Meal to Mechi

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

meal, n. (15)

    AmS 1.111 14 The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    MR 1.246 21 One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
    Prd1 2.225 20 I want wood or oil, or meal or salt;...
    Prd1 2.226 14 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Mrs1 3.119 9 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.
    ShP 4.217 1 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples, and corn another than for meal...
    Bhr 6.196 7 It is good to give a stranger a meal...
    Wsp 6.237 6 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will fatten Jenny.
    Cour 7.273 11 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    Cour 7.278 8 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    EzRy 10.389 12 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of you.
    MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would relish their meal...
    Carl 10.492 16 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    HDC 11.35 3 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    HDC 11.60 17 ...his piles of meal and other provision wasted by the English, it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.

meals, n. (7)

    MR 1.243 2 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn to eat his meals standing...
    ET12 5.200 8 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    Wth 6.87 21 Wealth begins...in a good double-wick lamp, and three meals;...
    DL 7.112 17 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... If the hours of meals are punctual, the apartments are slovenly.
    SA 8.86 3 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals.
    Imtl 8.341 15 [The thinker] studies...at his meals...even in his sleep.
    MAng1 12.237 10 [Michelangelo]...never or very rarely took his meals with any person.

mean, adj. (71)

    Nat 1.8 1 Nature never wears a mean appearance.
    Nat 1.10 8 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
    Nat 1.15 15 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    Nat 1.41 17 ...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
    DSA 1.122 14 He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
    LE 1.176 16 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons.
    MR 1.227 7 ...our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
    MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    LT 1.267 21 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless...
    Con 1.315 23 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices made...by great and not mean persons;...
    Tran 1.353 7 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    YA 1.368 2 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    SR 2.53 16 Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am...
    SL 2.142 14 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
    Fdsp 2.200 6 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Hsm1 2.258 11 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    OS 2.267 13 We grant that human life is mean...
    OS 2.267 14 We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean?
    OS 2.278 24 In their habitual and mean service to the world...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Int 2.337 7 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean;...
    Pt1 3.17 21 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    Pt1 3.32 26 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Exp 3.46 21 ...all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
    Exp 3.61 4 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    Chr1 3.113 19 History has been mean;...
    Mrs1 3.122 10 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality. Gentility is mean, and gentilesse is obsolete.
    Gts 3.163 19 ...the expectation of gratitude is mean...
    NER 3.272 1 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    GoW 4.279 27 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense. And this passage is not made in any mean or creeping way...
    ET4 5.62 18 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET8 5.138 13 ...nothing mean resides in the English heart.
    ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET14 5.237 11 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    ET18 5.307 9 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    Bty 6.291 13 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye. But if it is done to be seen, it is mean.
    SS 7.6 3 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
    Farm 7.152 16 ...true political economy is not mean...
    Boks 7.190 27 Go with mean people and you think life is mean.
    Boks 7.191 1 Go with mean people and you think life is mean.
    Boks 7.196 5 Be sure...to read no mean books.
    Cour 7.258 23 Fear is cruel and mean.
    PI 8.38 2 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in mean employments...
    PI 8.38 16 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that...the mean life is pictures.
    PI 8.69 26 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should not be mean;...
    Imtl 8.338 15 We wish to live for what is great, not for what is mean.
    Aris 10.60 18 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
    Aris 10.61 5 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    SovE 10.206 15 All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
    MMEm 10.418 22 The moon and stars reproach me, because I [Mary Moody Emerson] had to do with mean fools.
    EWI 11.129 27 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me. No: I see other pictures,-of mean men;...
    EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always...making all crime mean and ugly.
    FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low and mean people are found by the groping of the government.
    TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    EPro 11.318 19 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes life mean...
    ALin 11.336 6 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen mean men preferred.
    CPL 11.505 25 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    PLT 12.14 12 The analytic process is...somewhat mean, as spying.
    CInt 12.126 22 ...a college should have no mean ambition...
    CInt 12.129 26 ...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.
    CInt 12.130 1 You find the times and places mean.
    MAng1 12.216 1 [Michelangelo] nothing common did, or mean...
    MAng1 12.217 1 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...
    Milt1 12.250 13 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    Milt1 12.268 4 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.
    Milt1 12.276 19 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    WSL 12.348 26 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit.
    Let 12.400 14 There is nothing holy...which is not degraded to a mean end among this people [the Germans].

MEAN, GOLDEN, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 3 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN...

mean, n. (11)

    Tran 1.355 20 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
    Fdsp 2.208 12 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    PNR 4.88 8 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    PNR 4.88 9 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    MoS 4.176 22 What is the mean of many states; of all the states?
    ET8 5.134 7 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    Bhr 6.197 13 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners? the golden mean is so delicate, difficult...
    Bty 6.289 12 We ascribe beauty to that...which is the mean of many extremes.
    SS 7.4 22 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Suc 7.298 4 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    SHC 11.430 26 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.

mean, v. (61)

    Nat 1.8 10 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.
    AmS 1.92 2 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure, I mean, which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.
    AmS 1.112 22 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    LE 1.164 15 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved. What does this mean?
    LE 1.169 21 What mean these journeys to Niagara;...
    LE 1.176 1 ...we have need of...such an asceticism, I mean, as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
    LT 1.261 20 We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women.
    LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people...
    Tran 1.338 10 I mean we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character...
    Tran 1.348 7 The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth;...
    SR 2.55 20 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean the foolish face of praise...
    SR 2.58 17 ...let me record day by day my honest thought...and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not.
    Comp 2.94 17 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life?
    Prd1 2.229 17 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...
    OS 2.273 26 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    Cir 2.320 25 The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
    NER 3.279 3 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    SwM 4.118 8 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...that each man would ask of all objects what they mean...
    SwM 4.133 16 All [Swedenborg's] types mean the same few things.
    MoS 4.173 10 I mean to use the occasion, and celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
    MoS 4.173 18 ...I mean honestly by [doubts and negations]...
    ShP 4.207 3 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
    ShP 4.215 22 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness...
    NMW 4.237 17 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean unprepared courage;...
    GoW 4.281 12 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought; but what is it for? What does the man mean?
    ET11 5.181 3 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they do not conciliate them...
    Pow 6.70 10 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party, though you mean well, you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Wth 6.115 2 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming (I mean, with one's own hands) could be united.
    Ctr 6.145 9 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice.
    Bhr 6.172 15 [Manners'] first service is very low,--when they are the minor morals; but 't is the beginning of civility,--to make us, I mean, endurable to each other.
    Wsp 6.215 3 I know no words that mean so much [as the words moral and spiritual].
    Wsp 6.216 10 All the great ages have been ages of belief. I mean, when there was any extraordinary power of performance...the human soul was in earnest...
    CbW 6.250 4 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    Boks 7.212 6 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction and leave us dry on this side;--I mean the Imaginative.
    Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    SA 8.79 5 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend. Our critics will then be our best friends, though they did not mean it.
    SA 8.80 22 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners...
    Insp 8.294 11 [Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
    Grts 8.310 13 I mean that there is for you the following of an inward leader...
    Imtl 8.346 1 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    Aris 10.41 6 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects.
    Aris 10.54 24 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine.
    Aris 10.66 7 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments...
    Chr2 10.110 18 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly...
    Supl 10.170 1 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    Supl 10.171 16 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    Supl 10.172 3 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    MoL 10.256 9 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    Schr 10.270 6 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean to excuse it.
    LLNE 10.328 22 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    LS 11.23 16 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    FSLC 11.211 15 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean Massachusetts in all the quarters of her dispersion;...
    JBS 11.277 12 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let [John Brown] speak for himself.
    JBS 11.280 25 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
    TPar 11.285 6 ...every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts but the report. I mean that all biography is autobiography.
    SMC 11.369 13 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing. For that word missing is apt to mean skulking.
    ChiE 11.472 21 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    FRep 11.531 7 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.
    ACri 12.291 12 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
    ACri 12.293 24 I do not mean that [Shakespeare] delights in comedy...
    ACri 12.305 1 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.

