Massinger to Meagreness

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

Massinger, Philip, n. (5)

    ShP 4.192 15 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...Massinger, the two Herberts...
    ET1 5.7 16 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ET16 5.284 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger...
    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...

massive, adj. (10)

    ET7 5.119 12 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.
    ET13 5.216 25 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    Pow 6.57 2 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Bhr 6.190 2 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    Civ 7.31 22 I see the immense material prosperity...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities...
    Suc 7.298 9 In Nature all is large massive repose.
    QO 8.178 16 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    PerF 10.88 11 ...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last.
    PLT 12.35 4 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive...
    Bost 12.187 15 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris; so that a fortune falls into the massive wealth of that city every day in the year.

massy, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.139 17 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.

mast, n. (3)

    SwM 4.145 2 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging...some to spars, some to mast;...
    Wsp 6.204 27 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.
    WD 7.172 23 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...

master, adj. (2)

    WD 7.173 21 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...
    Aris 10.62 6 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...

Master [Fletcher, Massinger (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 11 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

master, n. (142)

    Nat 1.10 13 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    AmS 1.84 17 ...is not the true scholar the only true master?
    AmS 1.103 11 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    MN 1.217 8 ...[Love] is that in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...
    MN 1.219 25 Is a man boastful and knowing, and his own master?-we turn from him without hope...
    MR 1.241 8 ...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of labor...
    LT 1.280 27 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
    Hist 2.33 12 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts...know their master...
    SR 2.80 9 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
    SR 2.83 14 Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?
    SR 2.83 15 Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin...
    Comp 2.119 7 If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more.
    Hsm1. 2.252 18 When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
    Hsm1 2.253 23 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals...
    OS 2.270 21 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will;...
    Int 2.344 20 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years. He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also.
    Art1 2.356 5 A dog, drawn by a master...satisfies...
    Chr1 3.94 10 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic!
    Mrs1 3.124 26 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    Mrs1 3.132 24 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility. He is an underling...I will speak with his master.
    Mrs1 3.134 24 No house...is good for anything without a master.
    Nat2 3.173 23 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
    NR 3.233 19 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    NER 3.271 24 The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    UGM 4.23 7 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...
    PPh 4.41 21 ...after some time it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his school.
    PPh 4.42 17 Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else; then his master, Socrates;...
    PPh 4.56 17 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato, a master of mathematics...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.58 14 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
    PPh 4.59 12 ...[Plato] abounds in the surprises of a literary master.
    PNR 4.88 13 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    ShP 4.190 22 Every master has found his materials collected...
    ShP 4.217 14 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind.
    NMW 4.242 26 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    GoW 4.268 25 A master likes a master...
    GoW 4.272 2 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    ET1 5.5 26 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends...
    ET1 5.10 19 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome; what a master of the Titianesque he was, etc., etc.
    ET1 5.14 6 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET2 5.27 11 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment...
    ET2 5.27 16 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET3 5.34 14 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    ET5 5.79 11 ...[Kenelm Digby] was skilled in six tongues, and master of arts and arms.
    ET5 5.89 24 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;--from the highest to the lowest, every man meaning to be master of his art.
    ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET14 5.250 24 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...
    ET14 5.257 5 [Wordsworth] had no master but nature and solitude.
    F 6.30 21 ...when the boy grows to man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall...
    Pow 6.79 15 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Pow 6.82 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
    Wth 6.119 11 A master in each art is required...
    Wth 6.123 24 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...
    Ctr 6.134 25 Our student must...be a master in his own specialty.
    Ctr 6.143 16 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    Ctr 6.164 10 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    CbW 6.250 21 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    CbW 6.276 1 ...it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    Elo1 7.65 10 Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...
    Elo1 7.71 26 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.
    Elo1 7.77 12 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
    Elo1 7.78 20 [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.
    DL 7.112 21 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    DL 7.122 18 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to be a master of living well...
    DL 7.122 19 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices of master or servant...
    WD 7.164 18 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master...
    WD 7.176 22 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has...
    Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners, by the first master...
    Boks 7.201 19 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
    Boks 7.202 13 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Clbs 7.237 7 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Cour 7.267 21 The dog that scorns to fight, will fight for his master.
    Cour 7.268 12 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
    Suc 7.295 2 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    PI 8.30 14 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.69 13 The book [Goethe's Faust] is undeniably written by a master...
    SA 8.78 1 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.93 8 No one can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women;...
    Elo2 8.115 10 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.125 1 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    Elo2 8.130 8 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
    Comc 8.169 15 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    QO 8.192 5 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    PC 8.220 4 Often the master is a hidden man...
    PC 8.220 7 All [the true student's] own work and culture form the eye to see the master.
    PC 8.233 2 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste,-to come and go without rebuke. But that kind of loose association does not leave a man his own master.
    Insp 8.274 27 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
    Grts 8.313 22 ...Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
    Grts 8.315 4 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother...was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
    Imtl 8.347 5 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Chr2 10.116 9 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    Edc1 10.145 10 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.146 24 ...[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...the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
    SovE 10.191 1 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    SovE 10.196 24 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished to be my own master...
    SovE 10.197 13 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... peer and master of the elements?
    SovE 10.203 1 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    MoL 10.252 21 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    Plu 10.296 10 ...Rousseau acknowledged [Plutarch] as his master.
    Plu 10.297 18 [Plutarch] is...not a master in any science;...
    Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
    Plu 10.299 24 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    Plu 10.308 14 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He has a just instinct of the presence of a master...
    Plu 10.309 8 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate. The part of each of the class is as important as that of the master.
    LLNE 10.331 4 [Everett] had an inspiration...which made him the master of elegance.
    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...
    LLNE 10.367 25 In every family is the father;...in a shop, a master;...
    LLNE 10.367 27 ...in [Brook] Farm...each was master or mistress of his or her actions;...
    LS 11.9 5 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    LS 11.9 10 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
    HDC 11.50 24 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...
    EWI 11.103 8 For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
    EWI 11.105 14 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased, and the man useless to his master...
    EWI 11.105 20 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    EWI 11.108 6 John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.
    EWI 11.111 5 Looking in the face of his master by the negro was held to be violence by the [West Indian] island courts.
    EWI 11.111 10 [The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at the humor of the master...
    EWI 11.111 15 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager...
    EWI 11.112 17 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons;...
    EWI 11.114 4 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity. The new relation between the master and the apprentice, it was feared, would be mischievous;...
    EWI 11.114 9 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.
    EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies], [the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would make;...
    EWI 11.140 15 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    EWI 11.140 18 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    JBS 11.278 3 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...not one his own master...and the other watched and whipped.
    Scot 11.465 10 The tone of strength in Waverley at once announced the master...
    PLT 12.31 27 ...a dog has a sense that you have not, to find the track of his master or of a fox...
    PLT 12.43 23 A master can formulate his thought.
    PLT 12.52 24 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work, which, though successive in the mind of the master, were primarily combined in his piece.
    II 12.72 11 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
    CInt 12.121 10 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CInt 12.124 12 ...there is a certain shyness...of a master of art in colleges...
    MAng1 12.216 8 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts...
    MAng1 12.235 19 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's]...
    MAng1 12.242 8 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    Milt1 12.249 23 The reader [of a tract by Milton]...is not yet master of the subject.
    Milt1 12.257 17 ...[Milton] was accounted an excellent master of his rapier.
    ACri 12.285 27 Whitman is our American master...
    ACri 12.293 22 There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare]...
    WSL 12.338 19 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...a master of all elegant learning...
    WSL 12.347 27 [Landor] is a master of condensation and suppression...
    WSL 12.348 14 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.
    EurB 12.367 11 ...Wordsworth...is really a master of the English language...

