Man's to Map

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

man's, n. (208)

    Nat 1.4 2 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
    Nat 1.28 21 ...is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons?
    Nat 1.29 22 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Nat 1.59 15 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life, that is, of man's connection with nature.
    AmS 1.107 6 [The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's light...
    DSA 1.129 19 [Jesus]...felt that man's life was a miracle...
    DSA 1.146 4 ...the imitator...bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
    LE 1.158 15 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power] is not his, nor any man's...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    LE 1.162 26 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day.
    LE 1.177 1 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language,-the subtlest...of man's creations...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    MN 1.208 16 Is not this the theory of every man's genius or faculty?
    MN 1.209 4 A man's wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary...
    MR 1.251 19 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
    LT 1.267 1 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us; so is man's life.
    Con 1.295 14 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every hour.
    Con 1.298 13 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...
    Tran 1.340 10 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
    YA 1.375 5 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    Hist 2.4 25 Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind...
    SR 2.46 11 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
    SR 2.79 22 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of...man's relation to the Highest.
    SL 2.129 3 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...
    SL 2.132 15 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These...never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them.
    SL 2.137 27 We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope...
    SL 2.143 25 A man's genius...determines for him the character of the universe.
    SL 2.154 9 ...a public...not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Fdsp 2.206 7 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...
    Fdsp 2.212 24 ...love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
    Prd1 2.224 27 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world, whereby man's being is conditioned, as they are...
    Prd1 2.240 17 Every man's imagination hath its friends;...
    Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.268 23 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...
    OS 2.269 22 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.278 3 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name...
    OS 2.279 26 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.279 26 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.288 15 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
    Cir 2.307 6 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Cir 2.307 13 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
    Cir 2.308 3 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
    Cir 2.315 26 One man's justice is another's injustice;...
    Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's beauty [is] another's ugliness;...
    Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly;...
    Int 2.329 24 In every man's mind, some images...remain...which others forget...
    Int 2.338 27 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    Int 2.343 11 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers...
    Exp 3.47 4 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    Exp 3.47 17 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Exp 3.58 1 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the history of every man's bread...
    Exp 3.66 3 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Chr1 3.95 12 The reason why we feel one man's presence and do not feel another's is as simple as gravity.
    Chr1 3.102 20 ...[the hero] cannot...wait to unravel any man's blunders;...
    Mrs1 3.123 10 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    Mrs1 3.130 20 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Mrs1 3.132 14 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.132 20 ...we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
    Gts 3.161 18 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    Gts 3.161 19 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift, and every man's wealth is an index of his merit.
    Nat2 3.195 21 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    Pol1 3.199 6 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    Pol1 3.203 12 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    Pol1 3.213 27 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
    NR 3.245 23 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
    NER 3.254 16 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    NER 3.271 10 It would be easy to show, by a narrow scanning of any man' s biography, that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.278 22 ...each man's innocence and his real liking of his neighbor have kept [the proposition of depravity] a dead letter.
    NER 3.279 18 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    UGM 4.27 13 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    PPh 4.44 26 [Plato] stands between the truth and every man's mind...
    SwM 4.126 25 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...
    SwM 4.136 5 My learning is such as God gave me...in the delight and study of my eyes and not of another man's.
    SwM 4.141 21 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    MoS 4.158 18 It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue come...
    ShP 4.199 23 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work...
    ShP 4.210 2 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    NMW 4.239 8 There have been many working kings...but none who accomplished a tithe of this man's [Napoleon's] performance.
    NMW 4.247 17 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.
    GoW 4.272 25 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    GoW 4.273 17 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET1 5.14 11 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old:--so delicate and skilful was that man's touch.
    ET2 5.33 9 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system...
    ET5 5.79 14 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET5 5.92 2 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind...
    ET6 5.113 23 [In London] Every one dresses for dinner, in his own house, or in another man's.
    ET8 5.130 21 [The English] doubt a man's sound judgment if he does not eat with appetite...
    ET9 5.148 12 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
    ET12 5.209 7 The university is a decided presumption in any man's favor [in England].
    ET13 5.230 17 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they are only perpetuations of some private man's dissent...
    F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin...
    F 6.19 26 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
    F 6.41 24 A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
    F 6.41 25 A man's friends are his magnetisms.
    F 6.44 2 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain. Here they are, within reach of every man's day-labor...
    Pow 6.53 1 There is not yet any inventory of a man's faculties...
    Wth 6.90 26 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.
    Wth 6.95 8 The rich take up something more of the world into man's life.
    Wth 6.97 1 ...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living... should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.102 15 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.104 26 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Wth 6.106 24 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.112 1 ...each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    Wth 6.115 18 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wth 6.121 26 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...shooting through this man's cellar and that man's attic window...
    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/...
    Ctr 6.137 16 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Ctr 6.166 7 Man's culture can spare nothing...
    Wsp 6.230 1 How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have forgotten all his words!
    Wsp 6.232 17 Every man's task is his life-preserver.
    Wsp 6.239 16 [Immortality] is a doctrine too great to rest...on any man's experience but our own.
    CbW 6.261 5 The first-class minds...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    Civ 7.20 5 The Indians of this country have not learned the white man's work;...
    Civ 7.24 12 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
    Elo1 7.90 26 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts...do often hinder a man's attainment of [eloquence].
    DL 7.109 14 A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money...
    DL 7.119 21 The poor man's son is educated.
    DL 7.124 14 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
    DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
    DL 7.132 8 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
    Boks 7.189 24 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
    Boks 7.209 7 ...a man's library is a sort of harem...
    Cour 7.253 10 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    OA 7.320 12 We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.
    OA 7.328 22 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings.
    PI 8.6 11 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
    PI 8.9 21 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    PI 8.23 6 A man's action is only a picture-book of his creed.
    PI 8.51 27 Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
    PI 8.68 18 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    Res 8.142 23 ...geography and geology are yielding to man's convenience...
    Comc 8.159 8 In virtue of man's access to Reason, or the Whole, the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
    QO 8.177 15 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.181 22 Mythology is no man's work;...
    QO 8.192 18 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
    PPo 8.239 1 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.
    Insp 8.271 13 The man's insight and power are interrupted and occasional;...
    Grts 8.303 14 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Grts 8.303 20 If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as well snub the sun.
    Grts 8.307 19 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path, with more or less variation from any other man's.
    Grts 8.320 6 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    Imtl 8.343 10 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints; and these by any man's suffering are enlarged and enthroned.
    Imtl 8.343 27 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man's faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him.
    Imtl 8.344 15 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Imtl 8.348 17 Within every man's thought is a higher thought...
    Dem1 10.10 20 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Dem1 10.12 12 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    Aris 10.45 5 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Aris 10.47 16 Let a man's social aims be proportioned to his means and power.
    Aris 10.58 8 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures...
    Aris 10.60 8 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...
    PerF 10.86 22 Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
    Chr2 10.96 20 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.
    Supl 10.168 8 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
    Supl 10.177 8 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    SovE 10.210 26 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous, and that he...should like to be the friend of some man's virtue?...
    Prch 10.220 6 In proportion to a man's want of goodness, it seems to him another and not himself;...
    Prch 10.226 17 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Plu 10.299 2 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use, and with a wise man's or a poet's eye.
    Plu 10.307 27 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's...
    GSt 10.504 20 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior...
    HDC 11.30 2 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    HDC 11.62 14 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    HDC 11.62 15 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    LVB 11.94 4 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.99 20 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...
    EWI 11.121 13 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    EWI 11.134 21 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no valuable business to throw into any man's hands...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    War 11.151 4 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...
    War 11.160 20 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is no man's invention...
    War 11.164 7 Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of some man's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities...
    War 11.164 27 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    War 11.174 16 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life;...
    FSLC 11.186 21 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.187 14 A man's right to liberty is as inalienable as his right to life.
    FSLN 11.223 16 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
    FSLN 11.237 19 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties;...
    AKan 11.262 8 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
    TPar 11.285 4 I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense.
    EPro 11.322 2 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery]...
    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...
    Wom 11.426 18 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
    SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...ale, the poor man's wine;...
    RBur 11.443 9 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    Humb 11.457 9 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    CPL 11.501 24 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    FRep 11.518 18 We do not choose our own candidate, no, nor any other man's first choice...
    PLT 12.34 25 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention...
    PLT 12.37 2 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition...
    PLT 12.40 26 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from any man's saying so...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.49 19 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
    PLT 12.57 19 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    II 12.65 21 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...
    II 12.66 1 't is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    Mem 12.96 18 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought;...
    Mem 12.105 26 ...each man's memory is in the line of his action.
    CL 12.141 18 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    Milt1 12.248 8 ...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
    Milt1 12.255 9 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.
    Milt1 12.278 16 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition...
    MLit 12.331 16 [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...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature.
    PPr 12.382 14 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had...
    Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...