meaner, adj. (7)

    MN 1.223 10 What man seeing this [great reality] can...entertain a meaner subject?
    Pt1 3.17 23 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...
    DL 7.114 25 The wise man angles with himself only, and with no meaner bait.
    Boks 7.190 10 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    CInt 12.114 11 Michael Angelo gave himself to art, despising all meaner pursuits.
    Milt1 12.265 27 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
    Pray 12.354 6 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./

meanest, adj. (8)

    Hist 2.33 12 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts...know their master, and the meanest of them glorifies him.
    Prd1 2.238 8 You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
    Elo1 7.64 10 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    SovE 10.183 18 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    Prch 10.222 12 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever. It is a lamp-wick for meanest uses.
    MMEm 10.422 17 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes...
    FSLN 11.238 15 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.
    AsSu 11.248 10 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.

meaning, n. (100)

    Nat 1.17 27 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill...
    Nat 1.36 7 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.47 2 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    Nat 1.74 6 In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
    AmS 1.111 3 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
    AmS 1.111 14 What would we really know the meaning of?
    MN 1.214 8 Nature represents the best meaning of the wisest man.
    MR 1.245 19 Let us learn the meaning of economy.
    MR 1.249 20 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have the broadest meaning...
    LT 1.259 21 Nature itself seems...to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    LT 1.287 20 ...as we ponder this meaning of the times, every new thought drives us to the deep fact that the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    Hist 2.5 13 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you.
    SR 2.78 6 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    SL 2.142 4 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man...should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.
    Fdsp 2.194 26 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts.
    Cir 2.311 11 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning of the very furniture...is manifest.
    Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    Pt1 3.4 11 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.4 13 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.34 9 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    Pt1 3.34 10 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.
    Pt1 3.40 19 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Mrs1 3.122 13 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Nat2 3.174 3 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens...to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
    NER 3.283 14 Men are all secret believers in [the Law], else the word justice would have no meaning...
    UGM 4.20 17 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics.
    PPh 4.46 6 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.46 14 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone,--fault of power to express their precise meaning.
    SwM 4.115 23 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world?
    SwM 4.117 23 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and every other part.
    SwM 4.118 19 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.122 25 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning...
    ShP 4.210 26 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    ShP 4.214 24 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    ShP 4.216 25 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    NMW 4.240 15 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor...
    ET4 5.67 9 The fair Saxon man, with open front and honest meaning...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET7 5.116 4 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    ET13 5.221 3 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET14 5.243 16 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    Pow 6.55 3 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Pow 6.62 22 The very word 'commerce' has only an English meaning...
    Ctr 6.137 23 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Bhr 6.177 4 If [the human body] were made of glass...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    Bhr 6.196 8 It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought...
    Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after age, to their ancient meaning.
    Wsp 6.215 5 The true meaning of spiritual is real;...
    CbW 6.267 11 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
    Bty 6.302 8 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.304 15 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.
    Elo1 7.68 2 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...with his obvious honesty and good meaning...
    Elo1 7.86 5 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
    Elo1 7.92 25 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. Then it rushes from him...in torrents of meaning.
    Boks 7.212 23 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest. It is not poor to him, but radiant with meaning.
    Clbs 7.235 18 ...he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man. This was the meaning of the story of the Sphinx.
    PI 8.11 13 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    PI 8.15 24 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.23 2 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning.
    PI 8.30 8 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility, piercing the outward fact to the meaning of the fact;...
    PI 8.68 21 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily expresses his meaning by natural symbols...
    SA 8.90 18 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.100 5 The consideration the rich possess in all societies is not without meaning or right.
    SA 8.103 3 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good meaning...combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    Elo2 8.124 25 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    QO 8.198 2 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Grts 8.313 4 ...do you know what the right meaning of Fame is?
    Dem1 10.11 16 The jest and byword to an intelligent ear extends its meaning to the soul and to all time.
    Aris 10.37 22 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...
    Chr2 10.105 6 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Edc1 10.140 6 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks, and teaches them, when least they think of it, the use and meaning of these.
    Edc1 10.145 8 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [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.
    SovE 10.207 14 If there be sincerity and good meaning-if there be really in us the wish to seek for our superiors...we shall not long look in vain.
    Prch 10.222 14 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning;...
    Schr 10.281 26 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Thor 10.471 7 ...the meaning of Nature was never attempted to be defined by [Thoreau].
    LS 11.6 12 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus. I shall presently consider its meaning.
    LS 11.7 14 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    HDC 11.67 11 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon.
    War 11.156 21 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    FSLN 11.239 2 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was the meaning and soul of the Greek Tragedy;...
    AKan 11.259 18 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant.
    JBB 11.271 18 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    TPar 11.286 24 [Theodore Parker]...often amused himself with throwing his meaning into pretty apologues;...
    SMC 11.351 9 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have given them a meaning for the imagination and the heart.
    Wom 11.413 12 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
    PLT 12.64 7 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is that no tongue shall syllable it without leave;...
    Mem 12.92 2 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it...perhaps in your age has new meaning.
    Mem 12.101 1 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
    Mem 12.101 4 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    Mem 12.101 13 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    CW 12.179 10 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    ACri 12.285 11 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.291 16 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
    MLit 12.323 18 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    EurB 12.366 17 [The poet's] fable must be a good story, and its meaning must hold as pure truth.
    EurB 12.366 27 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning.
    PPr 12.391 21 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...
    Trag 12.407 3 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...

meaning, v. (9)

    ET1 5.12 13 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    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.
    ET14 5.247 18 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.
    Bty 6.303 13 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Elo1 7.88 5 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk...did not impede, since he was entirely well meaning.
    SA 8.92 4 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    Chr2 10.109 24 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism, meaning the victory of the spirit over the senses;...
    SovE 10.186 12 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SovE 10.187 10 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...

meanings, n. (11)