Master, n. (3)

    PPo 8.256 15 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./
    Imtl 8.329 27 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    Imtl 8.333 20 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Master of the Universe, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.99 3 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.

master, v. (6)

    LE 1.163 24 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    Hist 2.11 2 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
    Fdsp 2.189 18 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Me too thy nobleness has taught/ To master my despair;/...
    Elo1 7.90 9 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach, and so completely master in thought.
    Boks 7.221 2 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...
    Edc1 10.123 3 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./

mastered, v. (7)

    AmS 1.103 10 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    Bhr 6.171 8 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they learn to confront her...
    Cour 7.264 14 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
    Edc1 10.147 13 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain that the lesson is mastered...
    ALin 11.334 15 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day;...
    Mem 12.100 25 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...
    ACri 12.285 18 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies...

masterful, adj. (1)

    OS 2.265 4 ...Yonder masterful cuckoo/ Crowds every egg out of the nest,/ Quick or dead, except its own;/...

master-idea, n. (1)

    War 11.164 16 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.

masteries, n. (1)

    Art1 2.358 5 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.

mastering, v. (1)

    AmS 1.98 6 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.

master-light, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.95 5 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing/...

masterly, adj. (8)

    MR 1.239 11 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    SR 2.46 7 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    Chr1 3.93 17 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    ET15 5.271 11 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by masterly hands...
    SA 8.82 12 ...thought disposes the limbs and the walk, and is masterly or secondary.
    PLT 12.3 4 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    Milt1 12.249 2 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
    MLit 12.325 26 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's journal] is one of the most masterly productions...

masterly, adv. (2)

    Cour 7.268 2 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...

masterpiece, n. (10)

    Tran 1.345 5 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    Fdsp 2.204 11 ...a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
    Chr1 3.105 17 This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
    ET14 5.249 4 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece,-- seems to mark the closing of an era.
    Art2 7.50 12 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
    DL 7.106 27 ...by beautiful traits, which without art yet seem the masterpieces of wisdom...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    Imtl 8.336 17 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    PerF 10.87 16 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    Wom 11.408 1 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Milt1 12.253 3 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages reconciling the world into itself...

masterpieces, n. (5)

    Cir 2.320 12 ...the masterpieces of God...he hideth;...
    PNR 4.81 16 Plato's fame does not stand...on any masterpieces of the Socratic reasoning...
    Wth 6.97 18 ...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
    Ill 6.309 22 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    Art2 7.51 23 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.

masters, n. (78)

    LE 1.170 25 As in poetry and history, so in the other departments. There are few masters or none.
    LE 1.182 11 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    MR 1.239 5 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full,-not to use these things, but to...defend them from their natural enemies. To him they are not means, but masters.
    Con 1.316 27 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses who leads away his fellow slaves from their masters;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    YA 1.377 2 ...when peace comes, the nobles prove very whimsical and uncomfortable masters;...
    YA 1.377 13 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
    Comp 2.99 16 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Art1 2.359 6 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Pt1 3.4 15 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg, and the masters of sculpture, picture and poetry.
    Mrs1 3.124 16 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
    Mrs1 3.126 17 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
    Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    Nat2 3.173 27 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
    UGM 4.19 8 The soul is impatient of masters and eager for change.
    UGM 4.19 23 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters;...
    NMW 4.243 14 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...a wish to measure his power with other masters...
    GoW 4.274 23 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did...
    ET1 5.8 1 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.
    ET10 5.158 25 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and combine against the masters...
    ET10 5.159 5 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    ET12 5.208 1 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET14 5.236 10 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 not only the great masters out of all rivalry and reach, but the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    ET14 5.245 25 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    Pow 6.68 5 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters...
    Pow 6.79 15 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
    Bhr 6.187 8 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    CbW 6.253 10 It is of no use for us to make war with [the fools]; [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers] we shall not weaken them; they will always be the masters.
    Civ 7.17 23 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters.../
    Elo1 7.88 9 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being in all great masters one and the same thing...
    Elo1 7.99 19 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    DL 7.127 15 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    WD 7.182 10 The masters painted for joy...
    WD 7.182 12 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy].
    Boks 7.192 23 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...
    Clbs 7.232 13 Some men love only to talk where they are masters.
    Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.
    Clbs 7.240 24 These masters [eloquent men] can make good their own place...
    Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    Suc 7.308 21 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    PI 8.54 26 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers...
    PI 8.56 17 ...we will leave to the masters their own forms.
    PI 8.68 4 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...
    SA 8.101 2 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts of life;...
    Elo2 8.128 7 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Res 8.143 22 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
    PC 8.210 13 Consider...what masters, each in his several province, the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.219 16 The artist has always the masters in his eye...
    PC 8.219 26 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    PPo 8.237 7 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names;...
    Grts 8.303 2 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
    Edc1 10.138 14 I like boys, the masters of the playground and of the street...
    Edc1 10.145 4 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure, and he casts about restless for means and masters to verify it;...
    Edc1 10.146 24 ...[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...the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
    Edc1 10.150 16 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    MoL 10.255 5 ...it is not nations, nor even masters...but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    LLNE 10.369 27 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    HDC 11.57 5 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    EWI 11.112 14 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    EWI 11.135 19 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery.
    FSLN 11.222 20 [Webster's] power, like that of all great masters...was total.
    FSLN 11.236 7 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters...
    FSLN 11.238 12 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    EPro 11.319 14 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.
    RBur 11.441 3 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    PLT 12.25 21 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    CInt 12.125 1 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    Bost 12.186 7 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves, even though they may acknowledge such indeed to be masters;...
    ACri 12.285 1 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor, as we say of any darling passage of our own masters.
    ACri 12.285 8 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
    ACri 12.285 25 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany...
    ACri 12.293 18 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    EurB 12.370 6 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his independence of any living masters...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    EurB 12.370 20 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.
    EurB 12.371 4 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as... sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.
    PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...