mans, v. (1)

    Insp 8.294 18 Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

Manse, Concord, Massachuset (1)

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

Mansfield, Lord [William M (8)

    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET15 5.262 2 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    EWI 11.105 27 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
    EWI 11.106 11 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    FSLC 11.191 11 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void. Chief Justice Hobart, Chief Justice Holt, and Chief Justice Mansfield held the same.
    FSLC 11.191 12 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.214 5 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.225 23 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.

Mansfield's, Earl of [Willi (2)

    Elo1 7.88 12 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.

Mansfield's, Lord [William (1)

    EWI 11.106 13 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.

Mansfields, n. (1)

    ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;--Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...

mansion, n. (3)

    Imtl 8.323 14 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm;...
    EWI 11.122 17 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...
    Wom 11.413 19 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./

mansion-house, n. (1)

    ET4 5.65 20 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house...

mansions, n. (3)

    ET17 5.293 14 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England]...
    Clbs 7.238 13 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
    MMEm 10.409 18 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.

man-stealers, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 9 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...

mansuetude, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 8 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star, full of mansuetude and nobleness...

mantelpieces, n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 6 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...

mantle, n. (4)

    DL 7.123 9 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle...
    DL 7.123 10 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    HDC 11.61 8 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HCom 11.340 4 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./

Mantle, The Boy and the, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 1 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...

mantle, v. (2)

    Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    SA 8.77 6 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./

manual, adj. (18)

    MR 1.234 25 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    MR 1.235 8 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part...in the manual labor of the world.
    MR 1.236 11 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    MR 1.236 15 The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete...
    MR 1.236 24 Manual labor is the study of the external world.
    MR 1.241 14 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    Tran 1.349 23 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    YA 1.382 14 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...
    Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    SL 2.137 15 All our manual labor and works of strength...are done by dint of continual falling...
    Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
    NER 3.256 26 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    NER 3.264 5 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
    NER 3.268 27 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...
    DL 7.116 18 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    DL 7.116 20 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    Schr 10.272 15 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in manual work or in household affairs;...
    Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...

manuals, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 17 We import trifles...manuels of Gothic architecture, steam-made ornaments.

manufactories, n. (2)

    NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    Wth 6.94 25 To be rich is...to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

manufactory, n. (3)

    YA 1.369 21 ...he who merely uses it as a support...to his manufactory, values [the land] less.
    Civ 7.25 12 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    GSt 10.506 2 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.

manufacture, n. (12)

    AmS 1.96 3 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
    LT 1.270 6 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics...of the Wine-question, of the equity of the manufacture and the trade, is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    ET5 5.83 27 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples...
    Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...
    PI 8.50 3 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is no manufacture...
    Aris 10.65 5 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of...manufacture...
    PerF 10.79 15 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself...learned chemistry and acquainted himself with all the conditions of the manufacture.
    Supl 10.178 5 ...all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.
    Supl 10.178 16 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and family cloths.
    MoL 10.245 24 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    Thor 10.473 20 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe...

manufacture, v. (4)

    ET3 5.41 25 ...these Britons...are sure of a market for all the goods they can manufacture.
    ET14 5.256 6 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill...
    Suc 7.284 17 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to make gunpowder, I can manufacture it.
    CL 12.146 5 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...

manufactured, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.155 7 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers, as it must raise the price of labor and of manufactured goods.

manufactured, v. (2)

    ET14 5.251 11 ...much of [English] aesthetic production is antiquarian and manufactured...
    FRep 11.534 9 We lose our invention and descend into imitation. A man no longer conducts his own life. It is manufactured for him.

manufacturer, n. (12)