    Nat 1.32 8 We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings.
    MN 1.214 13 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.
    LT 1.262 14 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    Hist 2.30 13 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!
    SL 2.146 20 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
    Art1 2.365 1 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil...how purely the spirit can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].
    Mrs1 3.153 19 [Love] gives new meanings to every fact.
    SA 8.99 17 ...in good conversation parties don't speak to the words, but to the meanings of each other.
    Insp 8.294 21 ...every word...hints ulterior meanings.
    Wom 11.410 14 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
    Mem 12.93 2 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on...

meanly, adv. (5)

    MN 1.208 21 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    SL 2.163 13 I will not meanly decline the immensity of good...
    Art1 2.362 27 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    NMW 4.253 23 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
    ET12 5.211 23 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write...must read meanly and fragmentarily.

meanness, n. (25)

    Con 1.297 23 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism...
    Con 1.324 10 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    Hist 2.5 19 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    SR 2.53 24 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.77 22 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    SL 2.142 20 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do...
    Hsm1. 2.252 17 There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness.
    Hsm1 2.263 22 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    Mrs1 3.137 16 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    SwM 4.93 13 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for...the meanness of labor and traffic.
    MoS 4.154 18 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    ET12 5.208 9 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised...
    ET14 5.243 13 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
    F 6.23 22 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    Wth 6.100 27 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Bhr 6.172 21 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...overawe their spite and meanness;...
    CbW 6.263 14 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings...
    Art2 7.52 5 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face of man in the morning of the world. No mark is on these lofty features of sloth or luxury or meanness...
    PI 8.75 1 What if we find partiality and meanness in us? The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
    EzRy 10.391 3 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
    MMEm 10.427 20 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...
    HDC 11.48 22 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
    PLT 12.57 10 Every kind of meanness and mischief is forgiven to intellect.
    Bost 12.208 8 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city; infinite meanness, scarlet crime.
    MAng1 12.242 24 ...[Michelangelo's] was a soul so enamoured of grace that it could not stoop to meanness or depravity;...

Meanness, n. (1)

    Aris 10.54 27 ...the two poles of nature are Beauty and Meanness...

means, n. (283)