Masters, n. (1)

    Bost 12.195 20 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

master's, n. (11)

    SR 2.80 3 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.
    PPh 4.58 5 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
    SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...
    ET12 5.204 23 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    Civ 7.17 13 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    PI 8.43 21 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    EWI 11.119 8 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...
    EWI 11.145 9 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can...take a master's part in the music.
    FSLC 11.185 16 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him. The famous town of Boston is his master's hound.
    WSL 12.342 19 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    PPr 12.379 8 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men, groups and disposes them with a master's mind...

Masters, Seven Wise, n. (3)

    PPh 4.47 11 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    Civ 7.33 2 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Boks 7.200 24 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...

masters, v. (5)

    Nat 1.72 11 [Man] lives in [the world] and masters it by a penny-wisdom;...
    SR 2.70 3 Who has more obedience than I masters me...
    Suc 7.281 7 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./
    PI 8.17 23 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    Edc1 10.155 22 By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the naturalist];...

Masters, Wise, Seven, n. (1)

    ALin 11.333 20 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years, like...one of the Seven Wise Masters...

master-tones, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.137 3 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...

master-workman, n. (1)

    NMW 4.229 1 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops, and a very consistent and wise master-workman.

master-works, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 21 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.

mastery, n. (17)

    Exp 3.57 8 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    ET5 5.93 5 There is no secret of war in which [the English] have not shown mastery.
    ET14 5.241 5 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    Ctr 6.160 26 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Bhr 6.170 22 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Elo1 7.97 3 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    Suc 7.290 13 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... mastery without apprenticeship...
    Imtl 8.339 27 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts...
    EzRy 10.392 15 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances, each getting the mastery by turns...
    EWI 11.135 20 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery.
    War 11.155 6 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
    Wom 11.408 7 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Wom 11.408 10 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    MAng1 12.232 21 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.
    Milt1 12.259 27 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    Milt1 12.260 23 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other;...
    Milt1 12.261 21 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power...

mastication, n. (1)

    Comc 8.170 15 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.

mastiffs, n. (1)

    ET5 5.78 2 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs...

mastodons, n. (2)

    SwM 4.103 8 One of the missouriums and mastodons of literature, [Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    ET16 5.278 15 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

mat, n. (4)

    SR 2.84 23 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...a mat...
    Comp 2.114 3 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
    Prd1 2.226 11 At night [the islander] may sleep on a mat under the moon...
    Mrs1 3.119 10 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.

match, n. (13)

    Fdsp 2.197 6 No advantages, no powers, no gold or force, can be any match for [a man who stands united with his thought].
    Prd1 2.237 19 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    NER 3.253 18 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    Civ 7.17 7 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment,/ Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/
    Elo1 7.76 19 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...
    Elo1 7.76 20 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events, one who never found his match...
    Clbs 7.235 7 What is a match at whist...to a match of mother-wit...
    Clbs 7.235 9 What is a match at...chess, to a match of mother-wit...
    Cour 7.261 6 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Dem1 10.18 24 Seldom or never do [demonic individuals] meet their match among their contemporaries;...
    PerF 10.73 24 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Prch 10.236 14 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...which yet is more than a match for any physical resistance.
    FSLC 11.212 26 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a match for a Province.

match, v. (9)

    Nat 1.53 22 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
    Fdsp 2.198 15 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    ShP 4.208 17 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    Ctr 6.153 25 'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match with myrmidons./
    Bhr 6.174 21 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    PI 8.22 16 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    SA 8.106 9 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.
    Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Bost 12.208 5 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

matched, v. (11)

    Chr1 3.87 5 ...matched his sufferance sublime/ The taciturnity of time./
    Mrs1 3.126 26 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    ET4 5.53 27 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
    ET4 5.66 17 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET14 5.236 25 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    Pow 6.59 25 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.
    Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story.
    OA 7.330 15 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    QO 8.182 19 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    PPo 8.258 13 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets, and they have matched on this head the absoluteness of Montaigne.
    PLT 12.24 17 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat.

matches, n. (5)

    ET4 5.71 7 The people at home [in England] are addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
    WD 7.159 3 ...the mowing-machines, gas-light, lucifer matches...are new in this century...
    PI 8.47 11 ...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...
    Supl 10.178 18 Our modern improvements have been in the invention of friction matches;...
    MoL 10.243 10 ...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in California]...

matchless, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.67 2 What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor, matchless day?/

mate, n. (16)

    Lov1 2.173 24 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Lov1 2.182 16 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    Lov1 2.185 20 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
    Fdsp 2.216 18 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and no longer a mate for frogs and worms, dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    ET2 5.28 23 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    ET2 5.30 8 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET2 5.30 21 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
    ET2 5.30 26 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate...
    ET9 5.152 22 Amerigo Vespucci...whose highest naval rank was boatswain' s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    F 6.46 20 We wonder how the fly finds its mate...
    Bty 6.296 12 A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate...
    SS 7.1 13 ...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil scale behind/...
    Civ 7.24 6 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
    SA 8.83 9 When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins...
    SA 8.104 26 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love of the mother for her child; of the child for its mate;...
    MMEm 10.426 21 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.

material, adj. (117)