    MR 1.233 2 I do not charge the merchant or the manufacturer.
    YA 1.366 19 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread, whilst the manufacturer or the trader, who is not wanted, cannot...
    NER 3.253 11 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as...that...of the manufacturer...
    ET5 5.84 4 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    Pow 6.76 4 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.
    Wth 6.107 7 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...
    Farm 7.144 12 Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.
    Res 8.143 23 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.
    Res 8.148 9 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
    PerF 10.79 10 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    Thor 10.451 16 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils...
    GSt 10.505 1 ...an active and intelligent manufacturer and merchant... [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.

manufacturers, n. (11)

    MR 1.237 15 It is Smith himself, and his...manufacturers;...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    NMW 4.250 25 ...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted; they were manufacturers of phrases.
    ET8 5.129 26 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET10 5.155 6 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
    Clbs 7.246 18 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    Suc 7.293 13 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details, and not to the manufacturers who now make their gain by it;...
    Schr 10.269 5 ...the lawyers and the manufacturers, are idealists...
    EWI 11.126 5 It was very easy for manufacturers less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manchester to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    FSLC 11.181 12 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FRep 11.511 11 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...
    FRep 11.512 5 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune.

manufactures, n. (16)

    AmS 1.98 3 Years are well spent...in the insight into trades and manufactures;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    YA 1.378 14 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
    YA 1.383 4 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    ET5 5.84 25 [The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
    ET5 5.96 14 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products, but on its manufactures...
    ET7 5.120 6 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
    ET8 5.142 13 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
    ET18 5.300 5 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Wth 6.107 5 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they...in large manufactures, are seen to do.
    PI 8.37 6 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...
    Elo2 8.112 13 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc.
    PC 8.210 19 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!...
    PC 8.221 3 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in manufactures, in astronomy...
    EWI 11.141 1 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    EdAd 11.383 15 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.

manufacturing, adj. (11)

    MN 1.192 5 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village...
    YA 1.383 1 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
    ET3 5.39 18 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
    ET4 5.53 7 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET5 5.96 3 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET5 5.96 23 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET10 5.157 2 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation...
    Elo2 8.132 19 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that of political advice and persuasion...
    Res 8.138 26 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming from a wretched garret in an inland manufacturing town for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    LLNE 10.358 9 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence, as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had done.
    FRep 11.511 22 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works, and called their manufacturing village Etruria.

manufacturing, v. (2)

    F 6.28 21 There is no manufacturing a strong will.
    Wom 11.425 2 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion...

manumit, v. (1)

    ACiv 11.301 7 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.

manumitted, v. (2)

    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    EWI 11.113 2 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted;...

manure, n. (7)

    Nat 1.72 17 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by manure;...
    LLNE 10.352 15 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    HDC 11.34 26 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives, about the bigness of a herring. These served them also for manure.
    HDC 11.55 12 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    FRep 11.520 17 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    AgMs 12.361 20 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...
    AgMs 12.361 23 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

manured, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.205 5 Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
    Farm 7.147 24 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger...

manures, n. (4)

    YA 1.381 23 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture and ruinous expense of manures...
    NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming...
    Pow 6.56 24 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
    CbW 6.259 19 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures.

manuscript, adj. (4)

    LE 1.170 11 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    ET12 5.203 9 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
    ET12 5.203 11 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...a manuscript Virgil of the same century;...
    CPL 11.499 6 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...

manuscript, n. (6)

    SwM 4.110 26 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    ShP 4.192 24 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ET12 5.203 27 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    Bhr 6.182 7 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de la demarche...
    Boks 7.209 14 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
    MMEm 10.402 17 Nobody can read in [Mary Moody Emerson's] manuscript, or recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...

manuscripts, n. (6)

    ShP 4.193 9 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. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts.
    ET11 5.188 15 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Saxon manuscripts...
    ET12 5.203 16 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
    Grts 8.314 16 [Napoleon] has left a library of manuscripts...
    Thor 10.482 7 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...
    EdAd 11.391 8 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.

man-worthiness, n. (1)

    MN 1.220 15 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!

manworthy, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.134 20 Our culture has truckled to the times,-to the senses. It is not manworthy.

many, adj. (759)

