Maple to Masses

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

maple, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.360 24 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...

maple, n. (4)

    Thor 10.467 25 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
    HDC 11.39 2 The maple...reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
    CL 12.149 24 [The Indian] can draw sugar from the maple...
    CL 12.151 9 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.

maples, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.176 14 The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.
    Nat2 3.182 1 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt;...
    CL 12.152 2 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...

maple-trees, n. (1)

    Insp 8.269 20 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...

map-maker, n. (1)

    UGM 4.12 27 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.

mapped, v. (1)

    PNR 4.86 21 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography...

maps, n. (2)

    ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
    Wth 6.98 10 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...

Marat, Jean Paul, n. (1)

    Cour 7.276 5 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...Marat, Lopez;...

marauders, n. (1)

    ET4 5.72 14 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed...

marble, adj. (12)

    Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors...
    Hist 2.15 12 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    SR 2.62 3 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    Nat2 3.176 12 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed...on the marble deserts of Egypt.
    ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
    ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...
    Bhr 6.174 12 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes.
    Imtl 8.325 26 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    PerF 10.70 12 ...the marble column, the brazen statue burn under the daylight...
    Edc1 10.146 12 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids...
    MAng1 12.244 16 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...

marble, n. (18)

    Art1 2.358 4 Away with your nonsense...of marble and chisels;...
    Art1 2.367 10 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.
    Pt1 3.24 19 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...
    PPh 4.53 11 [The Greeks] cut the Pentelican marble as if it were snow...
    Art2 7.44 11 In sculpture and in architecture the material, as marble or granite, and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.44 17 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.56 3 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    DL 7.130 21 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...
    OA 7.327 2 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking, which make him savage until his furious chisel can render them into marble;...
    PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
    II 12.68 9 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble imposes on us;...
    MAng1 12.213 2 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
    MAng1 12.222 21 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.223 18 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...
    MAng1 12.229 1 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
    MAng1 12.232 21 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.
    Trag 12.415 9 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
    Trag 12.416 16 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

marbles, n. (6)

    ET5 5.91 18 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved Arundel marbles...
    Ill 6.307 15 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./ See the stars through them,/ Through treacherous marbles./
    WD 7.169 1 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...where you spun tops and snapped marbles;...
    EWI 11.122 14 [Our] well-being consists in having...a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table;...
    SHC 11.430 17 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...

Marcellus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.199 24 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.

March, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.29 21 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone on which the dull March sun shines, comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    MoS 4.175 24 Our life is March weather...

march, n. (22)

    MR 1.240 10 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
    SL 2.151 2 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march...
    MoS 4.185 20 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    GoW 4.261 18 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints...a map of its march.
    CbW 6.254 2 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    Comc 8.166 30 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night, and implying a march and a conquest to-morrow,-- becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    SovE 10.187 4 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always-accelerated march.
    Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    HDC 11.35 19 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.37 3 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
    FSLN 11.222 11 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    ACiv 11.310 3 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas.
    ALin 11.329 20 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.335 16 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people]; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs...
    SMC 11.357 12 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...
    SMC 11.359 11 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.
    SMC 11.367 17 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    SMC 11.374 17 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms. The homeward march began on the thirteenth...
    SHC 11.428 11 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    Mem 12.102 4 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
    ACri 12.295 10 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.

March, n. (20)

    ET12 5.199 14 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March, 1848.
    ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    ET17 5.294 8 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...
    Res 8.151 22 [The art of taking a walk] will draw the...dreariness out of November and March...
    Res 8.152 18 ...in the first relentings of March [the willow] hasten...
    CSC 10.373 11 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841]...
    CSC 10.373 12 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-days' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    EzRy 10.384 15 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York.
    HDC 11.72 13 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    HDC 11.79 2 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    EWI 11.109 26 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished.
    FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.224 26 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    FSLN 11.225 3 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.225 4 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others...
    SMC 11.365 24 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
    CPL 11.505 23 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    CL 12.150 20 In March, the thaw, and the sounding of the south wind...
    MAng1 12.225 11 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.

march, v. (6)

    ShP 4.216 13 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?
    NMW 4.230 3 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle...
    Pow 6.70 4 March without the people...and you march into night...
    Pow 6.70 5 March without the people...and you march into night...
    PI 8.46 14 Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet.
    SMC 11.362 15 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is very profane, and I will not stand it. If he does not stop it, I will march my men right away when he is drilling them.

March 29, 1772. (1)

    SwM 4.101 9 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy...

marched, v. (14)

    Exp 3.43 13 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Some to see, some to be guessed,/ They marched from east to west/...
    NMW 4.231 24 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte].
    Cour 7.272 7 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    OA 7.323 23 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    EzRy 10.391 26 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say, and he marched straight to the conclusion.
    HDC 11.58 11 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
    HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital under Lieutenant Heald...
    HDC 11.73 12 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    SMC 11.355 12 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
    SMC 11.364 19 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...
    SMC 11.367 20 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
    SMC 11.372 27 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment]... marched to within three miles of Petersburg.
    SMC 11.374 12 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry...
    CL 12.137 3 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...

marches, n. (6)

    LE 1.162 25 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of...marches in Germany.
    Wth 6.94 26 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.116 4 Long marches are no hardship to [the land-owner].
    War 11.163 20 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    SMC 11.360 22 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps...
    MAng1 12.227 26 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].

marches, v. (4)

    Ill 6.314 1 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours...
    Edc1 10.123 1 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Humb 11.457 18 The wonderful Humboldt...marches an army...
    FRep 11.521 19 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...

marching, adj. (2)

    War 11.166 13 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants...
    SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.

marching, v. (7)

    ET5 5.101 25 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    Bty 6.291 19 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    Elo1 7.84 24 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    WD 7.155 3 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    PI 8.23 20 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things,--marching in the direction of universal power.
    CInt 12.114 17 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    Bost 12.188 17 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of principle, obeying a sentiment, and marching loyally whither that should lead them;...

Marengo, Italy, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and Trafalgar beaten out thin;...

mares, n. (1)

    PPh 4.55 8 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies;...

mares', n. (1)

    ET4 5.72 10 The [Tartar] children were fed on mares' milk.

Marets, Corvisart des, Jean (1)

    NMW 4.251 1 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed,--with Corvisart an Paris...

margin, n. (8)

    ET16 5.276 20 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    F 6.41 2 Ducks take to the water...waders to the sea margin...
    Wsp 6.222 2 ...there is...no margin for choice.
    PC 8.225 14 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...
    Aris 10.66 5 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...
    FSLC 11.213 27 ...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.225 24 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    EurB 12.368 8 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...

