Medal to Memphis, Egypt

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

medal, n. (6)

    PPh 4.54 24 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 12 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...
    ET7 5.123 2 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794; and the long withholden medal was accorded.
    Grts 8.312 7 The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be worn;...
    Edc1 10.158 8 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.

medalled, v. (1)

    ACri 12.299 9 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...

medals, n. (4)

    UGM 4.16 5 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment, with their medals, swords and armorial coats, like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    Res 8.140 26 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    SMC 11.375 5 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
    MLit 12.324 10 With the sharpest eye for...engraving, medals, persons and manners, [Goethe] never stopped at surface...

meddle, v. (6)

    UGM 4.8 15 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies...
    ET4 5.73 6 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    F 6.11 6 ...all the legislation of the world cannot meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of [a man].
    Wth 6.105 23 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.
    PI 8.3 15 The common sense which does not meddle with the absolute... believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    Schr 10.269 24 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought...is told already in the Senate.

meddled, v. (1)

    ET4 5.55 25 The English come mainly from the Germans...a people about whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not.

meddles, v. (3)

    SL 2.151 22 Hero or driveller, [the world] meddles not in the matter.
    PPh 4.60 9 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato];...
    Comc 8.157 8 The Reason...meddles never with degrees or fractions;...

meddlesome, adj. (2)

    Dem1 10.19 21 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Schr 10.267 6 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.

meddling, adj. (2)

    YA 1.374 5 [That serene Power] resists our meddling, eleemosynary contrivances.
    PPo 8.249 22 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...

meddling, v. (3)

    FSLC 11.187 19 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
    FSLC 11.187 21 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
    FSLN 11.217 3 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful, and it seems like meddling or leaving your work.

Mede, Joseph, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Mede, Gataker, Hooker...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.

Mede, n. (1)

    PI 8.17 26 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.

Medea's, n. (1)

    YA 1.364 27 The heaven's blue pillars are Medea's house./

Medfield, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    HDC 11.58 18 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...

Medford, Massachusetts, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.53 15 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...

Medford, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    Bost 12.191 12 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists]. But the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford;...

mediaeval, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.78 21 A chief structure of human wit, like...the mediaeval cathedrals...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    PI 8.34 20 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe;...
    PI 8.52 17 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...

medial, adj. (2)

    SL 2.148 21 [A man] is like...an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic.
    Cir 2.303 21 Every thing is medial.

mediate, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.12 10 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is temporary and mediate...
    Nat 1.40 4 Nature is thoroughly mediate.
    Exp 3.74 11 The spirit is not helpless or needful of mediate organs.
    Wsp 6.213 25 ...we are never without a hint that these powers [of the senses and of the understanding] are mediate and servile...
    Milt1 12.249 7 There is [in Milton's tracts]...no mediate, no preparatory course suggested...

mediate, v. (1)

    LS 11.18 18 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.

mediately, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.75 23 ...we do not see directly, but mediately...

mediation, n. (4)

    YA 1.384 26 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...whose government would be... mediation between want and supply.
    Chr2 10.97 5 [The moral force] is serenely above all mediation.
    LLNE 10.327 8 [The new race] rebel...against mediation, or saints, or any nobility in the unseen.
    MMEm 10.427 9 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...

mediator, n. (5)

    DSA 1.145 21 ...dare to love God without mediator or veil.
    MN 1.207 14 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as...the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.
    MR 1.255 10 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
    ET13 5.216 18 The church was the mediator, check and democratic principle, in Europe.
    LS 11.18 17 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.

Mediator, n. (4)

    LS 11.18 16 ...is not Jesus called in Scripture the Mediator?
    HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    HDC 11.67 1 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    HDC 11.67 8 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;...

mediatorial, adj. (1)

    SR 2.77 15 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.

mediators, n. (1)

    Wom 11.408 14 So much sympathy as [women] have makes them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and those who want it...

medical, adj. (8)

    Exp 3.54 5 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    NR 3.235 2 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
    ET4 5.62 16 It is a medical fact that the children of the blind see;...
    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.
    ET18 5.301 3 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    F 6.9 18 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments...
    Ctr 6.147 21 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
    Elo1 7.62 5 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.

Medical College, n. (1)

    Cour 7.275 27 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...

medicating, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.141 1 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms.

medicatrix, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.226 22 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious,--and driven to other churches; which is nature's vis medicatrix.