    Nat 1.7 14 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...forms of many trees...
    Nat 1.33 8 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions...
    Nat 1.39 21 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    Nat 1.45 13 When [the human form] appears among so many that surround it, the spirit prefers it to all others.
    Nat 1.63 21 ...when...we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    Nat 1.73 8 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;...
    AmS 1.83 16 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters...
    AmS 1.83 20 Man is thus metamorphosed...into many things.
    AmS 1.93 14 The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.
    AmS 1.97 5 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
    AmS 1.98 4 Years are well spent...in frank intercourse with many men and women;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    DSA 1.120 17 Behold these infinite relations...many, yet one.
    DSA 1.122 2 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.136 14 In how many churches...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    DSA 1.136 15 In how many churches, by how many prophets...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    LE 1.156 2 ...because the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men, he is not one, but many.
    LE 1.185 7 ...I thought that standing, as many of you now do, on the threshold of this College...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MN 1.208 13 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom...
    MN 1.221 6 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    MR 1.228 8 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world...escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can...
    MR 1.231 19 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    MR 1.234 24 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    MR 1.236 2 When many persons shall have done this, when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    MR 1.249 18 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope.
    LT 1.266 8 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?
    LT 1.267 5 ...many another star has turned out to be a planet or an asteroid...
    LT 1.273 9 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    LT 1.286 1 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall destroy the value of many kinds of property and replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Con 1.307 24 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment, a man of many virtues...
    Con 1.308 2 I have...toiled honestly and painfully for very many years.
    Con 1.313 21 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a poet...
    Con 1.313 22 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a poet...
    Con 1.315 4 ...[Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    Con 1.315 9 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Con 1.318 24 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Tran 1.338 8 We have had many harbingers and forerunners;...
    Tran 1.340 26 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.342 2 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be...common to many...
    Tran 1.344 26 So many promising youths, and never a finished man!
    Tran 1.356 17 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such...alienations and misgivings,-they have so many moods about it;...
    YA 1.376 25 Each chief attaches as many followers as he can...
    YA 1.380 23 These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of many usages in common life...
    YA 1.385 4 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    YA 1.394 10 The English have many virtues, many advantages...
    YA 1.394 11 The English have many virtues, many advantages...
    Hist 2.9 20 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers...
    Hist 2.10 13 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
    Hist 2.13 16 Genius detects...through many species the genus;...
    Hist 2.14 14 How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character!
    Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    Hist 2.29 16 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Hist 2.32 18 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    Hist 2.40 12 How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople!
    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.74 21 [My own perfect circle] denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties.
    Comp 2.93 24 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.103 8 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time and so does not become distinct until after many years.
    Comp 2.106 12 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
    Comp 2.108 14 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find, but in the study of many you would abstract as the spirit of them all.
    Comp 2.119 16 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one...
    Comp 2.125 7 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    SL 2.162 6 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting many unlike tendencies...
    Lov1 2.174 18 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.182 23 ...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Fdsp 2.189 6 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Fdsp 2.191 5 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Fdsp 2.191 8 How many we see in the street...whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Fdsp 2.194 12 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...
    Fdsp 2.199 8 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
    Fdsp 2.199 9 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
    Fdsp 2.200 2 It makes no difference how many friends I have...if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
    Prd1 2.227 24 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
    Prd1 2.235 24 How many words and promises are promises of conversation!
    Hsm1 2.245 18 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following.
    Hsm1 2.253 2 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    Hsm1 2.258 16 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men who never ripened...
    OS 2.270 14 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.278 8 We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound...
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority.
    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Cir 2.302 27 You admire this tower of granite, weathering the hurts of so many ages.
    Cir 2.306 27 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Cir 2.315 9 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril. In many years neither is harmed by such an accident.
    Cir 2.315 16 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Cir 2.319 6 ...old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names...
    Int 2.338 22 ...there are many competent judges of the best book...
    Int 2.339 2 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    Int 2.343 25 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...seemed to many young men in this country.
    Art1 2.356 27 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
    Art1 2.359 22 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works...are the contributions of many ages and many countries;...
    Art1 2.361 11 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
    Art1 2.361 13 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations.
    Pt1 3.19 10 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    Pt1 3.19 14 The spiritual fact remains unalterable, by many or by few particulars;...
    Pt1 3.24 17 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity...
    Pt1 3.25 27 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song, subordinating how many admirably executed parts.
    Pt1 3.30 22 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines...a figure to be a bound of solid; and many the like.
    Pt1 3.33 4 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...
    Pt1 3.36 16 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses; and many the like misappearances.
    Pt1 3.37 10 Time and nature yield us many gifts...
    Pt1 3.40 4 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by what accident it is that these are exposed, when so many secrets sleep in nature!
    Exp 3.45 6 ...there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
    Exp 3.47 13 How many individuals can we count in society?...
    Exp 3.47 14 How many individuals can we count in society? how many actions? how many opinions?
    Exp 3.49 3 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.64 17 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...
    Exp 3.69 22 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.69 25 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
    Exp 3.75 9 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Exp 3.76 23 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Exp 3.80 16 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...
    Exp 3.80 17 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...
    Exp 3.83 11 I have seen many fair pictures not in vain.
    Exp 3.85 3 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Chr1 3.93 13 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly how many firm acts have been done;...
    Chr1 3.93 14 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have uttered ruinous yeas.
    Chr1 3.98 2 We boast our emancipation from many superstitions;...
    Chr1 3.100 22 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few.
    Chr1 3.101 18 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have attempted it since, and not been equal to it.
    Chr1 3.103 27 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...
    Chr1 3.107 21 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    Chr1 3.108 26 We have seen many counterfeits, but we are born believers in great men.
    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 3.115 17 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    Chr1 3.115 19 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track...
    Mrs1 3.120 13 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Mrs1 3.121 17 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition, whilst so many gases are combined only to be decompounded.
    Mrs1 3.123 9 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    Mrs1 3.132 18 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    Mrs1 3.134 8 ...what is it that we seek, in so many visits and hospitalities?
    Mrs1 3.135 9 We call together many friends who keep each other in play...
    Mrs1 3.143 22 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...
    Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.
    Gts 3.161 2 I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the Furies.
    Nat2 3.179 8 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Nat2 3.193 18 What shall we say...of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures?
    Nat2 3.194 1 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    Pol1 3.209 11 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    Pol1 3.211 26 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    Pol1 3.212 24 There is a middle measure which satisfies all parties, be they never so many or so resolute for their own.
    Pol1 3.218 10 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...and not as one act of many acts...
    NR 3.227 8 All our poets, heroes and saints, fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea...
    NR 3.230 7 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women...
    NR 3.230 22 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NR 3.233 23 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NR 3.236 22 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
    NR 3.238 21 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures...
    NR 3.241 14 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    NR 3.243 10 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see;...
    NER 3.261 1 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish;...
    NER 3.263 19 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
    NER 3.264 3 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large.
    NER 3.265 14 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    NER 3.268 6 We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
    NER 3.273 8 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    UGM 4.6 15 ...[other than great men] must...keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
    UGM 4.12 15 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    UGM 4.19 13 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.
    UGM 4.32 22 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    UGM 4.33 3 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    PPh 4.40 14 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.41 19 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus...write, or paint or act, by many hands;...
    PPh 4.48 10 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects;...
    PPh 4.48 20 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...
    PPh 4.58 8 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    PPh 4.66 26 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. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
    PPh 4.67 2 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon] does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited by associating with me.
    PPh 4.74 4 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue, before many companies...
    PPh 4.78 18 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato] remains unapproached!
    PNR 4.86 25 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    SwM 4.100 25 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to pass in his many voyages.
    SwM 4.101 26 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    SwM 4.114 13 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
    SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
    SwM 4.118 14 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.134 10 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...
    SwM 4.137 16 Under the same theologic cramp, many of [Swedenborg's] dogmas are bound.
    SwM 4.141 24 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch...
    SwM 4.143 14 With a force of many men, [Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    SwM 4.144 26 Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
    MoS 4.149 23 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy...Apparent and Real; and many fine names beside.
    MoS 4.160 2 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
    MoS 4.160 3 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    MoS 4.160 23 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    MoS 4.162 18 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book...