    Nat 1.13 20 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag...
    Nat 1.41 15 In God, every end is converted into a new means.
    Nat 1.51 14 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    Nat 1.60 13 [The soul] respects the end too much to immerse itself in the means.
    Nat 1.69 25 ...the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
    AmS 1.88 10 ...no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum...
    AmS 1.89 26 What is the one end [of books] which all means go to effect?
    LE 1.165 13 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    LE 1.179 18 ...[Napoleon] had a faith...in the application of means to ends.
    LE 1.179 18 Means to ends, is the motto of all [Napoleon's] behavior.
    LE 1.179 22 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between means and consequences...
    LE 1.181 10 Let [the scholar] know that...in the use of all means...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LE 1.184 3 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.
    MN 1.202 23 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MN 1.203 24 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.
    MN 1.218 9 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within...
    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.
    MR 1.246 10 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    MR 1.250 14 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    MR 1.250 17 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best carpenters'... tools...
    MR 1.256 17 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
    MR 1.256 26 ...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers...
    LT 1.276 11 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they...use outward and vulgar means.
    LT 1.277 4 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all exaggerated some special means...
    LT 1.277 6 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that the Reform of Reforms must be accomplished without means.
    LT 1.281 18 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.330 22 [The idealist] does not deny the sensuous fact: by no means;...
    Tran 1.350 23 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition...
    YA 1.381 24 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    YA 1.382 8 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together!
    YA 1.385 10 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them; they are in their element. Could any means be contrived to appoint only these!
    Hist 2.10 9 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    SR 2.48 5 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom... means, teachers, texts, temples fall;...
    SR 2.77 21 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    SR 2.80 6 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification...passes for the end and not for a speedily exhaustible means...
    SR 2.86 23 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Comp 2.103 14 ...means and ends...cannot be severed;...
    Comp 2.103 17 ...means and ends...cannot be severed; for...the end preexists in the means...
    Prd1 2.221 5 My prudence consists...not in the inventing of means and methods...
    Prd1 2.223 23 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else, as health and bodily life, into means.
    Prd1 2.227 9 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    Cir 2.314 6 ...these metals and animals...are means and methods only...
    Int 2.327 19 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict...the means...of that spontaneity.
    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 3.27 24 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
    Exp 3.75 24 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are...
    Chr1 3.89 24 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    Chr1 3.94 16 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
    Chr1 3.103 15 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    Mrs1 3.128 11 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...means of cultivation and generosity...
    Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    Mrs1 3.143 3 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy. We must obtain that, if we can; but by all means we must affirm this.
    Mrs1 3.145 8 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees. What if they are...used as means of selfishness?
    Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
    Pol1 3.206 4 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means;...
    Pol1 3.214 5 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our means...
    NR 3.234 15 Beautiful details we must have, or no artist; but they must be means and never other.
    NR 3.241 17 ...is not munificence the means of insight?
    NR 3.245 1 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    NER 3.260 15 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition...that man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.
    UGM 4.34 12 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture and limits;...
    PPh 4.52 2 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is...use of means...
    PPh 4.67 27 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    PPh 4.75 18 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato. Moreover by this means he was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    SwM 4.103 20 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.
    SwM 4.103 22 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence; all the means are orderly given;...
    SwM 4.107 9 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature iterates her means perpetually on successive planes.
    SwM 4.116 11 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall by this means elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    MoS 4.160 1 [The skeptic] is the considerer...husbanding his means...
    MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
    ShP 4.192 7 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    ShP 4.214 26 [Shakespeare's] means are as admirable as his ends;...
    NMW 4.224 22 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    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 4.228 1 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
    NMW 4.230 15 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.230 16 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.230 17 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight...in the choice, simplification and combining of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.232 12 [Bonaparte's] principal means are in himself.
    NMW 4.233 17 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled...by the splendor of his own means.
    NMW 4.242 13 The day of sleepy, selfish policy, ever narrowing the means and opportunities of young men, was ended [in France]...
    NMW 4.251 7 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories.
    NMW 4.252 18 [Napoleon] was...the inventor of means...
    NMW 4.253 17 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career, without any stipulation or scruple concerning the means.
    GoW 4.263 27 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him,--if, by some means, he may yet save some true word.
    GoW 4.274 10 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of man.
    GoW 4.285 5 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
    ET1 5.20 8 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics; that they make political distinction the end and not the means.
    ET2 5.25 20 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
    ET3 5.37 5 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds.
    ET4 5.57 25 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner, by no means for chivalry, but for their acres.
    ET5 5.77 18 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET5 5.78 6 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET5 5.80 17 [The English people's] mind is not dazzled by its own means...
    ET5 5.81 2 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    ET5 5.82 24 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic or coupling of means to ends, have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET5 5.83 9 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
    ET5 5.85 17 In war, the Englishman looks to his means.
    ET5 5.86 27 ...[the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET5 5.97 25 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt...
    ET9 5.149 1 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means...
    ET10 5.153 13 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET10 5.156 19 [In England] An economist, or a man who can proportion his means and his ambition...without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET10 5.158 2 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
    ET10 5.166 5 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for access to means of science or study...
    ET10 5.171 3 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET11 5.174 17 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed.
    ET14 5.251 25 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a new morning...
    ET14 5.254 6 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
    ET15 5.270 7 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative, and by no means ideal.
    ET17 5.298 9 New means were employed, and new realms added to the empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
    ET18 5.307 1 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament...
    F 6.8 26 An expense of ends to means is fate;...
    F 6.13 4 ...There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means became such in time.
    F 6.33 24 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power...was God; that it must be availed of, and not by any means let off and wasted.
    F 6.35 18 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights are wings and means,- we are reconciled.
    Pow 6.79 27 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...
    Pow 6.80 15 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.84 3 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    Wth 6.87 2 [coal] is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted.
    Wth 6.97 24 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
    Wth 6.111 18 Our nature and genius force us to respect ends, whilst we use means.
    Wth 6.111 18 We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...
    Wth 6.111 23 That is the good head, which serves the end and commands the means.
    Wth 6.111 24 The rabble are corrupted by their means; the means are too strong for them...
    Wth 6.112 9 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent.
    Wth 6.117 9 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...
    Ctr 6.131 3 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, and of wealth as a means of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.141 27 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Wsp 6.215 7 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which works without means...
    Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
    CbW 6.248 1 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements. Let us infer his ends from this pomp of means.
    CbW 6.256 15 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
    CbW 6.278 1 Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
    SS 7.11 25 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    Art2 7.40 14 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes, through different means, its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Elo1 7.76 8 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    Elo1 7.91 19 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.93 14 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...keeps the secret of its means and method; and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Elo1 7.99 26 [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 7.105 22 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.111 12 The progress of domestic living has been...in countless means and arts of comfort...
    DL 7.113 21 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    DL 7.114 3 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
    DL 7.126 3 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce, with all this immense expenditure of means and power, so cheap and humble a result.
    Farm 7.140 7 The farmer has...the appetite of health, and means to his end;...
    Farm 7.152 23 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.
    WD 7.160 27 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    WD 7.173 12 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    WD 7.177 14 That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
    WD 7.184 8 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    Clbs 7.226 26 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation.
    Clbs 7.249 21 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
    Cour 7.260 23 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    Cour 7.262 24 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril and learns the means of resistance.
    Cour 7.266 13 ...to be really strong we must adhere to our own means.
    Cour 7.273 6 ...it is not the means on which we draw...that count, but the aims only.
    Cour 7.273 10 The aim reacts back on the means.
    Cour 7.273 11 A great aim aggrandizes the means.
    Suc 7.288 19 Cause and effect are a little tedious; how to leap to the result by short or by false means?
    Suc 7.291 8 ...I am by no means sure that the reader will assent to all my propositions...
    Suc 7.293 3 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat...
    Suc 7.302 2 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting...
    Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
    PI 8.9 12 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    PI 8.17 14 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
    PI 8.38 13 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    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 8.54 4 Poetry will never be a simple means...
    SA 8.85 9 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand;...
    SA 8.90 11 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was...by no means the hot and hurried business which passes in the world.
    SA 8.101 23 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Elo2 8.111 7 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...
    Elo2 8.111 15 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants?
    Res 8.139 16 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam; or if not that, try electricity. Is there any exhausting of these means?
    Res 8.144 11 [The energetic man] sees expedients and means where we saw none.
    Res 8.144 18 It is out of the obstacles to be encountered that [the Indian, the sailor, the hunter] make the means of destroying them.
    Res 8.146 26 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Res 8.147 2 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Comc 8.165 8 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    QO 8.179 11 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    Insp 8.271 17 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means.
    Insp 8.276 6 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Grts 8.314 6 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Imtl 8.329 25 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;...
    Imtl 8.351 15 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Dem1 10.16 20 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents and the means of magic...
    Aris 10.37 1 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct...the insane subordination of the end to the means.
    Aris 10.44 20 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he foresees all the means...
    Aris 10.47 17 Let a man's social aims be proportioned to his means and power.
    Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.53 6 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    Aris 10.58 27 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    PerF 10.69 17 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him his means...
    PerF 10.82 25 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind.
    Chr2 10.107 12 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    Chr2 10.117 18 [The Sunday] invites...to whatever means and aids of spiritual refreshment.
    Chr2 10.120 27 [Character's] methods are subtle, it works without means.
    Edc1 10.125 5 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
    Edc1 10.131 4 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    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 10.152 23 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...
    Edc1 10.157 9 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it and precludes him from finer means.
    Supl 10.174 27 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but...a true proportion between her means and her performance.
    Schr 10.271 3 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    Schr 10.274 26 It is the corruption of our generation that men...do not esteem life simply as a means of expressing a sentiment.
    Schr 10.283 24 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit]... makes new means for its great ends.
    Schr 10.288 16 ...[the scholar's] ends give value to every means...
    LLNE 10.327 14 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means;...
    LLNE 10.364 13 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 21 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction;...
    CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    EzRy 10.389 7 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies...was by no means abated by time.
    MMEm 10.412 25 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected.
    MMEm 10.415 26 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor...
    MMEm 10.417 25 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property.
    MMEm 10.420 16 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means...
    MMEm 10.421 22 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    MMEm 10.423 9 War is among the means of discipline...
    SlHr 10.440 11 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to...industrious men, and by no means eager to reclaim of them either the interest or the principal.
    SlHr 10.444 24 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession...by the simplicity of his means.
    Thor 10.454 21 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    Thor 10.464 12 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol.
    Thor 10.464 22 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means.
    Carl 10.490 16 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure, and would by no means bear transplantation.
    GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...
    LS 11.14 21 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    LVB 11.91 6 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
    EWI 11.135 15 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was achieved by plain means of plain men...
    EWI 11.135 22 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure.
    War 11.158 1 By all these means, war has been steadily on the decline;...
    FSLN 11.229 26 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    ACiv 11.300 16 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.303 3 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would...create on the moment the means and executors it wanted.
    ACiv 11.309 19 It is not free institutions, it is not a republic, it is not a democracy, that is the end,-no, but only the means.
    EPro 11.319 12 It is by no means necessary that this measure [Emancipation] should be suddenly marked by any signal results on the negroes or on the rebel masters.
    SMC 11.360 21 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp:-meantime [the soldiers] are without the means of writing.
    SMC 11.363 18 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men...invent excellent means of their own.
    Wom 11.411 23 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...with all advantages which the means of man collect...
    CPL 11.507 26 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...mere means...
    FRep 11.514 7 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.518 3 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who by means of newspapers and caucuses really thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    FRep 11.523 19 ...[the people]...must have the means of living well...
    FRep 11.539 22 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    FRep 11.540 27 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation. 'T is not free institutions, 't is not a democracy that is the end,-no, but only the means.
    PLT 12.4 22 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    PLT 12.5 25 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.53 14 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of another.
    PLT 12.59 12 [A fact] is...only a means now to new sallies of the imagination and new progress of wisdom.
    II 12.71 11 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    II 12.71 24 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will.
    II 12.72 2 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by supervoluntary means.
    II 12.72 16 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man.
    II 12.72 17 It is this employment of new means-of means not mechanical...that denotes the inspired man.
    II 12.73 18 The mark of the spirit is...to invent means.
    II 12.79 5 ...we will by all means invite [inspiration].
    II 12.85 13 Each must have all, but by no means need he have it in your form.
    Mem 12.100 5 ...defect of memory is not always want of genius. By no means.
    CInt 12.113 7 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity. Yet it is but...a far-off means and servant;...
    CInt 12.117 14 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons. Other men are victims of their means...
    CInt 12.117 15 ...sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
    CL 12.164 5 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language, and our only means of uttering the invisible thought.
    Bost 12.186 8 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost.
    Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
    Bost 12.189 20 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.202 15 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party...
    MAng1 12.215 17 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...
    MAng1 12.216 11 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means...he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.224 19 ...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, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
    MAng1 12.242 25 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    ACri 12.303 10 ...the means or material [writing] uses are also of the soul.
    MLit 12.323 6 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste,-a quality by no means common to the German writers.
    WSL 12.338 23 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes are by no means culpable...
    WSL 12.343 2 Whatever can make for itself an element, means, organs, servants and the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.
    WSL 12.345 22 ...[character] works directly and without means...
    WSL 12.346 19 [Landor's] position is by no means the highest in literature...
    Pray 12.351 11 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
    Pray 12.353 9 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.
    Pray 12.355 15 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption. Wilt thou show me the true means of accomplishing it.