Medici, Cosmo de', n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 2 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo...

Medici, Lorenzo de', n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 2 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo...

Medici, Mary of, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 18 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...

Medici, n. (1)

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

medicinal, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.16 19 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    Nat2 3.171 1 These enchantments [of nature] are medicinal...
    PPh 4.65 6 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;... what to astronomy, whose appeasing and medicinal power he celebrates!
    Boks 7.190 5 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative...
    Boks 7.199 22 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating.
    PerF 10.71 24 ...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first day.
    War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
    CL 12.149 6 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters)...harness your car! Ambrosia is in you, in you are medicinal herbs.

medicine, n. (10)

    NER 3.259 27 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    NMW 4.250 26 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking...
    NMW 4.251 10 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte]...
    Pow 6.66 21 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that as there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues;...
    Wth 6.99 3 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Clbs 7.234 24 ...beside its comfort as medicine and cordial, once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    Edc1 10.154 9 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    MoL 10.243 7 ...doctors of medicine turned teamsters [in California];...
    MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine;...
    SMC 11.363 13 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine.

Medicine, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.329 8 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.

medicine-man, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 4 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians] that he was a great medicine-man...

medicines, n. (1)

    CbW 6.258 16 ...the poisons are our principal medicines...

Medicis, Marie de, n. (1)

    Plu 10.295 9 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife, Marie de Medicis: Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].

medieval, adj. (1)

    PC 8.212 14 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.

Medina, Arabia, n. (1)

    MR 1.251 23 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...

mediocre, adj. (4)

    UGM 4.27 2 Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre.
    SwM 4.99 4 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
    Bhr 6.171 12 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    MMEm 10.413 19 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty...

mediocre, n. (2)

    Aris 10.53 16 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent.
    Edc1 10.137 24 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to...produce the ordinary and mediocre.

mediocrities, n. (3)

    Pow 6.80 4 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    Boks 7.194 10 Let [each student]...not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.
    FRep 11.537 27 [Our civilization] is a wild democracy; the riot of mediocrities and dishonesties and fudges.

mediocrity, n. (9)

    DSA 1.145 27 The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
    SR 2.60 19 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    ET6 5.112 4 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets intrenched...
    Pow 6.78 15 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Ctr 6.155 25 Solitude, the safeguard of modiocrity, is, to genius, the stern friend...
    PI 8.68 5 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism, but an impatience of mediocrity.
    Aris 10.61 17 ...all comparison with neighboring abilities and reputations, is the road to mediocrity.
    MMEm 10.413 16 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    Carl 10.493 16 ...this man [Carlyle] is a hammer that crushes mediocrity and pretension.

meditate, v. (1)

    Bty 6.285 19 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death;...

meditated, v. (5)

    QO 8.192 7 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up, meditated upon it...
    SovE 10.200 24 You have meditated in silent wonder on your existence in this world.
    EWI 11.129 15 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    ALin 11.329 17 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
    Milt1 12.270 9 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...

meditates, v. (3)

    MN 1.215 6 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...
    MR 1.232 23 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;...
    MLit 12.334 2 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.

meditating, v. (4)

    Int 2.328 18 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.
    ET8 5.136 10 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours. They are meditating opposition.
    Ctr 6.147 24 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating on the contingencies of wounds...rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Carl 10.490 3 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.

meditation, n. (7)

    LT 1.283 13 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    Fdsp 2.191 24 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    CbW 6.272 15 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation.
    Prch 10.235 15 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    War 11.171 6 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    WSL 12.347 19 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    PPr 12.379 17 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...

meditations, n. (3)

    Exp 3.83 16 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    ShP 4.200 9 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected...from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.
    MLit 12.311 22 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind,-meditations, history, classifications...

meditative, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.26 27 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    UGM 4.17 26 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought.
    Insp 8.274 18 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
    EurB 12.372 13 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

Mediterranean Sea, n. (6)

    Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the sunny Adriatic;...
    ET4 5.56 3 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET5 5.94 21 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    WD 7.168 1 Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    MoL 10.244 8 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    CL 12.153 2 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?

medium, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.163 12 There is a superlative temperament which has no medium range...

medium, n. (6)

    AmS 1.99 11 Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
    Chr1 3.96 1 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.96 20 [A healthy soul] is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
    Pow 6.79 8 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Res 8.137 9 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium...
    Mem 12.107 3 When the body is in a quiescent state...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.

