Magne to Makaria

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

Magne, Bishop, n. (1)

    Cour 7.258 9 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.

Magnes, n. (1)

    ET16 5.283 1 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.

magnesia, n. (1)

    PNR 4.85 4 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia;...

magnet, n. (15)

    Cir 2.309 18 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically, as the magnet was once a toy.
    Chr1 3.96 16 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole;...
    UGM 4.4 7 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.10 1 A magnet must be made man in some Gilbert...
    SwM 4.104 12 ...Gilbert had shown that the earth was a magnet;...
    SwM 4.104 12 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was known for ages, as a toy.
    ShP 4.205 27 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ET16 5.282 3 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet;...
    ET16 5.282 8 The name of the magnet is lapis Heracleus...
    ET16 5.282 13 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    Wsp 6.221 25 ...the globe is a battery, because every atom is a magnet;...
    Grts 8.320 2 Wit is a magnet to find wit...
    ChiE 11.472 3 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    PLT 12.46 8 Will is the advance to that...to which the inward magnet ever points...

magnetic, adj. (17)

    Chr1 3.97 9 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north. It shares the magnetic currents of the system.
    UGM 4.7 15 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic...
    PPh 4.67 20 All my good is magnetic...
    SwM 4.106 11 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.133 12 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep...
    Wth 6.96 20 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.
    SS 7.14 19 All conversation is a magnetic experiment.
    Cour 7.272 2 Everywhere [courage] finds its own with magnetic affinity.
    PI 8.27 7 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image...
    Grts 8.307 17 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle...
    Dem1 10.21 18 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic;...
    Aris 10.44 9 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...rich, magnetic...
    Aris 10.50 26 It is not sufficient that your work...is organic, to give you the magnetic power over men.
    Chr2 10.95 22 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes, there where all the wires terminate which hold the world in magnetic unity...
    Plu 10.302 3 ...[Plutarch's] own cheerfulness and rude health are also magnetic.
    PLT 12.3 6 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.30 18 All my good is magnetic...

Magnetic Ocean Telegraph, n (1)

    EPro 11.315 23 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Magnetic Ocean Telegraph...

Magnetism, Animal [J. C. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered...

Magnetism, Animal, n. (4)

    Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...
    Hist 2.10 26 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before...the Animal Magnetism in Paris...
    Dem1 10.25 4 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Dem1 10.25 8 Animal Magnetism peeps.

magnetism, n. (24)

    MN 1.216 16 ...I need not go where you are, that you should exert magnetism on me.
    SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
    Comp 2.96 26 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.97 1 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.110 5 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
    SL 2.133 11 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    Art1 2.369 2 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
    Chr1 3.90 11 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
    NR 3.228 17 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
    NR 3.229 1 Let us go for universals; for the magnetism, not for the needles.
    UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire...magnetism...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    SwM 4.102 8 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...
    Suc 7.305 26 Character and wit have their own magnetism.
    PI 8.9 4 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    Grts 8.306 12 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Grts 8.319 4 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Dem1 10.21 10 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    Dem1 10.23 24 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
    Aris 10.53 6 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    SovE 10.183 2 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    EzRy 10.389 20 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.
    GSt 10.502 11 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... had a rare magnetism for men of character...
    EdAd 11.393 21 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth...
    Mem 12.100 21 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed the magnetism was only a constant amount, and that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.

Magnetism, n. (1)

    Nat 1.39 18 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Magnetism...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.

magnetisms, n. (3)

    F 6.41 25 A man's friends are his magnetisms.
    Pow 6.53 9 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.

magnetize, v. (2)

    PPh 4.41 15 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries...
    Mem 12.100 2 ...a principle of the reason will thrill and magnetize and redistribute the whole world.

magnetized, v. (1)

    SR 2.63 10 The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations.

magnetizer, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 13 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep, and only reflects the mind of the magnetizer.

magnets, n. (3)

    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Res 8.137 2 We are magnets in an iron globe.
    SMC 11.353 4 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...