Means, n. (1)

    DL 7.113 24 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have come to be so omnipotent on earth.

means, v. (37)

    Nat 1.25 16 Right means straight;...
    Nat 1.25 17 ...wrong means twisted.
    Nat 1.25 17 Spirit primarily means wind;...
    Nat 1.69 6 Nothing we see, but means our good/...
    Hist 2.32 6 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
    PPh 4.76 21 One man thinks [Plato] means this, and another that;...
    SwM 4.121 5 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an artichoke this other;...
    SwM 4.128 7 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth?
    ET2 5.30 20 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
    ET9 5.144 17 The pursy man [in England] means by freedom the right to do as he pleases...
    ET14 5.247 6 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    ET18 5.300 2 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.
    F 6.29 6 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    Wth 6.115 26 ...every hill of melons, row of corn, or quick-set hedge [on a man's land]; all he has done and all he means to do, stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    CbW 6.252 13 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    SS 7.8 10 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    Elo1 7.92 2 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it. Else there would be no such word as eloquence, which means this.
    Elo1 7.93 10 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees and which he means that you shall see.
    Elo2 8.126 16 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness; and perhaps it means here presence of mind.
    Supl 10.169 3 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored; which, I suppose, means, Never italicize.
    Supl 10.169 26 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    SovE 10.202 27 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    FSLC 11.183 14 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch: he will say, morality means pricking a vein.
    FSLC 11.204 24 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand.
    FSLC 11.207 14 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority.
    Scot 11.463 22 ...we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys. But this means that when we reopen these old books we all consent to be boys again.
    PLT 12.21 20 ...the lowest only means incipient form...
    Mem 12.91 27 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Mem 12.104 26 Remember me means, Do not cease to love me.
    CL 12.165 4 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CL 12.165 6 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he means men and women.
    CL 12.165 8 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.
    CL 12.166 24 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
    ACri 12.289 18 The Devil a monk was he, means, he was no monk...
    ACri 12.289 19 ...The Devil you did! means you did not.
    ACri 12.292 3 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.299 27 [Metonomy] means, using one word or image for another.

mean-spirited, adj. (2)

    DL 7.115 8 If [man]...is mean-spirited...it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    DL 7.115 13 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no mean-spirited offer of condolence because you have not money...

meant, v. (21)

    Int 2.331 15 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Art1 2.357 17 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    ET1 5.9 20 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier...
    ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET16 5.289 16 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor...
    F 6.37 15 Eyes are found in light;...and each creature where it was meant to be...
    Suc 7.296 20 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    PI 8.50 17 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    PC 8.230 13 ...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be misused.
    Grts 8.306 9 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism,-by which he meant cross-magnetism;...
    Imtl 8.337 5 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature, and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by knowledge.
    Chr2 10.110 20 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...
    LLNE 10.364 5 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    Thor 10.479 25 Though he meant to be just, [Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    LS 11.7 24 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...and meant to impose a memorial feast upon the whole world.
    LS 11.10 22 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.10 25 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    Bost 12.198 24 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme, manly meant and manly done.
    ACri 12.292 6 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    EurB 12.366 22 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons what that meant...
    PPr 12.389 22 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

meantime, adv. (56)

    Nat 1.36 15 Meantime, Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought...
    Nat 1.72 24 Meantime, in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light...
    DSA 1.126 24 Meantime, while the doors of the temple stand open...it is guarded by one stern condition; this, namely, [the moral sentiment] is an intuition.
    LE 1.156 12 Meantime I know that a very different estimate of the scholar' s profession prevails in this country...
    MR 1.246 21 Meantime [infirm people] never bestir themselves to serve another person;...
    LT 1.260 24 Meantime, on the other part, arises Reform...
    Con 1.295 15 On rolls the old world meantime...
    Tran 1.342 21 Meantime, this retirement does not proceed from any whim on the part of these separators;...
    YA 1.367 1 Meantime, with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    YA 1.377 6 Meantime Trade had begun to appear...
    SR 2.55 13 Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
    Lov1 2.186 14 Meantime, as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    OS 2.269 7 We live...in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole;...
    Exp 3.80 18 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate,--and meantime it is only puss and her tail.
    Pol1 3.201 4 Meantime the education of the general mind never stops.
    PPh 4.53 23 Meantime, Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...
    SwM 4.129 16 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
    GoW 4.286 21 Meantime certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    ET4 5.66 20 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, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives. Meantime the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET5 5.81 12 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion...
    ET5 5.99 2 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. Meantime, three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET11 5.191 25 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    ET14 5.259 16 Meantime, I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET15 5.264 18 Meantime, [the London Times] attacks its rivals by perfecting its printing machinery...
    ET16 5.275 16 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    Pow 6.67 16 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
    CbW 6.251 17 Meantime this spawning productivity is not noxious or needless.
    DL 7.130 7 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all. Meantime, be it remembered, we are artists ourselves...
    Farm 7.152 20 Meantime we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.
    Boks 7.191 22 Meantime the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Boks 7.221 5 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    OA 7.324 6 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open. Meantime, at every stage we lose a foe.
    Grts 8.316 3 Meantime we hate snivelling.
    Imtl 8.326 26 Meantime the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Dem1 10.27 7 Meantime far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural...
    Aris 10.63 24 Meantime shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...
    Edc1 10.141 14 Meantime, if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    Supl 10.178 24 Meantime, Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.207 18 Meantime there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence.
    Plu 10.293 17 Meantime, the simple truth is, that [Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...
    Plu 10.312 21 Plutarch, meantime, with every virtue under heaven, thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
    SlHr 10.446 8 Meantime, whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    HDC 11.45 1 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
    HDC 11.54 14 Meantime, Concord increased in territory and population.
    HDC 11.74 1 Meantime, the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle... arrived and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HDC 11.83 17 Meantime, I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves.
    EWI 11.126 14 Meantime, [British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    EPro 11.326 10 Meantime that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    SMC 11.350 8 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;-well assured, meantime, that the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    SMC 11.360 21 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp:-meantime [the soldiers] are without the means of writing.
    Scot 11.466 16 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of this discernment...
    FRO2 11.490 9 Meantime, observe, you cannot bring me too good a word... from the Jews.
    FRep 11.516 7 Meantime [immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history...
    PLT 12.62 22 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...
    CInt 12.118 23 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands...
    MAng1 12.238 14 Meantime [Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...