    Nat 1.5 6 In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy [of terminology] is not material;...
    Nat 1.25 16 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    Nat 1.31 3 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...
    Nat 1.34 21 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;...
    Nat 1.35 1 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.52 13 The Imagination may be defined to be the use which the Reason makes of the material world.
    Nat 1.52 23 We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative...
    Nat 1.53 24 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    AmS 1.113 8 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    MN 1.191 12 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.
    LT 1.260 26 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the sentiment of Love as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
    LT 1.276 19 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    Tran 1.330 14 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...
    Hist 2.17 23 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.
    Comp 2.114 25 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Comp 2.122 23 Material good has its tax...
    Lov1 2.181 22 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Fdsp 2.191 16 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    Fdsp 2.210 6 Why be visited by [your friend] at your own [house]? Are these things material to our covenant?
    Cir 2.306 5 Does the fact look crass and material...
    Art1 2.369 6 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
    Pt1 3.4 1 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Pt1 3.22 23 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things, whether wholly or partly of a material and finite kind.
    Exp 3.74 7 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Chr1 3.96 13 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character...
    Mrs1 3.125 17 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a material deputy which walks through the dance which [power] has led.
    Nat2 3.176 2 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    NER 3.260 16 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    UGM 4.5 6 [Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
    UGM 4.7 27 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
    UGM 4.9 11 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing, fluid and solid, material and elemental.
    UGM 4.11 7 Each material thing has its celestial side;...
    UGM 4.13 8 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi-material aids.
    SwM 4.94 20 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    SwM 4.117 15 [Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration, because the mental series exactly tallies with the material series.
    SwM 4.118 3 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists not...finally to a material end, but as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    ShP 4.208 23 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    NMW 4.224 21 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material...
    NMW 4.224 26 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success.
    NMW 4.225 4 Paris and London and New York, the spirit...of money and material power, were also to have their prophet;...
    NMW 4.245 22 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    NMW 4.256 14 ...I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party. I omitted then to say, what is material to the statement, namely that these two parties differ only as young and old.
    ET4 5.57 16 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...
    ET8 5.136 16 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    ET14 5.247 7 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means... material commodity;
    ET14 5.255 12 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    F 6.12 16 People are born with the moral or with the material bias;...
    F 6.28 5 Thought dissolves the material universe...
    Pow 6.53 10 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Wsp 6.209 18 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    Wsp 6.214 1 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    CbW 6.250 26 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    Ill 6.320 10 ...what avails it that science has come to treat...the material world as hypothetical...
    Civ 7.31 21 I see the immense material prosperity...
    Art2 7.43 14 Each [of the fine arts] has a material basis...
    Art2 7.43 18 The basis of poetry is language, which is material only on one side.
    Art2 7.44 2 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Art2 7.47 22 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances.
    Art2 7.55 21 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Elo1 7.69 15 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
    WD 7.166 23 ...with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    Clbs 7.225 11 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice in the material world.
    Suc 7.297 1 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    PI 8.6 4 ...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...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    PI 8.14 20 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.29 5 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
    PI 8.52 12 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose;...
    SA 8.99 22 ...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
    PC 8.221 19 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth...
    PC 8.229 4 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force...
    Aris 10.40 25 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach out of their material wealth and glitter...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.42 27 ...the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world...
    Aris 10.54 20 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction whether of material power or of intellectual gifts.
    Aris 10.56 7 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values.
    Aris 10.64 24 ...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power.
    PerF 10.72 12 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.
    PerF 10.72 13 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind...
    PerF 10.72 20 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.73 6 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
    PerF 10.74 27 [Man] is a planter...a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Chr2 10.100 6 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Chr2 10.112 27 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    SovE 10.183 10 ...the intellectual and moral worlds are analogous to the material.
    Prch 10.217 15 ...material and industrial activity have materialized the age...
    MoL 10.242 18 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    MoL 10.252 24 Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Schr 10.282 15 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    LLNE 10.351 12 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    SlHr 10.444 26 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
    SlHr 10.446 9 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    Thor 10.461 6 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world...
    Thor 10.464 12 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol.
    LS 11.6 6 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.14 24 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    EWI 11.101 24 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    War 11.164 4 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    FSLC 11.189 7 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
    FSLN 11.231 21 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...the material necessities, on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    FSLN 11.231 24 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
    ACiv 11.309 12 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.
    SMC 11.355 10 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...
    EdAd 11.383 2 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
    EdAd 11.383 8 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
    EdAd 11.385 9 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities;...
    EdAd 11.386 13 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.
    EdAd 11.386 15 Every material organization exists to a moral end...
    FRep 11.513 6 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power...
    PLT 12.5 14 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.5 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.10 11 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
    PLT 12.40 4 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    Mem 12.97 18 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.
    CInt 12.114 27 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...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...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    CInt 12.126 3 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    Bost 12.183 10 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.
    Bost 12.209 20 ...the deeper principle will always prevail over whatever material accumulations.
    Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.

material, n. (30)

    Nat 1.13 8 Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result.
    Nat 1.40 7 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful.
    Nat 1.56 3 Thus even in physics, the material is degraded before the spiritual;...
    AmS 1.95 26 [Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.
    LE 1.177 13 ...[human life] is also the richest material for [the scholar's] creations.
    Art1 2.360 8 [The artist] must not be in any manner pinched or hindered by his material...
    UGM 4.8 23 ...each man converts some raw material in nature to human use.
    ET1 5.6 5 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities... This was necessary in so refractory a material as stone;...
    ET13 5.229 13 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. Punch finds an inexhaustible material.
    F 6.38 18 As soon as there is life, there is...absorbing and using of material.
    Pow 6.79 8 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Wth 6.95 11 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
    Ctr 6.166 8 Man's culture...wants all the material.
    Bty 6.294 17 ...our art saves material by more skilful arrangement...
    Art2 7.44 10 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    WD 7.161 19 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Boks 7.211 11 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories.
    PI 8.24 24 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents...which make the raw material of knowledge.
    QO 8.204 16 This vast memory [the Past] is only raw material.
    PC 8.234 5 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Insp 8.295 18 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize as raw material...
    War 11.172 14 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    Scot 11.464 22 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs, purified of all ephemeral color or material, his were vers de societe.
    FRep 11.513 10 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man, every new application being equivalent to a new material.
    PLT 12.25 11 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    II 12.70 2 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow. How much material lies in every man!
    CL 12.141 14 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
    ACri 12.285 21 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...
    ACri 12.291 4 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
    ACri 12.303 10 ...the means or material [writing] uses are also of the soul.

materialism, n. (13)

    Tran 1.331 6 Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps the most logical expounder of materialism, was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Pt1 3.7 14 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism...
    Pt1 3.37 17 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    MoS 4.154 27 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    NMW 4.250 18 ...[Napoleon] would not hear of materialism.
    NMW 4.250 19 One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism, Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    ET10 5.170 17 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET14 5.234 14 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius;...
    ET14 5.234 18 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
    ET14 5.249 20 In the decomposition and asphyxia that followed all this materialism [in England], Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    SA 8.107 6 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
    SovE 10.207 20 The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling materialism.
    FRep 11.531 23 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism...

materialist, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.233 7 [The Englishman] is materialist, economical, mercantile.

materialist, n. (10)

    Tran 1.329 21 The materialist insists on facts...
    Tran 1.330 8 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
    Tran 1.330 18 Every materialist will be an idealist;...
    Tran 1.330 19 Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
    Tran 1.331 4 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Tran 1.331 11 The materialist...mocks at fine-spun theories...
    Tran 1.332 24 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world...
    Tran 1.333 2 The materialist respects sensible masses...
    MoS 4.154 25 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    MoS 4.173 24 I do not press the skepticism of the materialist.

materialistic, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.234 4 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift.
    ET14 5.234 22 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...
    Thor 10.457 4 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody?

materialists, n. (5)

    Exp 3.53 11 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are...
    NER 3.270 19 I do not recognize...a class...of materialists.
    PI 8.56 9 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists...
    Imtl 8.332 18 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
    Plu 10.307 1 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists...fills us with disgust.