magnificence, n. (22)

    Tran 1.349 13 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...
    Exp 3.71 26 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    Nat2 3.174 2 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
    Nat2 3.176 11 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    SwM 4.94 20 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    SwM 4.128 21 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
    ET3 5.37 27 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET8 5.132 5 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... magnificence in wealth...
    ET11 5.176 6 A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
    Wth 6.102 21 In Rome [the dollar] will buy beauty and magnificence.
    Wth 6.122 21 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    CbW 6.255 13 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of... magnificence and rats.
    Elo1 7.89 24 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    LLNE 10.347 19 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists, the magnificence of their theories and the enthusiasm with which they have been urged.
    EdAd 11.383 17 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    Shak1 11.451 2 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    II 12.80 6 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be carried with a certain magnificence.
    CW 12.169 3 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the red rainbow of a summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    MAng1 12.230 18 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MLit 12.331 15 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
    PPr 12.389 27 We have in literature few specimens of magnificence.
    PPr 12.391 14 The other particular of magnificence is in [Carlyle's] rhymes.

magnificent, adj. (25)

    LT 1.262 16 Thoughts...transport me into new and magnificent scenes.
    YA 1.371 16 From Washington, proverbially the city of magnificent distances...through all its cities...[America] is a country of beginnings...
    Hist 2.21 16 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    PNR 4.86 14 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
    NMW 4.241 2 The principal works that have survived [Napoleon] are his magnificent roads.
    ET10 5.162 15 ...old energy of the Norse race arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam];...
    ET13 5.222 18 [The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you magnificent results...
    ET16 5.284 27 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn...
    ET18 5.302 3 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    Pow 6.82 5 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...
    Wth 6.96 8 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...magnificent Kings of France...or whatever great proprietors.
    Ill 6.310 24 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    Civ 7.29 4 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
    PI 8.4 9 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    PI 8.65 10 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    Grts 8.299 2 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Edc1 10.131 20 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import...
    LLNE 10.348 3 Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
    LLNE 10.351 19 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    FSLN 11.216 2 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    HCom 11.341 7 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    EdAd 11.391 11 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    II 12.70 16 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise...
    ACri 12.301 13 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...
    EurB 12.367 2 ...a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house.

magnificently, adv. (2)

    Fdsp 2.197 3 A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself.
    Imtl 8.348 11 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population! Will you build magnificently for mice?

magnificum, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 4 Nil magnificum, nil generosum sapit.

magnified, adj. (1)

    DL 7.124 10 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...

magnified, v. (6)

    LT 1.270 24 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
    SL 2.148 8 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    SL 2.148 18 Every quality of [a man's] mind is magnified in some one acquaintance...
    ET1 5.7 7 I had inferred from [Landor's] books, or magnified from some anecdotes, an impression of Achillean wrath...
    Supl 10.166 3 ...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.
    Bost 12.192 20 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified.

magnifiers, n. (1)

    F 6.12 18 ...with high magnifiers, Mr. Frauenhofer...might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...

magnifies, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.238 2 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    GoW 4.286 27 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    PI 8.2 7 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...

magnify, v. (11)

    Nat 1.53 27 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Hist 2.13 3 ...why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Art1 2.354 27 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    PI 8.52 5 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify;...
    Insp 8.278 26 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify all the dangers...
    Supl 10.164 22 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it.
    Schr 10.266 11 I am not disposed to magnify temporary differences...
    Thor 10.479 17 The tendency to magnify the moment...is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Wom 11.411 17 ...I think [women] should magnify their ritual of manners.
    PLT 12.56 3 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.

magnifying, v. (8)

    LT 1.279 17 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    OS 2.270 12 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    ET1 5.9 1 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters;...
    ET12 5.212 22 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    Ctr 6.153 6 ...cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
    Elo1 7.64 5 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    Boks 7.215 24 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does... magnifying the exception into a rule, dwarfing the world into an exception.
    Cour 7.269 23 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.

magnifying-glass, n. (1)