Maria, Santa, Novella, Flo (1)

    MAng1 12.243 15 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.

Marie de France, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 5 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie...

marine, adj. (4)

    Farm 7.143 6 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...
    Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...
    PC 8.210 15 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the mines, the inland and marine explorations...have evoked!...
    FRep 11.512 10 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...

mariner, n. (3)

    ET3 5.41 21 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner...
    ET16 5.277 13 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...
    Dem1 10.10 25 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.

mariners, n. (3)

    LT 1.288 6 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...
    WD 7.172 22 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    EWI 11.130 3 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

mariner's, n. (4)

    Nat 1.72 18 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...the mariner's needle;...
    Res 8.140 12 The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's compass...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    QO 8.179 4 ...the mariner's compass, the boat, the pendulum, glass...etc., have been many times found and lost...
    PC 8.214 21 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.

marines, n. (1)

    ET2 5.32 25 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...

Mario, Giuseppe, n. (1)

    ET11 5.194 19 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.

Mariposa, California, n. (1)

    Farm 7.147 12 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...

maritime, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.27 9 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.
    ET4 5.64 26 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    ET4 5.65 1 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
    ET16 5.282 24 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    Bost 12.205 21 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here...into a maritime country made for trade...

marjoram, n. (3)

    PI 8.16 24 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    PI 8.16 25 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product, which is not mint and marjoram, but honey;...
    Thor 10.475 19 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold...is drossy and crude. The thyme and marjoram are not yet honey.

mark, n. (63)

    Nat 1.19 26 Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
    Nat 1.74 26 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    LE 1.156 27 ...the mark of American merit in painting...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    MR 1.247 11 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    LT 1.266 18 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes; and for a long while none comes up to that mark;...
    LT 1.278 12 ...the greatest action of man [leaves] no mark in the vast idea.
    Tran 1.342 10 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
    Comp 2.110 11 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark...
    Comp 2.118 25 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom.
    SL 2.159 12 [A man's] vice...sets the mark of the beast on the back of the head...
    Prd1 2.222 23 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol...
    OS 2.280 3 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
    Cir 2.310 19 To-morrow [the parties in conversation] will have receded from this high-water mark.
    Chr1 3.101 17 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.
    Nat2 3.185 12 We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
    Pol1 3.218 1 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative. That we do, as an apology to others and to ourselves for not reaching the mark of a good and equal life.
    NER 3.275 11 The consideration...of a man of mark in his profession; a naval and military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    PPh 4.76 27 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought;...
    NMW 4.233 25 [Napoleon] knew what to do, and he flew to his mark.
    ET7 5.121 3 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET9 5.147 27 If one of [the English] have...a scar, or mark...he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET17 5.298 8 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
    Pow 6.55 15 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.
    Pow 6.59 19 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark...
    Pow 6.59 25 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
    Ctr 6.150 16 The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension.
    Ctr 6.163 21 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Bhr 6.175 14 ...Nature and Destiny...never fail to leave their mark...
    Art2 7.52 4 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face of man in the morning of the world. No mark is on these lofty features of sloth or luxury or meanness...
    Elo1 7.78 23 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...has a reserve of power when he has hit his mark.
    Elo1 7.88 18 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo1 7.93 19 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    WD 7.157 20 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Clbs 7.234 20 ...to come a little nearer to my mark, I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    OA 7.326 7 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    OA 7.326 9 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity...
    PI 8.3 11 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...
    PI 8.17 9 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind...
    Comc 8.173 4 Politics also furnish the same mark for satire.
    Dem1 10.23 15 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Dem1 10.23 16 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Aris 10.32 1 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    Aris 10.36 10 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities.
    Aris 10.37 19 ...we dislike every mark of a superficial life and action...
    Aris 10.37 20 ...we...prize whatever mark of a central life.
    PerF 10.86 17 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Edc1 10.148 26 The boy wishes to learn...to hit a mark with a snowball or a stone;...
    SovE 10.205 8 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    EzRy 10.393 15 ...[Ezra Ripley's] mark was never remote.
    ACiv 11.297 3 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service...
    EPro 11.314 24 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    FRep 11.515 17 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle, and the women make cartridges, and all shoot at one mark;...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in art, in books. The mark and sign of it is newness.
    II 12.73 17 The mark of the spirit is to know its way...
    II 12.73 21 Power is the authentic mark of spirit.
    II 12.74 2 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    CInt 12.119 19 I wish you to be eloquent, to grasp the bolt and to hurl it home to the mark.
    Milt1 12.252 17 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it came nearer to the mark;...
    WSL 12.346 7 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    EurB 12.365 8 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...
    Let 12.395 22 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular... if we were up to the mark of self-denial and faith in our general activity.
    Let 12.396 20 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

Mark, St., n. (4)

    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 13 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark (Mark xiv. 22-25) the same words are recorded...
    LS 11.6 5 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark...
    LS 11.8 13 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.

mark, v. (32)

    DSA 1.139 24 [The prayers and dogmas of our church] mark the height to which the waters once rose.
    DSA 1.147 1 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    SL 2.141 18 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary...is fanaticism...
    Fdsp 2.208 10 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour.
    Prd1 2.224 20 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Int 2.325 13 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
    Pol1 3.208 16 [Parties]...rudely mark some real and lasting relation.
    PNR 4.81 14 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
    NMW 4.238 16 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior.
    ET7 5.119 10 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    ET7 5.119 18 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET11 5.178 18 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET14 5.249 4 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
    ET15 5.262 3 ...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...
    Ctr 6.156 23 We say solitude, to mark the character of the tone of thought;...
    Art2 7.54 16 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
    PI 8.12 26 Mark the delight of an audience in an image.
    PI 8.72 19 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.
    PC 8.210 1 Mark...the large resources of a statesman...in this age.
    PC 8.220 8 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one...
    PPo 8.250 4 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
    PPo 8.256 14 I, too, have a counsel for thee; O, mark it and keep it,/ Since I received the same from the Master above:/ Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    Chr2 10.93 24 We can only mark, one by one, the perfections which [the moral intuition] combines in every act.
    Edc1 10.146 19 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education...
    MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse, listen to all its faults amd mark its power...
    Thor 10.473 15 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
    HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
    SMC 11.352 19 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
    CL 12.152 9 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived...
    MAng1 12.237 17 Traits of an almost savage independence mark all [Michelangelo's] history.