    MoS 4.165 7 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    MoS 4.175 1 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame, not to mention many distinguished private observers,--I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    MoS 4.176 23 What is the mean of many states; of all the states?
    ShP 4.193 12 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.193 18 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers.
    ShP 4.197 21 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced. One is charmed with the opulence which feeds so many pensioners.
    ShP 4.203 19 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...
    NMW 4.230 27 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food except by snatches...
    NMW 4.233 21 [Napoleon's] victories were only so many doors...
    NMW 4.239 6 There have been many working kings...
    NMW 4.248 11 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
    NMW 4.249 25 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    NMW 4.255 6 As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I may have as many pretended friends as I please.
    GoW 4.275 1 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature...
    GoW 4.278 4 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many and so solid thoughts...
    GoW 4.278 6 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many good hints for the conduct of life...
    GoW 4.278 7 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere...
    GoW 4.279 13 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    GoW 4.281 2 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    GoW 4.288 4 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
    ET1 5.3 12 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET1 5.14 14 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book...
    ET1 5.20 15 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET2 5.27 18 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
    ET2 5.31 20 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET3 5.38 14 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude.
    ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    ET3 5.43 14 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets...
    ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
    ET4 5.58 13 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.62 10 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    ET4 5.62 18 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET4 5.65 11 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET5 5.80 3 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    ET5 5.80 23 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious, and they can hold many threads without entangling them.
    ET5 5.82 21 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world. If a man in England had as many enemies as hairs on his head, no harm would happen to him.
    ET5 5.90 11 Many of the great [English] leaders...are soon worked to death.
    ET5 5.99 8 Every nation has yielded some good wit, if, as has chanced to many tribes, only one.
    ET6 5.106 11 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    ET6 5.107 23 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET6 5.110 10 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    ET6 5.113 13 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat,--and has been for many hundred years.
    ET7 5.121 13 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him.
    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...great range and many moods...
    ET8 5.140 8 Haldor was not a man of many words...
    ET8 5.140 11 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many clever people about him...
    ET10 5.157 8 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.170 25 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects.
    ET11 5.172 7 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations.
    ET11 5.177 24 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    ET11 5.193 19 [English noblemen's] many houses eat them up.
    ET11 5.193 25 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants, in many houses exceeding a hundred.
    ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so many benefactors.
    ET12 5.206 9 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks, and many of them preparing to resign their fellowships.
    ET12 5.206 15 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300, and many of these are never competitors, the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.209 24 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
    ET12 5.209 25 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
    ET12 5.210 15 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    ET12 5.211 27 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET13 5.217 18 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    ET14 5.237 8 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
    ET14 5.256 3 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    ET15 5.264 25 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
    ET15 5.267 15 The daily paper [London Times] is the work of many hands...
    ET15 5.271 7 Many of [Punch's] caricatures are equal to the best pamphlets...
    ET15 5.272 13 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might not have so many men of rank among its contributors, but genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    ET16 5.274 25 ...[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 5.274 27 ...[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 5.277 21 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.283 25 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
    ET16 5.288 11 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET17 5.292 7 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
    ET17 5.293 6 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    ET17 5.294 13 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    ET17 5.297 20 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 5.309 23 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    ET19 5.313 8 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    F 6.3 21 After many experiments we find that we must begin [reform] earlier...
    F 6.8 3 Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.20 1 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
    F 6.25 11 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born and afterward we were born again, and many times.
    F 6.42 27 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Portland, and many another noisy mart.
    Pow 6.58 20 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.
    Pow 6.58 23 There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
    Pow 6.67 1 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Pow 6.72 23 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.
    Pow 6.74 18 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all;...
    Pow 6.76 6 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
    Wth 6.94 5 Is party the madness of many for the gain of a few?
    Wth 6.95 27 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    Wth 6.97 26 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
    Wth 6.98 6 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it. So of electrical and chemical apparatus, and many the like things.
    Wth 6.100 19 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Wth 6.101 23 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
    Wth 6.102 27 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...
    Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices...that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Wth 6.114 25 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many effected their purpose and made the experiment...
    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Ctr 6.137 18 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition, through many related points, to wide contrasts and extremes.
    Ctr 6.147 3 As many languages as [a man] has...so many times is he a man.
    Ctr 6.147 4 As many languages as [a man] has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
    Ctr 6.147 5 As many languages as [a man] has...so many times is he a man.
    Bhr 6.177 16 The eyes indicate...through how many forms [the soul] has already ascended.
    Bhr 6.180 12 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
    Bhr 6.188 20 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
    Bhr 6.197 22 ...'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.
    Wsp 6.201 5 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave...too many cakes to Cerberus;...
    Wsp 6.223 1 Nature created a police of many ranks.
    Wsp 6.227 21 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
    Wsp 6.230 14 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    Wsp 6.234 13 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    CbW 6.251 2 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for nursery and hospital and many functions beside...
    CbW 6.257 7 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons, with many hints of their danger...
    CbW 6.257 14 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top. This is bold practice, and there are many failures to a good escape.
    CbW 6.257 27 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
    CbW 6.261 1 ...he who is to be wise for many must not be protected.
    CbW 6.274 18 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Bty 6.282 21 Bugs and stamens and spores, on which we lavish so many years, are not finalities;...
    Bty 6.287 10 ...there are many beauties;...
    Bty 6.289 6 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.
    Bty 6.289 12 We ascribe beauty to that...which is the mean of many extremes.
    Bty 6.293 9 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    Bty 6.295 21 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...
    Ill 6.310 27 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick. But I have had many experiences like it, before and since;...
    Ill 6.313 6 ...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
    Ill 6.313 15 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, Proteus, or Momus, or Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the Titans...
    Ill 6.313 21 There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm.
    Ill 6.315 22 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    Ill 6.316 26 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books, conversed with many geniuses, am still the victim of any new page;...
    Ill 6.324 24 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    SS 7.3 14 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? He added many lively remarks...
    SS 7.6 27 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful...
    SS 7.8 6 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.
    SS 7.13 16 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies;...
    Civ 7.19 7 [Civilization] is a vague, complex name, of many degrees.
    Civ 7.19 17 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    Civ 7.28 11 ...after much thought and many experiments we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Art2 7.52 12 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
    Art2 7.52 13 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends.
    Art2 7.55 7 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate. How many orators sit mute there below!
    Elo1 7.63 14 The Welsh Triads say, Many are the friends of the golden tongue.
    Elo1 7.65 27 [Eloquence] is a power of many degrees...
    Elo1 7.66 8 There are many audiences in every public assembly...
    Elo1 7.67 12 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo1 7.67 13 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker, and of many audiences in one assembly, leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo1 7.67 17 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.70 14 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
    Elo1 7.74 14 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be, in so many cases, nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    DL 7.102 5 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    DL 7.109 22 We ask the price of many things in shops and stalls...
    DL 7.112 26 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great.
    DL 7.116 17 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    DL 7.119 22 There is many a humble house in every city...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.121 20 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    DL 7.123 16 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
    DL 7.126 10 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical...
    DL 7.127 17 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    DL 7.133 10 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained...can the labor of many for one, yield anything better, or half as good"
    Farm 7.138 7 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    Farm 7.150 14 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.
    WD 7.158 16 ...so many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over new;...
    WD 7.159 23 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...
    WD 7.164 1 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    WD 7.164 10 Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    WD 7.173 5 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked and painted under many counterfeit appearances.
    WD 7.178 2 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last.
    Boks 7.191 25 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Boks 7.194 22 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.195 12 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Boks 7.207 23 ...what with so many occasional poems...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Boks 7.209 5 Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections [toward favorite books].
    Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
    Boks 7.209 20 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
    Boks 7.211 5 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks...
    Clbs 7.238 25 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Clbs 7.243 23 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
    Clbs 7.243 25 Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.
    Clbs 7.246 3 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.
    Clbs 7.246 21 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;...
    Clbs 7.246 26 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men. Their knowledge contradicts the popular opinion and your own on many points.
    Clbs 7.249 9 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Cour 7.258 7 Lord Wellington said...When my journal appears many statues must come down.