Medium, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.427 12 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.

Medora [Horatio Greenough], (1)

    ET1 5.5 20 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.

Medschnun, n. (1)

    PPo 8.242 23 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

Medusa, Rondanini, n. (1)

    SS 7.3 3 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...

Medwin, Thomas, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 19 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him so in his room...

meek, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.89 11 Meek young men grow up in libraries...
    Comc 8.171 6 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
    ALin 11.328 13 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/

meekly, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.40 5 [Nature] receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.
    Farm 7.153 5 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
    HDC 11.86 16 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons, who walked meekly through the paths of common life...
    AsSu 11.249 16 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold shoulder from some of his New England colleagues...

meekness, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.151 7 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    MMEm 10.413 12 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?

meet, adj. (3)

    ET12 5.209 23 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...
    Wsp 6.207 11 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    EzRy 10.385 8 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion? Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?

meet, v. (173)

    AmS 1.81 4 We do not meet for games of strength or skill...
    AmS 1.104 23 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side...
    DSA 1.143 12 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    DSA 1.146 14 ...when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    LE 1.163 6 ...in the...maidens you meet...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.174 9 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...you will have results, which, when you meet your fellow-men, you can communicate...
    MN 1.196 23 ...we do not take up a new book or meet a new man without a pulse-beat of expectation.
    MN 1.205 13 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.
    MR 1.252 19 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them, we...meet them without a salute in the streets.
    MR 1.253 3 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    Con 1.306 26 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act;...
    Tran 1.344 18 [The Transcendentalists'] quarrel with every man they meet is not with his kind, but with his degree.
    Tran 1.353 23 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...
    Hist 2.23 5 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.
    Hist 2.26 24 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    Hist 2.27 3 ...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 2.88 19 The political parties meet in numerous conventions;...
    Comp 2.92 10 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/ Hast not thy share? On winged feet,/ Lo! it rushes thee to meet;/...
    Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...
    Comp 2.111 10 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water...
    Comp 2.123 2 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...
    Lov1 2.172 13 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance...and we are no longer strangers.
    Fdsp 2.191 6 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Fdsp 2.199 13 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play...
    Fdsp 2.199 15 Almost all people descend to meet.
    Fdsp 2.203 24 Almost every man we meet requires some civility...
    Fdsp 2.212 20 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water;...
    Fdsp 2.212 21 ...we perceive that no arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
    Fdsp 2.214 17 ...thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...
    Fdsp 2.216 5 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. ... We will meet as though we met not, and part as though we parted not.
    Prd1 2.238 21 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...
    Prd1 2.238 23 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...
    OS 2.278 23 Men descend to meet.
    Cir 2.301 21 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...around which the hands of man can never meet...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Int 2.333 16 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    Int 2.340 8 ...at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
    Art1 2.362 16 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
    Pt1 3.42 18 ...wherever day and night meet in twilight...there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.52 3 There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
    Chr1 3.111 16 ...when men shall meet as they ought...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Chr1 3.112 9 Need we be so eager to seek [our friend]? If we are related, we shall meet.
    Chr1 3.112 24 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet.
    Chr1 3.113 2 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity, as if the Olympians should meet to exchange snuff-boxes.
    Mrs1 3.129 24 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.130 14 ...that assembly once dispersed, its members will not in the year meet again.
    Mrs1 3.137 6 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries...
    Mrs1 3.152 5 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart...
    Nat2 3.172 4 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.
    Pol1 3.197 16 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.199 7 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    Pol1 3.218 12 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal.
    NR 3.226 17 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
    NR 3.230 17 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    UGM 4.12 11 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    PPh 4.43 1 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...
    PPh 4.46 16 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    PPh 4.75 14 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
    SwM 4.129 1 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought...
    MoS 4.162 7 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation. These qualities meet in the character of Montaigne.
    ShP 4.208 25 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...that which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.
    NMW 4.233 1 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
    NMW 4.249 11 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
    GoW 4.275 6 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...
    GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    ET3 5.34 20 ...the new arts of intercourse meet you every where [in England];...
    ET4 5.50 2 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races, and strange resemblances meet us everywhere.
    ET4 5.62 8 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET6 5.105 23 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye.
    ET7 5.120 23 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET13 5.226 11 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    ET13 5.228 4 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
    ET19 5.309 21 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    F 6.42 10 A man will see his character emitted in the events that seem to meet...him.
    F 6.42 22 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled;...
    F 6.46 13 ...[some people] meet the person they seek;...
    Pow 6.59 13 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.