    PI 8.10 5 Passion...is a magnifying-glass.

magniloquence, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 24 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards...

magnitude, n. (12)

    Nat 1.52 22 We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative...
    Hist 2.13 4 Why should we make account...of magnitude...
    SL 2.161 6 We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude.
    Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete, but magnitude adds nothing.
    Mrs1 3.149 10 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
    PPh 4.73 16 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    PNR 4.88 15 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.
    Aris 10.39 7 I wish...men of universal politics, who are interested in things in proportion to their truth and magnitude;...
    LLNE 10.349 10 [Brisbane's plan] was not daunted by distance, or magnitude...
    LVB 11.93 6 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...
    EWI 11.128 17 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...
    AKan 11.257 2 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed up to the magnitude of the want...

Magnus, St. Albertus, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 9 Albert...St. Buonaventura....Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

Mahabarat, n. (1)

    PC 8.214 13 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the poems of the Mahabarat and the Ramayana?

Mahmoud's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.260 20 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./

Mahomet, n. (14)

    MR 1.251 6 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.
    Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
    SwM 4.133 23 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Hans Sloane, King George II., Mahomet...
    ET18 5.303 15 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect, like that of the Arabs in the time of Mahomet...
    Wsp 6.241 1 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.
    Clbs 7.236 1 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    SA 8.98 3 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for ages-by Mahomet;...
    Imtl 8.343 16 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Chr2 10.110 10 ...Mahomet is no longer accursed;...
    MoL 10.244 8 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
    ACri 12.295 14 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius; the Arabs with their Mahomet;...

Mahometan, n. (1)

    F 6.18 15 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year...

Mahometanism, n. (1)

    PPh 4.40 22 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy...from [Plato].

Mahometans, n. (2)

    F 6.18 20 ...there will, in a dozen millions of...Mahometans, be one or two astronomical skulls.
    Bty 6.296 9 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.

Mahometism, n. (1)

    UGM 4.4 22 Our colossal theologies of Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.

Mahomet's, n. (2)

    NMW 4.247 11 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any enthusiasm like Mahomet's...
    Wom 11.417 11 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.

Maia, n. (2)

    WD 7.172 19 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    PI 8.38 11 Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles...these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...

maias, n. (1)

    PI 8.15 2 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.

maid, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.169 22 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
    CbW 6.276 2 ...it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    Ill 6.307 9 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    PI 8.28 26 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...man and maid...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    SovE 10.186 12 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing; spared neither maid, wife nor widow...

maiden, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?

maiden, n. (17)

    Nat 1.51 25 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the maiden...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Lov1 2.170 12 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden...
    Lov1 2.178 12 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Lov1 2.178 21 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues.
    Lov1 2.184 12 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.195 23 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
    Fdsp 2.196 7 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    Hsm1 2.259 16 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way...
    OS 2.276 5 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    Mrs1 3.131 26 The maiden at her first ball...believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Nat2 3.193 13 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
    MoS 4.184 26 ...in the heart of each maiden and of each boy...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.210 4 What maiden has not found [Shakespeare] finer than her delicacy?
    Wth 6.113 10 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
    Bty 6.296 23 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a virtuous and accomplished maiden...
    SS 7.11 19 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    MMEm 10.406 8 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without remembering her with interest...

maidens, n. (12)

    LE 1.163 5 ...in the...maidens you meet...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    YA 1.392 19 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Exp 3.58 21 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Exp 3.58 23 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...and the men and maidens it left pale and hungry.
    Bhr 6.184 18 ...to youths or maidens who have great objects at heart, we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    CbW 6.275 22 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.
    Boks 7.214 26 So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched;...
    PI 8.45 25 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises...maidens, boys...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    MMEm 10.402 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    Thor 10.484 14 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted...by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather...
    II 12.72 26 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.

maiden's, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.129 8 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye/...
    Elo1 7.71 11 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./

maids, n. (5)