    Suc 7.284 24 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    Suc 7.298 18 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with so many hints to his astonished senses;...
    Suc 7.299 12 Does that deep-toned bell, which has shortened many a night of ill nerves, render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    OA 7.318 15 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
    OA 7.331 4 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age...
    OA 7.333 26 [Mr. Lechmere] was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Government.
    PI 8.16 4 ...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.18 6 The thoughts are few, the forms many;...
    PI 8.22 25 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.22 26 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them.
    PI 8.36 5 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PI 8.46 5 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better, as so many proverbs may show.
    PI 8.48 14 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    PI 8.57 23 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    PI 8.60 16 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin].
    PI 8.61 15 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, for many times I have heard your words.
    PI 8.65 22 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    PI 8.67 14 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    PI 8.68 11 ...many of our later books we have outgrown.
    PI 8.68 26 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,--by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say.
    PI 8.74 5 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    SA 8.79 11 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
    SA 8.89 20 I suppose I give the experience of many when I give my own.
    SA 8.94 20 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...
    Elo2 8.110 6 ...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...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.116 26 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are interested like so many children...
    Elo2 8.120 17 Many people have no ear for music...
    Elo2 8.123 11 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.123 15 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...many of his political friends deserted him.
    Elo2 8.126 18 Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
    Elo2 8.128 7 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    Res 8.144 6 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward...
    Res 8.147 19 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    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 27 ...the uses of the woods are many...
    Comc 8.172 22 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I...have also much wealth, and many wives, yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
    QO 8.177 23 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...
    QO 8.179 6 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    QO 8.180 25 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest...
    QO 8.185 10 Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
    QO 8.186 17 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
    QO 8.191 16 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage.
    QO 8.194 10 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
    QO 8.196 15 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...
    QO 8.196 19 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London...
    QO 8.199 21 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...
    QO 8.202 25 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    PC 8.214 27 ...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PC 8.219 4 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    PC 8.219 6 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men, many thousands;...
    PC 8.227 22 It is only in the sleep of the soul that we help ourselves by so many ingenious crutches and machineries.
    PPo 8.237 14 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...
    PPo 8.237 19 ...there are many virtues in books...
    PPo 8.247 17 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    PPo 8.258 5 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./ And so onward, through many a page.
    PPo 8.265 5 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    Insp 8.278 3 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Insp 8.279 22 How many sources of inspiration can we count?
    Insp 8.279 23 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities.
    Insp 8.282 19 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    Insp 8.286 6 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./
    Insp 8.293 21 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...
    Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Insp 8.296 25 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars, in so many countries, of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    Grts 8.306 3 Many readers remember that Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Grts 8.315 15 How many men...of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Grts 8.316 14 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Imtl 8.327 25 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable...
    Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.332 14 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    Imtl 8.335 7 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.
    Imtl 8.336 22 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.
    Imtl 8.340 8 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.350 12 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth.
    Dem1 10.3 17 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Dem1 10.5 19 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated...
    Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    Dem1 10.17 3 Heeded though [the belief in luck] be in many actions and partnerships, it is not the power to which we build churches...
    Dem1 10.21 14 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant...
    Aris 10.34 5 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Aris 10.37 12 We like cool people, who...seem to have many strings to their bow...
    Aris 10.54 11 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations.
    Aris 10.65 7 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    Aris 10.65 21 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses only the outsides of cultivated men...
    PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see how many rounds of ammunition...we can bring to bear.
    PerF 10.70 2 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
    PerF 10.74 6 ...[man] seems to have as many talents as there are qualities in Nature.
    PerF 10.79 19 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...can afford many checks...
    Chr2 10.90 4 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    Chr2 10.90 6 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    Chr2 10.90 7 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    Chr2 10.96 12 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life for the sake of a truth...
    Chr2 10.101 20 I am in the habit of thinking...confirmed by what I notice in many lives-that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.102 27 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely, not many...in a generation.
    Chr2 10.105 26 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes, Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!
    Chr2 10.107 4 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Chr2 10.111 23 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors...
    Chr2 10.118 18 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Chr2 10.118 20 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Chr2 10.120 13 What would it avail me, if I could destroy my enemies? There would be as many to-morrow.
    Edc1 10.126 26 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    Edc1 10.146 3 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    Edc1 10.147 23 By many steps...the stammering boy...in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Supl 10.163 1 The doctrine of temperance is one of many degrees.
    Supl 10.168 16 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Supl 10.173 23 Superlatives must be bought by too many positives.
    SovE 10.186 8 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars (at least it is attributed to many) that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... 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).
    SovE 10.199 4 Then you find so many men infatuated on that topic [religion]!
    Prch 10.219 7 It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
    Prch 10.219 8 It is certain that...many imbecilities...will occur.
    Prch 10.224 21 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives;...
    Prch 10.234 4 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    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 10.246 4 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats and mice it will feed.
    MoL 10.257 20 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
    Schr 10.262 11 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness...
    Schr 10.268 2 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical.
    Schr 10.274 6 I thought there were as many courages as men.
    Schr 10.276 20 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
    Schr 10.277 10 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
    Schr 10.277 11 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
    Schr 10.282 25 We have many revivals of religion.
    Schr 10.283 26 [The scholar] ought to have as many talents as he can;...
    Schr 10.286 9 The scholar must be ready for...many vexations.
    Schr 10.287 13 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities...
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Plu 10.293 7 Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
    Plu 10.295 20 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
    Plu 10.298 2 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse, he had many qualities of the poet...
    Plu 10.304 2 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
    Plu 10.305 21 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation...
    Plu 10.305 23 Many [of Plutarch's discourses] are notes for disputations in the lecture-room.
    Plu 10.309 3 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    Plu 10.309 26 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
    Plu 10.310 15 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just; and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
    Plu 10.311 11 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary...
    Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    Plu 10.321 16 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
    Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    LLNE 10.329 27 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    LLNE 10.331 24 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
    LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.332 7 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.336 12 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    LLNE 10.341 16 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...
    LLNE 10.346 26 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    LLNE 10.348 11 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers...
    LLNE 10.351 5 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what gardens, what baths! What is not in one will be in another, and many will be within easy distance.
    LLNE 10.352 6 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
    LLNE 10.357 18 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and, in common with so many other good facts, the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.
    LLNE 10.358 26 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
    LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...
    LLNE 10.360 3 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.360 10 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.362 1 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.362 9 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.362 13 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    LLNE 10.364 18 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...
    LLNE 10.365 15 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    LLNE 10.365 16 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    LLNE 10.366 11 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    CSC 10.374 14 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...many persons whose church was a church of one member only.
    CSC 10.375 10 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons attended its councils.
    CSC 10.375 15 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    EzRy 10.382 17 Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the [Revolutionary] army...
    EzRy 10.391 16 Dr. Ripley had many virtues...
    EzRy 10.394 20 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer...
    EzRy 10.394 21 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer...
    MMEm 10.397 23 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    MMEm 10.397 24 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    MMEm 10.399 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's life] has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin...
    MMEm 10.401 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after...
    MMEm 10.401 15 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years.
    MMEm 10.405 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] had many acquaintances among the notables of the time;...
    MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
    MMEm 10.411 22 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    MMEm 10.424 20 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    MMEm 10.429 3 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    MMEm 10.430 25 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence, more than the blood of many a martyr who has it not.
    MMEm 10.431 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I cowering in the nest of quiet for so many years;...
    SlHr 10.442 11 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 25 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived. And in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this?......
    Thor 10.454 6 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    Thor 10.461 1 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully, by many with a sympathy that surprised themselves.
    Thor 10.466 13 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years...