Mark xiv. 22-25, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 14 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark (Mark xiv. 22-25) the same words are recorded...

marked, adj. (17)

    AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    Pol1 3.219 11 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history.
    SwM 4.100 20 In Sweden [Swedenborg] appears to have attracted a marked regard.
    Ctr 6.131 21 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Ctr 6.140 18 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
    Ctr 6.152 11 In an English party a man with no marked manners or features...discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    CbW 6.251 12 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
    Suc 7.302 23 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness, yet with very marked expressions.
    Suc 7.305 16 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    Elo2 8.127 10 Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
    Res 8.140 9 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    PC 8.208 15 Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted [in America].
    HDC 11.63 12 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    EWI 11.100 9 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
    CPL 11.500 10 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...of marked character...
    Mem 12.95 23 ...the power [of memory] exists in some marked and eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.

marked, v. (53)

    AmS 1.113 11 Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is the new importance given to the single person.
    LT 1.269 4 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    Prd1 2.228 14 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...
    Hsm1 2.245 4 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
    Mrs1 3.151 25 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    UGM 4.28 24 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    ET1 5.16 2 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    ET4 5.51 20 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me, himself very well marked and nowhere else to be found,--I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
    ET4 5.54 21 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less marked and their thought much less bound.
    ET6 5.112 20 [The English] avoid every thing marked.
    ET6 5.113 4 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was marked by the severest simplicity in dress.
    ET11 5.177 19 The [English] aristocracy are marked by their predilection for country-life.
    ET13 5.217 23 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
    ET13 5.223 13 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
    ET17 5.296 5 ...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special force or elevation.
    ET18 5.299 11 [The English] are well marked and differing from other leading races.
    ET18 5.307 20 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
    Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Bhr 6.195 25 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception...
    Wsp 6.218 14 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Civ 7.23 23 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    DL 7.109 11 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    WD 7.167 11 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days, in which he marked the changes of the Greek year...
    Suc 7.306 24 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty].
    SA 8.83 19 Whilst certain faces are...decorated with invitation, others are marked with warnings...
    Elo2 8.114 2 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...
    Comc 8.158 14 [Animals'] activity is marked by unerring good sense.
    QO 8.175 2 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new].
    Supl 10.176 1 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    SovE 10.186 1 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    SovE 10.187 9 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    LLNE 10.329 11 [The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
    LLNE 10.342 26 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked...
    MMEm 10.403 21 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    HDC 11.78 10 The economy so rigid, which marked [Concord's] earlier history, has all vanished.
    HDC 11.83 27 I find our annals [of Concord] marked with a uniform good sense.
    FSLC 11.190 17 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...
    EPro 11.319 13 It is by no means necessary that this measure [Emancipation] should be suddenly marked by any signal results on the negroes or on the rebel masters.
    SMC 11.372 16 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    Wom 11.415 8 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    Wom 11.416 20 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman;...
    SHC 11.429 12 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    Shak1 11.452 9 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    CPL 11.502 19 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    FRep 11.537 13 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is marked.
    FRep 11.541 14 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity.
    Mem 12.108 11 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    CL 12.135 1 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
    Bost 12.190 21 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its divisions marked...
    ACri 12.299 9 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
    EurB 12.373 20 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked with great energy...

market, adj. (3)

    MR 1.228 20 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... the market town...
    Con 1.321 11 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
    PPh 4.75 6 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...

market, n. (48)

    DSA 1.143 21 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.
    LE 1.174 3 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place; his heart is in the market;...
    LE 1.181 6 ...though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    MN 1.194 7 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found any place in the world's market fit for thee;...
    Con 1.318 3 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market...
    Tran 1.341 1 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.352 14 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me in the highway or in the market...
    YA 1.378 16 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market;...
    YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market;...
    YA 1.388 7 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Comp 2.95 12 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    Chr1 3.99 1 ...[the capitalist] is satisfied to read in the quotations of the market that his stocks have risen.
    Chr1 3.106 9 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!
    Mrs1 3.153 6 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the market...
    UGM 4.22 14 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land;...
    MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    ShP 4.201 5 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks, the market thinks...
    NMW 4.242 15 A market for all the powers and productions of man was opened [in France];...
    ET3 5.41 25 ...these Britons...are sure of a market for all the goods they can manufacture.
    ET4 5.48 26 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...open market, or good wages for every kind of labor;...
    ET10 5.163 10 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    ET13 5.217 4 [The English Church]...names every day of the year, every town and market and headland and monument...
    ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.
    F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
    Pow 6.66 13 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Wth 6.92 18 The statue is so beautiful that it contracts no stain from the market...
    Wth 6.92 19 The statue is so beautiful that it...makes the market a silent gallery for itself.
    Wth 6.108 4 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Wsp 6.225 17 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market...
    WD 7.171 13 The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim and seraphim.
    Clbs 7.234 27 All that man can do for man is to be found in that market [of right company].
    Clbs 7.246 10 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
    Suc 7.294 23 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect, hastily, and for the market, you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    OA 7.321 13 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    Res 8.143 19 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...and a new market has grown up for our commerce.
    Plu 10.321 13 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
    HDC 11.55 3 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year, and supplied a market for the produce.
    EWI 11.123 14 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we go in canals,-to market, and for the sale of goods.
    EWI 11.126 20 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    FSLC 11.196 20 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    FSLC 11.196 21 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    RBur 11.442 25 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    Shak1 11.450 4 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    CInt 12.127 17 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims...and they accept the employments of the market.
    MLit 12.317 26 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market...
    AgMs 12.361 11 ...our [New England] people...will remove from town to town as a new market opens...

marketable, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.359 9 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    NER 3.269 19 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning his gifts to a marketable use...

market-cart, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.215 24 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

market-day, n. (1)

    Aris 10.49 3 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...or Toussaint l' Ouverture, and perhaps it was not a good market-day.

market-going, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.93 8 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...

market-man, n. (2)

    MR 1.230 10 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    Trag 12.415 21 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill...

market-place, n. (2)

    NMW 4.240 26 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the Louvre of the common people.
    Pow 6.75 10 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council house.

markets, n. (20)

    Comp 2.109 10 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Fdsp 2.203 16 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets...
    NR 3.232 2 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into the markets and the custom-houses...it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NR 3.237 11 We...run about all day among the shops and markets...
    NMW 4.240 25 In the time of the empire [Napoleon] directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
    NMW 4.252 14 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    NMW 4.252 19 [Napoleon] was...the opener of doors and markets...
    ET3 5.43 10 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side.
    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...
    ET5 5.96 2 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET14 5.255 14 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    Wth 6.86 10 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Civ 7.22 7 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a maker of markets...
    OA 7.318 26 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    Supl 10.168 11 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    MoL 10.247 15 The fears and agitations of men who watch the markets... are not for [the scholar].
    Schr 10.272 6 We have...a real relation to markets and brokers and currency and coin.
    FSLC 11.197 3 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery...
    EdAd 11.389 3 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    EdAd 11.392 21 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere, alike in markets as in churches.

market-town, n. (1)

    Hist 2.36 7 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...

marking, v. (3)

    AmS 1.109 3 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
    SL 2.165 22 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...
    Milt1 12.266 10 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and, by way of marking the contrast to vulgar opinions, laying its chief stress on humility.