    Ctr 6.137 22 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Bhr 6.181 1 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
    Bhr 6.184 4 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
    Bhr 6.184 14 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
    Bhr 6.190 8 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time...
    Bhr 6.190 9 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time,--and every time they meet.
    Bhr 6.193 1 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...
    Bhr 6.193 11 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    Wsp 6.230 22 If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
    Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply.
    Wsp 6.234 27 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt, cannot yet make my ends meet...
    Wsp 6.236 21 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Wsp 6.238 8 The great class...the men who could not make their hands meet around their objects...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.245 10 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    CbW 6.248 11 The men we meet are coarse and torpid.
    CbW 6.273 4 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    SS 7.9 2 ...the moment we meet with anybody, each becomes a fraction.
    SS 7.9 18 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street.
    Civ 7.28 12 ...we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Elo1 7.95 14 Wherever the polarities meet...the spark will pass.
    Elo1 7.96 7 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies;...
    DL 7.108 19 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks (masks which we wear and which we meet)...
    DL 7.127 6 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
    DL 7.129 5 ...when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    DL 7.129 6 ...when men shall meet as they should, as states meet...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Clbs 7.230 21 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    Clbs 7.231 25 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...
    Clbs 7.237 13 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    Clbs 7.242 15 It was to meet these wants that in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Clbs 7.244 11 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
    Clbs 7.246 19 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    Clbs 7.248 3 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men meet with the freedom of boys...
    Cour 7.257 20 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers...
    Cour 7.258 3 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
    Suc 7.304 2 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    OA 7.325 16 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth...he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    SA 8.89 21 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    SA 8.96 11 Let our eyes not look away, but meet.
    SA 8.103 21 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.128 18 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with boys, so that he can meet them as an equal, and lead in his turn,--that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    PC 8.207 1 We meet to-day under happy omens to our ancient society...
    PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.
    Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is so active that everything seems to run to meet it.
    Insp 8.286 25 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day, to meet their own mind...
    Grts 8.301 24 [Greatness] is...the only platform on which all men can meet.
    Grts 8.313 8 Extremes meet...
    Grts 8.313 18 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Grts 8.313 22 ...Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
    Grts 8.317 16 ...[morals and intellect]...always beckon to each other, until at last they meet in the man, if he is to be truly great.
    Imtl 8.321 10 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    Dem1 10.18 24 Seldom or never do [demonic individuals] meet their match among their contemporaries;...
    Aris 10.56 5 Others I meet, who have no deference...
    Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.
    Edc1 10.129 21 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Prch 10.235 15 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    Schr 10.287 7 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares, untuning company. Well, let him meet them.
    LLNE 10.349 15 Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to meet spiritualism.
    LLNE 10.354 23 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    LLNE 10.367 6 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition...
    EzRy 10.392 18 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    MMEm 10.399 1 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    SlHr 10.439 27 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    SlHr 10.446 15 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Thor 10.455 1 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms.
    Thor 10.455 4 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose.
    LS 11.8 4 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him...
    HDC 11.33 9 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower. At the end of this, they meet a scorching plain...
    LVB 11.92 2 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
    War 11.156 19 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society, who converse on horses;...
    War 11.167 22 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    FSLN 11.234 4 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    TPar 11.284 10 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    TPar 11.285 2 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.
    ACiv 11.302 13 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    ALin 11.329 1 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society...
    ALin 11.333 1 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to meet every kind of man and every rank in society;...
    SMC 11.355 15 ...the noble know the noble, everywhere they meet;...
    SMC 11.366 16 In August, 1862...when it was becoming difficult to meet the draft...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
    EdAd 11.390 14 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    EdAd 11.392 20 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere...
    Koss 11.398 10 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    FRO2 11.485 5 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet the natural demands of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
    CPL 11.507 3 You meet with a man of science...but you do not know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
    FRep 11.520 10 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians]. In this innocence you are puzzled how to meet them;...
    FRep 11.536 27 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    PLT 12.6 26 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.52 3 I am familiar with cases, we meet them daily, wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    CInt 12.124 2 ...the very highest advantage which a young man of good mind can meet is to find such a teacher.
    Bost 12.197 17 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    ACri 12.301 11 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...
    ACri 12.301 23 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.
    MLit 12.328 9 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
    WSL 12.337 1 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    Pray 12.353 25 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome...
    Trag 12.413 3 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

meeting, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of beating hearts, and meeting eyes;...