Materialists, n. (1)

    Tran 1.329 14 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...

materialities, n. (1)

    FRep 11.535 15 What this country longs for is personalities...to counteract its materialities.

materialized, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.208 7 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized...
    Prch 10.217 16 ...material and industrial activity have materialized the age...

materials, n. (32)

    AmS 1.99 3 When the artist has exhausted his materials...he has always the resource to live.
    AmS 1.107 23 Here are the materials strewn along the ground.
    LE 1.170 20 Thucydides, Livy, have only provided materials.
    MN 1.207 20 [A man] knows his materials;...
    MR 1.250 25 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses...
    Tran 1.331 26 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Cir 2.303 11 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact; to a merchant, one easily created out of any materials, and easily lost.
    Art1 2.359 15 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Pt1 3.4 26 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty; to the means and materials he uses...
    Pt1 3.37 16 We have yet had no genius in America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    Nat2 3.181 15 ...the artist still goes back for materials...
    UGM 4.9 19 ...how few materials are yet used by our arts!
    ShP 4.190 23 Every master has found his materials collected...
    ShP 4.190 25 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in.
    ShP 4.195 2 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.218 4 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me?
    GoW 4.263 7 In conversation, in calamity, [the writer] finds new materials;...
    GoW 4.286 15 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...
    ET3 5.38 24 ...England has all the materials of a working country except wood.
    F 6.43 22 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
    Pow 6.79 14 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Art2 7.52 12 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
    Elo1 7.81 25 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials.
    Farm 7.145 8 The plants imbibe the materials which they want from the air and the ground.
    WD 7.176 22 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has...
    WD 7.177 14 That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
    PI 8.40 14 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PI 8.50 6 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    SA 8.96 11 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
    PPo 8.249 10 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader. There is no example of...such use of all materials.
    Thor 10.482 14 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    MAng1 12.215 18 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...

materiel, n. (1)

    ET15 5.265 2 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.

maternity, n. (1)

    Wom 11.418 10 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...

mates, n. (12)

    Fdsp 2.198 7 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates...
    NER 3.275 3 All that a man has will he give for right relations with his mates.
    UGM 4.26 24 ...we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates...
    MoS 4.157 3 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    SS 7.14 26 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave them to seek their own mates, and they will be as merry as sparrows.
    Clbs 7.234 3 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates...
    OA 7.316 15 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    SA 8.89 15 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    Edc1 10.142 26 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    Shak1 11.453 2 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but...being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    CPL 11.507 12 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...
    CInt 12.120 22 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates...

Mathematica, Principia [Isa (2)

    SwM 4.104 17 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SS 7.6 15 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.

mathematical, adj. (17)

    Comp 2.102 14 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
    SL 2.134 27 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods?
    SL 2.149 21 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
    UGM 4.16 25 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as feats...of mathematical combination...
    PNR 4.85 1 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;...
    PNR 4.89 23 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    Pow 6.81 7 The world is mathematical...
    Dem1 10.11 14 Not a mathematical axiom but is a moral rule.
    PerF 10.84 25 A man has a rare mathematical talent...and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Schr 10.277 7 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination...
    LLNE 10.347 25 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    SlHr 10.439 15 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.453 14 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of his mathematical knowledge...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Carl 10.491 6 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    Wom 11.418 23 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    FRep 11.512 11 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...
    ACri 12.288 27 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they...even overstayed the hour of the mathematical professor.

mathematically, adv. (6)

    Con 1.312 19 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Comp 2.116 16 All love is mathematically just...
    SL 2.153 5 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought.
    Chr1 3.101 1 Our action should rest mathematically on our substance.
    Prch 10.224 27 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    PLT 12.49 6 [Dante] clasps the thought as if it were a tree or a stone, and describes as mathematically.

mathematician, n. (7)

    AmS 1.112 24 ...writing with the precision of a mathematician, [Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    YA 1.372 12 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form, the mathematician assures us, required to prevent the protuberances of the continent...from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    SL 2.146 16 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure.
    F 6.18 4 Doubtless in every million there will be...a mathematician...
    Bhr 6.176 15 Every man--mathematician, artist, soldier or merchant--looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Cour 7.254 14 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Plu 10.299 15 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...

mathematicians, n. (5)

    Exp 3.60 9 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    WD 7.158 20 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    PI 8.56 9 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists...
    Grts 8.318 10 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or linguists...
    Bost 12.208 27 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what mathematicians, what lawyers, what wits;...

mathematics, n. (22)

    Int 2.346 14 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
    Pt1 3.30 16 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
    Exp 3.79 8 To [the intellect], the world is a problem in mathematics...
    PPh 4.56 17 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato, a master of mathematics...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.62 20 As there is...a science of quantities, called mathematics;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.62 27 The sciences, even the best,--mathematics and astronomy, are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
    SwM 4.99 9 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy...
    MoS 4.178 4 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave the mind where they find it...
    ET12 5.206 20 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    Ctr 6.159 2 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of the French regicide Carnot, his sublime genius in mathematics;...
    Wsp 6.208 26 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the Millennium mathematics...
    Wsp 6.241 12 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the algebra and mathematics of ethical law...
    PI 8.40 22 [The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
    PC 8.220 3 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts; as Robert Brown in botany, and Gauss in mathematics.
    PC 8.223 3 Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal essence also?
    Edc1 10.144 21 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    SovE 10.186 13 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    Plu 10.308 8 The mathematics give [Plutarch] unspeakable pleasure...
    LLNE 10.365 17 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,- that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    SlHr 10.445 27 [Samuel Hoar] had an affinity for mathematics...
    FRO1 11.478 16 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    PLT 12.14 16 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...

Mathematics, n. (2)

    NER 3.258 21 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.
    NER 3.258 27 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...

mathen, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 14 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./

Mather, Cotton, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 9 In sixty-eight years after the foundation of Boston, Dr. Mather writes of it, The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...

Matilda, Anna, n. (1)

    Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves, and Anna Matilda gets the credit of them.

Matilda, Cousin, n. (2)

    QO 8.198 17 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
    QO 8.198 18 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...

matin, n. (1)

    Insp 8.286 12 ...Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses.

Matlock, England, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 14 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...caves in Matlock and Derbyshire;...

matricides, n. (1)

    Cour 7.276 7 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...parricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters.

matriculated, v. (1)

    SovE 10.213 12 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.

matriculation, n. (1)

    ET11 5.195 23 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary. At the same time, the fees they have to pay for matriculation, and on all other occasions, are much higher.

matrimony, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.404 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony.

matrix, n. (1)

    Mem 12.90 3 Memory is...the cement, the bitumen, the matrix in which the other faculties are embedded;...

matron, n. (1)

    Prch 10.234 20 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...

matronage, n. (1)

    Tran 1.345 17 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?

matrons, n. (3)

    MR 1.253 2 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    LVB 11.90 20 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    AgMs 12.363 9 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

mats, n. (4)

    Int 2.332 22 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
    F 6.9 13 ...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
    SA 8.88 10 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
    ACri 12.298 1 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

matted, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.83 14 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Trag 12.414 19 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

matter, n. (200)