meanwhile, adv. (2)

    Nat2 3.184 17 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
    Suc 7.291 1 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.

measles, n. (1)

    SL 2.132 17 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs...

measurable, adj. (2)

    SL 2.153 5 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought.
    NR 3.229 25 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.

measure, n. (123)

    AmS 1.86 5 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
    AmS 1.87 5 Nature then becomes to [the scholar] the measure of his attainments.
    LE 1.173 23 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough...for him.
    LT 1.277 15 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth.
    LT 1.278 18 [the youth] must resist the degradation of a man to a measure.
    Tran 1.333 7 The idealist has another measure, which is metaphysical...
    Tran 1.336 4 ...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought...
    Tran 1.336 22 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    YA 1.390 1 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    SR 2.70 16 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.
    SR 2.70 24 Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right.
    Comp 2.109 15 ...measure for measure;...
    SL 2.139 24 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. ... Then you are...the measure of right...
    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?
    SL 2.151 23 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...
    Prd1 2.224 1 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune, the achievement of a civil or social measure...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Prd1 2.234 4 Let [a man] esteem...[Nature's] perfections the exact measure of our deviations.
    Cir 2.316 4 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty...
    Pt1 3.33 26 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it...is a measure of intellect.
    Pt1 3.40 26 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
    Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.87 10 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the feat./
    Chr1 3.96 24 The natural measure of this power [of character] is the resistance of circumstances.
    Mrs1 3.139 7 [The spirit of the energetic class] delights in measure.
    Mrs1 3.139 8 The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.
    Mrs1 3.139 12 If you wish to be loved, love measure.
    Mrs1 3.139 14 You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you will hide the want of measure.
    Pol1 3.200 4 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure...may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
    Pol1 3.209 22 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...
    Pol1 3.212 23 There is a middle measure which satisfies all parties...
    Pol1 3.213 17 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every measure;...
    NR 3.230 20 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...
    NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    UGM 4.24 22 Difference from me is the measure of absurdity.
    PPh 4.45 9 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
    PPh 4.64 24 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    SwM 4.99 10 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.
    SwM 4.115 12 The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms...
    ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    GoW 4.268 5 The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    GoW 4.276 4 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things.
    GoW 4.276 15 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]...
    ET5 5.81 16 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried...
    ET5 5.90 4 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons, where a measure can be carried by a speech.
    ET6 5.112 23 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England, of whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.
    ET10 5.160 20 ...a better measure than these sounding figures is the estimate that there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET13 5.229 8 The popular press is flagitious in the exact measure of its sanctimony...
    ET14 5.243 18 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England], and his understanding the measure, in all nations, of the English intellect.
    ET18 5.305 24 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
    F 6.18 14 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.
    F 6.43 17 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind.
    Ctr 6.164 10 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Bhr 6.190 8 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time...
    Wsp 6.212 9 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.218 8 The moral must be the measure of health.
    Civ 7.24 7 ...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
    Civ 7.24 9 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...
    DL 7.123 15 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
    Farm 7.142 16 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    WD 7.166 1 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
    WD 7.166 4 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    WD 7.178 19 Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
    WD 7.179 6 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    WD 7.179 10 'T is the measure of a man,--his apprehension of a day.
    WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to...carry a measure, for money;...
    Cour 7.260 12 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    OA 7.334 17 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was delighted beyond measure.
    PI 8.34 12 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.49 23 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer.
    Res 8.139 8 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
    PC 8.212 25 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock, no more a measure of time than an hour-glass or an egg-glass...
    PC 8.221 26 ...the first measure of a mind is its centrality...
    PC 8.229 11 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid! Yes, but in the measure of his absolute veracity he does impart it.
    Grts 8.319 10 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense...
    Aris 10.49 17 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    Aris 10.56 23 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    Chr2 10.103 23 The [moral] sentiment...is the judge and measure of every expression of it...
    Supl 10.166 25 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    SovE 10.184 13 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
    SovE 10.185 11 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe. In the measure in which he has this sense he is a man...
    SovE 10.185 16 The moral is the measure of health...
    Plu 10.313 15 [Plutarch's] faith in the immortality of the soul is another measure of his deep humanity.
    LLNE 10.348 4 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    LLNE 10.369 2 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]! What mutual measure they took of each other!
    Thor 10.461 21 [Thoreau] could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye;...
    GSt 10.503 21 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy...
    GSt 10.506 13 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    GSt 10.506 15 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    LS 11.23 10 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    LS 11.23 11 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    HDC 11.62 2 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    HDC 11.68 25 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    HDC 11.70 13 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...
    EWI 11.120 5 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will; and the other [West Indian] islands fell into the measure;...
    EWI 11.120 9 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters (and those too who were originally most opposed to the measure), and from the new freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.
    FSLC 11.198 22 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final.
    FSLC 11.198 24 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment.
    FSLC 11.199 8 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house. A measure of pacification and union. What is its effect?
    FSLN 11.230 25 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure...
    FSLN 11.232 3 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good, the Mays. But each of these parties must of necessity take in, in some measure, the principles of the other.
    ACiv 11.308 10 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...
    ACiv 11.308 20 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations. This measure at once puts all parties right.
    ACiv 11.309 3 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily.
    EPro 11.316 16 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EPro 11.319 12 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.
    EPro 11.319 19 [The Emancipation Proclamation] is not a measure that admits of being taken back...
    EPro 11.322 24 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but through it was the sole safety. The measure he has adopted was imperative.
    Shak1 11.446 1 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    FRO1 11.476 11 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    FRep 11.518 14 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself...
    FRep 11.519 15 Party sacrifices man to the measure.
    FRep 11.529 3 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    PLT 12.10 17 Knowing is the measure of the man.
    PLT 12.39 14 ...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
    PLT 12.42 20 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    PLT 12.43 9 My measure for all subjects of science as of events is their impression on the soul.
    PLT 12.46 12 Will is the measure of power.
    PLT 12.62 4 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere...
    II 12.67 17 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the mind as the measure;...
    Mem 12.95 25 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius.
    CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember.
    Bost 12.204 9 Nature...never gives without measure.

measure, v. (39)