Mark-Lane Express, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 21 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

marks, n. (16)

    Nat 1.45 23 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms] bears the marks as of some injury;...
    LT 1.267 9 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    Mrs1 3.128 11 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...marks of distinction...
    UGM 4.17 6 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks...
    ET16 5.278 10 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
    Wsp 6.211 19 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.229 15 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest; and the marks of it are only concealed from us by our own dislocation.
    Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.
    Dem1 10.11 1 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    Dem1 10.11 4 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.
    LLNE 10.335 7 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...
    Mem 12.96 25 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest;...one by trifling external marks...
    CInt 12.118 15 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    Milt1 12.259 2 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.275 21 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...
    Trag 12.409 11 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...see these marks of stamping feet, of hidden riot.

marks, v. (28)

    Con 1.300 18 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...
    Int 2.346 21 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
    Pt1 3.31 11 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    PNR 4.86 2 [Plato's] definition of ideas...marks an era in the world.
    ShP 4.198 17 A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts;...
    ET4 5.66 26 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET6 5.109 7 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    ET7 5.117 2 Veracity...marks superiority in organization.
    ET14 5.232 2 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.233 25 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English.
    ET14 5.238 27 ...[Bacon]...marks the influx of idealism into England.
    ET14 5.251 8 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...
    ET18 5.299 16 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience...which marks minuter degrees;...
    Bty 6.290 6 Elegance of form...marks some excellence of structure...
    Elo1 7.62 21 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine...
    OA 7.329 3 The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
    PI 8.12 10 Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions.
    Imtl 8.330 25 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence. This disquietude only marks the transition.
    Chr2 10.121 10 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
    Prch 10.217 10 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
    Plu 10.298 5 ...what specially marks him, [Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    EzRy 10.389 3 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    MMEm 10.399 12 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    EWI 11.140 8 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    ACiv 11.310 14 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year.
    SMC 11.350 23 ...the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    ChiE 11.471 10 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...

marksman's, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.93 19 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.

marl, n. (3)

    F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
    Bty 6.281 14 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf? what on the inhabitants of marl and of alluvium?
    PLT 12.29 4 ...to the painter [Nature's] plumbago and marl are pencils and chromes.

Marlborough, Duke of [John (3)

    ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    Boks 7.209 26 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    CPL 11.504 15 The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without his Shakspeare.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, (1)

    SlHr 10.443 2 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.

Marlboroughs, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 8 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...

Marlowe, Christopher, n. (1)

    EurB 12.368 10 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme, and not Marlowe nor Massinger...

Marlowe [Marlow], Christoph (3)

    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ShP 4.203 21 ...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...Marlow, Chapman and the rest.
    PI 8.49 27 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...

Marlowes, n. (1)

    Insp 8.283 5 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes...should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...

Marmaduke, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 27 ...if Marmaduke...or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...

Marmion [Walter Scott], n. (1)

    Scot 11.463 19 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book. Marmion and The Lay had gone before...

marmo, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 2 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

Marmontel's, Jean Francois, (1)

    QO 8.192 11 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle, I pounce on what is mine, wherever I find it;...

marplot, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.17 17 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not angelic, since it is often a marplot.
    Let 12.397 17 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder; his genius was good, his stars consenting, but he was a marplot.

mar-plots, n. [marplots,] (2)

    SL 2.139 26 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work...of men would go on far better than now...
    Clbs 7.245 11 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out,--marplots and contradictors.

marred, v. (3)

    Nat 1.45 24 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms]...is marred and superficially defective.
    Bty 6.298 14 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting;...
    PI 8.74 6 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are so marred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.

Marriage, Double [Fletcher, (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 13 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,--as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage...

marriage, n. (60)

    Nat 1.74 9 ...in actual life, the marriage [of thought and devotion] is not celebrated.
    MR 1.248 4 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...religion, marriage...
    SL 2.156 8 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times...on marriage...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.161 12 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of...our marriage...and the like...
    Lov1 2.169 17 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... establishes marriage...
    Lov1 2.183 15 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...
    Lov1 2.184 20 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry, then...to plighting troth and marriage.
    Lov1 2.187 20 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...
    Int 2.335 3 [The constructive intellect] is...the marriage of thought with nature.
    Exp 3.58 1 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage...
    Exp 3.77 6 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible...
    Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    Nat2 3.187 5 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection...
    NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous...
    NER 3.253 13 [Other reformers] attacked the institution of marriage as the fountain of social evils.
    NER 3.262 4 Our marriage is no worse than our education...
    SwM 4.108 26 In the brain are male and female faculties; here is marriage, here is fruit.
    SwM 4.127 2 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    SwM 4.127 16 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage;...
    SwM 4.128 3 [Swedenborg] exaggerates the circumstance of marriage;...
    SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.
    MoS 4.157 17 Is not marriage an open question...
    ShP 4.206 4 We tell the chronicle of parentage...marriage...
    GoW 4.276 6 ...what [Goethe] says...of marriage...refuses to be forgotten.
    GoW 4.286 18 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no light on his marriage;...
    ET3 5.41 8 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.67 13 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for...civility, marriage, the nurture of children...
    ET13 5.214 9 It is with religion as with marriage.
    ET13 5.214 12 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET14 5.234 25 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat. The marriage of the two qualities is in their speech.
    Wth 6.90 7 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East; introduced marriage;...
    CbW 6.271 7 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a marriage...and the like.
    CbW 6.274 12 ...it is marriage, fit or unfit, that makes our home...
    Ill 6.316 11 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    Ill 6.316 16 In the worst-assorted connections there is ever some mixture of true marriage.
    Civ 7.19 15 A nation that has no clothing...no marriage...we call barbarous.
    DL 7.124 3 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history. In woman, it is love and marriage...
    DL 7.124 7 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    DL 7.128 4 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...
    Boks 7.215 20 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
    PI 8.5 27 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriage...
    PI 8.47 10 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
    SA 8.90 2 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached,--life, love, marriage...
    PPo 8.241 15 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
    Supl 10.174 9 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
    LLNE 10.354 13 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    MMEm 10.417 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position...
    HDC 11.64 7 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties...
    EWI 11.102 24 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.103 4 For the negro...no marriage...
    War 11.154 1 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life. It introduced the sacredness of marriage among them.
    Wom 11.407 12 ...there is usually no employment or career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable marriage.
    Wom 11.411 1 [Man] invented marriage;...
    Wom 11.416 25 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to equal rights in marriage...
    PLT 12.18 17 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
    Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    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, namely, unfit marriage.