    AmS 1.97 5 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
    SwM 4.144 19 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    PI 8.1 12 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    RBur 11.442 7 ...[Burns's] love-songs still woo and melt the youths and maids;...
    Pray 12.350 6 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..

mail-bag, n. (1)

    EWI 11.125 26 ...[slavery] does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college...

mail-bags, n. (2)

    Civ 7.33 27 ...if there be...a country...where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    SMC 11.360 18 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.

mailed, v. (1)

    HCom 11.340 22 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

mails, n. (1)

    PC 8.227 26 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.

maimed, v. (2)

    MR 1.248 22 If there are inconveniences...in the way, because we have so enervated and maimed ourselves, yet it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy...recesses of life.
    MoL 10.258 1 I learn with grief...that the noble youth have returned wounded and maimed.

main, adj. (58)

    Nat 1.55 4 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
    AmS 1.84 21 Let us...consider [the scholar] in reference to the main influences he receives.
    AmS 1.107 21 The main enterprise of the world for splendor...is the upbuilding of a man.
    LE 1.176 25 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    LT 1.287 22 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them...
    YA 1.363 15 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.381 2 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted...
    Comp 2.101 9 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type...
    Hsm1 2.257 4 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Exp 3.81 16 It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own [facts] from another's.
    Nat2 3.191 15 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    UGM 4.5 26 A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
    PPh 4.68 20 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world...
    SwM 4.145 7 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense, the old usage and main chance of men...
    MoS 4.177 21 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
    ShP 4.213 15 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history, as a main production of the globe...
    GoW 4.268 16 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one;...Is he anybody? does he stand for something?
    GoW 4.274 4 [Goethe] sought [Proteus] in public squares and main streets...
    ET4 5.49 9 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race. Credence is a main element.
    ET5 5.78 8 The English game is main force to main force...
    ET5 5.78 9 The English game is main force to main force...
    ET10 5.162 25 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    Pow 6.71 22 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world...
    Wth 6.93 5 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    Wth 6.112 19 The crime which bankrupts men and states is...declining from your main design, to serve a turn here or there.
    Wth 6.118 18 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring.
    Ctr 6.143 26 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power, which it is [the boy's] main business to learn;...
    Bhr 6.176 27 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    CbW 6.243 26 Of all wit's uses, the main one/ Is to live well with who has none./
    CbW 6.269 6 ...[conversation] is a main function of life.
    CbW 6.277 18 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.
    Elo1 7.93 3 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    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.
    Clbs 7.227 15 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind. The dinner, the walk, the fireside, all have that for their main end.
    Suc 7.300 20 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important, and filling the main space in our history.
    PI 8.30 23 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    SA 8.85 19 Self-command is the main elegance.
    SA 8.86 19 The attitude is the main point...
    SA 8.96 23 The main point is to throw yourself on the truth...
    Elo2 8.129 25 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence], of power of statement...
    QO 8.177 5 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction, which constitutes the main business of their life.
    PPo 8.243 19 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...and the main story.
    Insp 8.271 22 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance.
    Dem1 10.23 17 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
    Chr2 10.122 3 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    Edc1 10.152 26 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance...
    SlHr 10.445 16 Society had reason to cherish [Samuel Hoar], for he was a main pillar on which it leaned.
    LS 11.4 5 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    EPro 11.323 1 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.
    ALin 11.336 13 [Lincoln]...had seen the main army of the rebellion lay down its arms.
    PLT 12.48 19 The grasp is the main thing.
    Milt1 12.249 18 Eager to do fit justice to each thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main argument.
    Milt1 12.250 15 To insult Salmasius, not to acquit England, is the main design [of Milton's Defence of the English People].
    Milt1 12.270 11 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself.
    ACri 12.293 18 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters, and are main sources of the delight they give.
    ACri 12.296 18 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of, and did not write up to it, but could write down (a main secret)...
    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    PPr 12.388 21 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits, beginning with the main one that he never wrote one dull line.