    Nat 1.15 22 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    Nat 1.33 1 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.
    Nat 1.33 27 This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet...
    Nat 1.36 10 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...
    Nat 1.52 4 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the poet] uses matter as symbols of it.
    Nat 1.55 21 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...
    Nat 1.56 10 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
    Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    Nat 1.56 14 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
    Nat 1.57 21 ...we learn that time and space are relations of matter;...
    Nat 1.58 19 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    Nat 1.62 2 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena of matter;...
    Nat 1.62 17 Three problems are put by nature to the mind: What is matter? Whence is it? and Whereto?
    Nat 1.62 19 Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.
    Nat 1.63 3 ...if it only deny the existence of matter, [Idealism] does not satisfy the demands of the spirit.
    Nat 1.63 20 ...when...we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    Nat 1.70 17 The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit.
    AmS 1.86 7 The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter;...
    AmS 1.105 13 Not he is great who can alter matter...
    AmS 1.105 18 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    LE 1.184 19 [The scholar] will learn that it is not much matter what he reads...
    MN 1.191 9 No matter what is their special work or profession, [the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MN 1.219 6 ...astronomy is thought and harmony in masses of matter.
    MR 1.235 1 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted,-no matter how much of it is offered to us,-we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    LT 1.260 3 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful;...
    Con 1.300 20 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season, with the addition of new matter by the growth of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.
    Con 1.308 10 Now you touch the heart of the matter, replies the reformer.
    Tran 1.331 21 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    YA 1.376 4 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    Hist 2.13 23 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
    Comp 2.97 6 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter;...
    SL 2.133 20 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation. But there is no merit in the matter.
    SL 2.151 22 Hero or driveller, [the world] meddles not in the matter.
    SL 2.163 10 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...and that the soul did not know its own needs? Besides, without any reasoning on the matter, I have no discontent.
    Lov1 2.176 4 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Fdsp 2.204 24 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
    Fdsp 2.212 1 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious...
    Fdsp 2.212 2 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland.
    Prd1 2.222 4 [Prudence] moves matter after the laws of matter.
    Prd1 2.223 12 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter...
    Prd1 2.225 7 ...here lies stubborn matter...
    Prd1 2.240 27 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...
    OS 2.295 2 Whenever the appeal is made,--no matter how indirectly,--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Int 2.328 18 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.
    Exp 3.53 11 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are:-- Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!
    Mrs1 3.122 16 The usual words...must be respected; they will be found to contain the root of the matter.
    Mrs1 3.142 4 Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard the story.
    Nat2 3.171 4 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter...
    Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
    Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.184 7 It is not enough that we should have matter...
    Pol1 3.205 10 [Persons and property] exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
    Pol1 3.205 14 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
    NER 3.254 15 Every project in the history of reform, no matter how violent and surprising, is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    NER 3.283 24 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
    UGM 4.16 12 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    PPh 4.49 5 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    PPh 4.62 17 There is a scale; and the correspondence...of matter to mind... is our guide.
    PPh 4.76 25 [Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition from ideas to matter.
    SwM 4.106 23 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was...an instrument through which the soul feeds and is fed by the whole of matter;...
    SwM 4.121 11 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts, as each particle of matter circulates in turn through every system.
    SwM 4.143 20 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw...the primary relation of mind to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.154 11 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    MoS 4.166 20 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease, and his journey to Italy is quite full of that matter.
    MoS 4.168 22 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence,...and swerve from the matter to the expression.
    MoS 4.179 15 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    NMW 4.232 6 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges...
    ET8 5.131 27 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized, so as to be very sensible of pain; and intellectual, so as to see reason and glory in a matter.
    ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
    ET14 5.236 15 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET14 5.242 5 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
    ET17 5.295 12 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.
    F 6.17 7 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
    F 6.21 24 Thus we trace Fate in matter, mind, and morals;...
    F 6.22 10 For who and what is this criticism that pries into the matter?
    F 6.22 26 ...here they are, side by side...mind and matter...
    F 6.43 8 ...matter and mind are in perpetual tilt and balance, so.
    F 6.44 3 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    Pow 6.74 15 No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Wth 6.83 12 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.92 8 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done. No matter whether he makes shoes, or statues, or laws.
    Wth 6.92 21 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Ctr 6.141 15 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away. Nature takes the matter into her own hands...
    Ctr 6.158 15 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course;...
    Wsp 6.219 5 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.220 14 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see there was no luck in the matter;...
    CbW 6.245 23 The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter...
    CbW 6.247 22 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter together.
    CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    CbW 6.274 15 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance, no matter how bad company,--these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    Bty 6.301 8 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.318 10 Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative than narcotics?
    Ill 6.323 14 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    SS 7.14 16 ...[people in conversation] separate...without love or hatred in the matter...
    Art2 7.39 18 [Art] was defined by Aristotle, The reason of the thing, without the matter.
    Elo1 7.74 21 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Elo1 7.85 15 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will...lead the conversation, no matter what genius or distinction other men there present may have;...
    DL 7.111 26 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
    DL 7.127 6 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
    Farm 7.144 21 Air is matter subdued by heat.
    WD 7.163 27 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    WD 7.166 15 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature.
    WD 7.170 20 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor,--a matter of coins, coats and carpets...
    WD 7.171 17 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit.
    Boks 7.195 1 Nature is much our friend in this matter [of reading].
    Clbs 7.233 1 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they fight for victory;...
    Suc 7.296 27 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which the whole empire of matter is worked.
    Suc 7.300 1 ...this brute matter is part of somewhat not brute.
    Suc 7.302 22 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    Suc 7.309 24 As caloric to matter, so is love to mind;...
    PI 8.3 1 The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
    PI 8.3 17 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.4 15 First innuendos, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it appears;...
    PI 8.4 21 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.5 2 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
    PI 8.5 12 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form;...
    PI 8.6 14 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
    PI 8.8 27 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force.
    PI 8.9 26 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.16 6 ...the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.18 11 What is motion? what is beauty? what is matter?...
    PI 8.19 19 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    PI 8.21 17 The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting both.
    PI 8.21 19 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom, and all but itself.
    PI 8.24 9 The senses collect the surface facts of matter.
    PI 8.27 1 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.
    PI 8.30 20 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression, so that they only hint the matter, or allude to it...
    PI 8.34 1 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    PI 8.41 23 ...the poet sees...the shores of matter lying on the sky...
    PI 8.45 14 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected.
    PI 8.64 24 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    PI 8.70 22 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood deals sovereignly with matter...
    SA 8.105 6 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    Elo2 8.129 3 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education, and of high importance to the matter in hand.
    Elo2 8.129 25 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence], of power of statement...
    Res 8.145 2 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
    PC 8.221 14 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...
    PC 8.222 22 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still, a fact really universal,-holding in intellect as in matter, in morals as in intellect...
    PC 8.232 3 Periodicity, reaction, are laws of mind as well as of matter.
    Insp 8.271 25 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Insp 8.296 4 The deep book, no matter how remote the subject, helps us best.
    Grts 8.306 18 I do not know how far [Faraday's] experiments and others have been pushed in this matter [of Diamagnetism]...
    Grts 8.314 12 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter...
    Imtl 8.335 16 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers...
    Dem1 10.19 17 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Aris 10.51 10 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
    Edc1 10.129 7 [The desire of power] is a constant teaching of the laws of matter and of mind.
    Edc1 10.151 3 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    Supl 10.176 12 ...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    SovE 10.189 23 No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
    SovE 10.200 9 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    Prch 10.232 27 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can, no matter how insignificant our aid may be.
    Schr 10.259 7 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
    Schr 10.265 4 [Poets] have no toleration for literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of matter.
    Schr 10.281 19 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation.
    Plu 10.307 17 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself privation;...
    Plu 10.317 20 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the matter is good...
    LLNE 10.329 3 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
    EzRy 10.388 27 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us. With the Doctor's views it was a matter of religion to say thus much.
    MMEm 10.415 18 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause (any more than if it had been dead eternal matter) to that Cause;...
    Thor 10.457 15 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother...
    Thor 10.463 11 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
    Thor 10.465 4 [Thoreau] understood the matter in hand at a glance...
    LS 11.13 25 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    LS 11.23 1 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    LVB 11.93 4 ...would it not be a higher indecorum coldly to argue a matter like [the relocation of the Cherokees]?
    EWI 11.99 17 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.101 2 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.108 18 [Thomas Clarkson] himself interested Mr. Wilberforce in the matter [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe, as a matter of conscience...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.140 21 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
    War 11.158 25 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's...
    War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
    War 11.164 26 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    FSLN 11.222 5 ...[Webster] saw through his matter...
    FSLN 11.222 24 [Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
    FSLN 11.230 2 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    JBS 11.278 26 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    SMC 11.350 2 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted,-no matter how frivolous or unphilosophical its pulses...
    EdAd 11.390 21 Can [a journal] front this matter of Socialism...and dispose of that question?
    FRep 11.525 22 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
    NHI 12.1 2 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    PLT 12.4 25 No matter how far or how high science explores, it adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    PLT 12.56 3 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    Mem 12.90 9 As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.107 26 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then we relieve ourselves of all task in the matter...
    CL 12.154 10 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe;...
    CL 12.154 21 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
    CL 12.163 21 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man. This is that which is the saliency, or principle of levity, the antagonist of matter and gravitation...
    CL 12.166 6 We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
    CL 12.167 1 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.
    Milt1 12.273 22 ...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter down cities and towns.
    ACri 12.297 7 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    WSL 12.340 14 ...[Landor's Imaginary Conversations] seems to us as original in its form as in its matter.
    WSL 12.341 19 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.
    AgMs 12.361 18 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring. But we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly. We have no choice in this matter;...
    AgMs 12.363 25 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor, and acquitted him of any blame in the matter...