Marriage, n. (4)

    LT 1.274 21 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage.
    Pol1 3.211 16 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    NER 3.262 4 Do you complain of our Marriage?
    LLNE 10.355 5 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...

marriages, n. (9)

    SR 2.75 21 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen...
    Lov1 2.183 9 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    SwM 4.125 6 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up.
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    ET18 5.300 11 Down to a late day, marriages performed by dissenters were illegal [in England].
    Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity, early marriages...
    Ill 6.316 6 We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages.
    Farm 7.140 16 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    HDC 11.40 24 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...

marriage-service, n. (1)

    PI 8.54 2 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have iterations and alliterations, like the marriage-service and burial-service in our liturgies.

married, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.365 5 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.

married, v. (11)

    DSA 1.138 2 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...was married or in love...
    SwM 4.101 2 [Swedenborg] was never married.
    SwM 4.122 16 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    MoS 4.169 16 At the age of thirty-three, [Montaigne] had been married.
    MoS 4.169 18 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me...
    ET16 5.283 2 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
    Bty 6.297 5 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton...
    EzRy 10.381 5 Seventeen of [Noah Ripley's] nineteen children married...
    EzRy 10.383 1 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
    MMEm 10.400 27 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord...
    Thor 10.454 7 ...[Thoreau] never married;...

marries, v. (7)

    Nat 1.36 17 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind.
    PNR 4.87 15 ...this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer [Plato]... marries the two parts of nature.
    SwM 4.109 24 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 27 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    ET13 5.214 9 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    Bhr 6.172 6 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...
    DL 7.128 2 Happy will that house be...the house in which character marries...

marring, v. (1)

    PI 8.39 21 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also, can you only wile it from interference and marring.

marrow, n. (7)

    Nat 1.41 7 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    Nat 1.42 2 [The moral law] is the pith and marrow of every substance...
    SwM 4.97 26 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
    MoS 4.168 8 The sincerity and marrow of the man [Montaigne] reaches to his sentences.
    PI 8.40 25 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations, the marrow of the world is in his bones...
    PI 8.48 16 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
    LLNE 10.326 18 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body...

marrow-bones, n. (1)

    Insp 8.270 7 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...

marry, v. (12)

    Nat 1.28 3 ...marry [natural history] to human history, and it is full of life.
    SwM 4.130 26 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    ShP 4.218 11 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager. I can not marry this fact to his verse.
    ET4 5.51 26 ...certain temperaments marry well...
    Bhr 6.172 5 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...
    Wsp 6.206 3 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
    Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
    SS 7.7 15 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry;...
    Farm 7.140 16 It is for [the farmer] to say whether men shall marry or not.
    PI 8.47 9 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought...
    Plu 10.319 2 [Alexander] persuaded...the Persians to reverence, not marry their mothers;...
    MLit 12.314 3 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...flattered or pardoned or enriched; what will help to marry or to divorce them...

marrying, n. (1)

    PLT 12.19 10 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...

marrying, v. (1)

    PI 8.66 19 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind...

marrying-on, n. (1)

    Wth 6.90 17 ...no marrying-on...suits [the Saxons];...

Mars, n. (6)

    MN 1.212 21 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    PNR 4.87 7 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation;...and Mars, passion.
    Wth 6.98 2 Every man wishes to see...the satellites and belts of Jupiter and Mars...yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Elo1 7.72 6 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    WD 7.184 24 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.
    PerF 10.77 17 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China, or...to the planet Jupiter or Mars...

mars, v. (4)

    Nat 1.49 19 The presence of Reason mars this faith [in the absolute existence of nature].
    SL 2.159 8 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression.
    UGM 4.23 26 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise...
    Thor 10.456 12 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and...mars conversation.

Marseillaise, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.237 4 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    RBur 11.440 24 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

Marseilles, France, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.100 24 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...

marsh, n. (2)

    NMW 4.236 18 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola.
    ET3 5.42 12 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having plain, forest, marsh, river...

Marsh, Rumney, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.

marshal, n. (4)

    MN 1.202 7 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there,-duke and marshal, abbe and madame...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    NMW 4.245 5 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    Grts 8.308 10 Montluc, the great marshal of France, says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.

Marshal, n. (1)

    Res 8.147 4 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.

marshal, v. (4)

    Cir 2.305 13 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to...marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
    UGM 4.25 1 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going.
    Ctr 6.160 20 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Mem 12.99 27 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...

Marshall, James, n. (2)

    Res 8.148 8 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
    Res 8.148 12 Mr. Marshall was a man of peace;...

Marshall, John, n. (3)

    SlHr 10.447 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession, like Judge Parsons and Judge Marshall...
    SlHr 10.447 24 When some one said, in his presence, that Chief Justice Marshall was failing in his intellect, Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.

marshals, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 22 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals are discriminating...

marshal's, n. (2)

    NER 3.275 12 ...a naval and military honor...a marshal's baton...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    MoS 4.173 16 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues, who are shown up to the public at the marshal's office.

marshes, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.138 21 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds...

marsouins, n. (1)

    Comc 8.167 11 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.

mart, n. (3)

    MN 1.192 5 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at...the mart of commerce.
    F 6.43 1 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Portland, and many another noisy mart.
    Bost 12.182 6 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./

Martes, Corvisart des, Jean (1)

    NMW 251 8 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.

Martha, M. C., n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 26 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...

martial, adj. (5)

    Cour 7.256 12 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    Elo2 8.116 9 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent, those of a martial temper, went at the first draft, or the second...
    PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim martial law...
    War 11.163 19 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

Martial, n. (7)

    Ctr 6.159 7 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading...Martial...we should wish to hug him.
    Bty 6.298 24 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Boks 7.195 27 ...I know beforehand that Pindar, Martial...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    Boks 7.204 27 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners...
    Boks 7.205 2 ...Martial must be read, if read at all, in his own tongue.
    Insp 8.295 3 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys, as Horace or Martial or Goethe...
    Plu 10.294 9 ...though the contemporary...of Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, Suetonius...[Plutarch] does not cite them...

Martial's, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 8 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

Martin, Humanity, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 6 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as...Humanity Martin...