Main, Frankfort on the, Ger (1)

    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...

main, n. (11)

    NMW 4.235 15 Having decided what was to be done, [Napoleon] did that with might and main.
    ET2 5.33 2 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET4 5.58 17 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main...
    Wth 6.91 20 The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
    Ctr 6.157 18 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it; and that is, in the main, unfavorable.
    SS 7.1 19 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...
    Farm 7.144 15 The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main.
    OA 7.321 21 Nature, in the main, vindicates her law [of time].
    LLNE 10.361 1 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of young people...
    ACiv 11.296 1 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
    PLT 12.54 16 [The tree or the brook] is, with all its might and main, what it is...

Main River, Germany, n. (1)

    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...

Maine..., History of... [Wm (1)

    War 11.159 5 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

Maine Law, n. (2)

    Supl 10.163 6 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
    SlHr 10.447 7 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

Maine, n. (13)

    SR 2.88 23 ...with each new uproar of announcement...The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    ET2 5.26 17 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    Ill 6.324 26 ...in the obscurest hamlet in Maine or California, the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    EzRy 10.390 19 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    MMEm 10.401 14 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine...
    MMEm 10.405 8 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    MMEm 10.414 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in Maine...
    Thor 10.473 18 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian.
    Thor 10.474 6 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...
    LVB 11.92 26 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men, from Maine to Georgia, does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
    FSLC 11.197 13 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    CPL 11.499 8 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine...
    FRep 11.526 16 In Maine, nearly every man is a lumberer.

mainly, adv. (34)

    MR 1.227 8 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    Hsm1 2.245 1 In the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    Int 2.332 16 Every intellection is mainly prospective.
    Int 2.336 26 [The imaginative vocabulary] does not flow from experience only or mainly...
    Mrs1 3.139 8 The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.
    Pol1 3.204 4 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...mainly because there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    PPh 4.43 8 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    MoS 4.161 8 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and events; but mainly men.
    ET1 5.4 9 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET4 5.54 27 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three.
    ET4 5.55 20 The English come mainly from the Germans...
    ET4 5.66 11 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET7 5.119 25 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET18 5.303 22 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
    Bhr 6.176 9 Manners are partly factitious, but mainly there must be capacity for culture in the blood.
    Bhr 6.182 16 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners...
    CbW 6.258 23 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    Ill 6.323 15 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter; and our civilization mainly respects it.
    Clbs 7.227 12 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk. The physician helps them mainly in the same way...
    Clbs 7.229 20 Mainly [the student] must have leave to be himself.
    Suc 7.289 26 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing, which are what a wise man mainly cares for in his companion.
    Res 8.151 7 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    PPo 8.237 12 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
    Insp 8.280 8 Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces;...
    Aris 10.64 15 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests...
    Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    EzRy 10.384 6 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    Carl 10.489 4 [Carlyle] is not mainly a scholar...
    HDC 11.42 20 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    EWI 11.138 5 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    EWI 11.142 23 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites;...
    FSLN 11.218 1 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    SMC 11.366 17 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    FRep 11.533 14 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men; and mainly the expensiveness which is ruining that country.

mainmast, n. [main-mast,] (2)

    ET2 5.28 3 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet;...
    Schr 10.284 3 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things, and if [the scholar] has none of them, he can still manage, if he have the main-mast,- if he is anything.

mainspring, n. (1)

    FRep 11.515 11 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for, and the mainspring that works daily urges them to hazard all...the better code of laws at last records the victory.

main-springs, n. (1)

    Boks 7.217 1 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...

maintain, v. (22)