Matter, n. (4)

    Nat 1.36 17 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind.
    Wth 6.84 19 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...
    SovE 10.213 4 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic;...
    PLT 12.17 3 ...I believe...that at last Matter is dead Mind;...

matter, v. (2)

    SR 2.58 9 Nor does it matter how you gauge and try [a man].
    Chr2 10.122 9 [Character] asks, with Marcus Aurelius, What matter by whom the good is done?

matters, n. (44)

    AmS 1.96 6 The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation.
    AmS 1.111 19 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    MR 1.237 13 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar, hominy...by simply signing my name...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me in making all these far-fetched matters important to my comfort?
    LT 1.274 20 ...now the purists are looking into all these matters.
    LT 1.276 6 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong.
    Tran 1.349 4 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists]...paltry matters.
    YA 1.375 4 We do the like in all matters...
    Prd1 2.226 22 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Mrs1 3.129 23 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.
    Mrs1 3.131 12 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Nat2 3.187 19 ...the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    NR 3.236 3 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    NR 3.248 6 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first...
    NER 3.259 2 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world.
    SwM 4.102 2 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    NMW 4.250 10 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.
    GoW 4.273 10 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity...
    ET1 5.15 25 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse.
    ET7 5.116 18 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith, or any repudiation or crookedness in matters of finance, would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET11 5.185 2 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead in matters of state and expense;...
    ET13 5.222 16 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET13 5.228 26 The English, abhorring change in all things, abhorring it most in matters of religion...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET18 5.304 14 [The English] do not occupy themselves on matters of general and lasting import...
    Wth 6.117 11 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;...
    Wth 6.123 20 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are matters on which I neither know nor need to know anything.
    Bty 6.292 26 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Bty 6.294 24 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Boks 7.220 20 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Suc 7.302 26 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    PI 8.67 10 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern, and impart a tenderness and mystery to matters of fact.
    Comc 8.171 14 No fashion is the best fashion for those matters which will take care of themselves.
    QO 8.183 25 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...
    Dem1 10.13 10 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.
    Prch 10.225 27 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    Prch 10.226 25 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    LLNE 10.340 25 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were chatting agreeably on indifferent matters...
    MMEm 10.406 22 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    HDC 11.48 18 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations.
    HDC 11.56 9 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances; but now ordinances are light matters with us;...
    HDC 11.82 17 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    JBB 11.273 3 ...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others understand better.
    CInt 12.114 3 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    CInt 12.114 21 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...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...
    Milt1 12.271 24 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.

matters, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.170 20 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Chr1 3.98 13 If I quake, what matters it what I quake at?
    PNR 4.86 11 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication. Call that fanciful,--it matters not...
    Grts 8.312 24 What matters it by whom the good is done, by yourself or another?
    Grts 8.312 26 If it is the truth, what matters who said it?

Matthew, St., n. (3)

    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 23 Two of the Evangelists, namely, Matthew and John, were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.8 13 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, no 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.

Matthew xxvi, 26-30, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 9 In St. Matthew's Gospel (Matt. xxvi. 26-30) are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...

Matthew's, St., Gospel, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 9 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...