Martineau, Harriet, n. (2)

    ET17 5.294 9 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...
    ET17 5.296 11 Miss Martineau, who lived near him, praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...

martinet, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.153 13 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...

Martin's, John, n. (1)

    PPr 12.386 11 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

Martius' [Beaumont, Triumph (2)

    Hsm1 2.246 29 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    Hsm1 2.247 15 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./

Martius [Beaumont, Triumph [Martius,] (8)

    Hsm1 2.245 19 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens...
    Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius...
    Hsm1 2.246 14 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/
    Hsm1 2.246 15 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live;.../
    Hsm1 2.246 29 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    Hsm1 2.247 7 Soph. Martius, O Martius,/ Thou now hast found a way to conquer me./
    Hsm1 2.247 11 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Hsm1 2.247 19 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./

marts, n. (4)

    Wth 6.84 8 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Wth 6.93 27 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices...
    Bhr 6.183 25 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    AKan 11.259 24 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.

martyr, n. (6)

    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become...martyr and executioner;...
    Comp 2.120 3 The martyr cannot be dishonored.
    PPh 4.75 6 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of the droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    F 6.30 3 ...no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    Comc 8.162 18 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    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.

martyrdom, n. (3)

    Hist 2.10 22 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More...
    MMEm 10.426 17 Number the waste places of the journey,-the secret martyrdom of youth...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    War 11.168 21 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without some active purpose...

martyrdoms, n. (4)

    Exp 3.46 20 ...all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
    Cour 7.265 18 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
    PI 8.34 20 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe;...
    Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

Martyrs, Lives of the [John (1)

    Cour 7.274 11 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at Fox's Lives of the Martyrs...

martyrs, n. (16)

    Nat 1.20 18 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    LT 1.268 26 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who... compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    Tran 1.351 21 The martyrs were sawn asunder...
    Comp 2.120 11 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen and the martyrs are justified.
    Prd1 2.230 3 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.
    Hsm1 2.262 13 Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs...
    MoS 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    ET13 5.217 22 [The English Church] has the seal of martyrs and confessors;...
    ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
    CbW 6.252 22 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes...the glory of martyrs, has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
    PC 8.216 2 The founders of nations...were probably martyrs in their own time.
    LS 11.22 15 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    SMC 11.351 12 ...the memories of these martyrs, the noble names which yet have gathered only their first fame...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    PLT 12.41 15 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
    Milt1 12.266 18 [Milton] celebrates in the martyrs the unresistible might of weakness.

Maruts, n. (3)

    CL 12.148 13 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts...
    CL 12.149 1 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
    CL 12.149 2 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind!

Marvell, Andrew, n. (5)

    AmS 1.91 27 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...of Marvell...with the most modern joy...
    DL 7.116 8 What kind of a house was kept...by Milton and Marvell...
    Boks 7.207 8 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Herrick; and Milton, Marvell and Dryden, not long after.
    Clbs 7.245 23 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    EurB 12.365 17 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised. Nothing of Milton, nothing of Marvell...could be.

marvellous, adj. (5)

    Int 2.327 23 Out of darkness [the mind] came insensibly into the marvellous light of to-day.
    ET10 5.157 13 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
    CbW 6.255 12 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust...
    Elo1 7.80 19 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    Cour 7.272 19 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...

marvels, n. (2)

    Ill 6.319 15 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    Dem1 10.12 13 The lovers of marvels...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

Mary, Aunt, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.408 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C. Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening.
    MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...

Mary, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 8 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

Mary, Son of, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.479 9 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar. The Holy Ghost and the Son of Mary were worshipped...

Mary, Virgin, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 12 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.

Maryland, n. (2)

    EWI 11.108 7 [John Woolman] gave his testimony against the [slave] traffic, in Maryland and Virginia.
    ALin 11.336 11 [Lincoln] had seen Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland emancipate their slaves.

Masaccio's [Tommaso Guidi], (1)

    MAng1 12.239 6 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.

masculine, adj. (11)

    MoS 4.168 3 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    ET2 5.29 10 The sea is masculine...
    ET3 5.43 1 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET14 5.236 12 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    Pow 6.74 19 ...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; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
    Wth 6.89 25 ...the webs of his loom; the masculine draught of his locomotive...are [man's] natural playmates...
    OA 7.326 26 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    PPo 8.256 5 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    Chr2 10.121 24 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    MoL 10.249 13 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...
    Wom 11.425 8 ...a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.

mask, n. (15)

    Hist 2.5 15 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    Hist 2.35 13 Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation...
    Fdsp 2.216 24 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad...
    SwM 4.110 14 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn, under a mask so unexpected that we think it the face of a stranger...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    ShP 4.203 26 Our poet's [Shakespeare's] mask was impenetrable.
    GoW 4.282 12 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener...some dangler who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.
    ET4 5.67 16 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes...
    ET4 5.68 14 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    ET7 5.117 19 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask.
    WD 7.173 3 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls...
    Suc 7.282 10 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    PI 8.9 19 Every object [the student] beholds is the mask of a man.
    QO 8.196 16 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...
    LLNE 10.364 4 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    FRep 11.544 3 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.

mask, v. (4)

    CbW 6.243 24 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with the bow, yet hit the white./
    Prch 10.218 10 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions;...
    ALin 11.333 3 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to mask his own purpose and sound his companion;...
    ACri 12.281 4 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./

masked, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.34 12 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    Wsp 6.223 23 Society is a masked ball...
    SovE 10.188 22 The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor.
    Wom 11.407 6 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

masked, v. (4)

    ET8 5.141 18 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET11 5.182 1 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    Elo1 7.67 3 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled in coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    II 12.88 6 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.

masks, n. (17)

    Hist 2.13 12 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    Chr1 3.95 1 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    ShP 4.209 11 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed, under masks that are no masks to the intelligent, the lore of friendship and of love;...
    GoW 4.273 25 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
    Ctr 6.151 26 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble,-- To me men are for what they are,/ They wear no masks with me./
    Ctr 6.161 23 We must know our friends under ugly masks.
    Ill 6.318 4 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and beautiful.
    Ill 6.318 15 Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
    Elo1 7.98 22 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.108 18 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks (masks which we wear and which we meet)...
    DL 7.124 24 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    Cour 7.258 6 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were often masks;...
    OA 7.316 7 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    OA 7.316 13 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep. These also are masks...
    EPro 11.322 27 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party, through all its masks...
    PLT 12.11 3 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...wire-gauze masks over the face...are no defence against this virus...
    PLT 12.58 22 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...

masks, v. (1)

    ET8 5.138 20 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception...

Masollam, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.14 17 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...
    Dem1 10.15 7 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.