    Thor 10.466 23 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion;...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.475 3 [Thoreau] would pass by many delicate rhythms [in poetry]...
    Thor 10.476 3 [Thoreau] had many reserves...
    Thor 10.476 10 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them...
    Thor 10.481 5 [Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own...
    GSt 10.503 22 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy, and of many he has been the prime mover.
    GSt 10.505 11 When one remembers...[George Stearns's] journeys and residences in many states;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.8 1 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.8 16 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.13 10 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    LS 11.13 21 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.24 26 [The pastoral office] has many duties for which I am feebly qualified.
    HDC 11.29 17 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    HDC 11.30 20 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not.
    HDC 11.33 26 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.37 6 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    HDC 11.39 8 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg...
    HDC 11.39 21 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.39 21 Many were [the settlers of Concord's] wants, but more their privileges.
    HDC 11.44 19 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.48 15 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...
    HDC 11.50 12 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    HDC 11.55 20 ...whilst many of the colonists at Boston thought to remove, or did remove to England, the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    HDC 11.59 27 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides, and, in many instances, by women.
    HDC 11.61 4 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers.
    HDC 11.72 12 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people. Sixty men enlisted and, in a few days, many more.
    HDC 11.77 18 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have deeply inspired many of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    HDC 11.85 6 ...in every part of this country, and in many foreign parts, [Concord's sons] plough the earth...
    EWI 11.99 12 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
    EWI 11.99 18 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...
    EWI 11.104 1 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter, of whom so many unpleasant things are said;...
    EWI 11.117 6 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...contrary to many sinister predictions, that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    EWI 11.122 2 There are many styles of civilization...
    EWI 11.122 4 There are many faculties in man...
    EWI 11.125 21 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    EWI 11.141 8 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    EWI 11.145 5 ...in the great anthem which we call history, a piece of many parts and vast compass...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.164 17 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    War 11.171 22 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the thunders of so many sieges...
    War 11.174 23 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.194 7 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe; too many to be bought off;...
    FSLC 11.194 7 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...too many than they can be rich, and therefore peaceable;...
    FSLC 11.204 3 [Webster] believes, in so many words, that government exists for the protection of property.
    FSLC 11.210 14 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLN 11.236 2 We have many teachers;...
    FSLN 11.244 18 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year.
    AsSu 11.247 21 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    JBB 11.268 11 Many of you have seen [John Brown]...
    TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of many good people in his auditory...
    TPar 11.287 18 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions.
    ACiv 11.299 9 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.
    EPro 11.315 1 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.320 2 With a victory like this [the Emancipation Proclamation], we can stand many disasters.
    ALin 11.332 3 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    ALin 11.332 18 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    ALin 11.333 22 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    HCom 11.340 5 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    HCom 11.340 6 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    HCom 11.341 22 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.
    HCom 11.342 23 Many of [our young men] had never handled a gun.
    HCom 11.344 21 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...
    SMC 11.348 13 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    SMC 11.354 20 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    SMC 11.358 10 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.362 18 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk.
    SMC 11.367 16 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    SMC 11.369 11 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing.
    SMC 11.375 26 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone.
    EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
    EdAd 11.391 23 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    EdAd 11.393 1 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    Koss 11.397 1 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.
    Wom 11.421 20 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.424 17 ...this appearance of new opinions, their currency and force in many minds, is itself the wonderful fact.
    SHC 11.429 6 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!
    Scot 11.464 3 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    FRO1 11.476 1 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    FRO1 11.477 10 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    FRO1 11.477 17 ...we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
    FRO1 11.479 2 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    FRO1 11.479 26 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRO2 11.486 27 ...a man of religious susceptibility, and one at the same time conversant with many men...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    CPL 11.496 14 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
    CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
    CPL 11.502 11 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    CPL 11.503 19 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man...
    CPL 11.506 20 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...
    FRep 11.517 10 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    FRep 11.517 21 [The American people] are now proceeding, instructed by their success and by their many failures, to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    FRep 11.522 7 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country reaching through so many latitudes...
    PLT 12.6 24 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.7 27 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    PLT 12.11 10 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures.
    PLT 12.11 11 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures.
    PLT 12.18 20 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...
    PLT 12.22 26 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    PLT 12.25 5 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
    PLT 12.32 10 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    PLT 12.50 1 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.
    PLT 12.55 25 The right partisan is a heady man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
    II 12.68 8 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    II 12.72 23 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration...
    II 12.75 3 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious; we must lose many days to gain one;...
    II 12.83 17 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation.
    II 12.85 7 Is there only one courage, one gratitude, one benevolence? No, but as many as there are men.
    Mem 12.101 25 Who can judge the new book? He who has read many books.
    Mem 12.101 27 Who, [can judge] the new assertion? He who has heard many the like.
    Mem 12.108 7 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.
    Mem 12.108 26 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed, many hours or days.
    Mem 12.108 27 In dreams a rush of many thoughts...and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CInt 12.129 22 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
    CL 12.139 22 ...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 12.141 25 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs, or a long gallop of many miles in the saddle...
    CL 12.144 14 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    CL 12.150 13 I think sometimes how many days could Methuselah go out and find something new!
    CL 12.152 7 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    CL 12.158 1 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.158 2 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop, and many who have not, of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.158 23 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many men begin with good resolution, but they do not hold out...
    CL 12.161 12 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
    CW 12.169 1 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...
    CW 12.172 22 ...there are many who can enjoy to one that can create [a good garden].
    CW 12.175 12 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
    Bost 12.186 13 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs, with as many and as tempting rewards to toil;...
    Bost 12.186 14 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.
    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    Bost 12.190 4 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth pierce many days' journey into the entrails of that country.
    Bost 12.191 23 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
    Bost 12.192 7 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.
    Bost 12.195 23 Many and rich are the fruits of that simple statute [establishing schools in Massachusetts].
    Bost 12.197 1 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MAng1 12.239 4 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
    MAng1 12.239 21 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    Milt1 12.254 23 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    Milt1 12.258 26 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.260 19 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    Milt1 12.261 11 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...
    Milt1 12.262 10 ...[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...like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.262 16 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind, because in him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in him humanity rights itself;...
    Milt1 12.262 23 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.
    Milt1 12.266 25 [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 12.268 13 For the first time since many ages, the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
    Milt1 12.278 17 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    ACri 12.284 23 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators...
    ACri 12.285 8 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
    ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    ACri 12.302 14 [Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too windy and grassy...
    MLit 12.320 10 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things, and so he describes each as one who knows many and all.
    MLit 12.323 27 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    MLit 12.324 6 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    MLit 12.325 11 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy; and many the like examples.
    MLit 12.329 18 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    MLit 12.329 20 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    MLit 12.332 12 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.
    WSL 12.337 17 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years; nor will he remember the fact as many minutes after it has been told him...
    WSL 12.342 13 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
    WSL 12.346 24 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    WSL 12.348 15 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.
    WSL 12.348 24 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature;...
    WSL 12.349 4 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    Pray 12.351 2 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...
    Pray 12.356 2 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!
    AgMs 12.358 21 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer, after how many and many a hard-fought summer's day and winter's day;...
    AgMs 12.362 26 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.
    AgMs 12.363 11 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm, although their buildings are many of them shabby, are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    AgMs 12.363 23 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded, adding many special criticisms.
    EurB 12.365 14 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised.
    EurB 12.369 14 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.
    EurB 12.373 2 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press, which sends them to so many willing thousands.
    EurB 12.373 27 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.
    EurB 12.376 5 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.
    EurB 12.378 5 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...
    PPr 12.388 2 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].
    PPr 12.389 5 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...
    Let 12.393 11 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.398 16 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...
    Let 12.404 23 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Let 12.404 24 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Let 12.404 25 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