Matthews, Toby, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.398 21 Lucy Percy...the friend of Strafford and of Pym, is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.

mattings, n. (1)

    NER 3.285 11 ...what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom...

mattock, n. (1)

    SwM 4.143 11 Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.

mattress, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 12 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.

mattresses, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 17 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...

maturation, n. (2)

    SR 2.70 26 The genesis and maturation of a planet...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Dem1 10.8 17 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...

mature, adj. (9)

    Hist 2.35 2 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    Lov1 2.170 1 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy...
    Lov1 2.171 16 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    F 6.35 5 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel.
    SA 8.100 20 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    QO 8.177 23 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...
    SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.192 9 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery...but oftener when the mind is more mature;...
    War 11.156 15 To men of a sedate and mature spirit...the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.

mature, v. (1)

    Farm 7.147 6 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.

matured, v. (5)

    SwM 4.98 23 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    ET4 5.62 23 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    Edc1 10.136 5 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought. It is not less necessary that the intellectual and the active faculties should be nourished and matured.
    LLNE 10.335 2 ...[works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
    EWI 11.138 12 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].

maturely, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.166 17 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../

maturing, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 9 By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

maturing, v. (2)

    F 6.36 1 The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of higher.
    CL 12.140 9 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...maturing plants which require strongest sunshine...

maturity, n. (7)

    SL 2.136 18 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...
    Art1 2.363 7 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
    Nat2 3.186 25 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that tens may live to maturity;...
    Suc 7.303 7 Who is he in youth or in maturity or even in old age, who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    Suc 7.311 21 ...[the inner life]...is just the same now in maturity and hereafter in age, [as] it was in youth.
    Chr2 10.99 12 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it ceases...
    Chr2 10.108 20 ...all the dogmas rest on morals, and...it is only a question of youth or maturity...

matutina, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.73 20 ...the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge...but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
    Mem 12.94 26 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.

Maud [Magdalen] College, O (1)

    ET12 5.207 2 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...

maudlin, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.25 25 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations.

maundering, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.208 27 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the maundering of Mormons...

Mauritius, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 11 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in Mauritius, the Code Napoleon;...

Maury, Jean Siffrien, n. (2)

    QO 8.185 1 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    QO 8.185 2 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.

mausoleum, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 1 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo...

maxim, n. (25)

    AmS 1.87 10 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    SL 2.151 16 It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.
    SL 2.153 16 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.
    Mrs1 3.124 20 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
    NER 3.268 15 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
    SwM 4.114 3 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    ET5 5.98 25 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET10 5.155 27 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what is left.
    Wth 6.125 10 ...it is a maxim that money is another kind of blood...
    Wth 6.125 14 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense...
    Bhr 6.182 19 The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
    DL 7.132 8 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    WD 7.176 9 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius;...
    Suc 7.289 4 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Suc 7.301 20 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
    SA 8.88 12 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my discretion will be brave.
    Res 8.143 1 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.
    QO 8.179 16 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
    FSLC 11.211 26 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
    AKan 11.256 2 It is a maxim that all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts;...
    AKan 11.256 5 It is a maxim that all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts; and our recent political history has abundantly borne out the maxim.
    ACiv 11.309 25 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    ACiv 11.310 1 ...it is the maxim of history that victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;...
    MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
    MAng1 12.219 13 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but a document or verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].

Maximilian, Professor, n. (1)

    QO 8.198 10 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian?

Maxims [Marcus Aurelius An (1)

    Chr2 10.115 16 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...

maxims, n. (8)

    LE 1.185 14 You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.
    Prd1 2.232 19 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    ET13 5.217 7 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    Wth 6.125 19 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.
    Comc 8.173 8 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.
    PerF 10.77 6 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Plu 10.295 21 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
    Plu 10.312 8 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims;...

maximum, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.225 2 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.

Maxwell, William Hamilton, (1)

    ET4 5.71 4 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as...Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming...

May, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.7 11 ...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that haughty mind...

May, n. (12)

    ET1 5.7 3 On the 15th May [1833] I dined with Mr. Landor.
    CbW 6.243 20 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    Boks 7.209 17 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.
    EzRy 10.381 1 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.)...
    EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel, born May 11, 1783; Daniel...
    EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
    EzRy 10.385 9 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    EzRy 10.385 12 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.
    EWI 11.112 1 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.
    FSLN 11.231 23 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
    SMC 11.371 15 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    CL 12.151 8 In May, the bursting of the leaf...

May, Samuel Joseph, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 13 ...Mr. Garrison, Mr. May, Theodore Parker,...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

May, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 25 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.

Maya, n. (1)

    F 6.20 10 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...

May-days, n. (1)

    CW 12.176 13 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme or a garland, for feasts and May-days...

May-Fair, n. (1)

    ET11 5.187 1 [The English]...walk by their faith in their painted May-Fair as if among the forms of gods.

Mayflower, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 20 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620.

mayhap, adv. (1)

    Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society-mayhap to what is best and greatest in it...

Mayor, Lord, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 8 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

Mayor, Mr., n. (1)

    ChiE 11.471 1 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.

mayor, n. (3)

    F 6.14 10 ...it would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at the hay-scales.
    LLNE 10.350 22 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...an umbrella-maker, a mayor and alderman, and so on.
    Let 12.392 17 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

mayors, n. (1)

    TPar 11.288 9 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...

Mays, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.232 2 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good, the Mays.

maze, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.130 12 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining maze in order...

mazes, n. (2)

    SR 2.77 14 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.
    Milt1 12.261 14 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...

Mazinderan, King of [Firdus (1)

    PPo 8.242 18 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.

McClellan's, George Brinto (1)

    SMC 11.367 18 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.

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, adj (1)

    WD 7.159 2 ...the sewing-machine, the power-loom, the McCormick reaper...are new in this century...

McKay, Donald, n. (1)

    PC 8.219 24 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.

Me, n. (1)

    MLit 12.326 8 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguished him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...

Me, Not, n. (1)

    Nat 1.4 26 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.

mead, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.27 20 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love...mead...
    ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and action with fine jets of mead.

meadow, n. (13)

    DSA 1.119 3 ...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    Pt1 3.21 12 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    Exp 3.47 2 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Bty 6.282 5 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    Farm 7.143 4 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...and accumulated the sphagnum whose decays made the peat of his meadow.
    WD 7.178 6 A snake converts whatever prey the meadow yields him into snake;...
    Dem1 10.5 24 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon.
    SHC 11.435 6 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day...can glorify a meadow or a rock.
    SHC 11.436 1 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern...will seek the waters of the meadow;...
    PLT 12.32 11 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    CL 12.137 19 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    CL 12.156 8 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea...
    Trag 12.410 3 [People with an appetite for grief]...tread on every snake in the meadow.

meadow-flies, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 5 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies.

meadow-lark, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 23 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less, the high-holding woodpecker, the meadow-lark...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

meadows, n. (8)

    Exp 3.71 19 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
    ET16 5.290 9 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...
    Bhr 6.170 2 If [manners] are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
    Farm 7.135 14 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
    Dem1 10.5 24 In sleep one...shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows...
    HDC 11.29 21 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.32 15 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...
    CPL 11.500 13 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as...better acquainted with their forests and meadows and trees than themselves...

meadowsweet, n. (1)

    ET16 5.277 17 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.

meagre, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.208 21 ...though our external history is so meagre, yet, with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...

meagreness, n. (1)

    Int 2.337 23 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states] has...no meagreness or poverty;...

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