Mason, James Murray, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.447 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession, like...Mr. Mason and Mr. Webster.

Mason, Jeremiah, n. (1)

    SS 7.10 22 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.

mason, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.183 2 Nature, who made the mason, made the house.
    ShP 4.201 6 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.
    QO 8.199 17 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...

masonic, adj. (4)

    Mrs1 3.121 12 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    NR 3.232 12 The world is full of masonic ties...
    Civ 7.26 23 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.
    Let 12.397 4 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held by some masonic tie.

Masonic, adj. (1)

    FRO1 11.480 11 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.

masonry, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.309 5 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...

masonry, n. (5)

    AmS 1.98 12 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
    Art1 2.359 4 In the sculptures of the Greeks, the masonry of the Romans... the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Art2 7.38 25 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Imtl 8.325 10 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    Edc1 10.128 3 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...weaving, joining, masonry...

Mason's, James Murray, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 20 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].

masons, n. (3)

    ET5 5.76 22 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons...
    ET16 5.283 16 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with paddies to help...
    Bty 6.295 27 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...

masquerade, n. (9)

    Nat 1.3 15 ...why should we...put the living generation into masquerade out of [the past's] faded wardrobe?
    LT 1.259 11 The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities;...
    OS 2.270 11 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.
    Pt1 3.31 23 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    Exp 3.80 19 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...
    NER 3.274 8 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade...
    ET13 5.225 16 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a masquerade of old costumes.
    Ill 6.312 27 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height.
    LLNE 10.364 15 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...

masquerade, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.188 10 People masquerade before us in their fortunes...

masquerading, v. (1)

    Bost 12.193 4 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.

masques, n. (2)

    ET11 5.190 4 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques... record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.237 14 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.

mass, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.256 21 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion...must be brought in chariots to every mass meeting.

mass, n. [mass,] (53)

    Nat 1.15 13 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...
    AmS 1.85 14 Far too as her splendors shine...in the mass and in the particle, Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.106 15 ...men in the world of to-day...are called the mass and the herd.
    MR 1.253 7 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
    Tran 1.331 26 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Tran 1.333 4 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers, or extent of space...
    Cir 2.302 4 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts.
    Int 2.326 23 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Chr1 3.99 18 A man should give us a sense of mass.
    Mrs1 3.123 11 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    Nat2 3.184 9 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    Pol1 3.212 2 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. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
    UGM 4.9 20 The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant.
    SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
    SwM 4.110 26 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    SwM 4.113 15 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...
    MoS 4.169 15 When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be celebrated in his chamber.
    ShP 4.193 7 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    NMW 4.241 18 ...there is in particulars this identity between Napoleon and the mass of the people...
    ET1 5.18 21 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings.
    ET4 5.45 18 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that, not by chance or by mass, but by their character...
    ET8 5.140 18 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire...
    ET10 5.166 9 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass...
    F 6.36 13 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is...refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Wth 6.101 5 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker]...
    CbW 6.249 14 I do not wish any mass at all...
    CbW 6.251 25 The mass are animal...
    CbW 6.251 27 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which may be grown to a queen-bee.
    Art2 7.44 11 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Farm 7.144 26 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
    Clbs 7.228 9 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.
    PC 8.210 8 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    PC 8.223 25 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    PC 8.224 10 ...the mass is like the atom...
    Dem1 10.18 23 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
    SovE 10.205 10 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    MoL 10.252 25 There is no mass which [intellect] cannot surmount and dispose of.
    Schr 10.282 16 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a counterweight for it.
    LLNE 10.331 9 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...
    EWI 11.115 21 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches and chapels.
    EWI 11.127 3 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...
    EWI 11.127 20 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued...with such a mass of evidence before that powerful people [the English].
    FSLN 11.218 26 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings; but there is fact, thought, and wisdom in the crude mass...
    HCom 11.344 20 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
    SMC 11.350 21 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    SMC 11.360 24 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps, for these were wetted into a solid mass in the rains and mud.
    FRO1 11.478 23 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    FRep 11.533 3 Blessed is all that agitates the mass...
    Mem 12.101 7 So is it with every fact in a new science...each one adds transparency to the whole mass.
    Bost 12.206 18 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind agitating the mass...
    ACri 12.298 13 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
    MLit 12.312 1 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.

Massachusetts, adj. (4)

    Thor 10.471 27 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    HDC 11.31 3 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had...was Archbishop Laud in England.
    EWI 11.130 27 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    Bost 12.207 13 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

Massachusetts Bay Colony, n (2)

    HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony;...

Massachusetts Bay, Company (2)

    HDC 11.42 27 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    HDC 11.43 6 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England;...

Massachusetts Bay, n. (1)

    HDC 11.44 10 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.

Massachusetts Bill of Right (1)

    Bost 12.201 17 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.

Massachusetts, Commonwealth (1)

    EWI 11.130 5 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

Massachusetts, Education in, (1)

    FSLC 11.181 21 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs, Education in Massachusetts, Board of Trade...what bitter mockeries!

Massachusetts, Fifth, Regim (1)

    SMC 11.365 15 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.

Massachusetts, General Cour (1)

    Bost 12.195 12 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

Massachusetts Historical So (1)

    Scot 11.463 2 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society...

Massachusetts Indians, n. (1)

    HDC 11.36 5 [Musketaquid] was an old village of the Massachusetts Indians.

Massachusetts, n. (94)