    Con 1.298 27 ...reform [is] more disposed to maintain and increase its own [worth].
    Hist 2.9 1 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
    SR 2.54 8 If you maintain a dead church...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    OS 2.284 3 It was left to [Christ's] disciples...to teach the immortality of the soul as a doctrine, and maintain it by evidences.
    Pol1 3.214 13 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption;...
    SwM 4.119 14 The principal powers continued to maintain a healthy action [in Swedenborg]...
    NMW 4.236 27 Conquest has made me what I am [said Napoleon], and conquest must maintain me.
    ET16 5.278 15 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    Wth 6.90 22 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man...has himself to thank if he do not maintain and improve his position in society.
    Wsp 6.209 13 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    CbW 6.263 5 ...every man shall maintain himself...
    Civ 7.25 10 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    PI 8.41 9 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to...maintain their stock alive, and multiply;...
    Elo2 8.130 20 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.
    Aris 10.57 12 Let [a true aristocrat]...stand for that which he was born and set to maintain.
    MoL 10.250 16 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.
    HDC 11.42 5 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    FSLC 11.183 8 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...
    JBB 11.272 4 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age maintain./
    FRep 11.527 4 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...understanding his own rights and stiff to maintain them...
    Bost 12.189 22 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.

maintained, v. (22)

    Nat 1.43 24 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
    Tran 1.349 21 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
    Hsm1 2.256 4 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    Pol1 3.220 24 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    MoS 4.160 10 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence...and one that can be maintained;...
    ET4 5.46 10 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
    ET4 5.58 7 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
    ET5 5.97 22 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen.
    ET5 5.97 25 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt...
    ET12 5.201 5 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved and maintained by the university [Oxford].
    ET14 5.243 8 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age]. These heights could not be maintained.
    ET18 5.302 2 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality and peremptorily maintained.
    DL 7.112 11 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
    Chr2 10.121 18 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    LS 11.4 10 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
    War 11.174 11 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...
    FSLN 11.234 14 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good, and to be maintained by Union societies.
    Koss 11.398 7 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained.
    Milt1 12.266 26 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    Milt1 12.271 19 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.
    Milt1 12.271 25 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty...
    Milt1 12.272 3 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce...

maintaining, v. (3)

    Con 1.321 10 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    ET8 5.131 4 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity.
    Ill 6.314 26 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...

maintains, v. (6)

    Con 1.314 15 ...there is...no man who from the beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective institutions;...
    MoS 4.149 18 [A man] builds his fortunes, maintains the laws...but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    ET16 5.281 18 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun, as Davies in the Celtic Researches maintains?
    Civ 7.25 7 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Grts 8.303 4 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    FSLN 11.239 23 England maintains trade, not liberty;...

maintenance, n. (5)

    MR 1.241 15 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    YA 1.376 26 Each chief attaches as many followers as he can, by kindness, maintenance, and gifts;...
    Pol1 3.208 25 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    Pow 6.55 8 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries, the maintenance of bodily strength requiring it...
    AsSu 11.249 23 [Charles Sumner] has never faltered in his maintenance of justice and freedom.

Maintenon, Francoise, Marqu (1)

    SA 8.95 9 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.

Mainz [Mentz], Germany, adj (1)

    ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...

Mainz [Mentz], Germany, n. (1)

    ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...

maize, n. (1)

    MN 1.203 9 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...

majestic, adj. (29)

    DSA 1.133 14 When I see a majestic Epaminondas...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    LE 1.179 11 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    LT 1.259 12 The Times are...tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise;...
    Chr1 3.109 7 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance...
    Chr1 3.113 23 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Nat2 3.170 7 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom.
    Nat2 3.178 14 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    SwM 4.142 4 Shall the archangels be less majestic and sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
    ShP 4.194 2 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
    ShP 4.217 16 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have, through the majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    ET9 5.147 15 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
    ET14 5.250 3 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    CbW 6.273 11 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair...
    Elo1 7.72 12 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other; but, both sitting, Ulysses was more majestic.
    DL 7.125 21 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man]...
    WD 7.183 9 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic.
    Boks 7.202 26 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.219 4 All these [sacred] books are the majestic expressions of the universal conscience...
    Chr2 10.97 24 ...in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...
    Chr2 10.119 10 ...[the infant soul] finds himself face to face with the majestic Presence...
    Edc1 10.130 10 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age, but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...
    MoL 10.249 3 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought. Calm pleasures here abide, majestic pains./
    Plu 10.322 13 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    HDC 11.39 4 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    FRep 11.530 21 Never country had such a fortune...as this, in its geography, its history, and in its majestic possibilities.
    MAng1 12.229 18 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.
    Milt1 12.267 16 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    MLit 12.332 25 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...
    WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...

