...
    EurB 12.369 27 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.377 21 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...
    PPr 12.383 14 Each man can very well know his own part of duty, if he will;...
    Let 12.392 10 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion.
    Let 12.399 14 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
    Let 12.402 26 What we would know, we must do.
    Trag 12.405 7 I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.

knowable, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!......
    PPh 4.62 14 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe, namely, culture, returns; and he cries, Yet things are knowable!
    PPh 4.62 14 [Things] are knowable, because being from one, things correspond.

knowables, n. (3)

    PPh 4.41 26 What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
    Mem 12.110 2 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that there must be a proportion between the power of memory and the amount of knowables;...
    MLit 12.323 27 [Goethe] thought it necessary to dot round with his own pen the entire sphere of knowables;...

Knower, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 25 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer.

knowest, v. (5)

    CbW 6.273 8 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    PPo 8.258 16 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.
    Pray 12.352 10 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
    Pray 12.355 1 ...thou knowest what my feelings are.

knoweth, v. (8)

    Tran 1.352 16 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me...in some place, at some time,-whether in the body or out of the body, God knoweth...
    Fdsp 2.191 11 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.
    QO 8.203 2 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.
    HDC 11.30 5 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes.
    Wom 11.406 6 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.
    PLT 12.40 10 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself. We say with Kenelm Digby, All things that she knoweth are herself, and she is all that she knoweth.
    PLT 12.40 11 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself. We say with Kenelm Digby, All things that she knoweth are herself, and she is all that she knoweth.
    Trag 12.414 4 If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.

knowing, adj. (6)

    MN 1.219 25 Is a man boastful and knowing, and his own master?-we turn from him without hope...
    NR 3.232 11 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    ShP 4.198 26 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    ET12 5.212 10 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    Pow 6.76 6 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
    MLit 12.323 3 [Goethe] was knowing; he was brave;...

knowing, n. (4)

    Plu 10.310 19 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    PLT 12.10 17 Knowing is the measure of the man.
    PLT 12.31 12 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.

knowing, v. (76)

    LE 1.167 21 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...and of their essence, or of their history, knowing nothing.
    LE 1.183 25 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience, knowing that truth can make even silence eloquent and memorable.
    Tran 1.338 21 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    YA 1.383 18 ...the whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
    Hist 2.25 21 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    SR 2.69 8 The soul raised over passion...calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
    Comp 2.123 3 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...knowing that it brings with it new burdens.
    SL 2.138 1 We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
    SL 2.148 15 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal, without knowing that it is himself.
    Prd1 2.234 12 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing...
    Cir 2.311 5 We all stand waiting, empty,--knowing, possibly, that we can be full...
    Cir 2.321 24 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to do something without knowing how or why;...
    Art1 2.353 12 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times, without knowing what that manner is.
    Exp 3.53 5 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
    Exp 3.84 15 People disparage knowing and the intellectual life...
    Exp 3.84 17 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know.
    Gts 3.164 24 ...rectitude scatters favors on every side without knowing it...
    NR 3.247 24 I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
    PPh 4.73 6 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    SwM 4.125 4 [To Swedenborg] Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding.
    SwM 4.130 3 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing...
    MoS 4.174 3 Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
    NMW 4.232 27 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers, knowing not what to do, meet them with bayonets.
    ET1 5.8 24 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    ET5 5.91 21 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
    ET8 5.143 5 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable;...
    ET11 5.173 2 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is...
    F 6.24 21 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Pow 6.74 14 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
    Pow 6.74 16 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Wth 6.95 22 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
    Ctr 6.141 27 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Ctr 6.162 10 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    Bhr 6.197 24 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself. But nature lifts her easily and without knowing it over these impossibilities...
    Wsp 6.209 6 Not knowing what to do, we ape our ancestors;...
    Wsp 6.221 16 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large; all, and knowing all things;...
    CbW 6.266 23 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    Civ 7.17 3 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers/ Men knowing what they seek/...
    Elo1 7.72 2 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels.
    DL 7.105 20 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
    DL 7.124 15 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.
    Farm 7.154 8 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it;...
    WD 7.174 22 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    Boks 7.189 10 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board.
    Suc 7.294 20 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive, knowing well that it will not loiter.
    Suc 7.299 5 ...I have just seen a man, well knowing what he spoke of, who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    Suc 7.305 24 Every man has a history worth knowing...
    OA 7.329 16 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing and known.
    PI 8.25 24 [People] like poetry without knowing it as such.
    Elo2 8.130 27 If [the eloquent man] does not know your fact, he will show that it is not worth the knowing.
    Res 8.148 21 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    Imtl 8.349 13 Nachiketas, knowing that his father Gautama was offended with him, said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Chr2 10.98 19 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call mine.
    Chr2 10.121 1 [Character] indulges no enmity against any, knowing, with Prahlada that the suppression of malignant feeling is itself a reward.
    Edc1 10.139 5 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...knowing how to be poor...
    Plu 10.310 21 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    SlHr 10.445 8 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted...
    Thor 10.472 13 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never find it again...
    Thor 10.478 7 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend, knowing not only the secret of friendship, but almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    GSt 10.507 18 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    AKan 11.255 4 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present.
    TPar 11.292 7 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    SMC 11.348 24 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
    SMC 11.357 6 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world...
    Wom 11.422 3 For the other point, of [women] not knowing the world, and aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
    RBur 11.441 20 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...knowing so few and finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
    CL 12.163 23 This [principle of levity] is forever a surprise, and engaging, and lovely. We can't be satiated with knowing it, and about it.
    CW 12.172 2 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the Country did;...
    CW 12.175 6 ...'t is worth remarking, what a man may go through life without knowing, that a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    CW 12.179 3 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each, that which is constitutional to him only. This is forever a surprise, and engaging, and lovely; we can't be satiated with knowing it, and about it...
    MAng1 12.232 11 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    Milt1 12.272 20 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition; knowing that he should not abuse that liberty...
    Pray 12.355 21 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
    EurB 12.377 2 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly, without his knowing that he was observed...

knowingly, adv. (1)

    Con 1.313 6 Who put things on this false basis? ... No man voluntarily and knowingly;...

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