    YA 1.380 20 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory of other States.
    Hsm1 2.257 17 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    NER 3.264 2 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...
    ET3 5.38 18 Here [in England] is no winter, but such days as we have in Massachusetts in November...
    ET16 5.275 17 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    ET19 5.314 4 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    F 6.42 24 We know in Massachusetts who built New Bedford...
    Wth 6.103 3 A dollar in Florida is not worth a dollar in Massachusetts.
    Wth 6.103 25 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Bhr 6.175 21 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life in courts...without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Wsp 6.204 2 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
    Art2 7.57 11 ...[beauty, truth and goodness] are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece.
    Farm 7.150 8 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable... than all the superstructure.
    WD 7.160 16 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...
    OA 7.319 17 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...
    Res 8.152 12 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    PC 8.210 26 Take as a type the boundless freedom here in Massachusetts.
    LLNE 10.332 12 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.334 20 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    LLNE 10.361 13 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    LLNE 10.366 16 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    EzRy 10.382 22 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776: Christopher Gore, Governor of Massachusetts...
    EzRy 10.382 23 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Samuel Sewell, Chief Justice of Massachusetts;...
    MMEm 10.405 9 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    SlHr 10.437 21 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina as the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    Thor 10.451 7 [Thoreau] was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.
    Thor 10.466 16 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    Thor 10.467 22 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
    HDC 11.42 17 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.
    HDC 11.50 5 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    HDC 11.53 12 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    HDC 11.57 20 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts.
    HDC 11.62 8 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    HDC 11.79 5 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    HDC 11.81 18 The constitution of Massachusetts had been already accepted.
    EWI 11.131 1 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    EWI 11.131 18 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    EWI 11.132 18 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    EWI 11.132 27 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    EWI 11.134 3 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
    EWI 11.138 3 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery chapel.
    FSLC 11.179 13 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.180 8 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.188 5 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLC 11.197 11 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier...urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
    FSLC 11.204 16 In Massachusetts, in 1776, [Webster] would, beyond all question, have been a refugee.
    FSLC 11.210 24 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.
    FSLC 11.210 26 Massachusetts is a little state: countries have been great by ideas.
    FSLC 11.211 7 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLC 11.211 12 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    FSLC 11.211 15 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean Massachusetts in all the quarters of her dispersion;...
    FSLC 11.211 17 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts, as she is the mother of all the New England states...
    FSLC 11.211 25 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    FSLC 11.212 2 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.212 13 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude. Massachusetts is as strong as the Universe, when it does that.
    FSLC 11.213 12 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...
    FSLC 11.214 6 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.228 25 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative.
    FSLN 11.228 27 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
    FSLN 11.230 13 In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.
    AsSu 11.248 16 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    AKan 11.257 19 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.260 13 Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
    AKan 11.261 27 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government...
    JBB 11.270 19 ...a common feeling joins the people of Massachusetts with [John Brown].
    JBB 11.270 26 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free;...
    JBB 11.271 9 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true...
    JBB 11.271 10 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    JBB 11.272 1 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    JBB 11.272 17 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    JBB 11.272 21 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    JBB 11.273 9 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
    HCom 11.343 15 Here in this little Massachusetts...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    HCom 11.343 21 ...standing here in Harvard College...in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    HCom 11.344 1 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    SHC 11.433 19 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...
    SHC 11.433 21 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    CPL 11.495 1 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
    FRep 11.526 17 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker...
    CL 12.139 4 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.139 12 We have the finest climate in the world, for this purpose [listening to Nature], in Massachusetts.
    CL 12.139 19 ...Massachusetts, it must be owned, is on the northern slope...
    CL 12.144 1 In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably broken...
    CL 12.144 10 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...
    CL 12.158 9 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts...
    CL 12.158 12 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.
    Bost 12.190 1 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts...
    Bost 12.190 24 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 19 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men...
    Bost 12.204 11 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
    MLit 12.309 8 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune of this low Massachusetts and Boston...
    AgMs 12.363 27 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.
    Let 12.403 10 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...

Massachusetts Quarterly Rev (1)

    EdAd 11.393 13 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...

Massachusetts Regiment, For (1)

    HCom 11.344 7 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.

Massachusetts Regiment, Thi (1)

    SMC 11.376 13 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...

Massachusetts River, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 19 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

Massachusetts State Kansas (1)

    GSt 10.502 5 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...

Massachusetts, State of, n. (2)

    EWI 11.133 2 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?
    FSLN 11.226 15 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...

Massachusetts Volunteers, n. (4)

    SMC 11.365 27 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...
    SMC 11.366 8 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864, a captain in the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts...
    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    SMC 11.367 4 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.

massacre, n. (3)

    F 6.7 23 ...the sword of the climate...at New Orleans, cut off men like a massacre.
    Chr2 10.114 13 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no massacre of heretics...
    ALin 11.336 1 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?

Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1)

    FSLC 11.192 2 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...

massacres of St. Bartholomew (1)

    Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...

Massasoit, n. (1)

    HDC 11.37 14 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.

massed, v. (2)

    PerF 10.75 10 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house...
    SovE 10.186 19 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof...

Massena, Andre, n. (3)

    DSA 1.149 12 Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
    NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Massena, Murat...
    Cour 7.255 19 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Massena...

masses, n. (54)

    Nat 1.55 23 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    MN 1.219 6 ...astronomy is thought and harmony in masses of matter.
    MR 1.253 9 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...
    Tran 1.333 2 The materialist respects sensible masses...
    YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses and ages.
    Hist 2.20 2 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    Nat2 3.191 21 ...the masses are not men, but poor men, that is, men who would be rich;...
    Pol1 3.209 4 [Party leaders] reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
    NER 3.279 4 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.30 22 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder?
    UGM 4.31 22 As to what we call the masses, and common men,--there are no common men.
    PPh 4.46 4 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    SwM 4.109 16 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into particles...
    MoS 4.183 15 A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe; that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
    NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    NMW 4.226 4 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
    NMW 4.231 25 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte].
    NMW 4.234 22 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses;...
    NMW 4.240 13 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.253 7 [Napoleon] had the virtues of the masses of his constituents...
    ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
    ET5 5.100 5 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses...
    ET14 5.260 8 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually: one in hopeless minorities; the other in huge masses;...
    Wth 6.84 20 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law/...
    Wth 6.101 3 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Wth 6.105 13 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.111 16 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    CbW 6.249 6 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses.
    CbW 6.249 6 Masses are rude, lame, unmade...
    CbW 6.249 13 Masses! the calamity is the masses.
    CbW 6.249 22 Away with this hurrah of masses...
    Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...
    Farm 7.146 8 Water works in masses...
    WD 7.162 10 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
    Res 8.146 25 [The determined man] reveals to us the enormous power of one man over masses of men;...
    PC 8.221 17 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in masses and planets...
    Aris 10.62 19 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland...
    Aris 10.64 17 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering...things in masses...
    Edc1 10.153 25 Our modes of Education aim...to do for masses what cannot be done for masses...
    Edc1 10.153 26 Our modes of Education aim...to do for masses what cannot be done for masses...
    SovE 10.187 14 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
    MoL 10.249 23 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...until it reaches the masses...
    EWI 11.139 10 What great masses of men wish done, will be done;...
    EWI 11.147 10 Seen in masses, it cannot be disputed, there is progress in human society.
    FSLN 11.220 21 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...
    FSLN 11.243 7 I [Robert Winthrop] can only deal with masses as I find them.
    SMC 11.354 23 The opinions of masses of men...the [Civil] war discovered;...
    EdAd 11.384 12 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.
    SHC 11.432 1 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...when they are disposed in masses...
    FRep 11.517 14 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    PLT 12.34 23 [Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on masses of men...
    CL 12.150 18 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
    MLit 12.317 6 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.

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