    Nat 1.65 6 [The world] is a fixed point whereby we may measure our departure.
    Tran 1.353 23 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...
    Hist 2.27 6 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    SR 2.87 26 [Men] measure their esteem of each other by what each has...
    SL 2.144 26 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.166 13 We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.
    Prd1 2.226 25 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle; if eyes, measure and discriminate;...
    Int 2.342 14 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth.
    Mrs1 3.133 18 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... But do not measure the importance of this class by their pretension...
    Nat2 3.194 14 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    UGM 4.22 22 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
    PPh 4.60 2 No orator can measure in effect with him who can give good nicknames.
    PNR 4.89 20 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    NMW 4.243 13 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...a wish to measure his power with other masters...
    ET2 5.33 14 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
    ET8 5.132 21 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition...
    ET8 5.132 26 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
    Bhr 6.189 19 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    CbW 6.243 9 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See thou lift the lightest load./
    Bty 6.287 26 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so.
    DL 7.124 4 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    WD 7.157 15 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    WD 7.157 18 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    PI 8.54 18 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...and we measure the inspiration by the music.
    SA 8.89 10 Welfare requires...persons...by whom we can measure ourselves...
    Res 8.139 16 Measure by barrels the spending of the brook that runs through your field.
    Grts 8.311 20 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    PerF 10.74 12 If [man] should measure strength with [natural forces], if he should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    Schr 10.262 14 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    MMEm 10.421 27 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity...
    MMEm 10.422 9 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration by the number of our thoughts...
    Thor 10.461 18 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    EWI 11.118 18 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    FSLN 11.240 24 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
    EdAd 11.390 26 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery...
    Wom 11.411 4 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    PLT 12.33 4 The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge.

measured, adj. (4)

    Con 1.312 20 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    ET12 5.204 18 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets (measured lines not being necessary to constitute one) he did not know what poetry meant.
    Schr 10.276 11 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured portions... we will buy it with millions.

measured, v. (28)

    AmS 1.99 19 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display.
    MR 1.232 17 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity...
    Comp 2.115 18 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which are measured out by his plumb and foot-rule...do recommend to him his trade...
    SL 2.155 6 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    OS 2.272 24 We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth.
    Exp 3.74 21 ...the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.
    Chr1 3.103 8 We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only measured by its works.
    Chr1 3.104 8 A man is a poor creature if he is to be measured [by a list of specifications of benefit].
    SwM 4.103 9 ...[Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    ET2 5.28 4 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet;...
    ET2 5.33 12 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET5 5.87 16 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right measured by property, that breeds revolution.
    ET10 5.157 19 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...measured the length of the year;...
    ET16 5.277 22 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...
    Wsp 6.202 18 The strength of that principle [Faith] is not measured in ounces and pounds;...
    CbW 6.275 13 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    Bty 6.282 26 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
    Bty 6.283 8 [A man's] duties are measured by that instrument he is;...
    Ill 6.324 5 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    DL 7.118 7 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    Suc 7.303 5 ...genius is measured by its skill in this science [of sensibility].
    PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PC 8.229 22 Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
    MoL 10.245 26 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    MoL 10.250 3 [Nature says to the American] I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Thor 10.464 26 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion...
    AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    PLT 12.10 14 A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

measureless, adj. (1)

    LT 1.277 14 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment...with measureless exaggerations...

measurement, n. (2)

    NMW 4.239 24 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    Wth 6.96 22 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface.

measurements, n. (2)

    Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
    WD 7.174 24 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!

measurer, n. (1)

    DL 7.123 18 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...

measures, n. (34)

    Con 1.318 22 ...[the conservative party] goes...for expediency in its measures, and not for the right.
    Tran 1.336 7 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
    OS 2.272 19 ...time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
    Exp 3.62 14 If we will take the good we find...we shall have heaping measures.
    Nat2 3.179 27 Geology has...taught us to disuse our dame-school measures...
    Pol1 3.209 11 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    NR 3.231 13 [The day-laborer's] measures are the hours;...
    NR 3.232 5 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NER 3.278 8 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    NMW 4.227 10 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the system of weights and measures;...
    NMW 4.227 14 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures...
    ET10 5.162 8 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.
    ET18 5.307 3 ...now we say that the right measures of England are the men it bred;...
    Wth 6.111 10 There are few measures of economy which will bear to be named without disgust;...
    Wth 6.111 26 The first of these measures [of economy] is that each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    CbW 6.247 12 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    Civ 7.26 10 These feats are measures or traits of civility;...
    Civ 7.31 15 These are traits and measures and modes [of civilization];...
    Civ 7.33 21 Not the less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws.
    Elo2 8.112 18 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    PC 8.212 21 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    PPo 8.239 19 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures...
    Insp 8.287 22 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has...festal notes ringing out all measures of loftiness.
    Supl 10.166 9 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
    MoL 10.251 26 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals.
    Plu 10.304 12 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    Thor 10.453 15 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    GSt 10.503 17 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures needed for the hour.
    HDC 11.72 1 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    War 11.161 3 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization, or the measures it should inspire, predicted according to the light of each seer.
    EPro 11.316 8 These measures [for liberty] provoke no noisy joy...
    FRep 11.518 12 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
    FRep 11.518 16 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are perfunctorily carried through as secondary.

measures, v. (14)

    Nat 1.36 13 The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures...
    Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    SR 2.60 27 [A true man] measures you and all men and all events.
    Hsm1 2.251 22 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    OS 2.295 13 The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion...
    Cour 7.275 16 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero [who]...measures these penalties against the good which his thought surveys, these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
    PI 8.72 7 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    Imtl 8.343 12 The moral sentiment measures itself by sacrifice.
    Chr2 10.103 23 The [moral] sentiment...measures Judaism, Stoicism...or whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    Supl 10.174 20 ...Nature measures her greatness by what she can spare...
    MoL 10.252 23 Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Thor 10.462 10 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    War 11.152 20 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    Milt1 12.267 12 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures wisdom by simplicity...

measuring, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.178 20 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...

measuring, v. (5)

    Pol1 3.213 6 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    PNR 4.82 1 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
    Pow 6.59 11 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength...and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    PI 8.21 16 The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting both.
    ACri 12.300 7 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.

measuring-wand, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.180 2 The statue is then beautiful...when it...can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand...

meat, n. (22)

    Nat 1.41 24 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants, in corn and meat.
    Gts 3.162 10 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat...
    Nat2 3.186 18 ...we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
    MoS 4.154 7 Our meat will taste to-morrow as it did yesterday...
    ET1 5.16 19 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
    ET1 5.17 26 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat...
    ET8 5.128 21 Meat and wine produce no effect on [the English].
    ET8 5.130 16 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET11 5.176 13 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast, and every tavern was full of his meat...
    Wsp 6.199 7 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    Wsp 6.208 16 There is faith...in meat and wine...but not in divine causes.
    Ill 6.311 27 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
    DL 7.133 21 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.137 5 ...[the farmer] obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.
    Clbs 7.248 20 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./
    LS 11.3 1 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
    LS 11.20 19 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    HDC 11.37 11 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat.
    HDC 11.78 24 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...a quantity of meat and wood.
    JBB 11.272 23 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness? No...it wants him for meat to slaughter and eat.
    PPr 12.384 26 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...

meat-hooks, n. (1)

    Tran 1.351 22 The martyrs were...hung alive on meat-hooks.

meats, n. (6)

    Con 1.317 12 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your pantry is full of meats and your cellar of wines...
    SL 2.148 26 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself...in his trade and habits and gestures and meats and drinks...
    MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer...
    ET16 5.285 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    DL 7.128 24 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Supl 10.163 3 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform, but one of great necessity,-that of meats and drinks...