majestical, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.348 9 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!

majestically, adv. (1)

    WD 7.170 18 [The days] are majestically dressed...

majesty, n. (30)

    DSA 1.122 18 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    LE 1.179 12 ...the modern majesty consists in work.
    Tran 1.337 12 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    YA 1.370 22 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    SR 2.46 1 ...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    SR 2.59 20 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field...
    Hsm1 2.254 14 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
    Mrs1 3.149 11 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.
    Gts 3.164 27 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love...
    GoW 4.273 9 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty to trifles...
    ET11 5.186 3 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    F 6.5 9 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its majesty without a question.
    F 6.26 26 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted, the impersonality...that engage us.
    Pow 6.63 12 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Elo1 7.98 3 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments; their majesty is felt by the most obdurate.
    DL 7.130 24 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...for they know by heart the whole instinct of majesty.
    SA 8.81 20 Who teaches manners of majesty...
    Elo2 8.114 1 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...
    Res 8.153 18 Resources of Man...it is the power of passion, the majesty of virtue and the omnipotence of will.
    Comc 8.163 10 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
    Comc 8.170 19 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
    HDC 11.69 24 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    FSLC 11.185 19 The learning of the universities...the majesty of the Bench...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
    FSLC 11.192 12 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    Wom 11.410 24 ...[man] invented majesty and the etiquette of courts and drawing-rooms;...
    CInt 12.113 10 Here [in the college], is, or should be, the majesty of reason and the creative cause;...
    Bost 12.210 2 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    MAng1 12.222 11 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    Milt1 12.261 4 ...soaring into unattempted strains, [Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...

Majesty, n. (2)

    ET15 5.269 12 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself...
    Wsp 6.233 14 [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? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty.

majesty's, n. (3)

    ET2 5.33 5 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters. The sea is bounded by his majesty's empire.
    War 11.159 13 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    FSLC 11.192 7 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...

Majesty's, n. (1)

    YA 1.393 27 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.

major, adj. (3)

    ET5 5.80 21 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET5 5.80 26 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...
    Elo2 8.131 12 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?

major, n. (2)

    SMC 11.365 1 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    SMC 11.365 17 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...

majorities, n. (6)

    NMW 4.235 23 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    F 6.13 27 The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations...
    Pow 6.63 9 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
    Aris 10.35 2 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice...in the will of majorities.
    EWI 11.113 22 After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] passed by large majorities.
    EdAd 11.389 14 The facility of majorities is no protection from the natural sequence of their own acts.

majority, n. (25)

    DSA 1.127 21 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
    DSA 1.149 8 There are...men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    MR 1.236 3 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    Tran 1.333 4 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers, or extent of space...
    YA 1.369 22 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...
    YA 1.391 1 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
    Pt1 3.5 22 ...the great majority of men seem to be minors...
    Mrs1 3.129 10 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Pol1 3.204 26 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.
    NMW 4.242 23 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    ET8 5.134 13 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...wise minority, as well as foolish majority;...
    ET10 5.154 20 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    ET15 5.270 8 [The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority, but of the commanding class.
    Pow 6.54 23 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...
    CbW 6.248 27 Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority?
    CbW 6.252 13 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    CbW 6.252 15 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority are unripe...
    Cour 7.257 22 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    PerF 10.86 19 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety, so that when canvassed we shall be found to be made up of a majority of reckless self-seekers.
    Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...outvotes the true men by millions of majority...
    HDC 11.68 18 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
    EWI 11.134 9 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    FSLC 11.207 14 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority.
    PPr 12.387 4 Each age has its own follies, as its majority is made up of foolish young people;...

Makaria [Goethe, Wilhelm M (2)

    OA 7.330 27 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    Res 8.150 23 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.

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