meeting, n. (28)

    LE 1.155 10 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    Comp 2.94 14 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    Exp 3.74 25 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Mrs1 3.130 9 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...
    ET19 5.309 13 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech.
    ET19 5.309 19 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    Elo1 7.83 5 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
    Elo1 7.89 9 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting;...
    Cour 7.256 21 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion...must be brought in chariots to every mass meeting.
    Elo2 8.116 12 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis.
    Res 8.148 12 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
    CSC 10.373 15 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
    LS 11.20 7 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought...an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    LS 11.23 24 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    HDC 11.47 26 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.
    HDC 11.52 2 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    HDC 11.72 8 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men.
    AsSu 11.251 19 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    AKan 11.255 4 I regret...the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting.
    AKan 11.255 10 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    JBB 11.273 3 ...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others understand better.
    SHC 11.429 13 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    FRO1 11.477 5 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
    FRO1 11.481 2 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    FRep 11.523 21 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    PLT 12.8 10 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    CInt 12.128 4 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...

meeting, v. (17)

    SR 2.79 8 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother...
    Comp 2.111 9 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
    NER 3.251 16 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath...
    PPh 4.43 27 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    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.
    ET12 5.212 10 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    ET14 5.241 8 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
    ET17 5.292 20 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    CbW 6.248 24 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
    DL 7.127 17 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    Boks 7.200 23 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    Edc1 10.153 22 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    HDC 11.43 18 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    LVB 11.89 11 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate; and the good magistrate will feel a joy in meeting such confidence.
    SHC 11.433 11 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education;... the meeting of teachers;...
    ChiE 11.471 3 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.

Meeting, Yearly, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 2 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting;...

meeting-house, n. (5)

    OA 7.334 11 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house...
    OA 7.334 12 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house (pointing towards the Quincy meeting-house)...
    OA 7.335 15 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house...
    EzRy 10.383 18 It was a pity that [Ezra Ripley's] old meeting-house should have been modernized in his time.
    EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...

Meeting-house, Taunton, Mas (1)

    HDC 11.58 4 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...

meeting-houses, n. (2)

    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    EWI 11.107 15 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.

meetings, n. (18)

    DSA 1.140 16 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to Sabbath meetings...
    DSA 1.143 4 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
    Mrs1 3.124 8 The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage...
    NER 3.253 15 [Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of churches and meetings for public worship;...
    MoS 4.152 1 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.
    ET11 5.185 6 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to preside at public meetings...
    ET11 5.186 25 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    Elo2 8.118 18 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
    LLNE 10.343 13 From that time meetings were held for conversation...
    CSC 10.373 23 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
    LS 11.12 17 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    HDC 11.54 7 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    EWI 11.138 1 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
    War 11.170 18 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings, of one, two, or three public meetings;...
    FSLC 11.213 22 That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on meetings, but on private heats and courages.
    FSLN 11.232 26 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    AKan 11.263 9 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...

meetivg, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 26 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...and you have organized victory.

meets, v. (22)

    Nat 1.43 4 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature...which meets us everywhere.
    Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...
    Comp 2.111 10 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water...
    Lov1 2.172 23 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
    Fdsp 2.202 21 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
    Int 2.342 3 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first political party he meets...
    GoW 4.264 8 This striving after imitative expression, which one meets every where, is significant of the aim of nature...
    ET6 5.115 2 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing...
    ET8 5.130 2 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner, who meets them on the road...
    ET11 5.185 27 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
    ET13 5.230 5 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    F 6.11 12 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
    F 6.11 13 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
    Wsp 6.223 26 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    SA 8.81 22 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...
    SA 8.83 9 When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins...
    Dem1 10.15 20 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Plu 10.311 24 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets...
    CPL 11.499 26 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
    PLT 12.20 3 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts.
    PLT 12.47 11 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    MAng1 12.243 12 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot.

Megara, Greece, n. (1)

    PPh 4.44 3 [Plato]...went to Megara...

megatheria, n. (1)

    ET16 5.278 14 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

Mehemet Ali's, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.