many, adv. (4)

    ET14 5.253 7 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
    PC 8.219 5 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    CW 12.175 10 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    WSL 12.342 24 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this; there are many more which this commands.

many, n. (17)

    Fdsp 2.194 23 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them...now makes many one.
    Hsm1 2.247 23 We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.
    PPh 4.51 15 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.
    PPh 4.52 7 By religion, [each student] tends to unity; by intellect, or by the senses, to the many.
    PPh 4.71 21 [Socrates] affected a good many citizen-like tastes...
    ShP 4.197 3 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.
    Ctr 6.149 21 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.157 14 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].
    Edc1 10.128 23 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt: the opium of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.
    Edc1 10.150 13 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses: and the teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not for those few.
    ACiv 11.301 11 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners.
    ACiv 11.301 25 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    SMC 11.363 1 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company...
    Mem 12.108 24 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed...
    MAng1 12.218 9 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...
    Let 12.395 17 We do a great many selfish things every day;...

many-chambered, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.33 3 A many-chambered Aristocracy lies already organized in [a man's] moods and faculties.

many-colored, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.50 6 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue...
    Mrs1 3.151 10 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are.
    PI 8.18 7 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity.

many-headed, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.303 6 As [the English] are many-headed, so they are many-nationed...

many-headedness, n. (1)

    ET18 5.303 2 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...

many-nationed, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.303 7 As [the English] are many-headed, so they are many-nationed...

many-weathered, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.142 19 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg] a grammar of hieroglyphs...

Manzoni, Alessandro, n. (1)

    MLit 12.319 24 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...

map, n. (8)

    MN 1.206 27 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    UGM 4.16 16 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map;...
    PNR 4.81 10 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass...before the map of the instincts and cultivable powers can be drawn.
    GoW 4.261 18 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints...a map of its march.
    ET14 5.240 4 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map blank.
    Wth 6.93 23 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it.
    Suc 7.283 8 ...we survey our map...

map, v. (1)

    Wth 6.93 25 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey...

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