Mecanique Celeste [Pierre (1)

    Bost 12.204 5 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon; no Mecanique Celeste;...have we yet contributed.

Mecca, Arabia, n. (2)

    Exp 3.72 1 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the desert.
    PPo 8.254 10 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.

mechanic, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.30 17 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Comp 2.97 25 The theory of the mechanic forces is another example [of Compensation].
    ShP 4.190 8 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I foresee a new mechanic power...
    ET14 5.251 21 [Englishmen]...respect the five mechanic powers even in their song.
    Farm 7.142 16 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    Res 8.139 8 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
    Insp 8.271 22 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance. Years of mechanic toil will only seem to do it; it will not so be done.
    FRep 11.531 14 ...all advancement is by ideas, and not by brute force or mechanic force.
    FRep 11.539 24 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    MAng1 12.223 15 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.

mechanic, n. (13)

    Nat 1.50 25 ...the earnest mechanic, the lounger...are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    AmS 1.84 2 ...the mechanic [becomes] a machine;...
    Pow 6.79 22 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations; to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of the mechanic and the clerk.
    Wth 6.92 13 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
    Wsp 6.212 10 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    WD 7.157 15 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    Imtl 8.341 4 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
    Imtl 8.341 6 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Aris 10.48 22 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    EWI 11.142 6 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    EPro 11.320 21 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the strong arms of the mechanic, the endurance of farmers... all rally to its support.
    MLit 12.322 22 Geologist, mechanic, merchant...all worked for [Goethe]...
    PPr 12.380 22 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.

mechanical, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.36 6 Space...the mechanical forces, give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.50 15 Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    Nat 1.51 14 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    AmS 1.81 19 Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
    LE 1.171 22 ...truth will not be compelled in any mechanical manner.
    LE 1.174 23 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    LE 1.185 2 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in...working off a stint of mechanical day-labor...
    MN 1.192 9 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also.
    MR 1.236 17 A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture.
    LT 1.287 10 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    Tran 1.359 10 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...
    YA 1.382 2 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    SR 2.72 3 ...your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual...
    SL 2.135 26 We are full of mechanical actions.
    Int 2.337 14 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
    Int 2.339 22 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Art1 2.368 21 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Pt1 3.19 11 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    NR 3.233 11 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination.
    NER 3.255 5 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    UGM 4.8 8 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us.
    UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
    PPh 4.56 16 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius.
    SwM 4.109 18 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
    NMW 4.224 23 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... conversant with mechanical powers...
    GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET6 5.103 12 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.103 17 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
    ET13 5.222 10 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
    ET14 5.252 10 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...
    F 6.19 7 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness... in what we call casual...events.
    Ctr 6.156 19 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    Wsp 6.225 19 In every variety of human employment, in the mechanical and in the fine arts...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    CbW 6.251 10 All revelations, whether of mechanical or intellectual or moral science, are made...to single persons.
    DL 7.108 15 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    DL 7.110 13 Another man is a mechanical genius...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    WD 7.158 2 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
    WD 7.159 26 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...
    WD 7.165 4 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    WD 7.166 3 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    WD 7.178 20 Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
    Boks 7.194 6 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.
    Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Elo2 8.120 22 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    Insp 8.271 17 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means.
    Edc1 10.148 5 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...mechanical arrangement...
    Supl 10.167 18 Our customary and mechanical existence is not favorable to flights;...
    SovE 10.193 24 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...
    LLNE 10.349 2 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
    PLT 12.27 1 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
    II 12.72 17 It is this employment of new means-of means not mechanical...that denotes the inspired man.
    II 12.85 18 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
    CInt 12.124 18 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied.
    MAng1 12.226 23 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    MLit 12.312 13 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America. And thus, and not by mechanical diffusion, does an original genius work and spread himself.

mechanically, adv. (1)

    Cir 2.316 16 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

mechanico-intellectual, adj. (1)

    WD 7.159 24 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...

Mechanics' Association, n. (1)

    SL 2.152 14 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July, and Mr. Hand before the Mechanics' Association...

Mechanics' Fair, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 8 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges...but also some few finer instruments...

Mechanics' Institutes, n. (3)

    ET2 5.25 2 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET10 5.170 1 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    ET13 5.224 1 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Mechanics' Institutes...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

mechanics, n. (27)

    DSA 1.120 4 The planters, the mechanics, the inventors...history delights to honor.
    MN 1.192 17 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics...
    MN 1.200 4 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry, no mechanics, can account for the facts...
    Pt1 3.19 13 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.
    Exp 3.66 9 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find their life no more excellent than that of mechanics or farmers...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Nat2 3.180 21 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    NMW 4.229 7 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things, as...mechanics generally;...
    ET8 5.132 4 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... invention in mechanics...
    ET10 5.169 11 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    F 6.31 6 ...in mechanics...[men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    Pow 6.62 13 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
    Clbs 7.228 7 I prize the mechanics of conversation.
    Dem1 10.12 7 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Edc1 10.144 22 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Edc1 10.147 17 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
    LLNE 10.349 14 Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to meet spiritualism.
    LLNE 10.369 5 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
    MMEm 10.425 12 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    FSLC 11.209 9 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women will give;...
    SMC 11.355 24 The invasion of Northern farmers, mechanics, engineers... did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    SMC 11.357 4 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...manly farmers, skilful mechanics, young tradesmen...
    PLT 12.14 9 ...this watching of the mind...to see the mechanics of the thing, is a little of the detective.
    Bost 12.196 5 ...the young farmers and mechanics...often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.209 24 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...
    Bost 12.209 27 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her mechanics repair the broken rail;...
    EurB 12.376 18 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful, as in mechanics or agriculture or other indispensable art;...
    Let 12.399 26 Mechanics you shall see [in Germany], but no man.

mechanic's, n. (3)

    NR 3.239 1 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a mechanic's shop...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    ET19 5.311 11 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    CL 12.161 8 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop...

mechanism, n. (4)

    ET10 5.156 3 Solvency is in the ideas and mechanism of an Englishman.
    Pow 6.82 6 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger...
    MAng1 12.219 22 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
    MAng1 12.222 6 No acquaintance with the secrets of its mechanism...can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

mechanizes, v. (1)

    Art2 7.52 17 Raphael paints wisdom...Watt mechanizes it.

Mechi, John Joseph, n. (1)

    ET11 5.189 2 Arthur Young, Bakewell, Mechi have made [British dukes] agricultural.

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