Meister, Wilhelm [Johann vo (5)

    MLit 12.328 27 and we may here set down by way of comment of his genius the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
    MLit 12.329 5 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader...would thank them. So did Dante, so did Macchiavel. Goethe has done this in Meister.
    MLit 12.330 15 In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the insight;...
    EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    EurB 12.376 13 A noble book was Wilhelm Meister.

Meister, Wilhelm [Johann W (2)

    ET1 5.21 18 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.
    Chr2 10.121 17 Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister, maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

melancholy, adj. (15)

    AmS 1.113 19 I learned, said the melancholy Pestalozzi, that no man...is either willing or able to help any other man.
    LT 1.285 4 ...have a little patience with this melancholy humor.
    Tran 1.343 1 ...[Transcendentalists] are not by nature melancholy...
    Lov1 2.171 21 Details are melancholy;...
    Exp 3.58 21 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Nat2 3.196 25 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days...
    ET8 5.136 3 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Cour 7.276 2 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
    OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy and skeptical.
    PPo 8.252 15 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay.
    Prch 10.222 7 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty. How gloomy is the day, and upon yonder shining pond what melancholy light!
    CPL 11.499 21 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark...
    PLT 12.26 5 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.
    Trag 12.405 8 I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.

Melancholy, Anatomist of, n. (1)

    ET8 5.131 8 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.

Melancholy, Anatomy of [Rob (1)

    Boks 7.211 2 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning.

melancholy, n. (16)

    Nat 1.11 11 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume...is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    MR 1.242 11 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy, their too great...melancholy, are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    Int 2.327 2 Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy.
    NER 3.269 5 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy...
    ET8 5.127 22 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    ET8 5.128 9 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are much more prone to melancholy.
    ET8 5.133 3 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...
    PI 8.55 9 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./
    PI 8.55 10 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./ Oh! sweetest melancholy!/
    PI 8.55 22 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./ Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy./
    Comc 8.174 8 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Imtl 8.331 8 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
    TPar 11.288 2 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into melancholy or malignity...
    MAng1 12.241 21 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    Trag 12.406 9 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
    Trag 12.413 15 ...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.

Melancholy, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 21 ...[the Germans] take any general topic, as Melancholy...and write and quote without method or end.

Melanchthon [Melancthon], P (2)

    SwM 4.136 16 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    SwM 4.137 13 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...

Melanchthon, Philipp, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 12 Ximenes...Melanchthon...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.

Melancthon's, Philipp, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.251 7 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...

melee, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 19 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops, in the melee...

melilot, n. (1)

    Thor 10.481 13 [Thoreau] liked the pure fragrance of melilot.

meliorate, v. (4)

    F 6.15 25 ...the races meliorate...
    Ctr 6.140 4 ...to meliorate is the law of nature;...
    Ctr 6.166 13 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    CbW 6.259 20 ...there is no man who is not at some time indebted to his vices, as no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist that the man meliorate...

meliorated, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 2 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest.

meliorated, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.99 5 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.

meliorates, v. (2)

    WD 7.170 15 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is inconceivably populous; creation swarms and meliorates.
    PC 8.223 11 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...

meliorating, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 6 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.

melioration, n. (13)

    ET4 5.49 23 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    F 6.35 19 Fate involves the melioration.
    Ctr 6.140 9 Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.
    Ctr 6.165 5 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Civ 7.25 25 Climate has much to do with this melioration.
    Cour 7.276 18 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    Res 8.141 14 We Americans have got suppled into the state of melioration.
    SovE 10.188 21 Melioration is the law.
    EWI 11.102 25 The prizes of society...a perpetual melioration into a finer civility,-these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EPro 11.326 7 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet...
    Wom 11.426 1 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course.
    PLT 12.24 20 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the germination, growth, state of melioration...in short, all the accidents of the plant.
    II 12.72 23 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration...

meliorations, n. (2)

    SovE 10.187 9 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    PLT 12.19 21 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot help it, the irresistible meliorations bear him forward.

meliorator, n. (1)

    WD 7.166 13 The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

meliorators, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 10 War is among the means of discipline, the rough meliorators...

mellow, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    FSLC 11.210 5 Is it not time to do something besides...making the earth mellow and friable?

mellow, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 15 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat. There will be time enough to mellow this strength into civility and religion.

mellowed, v. (2)

    F 6.36 13 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Farm 7.143 1 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...

mellowness, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.67 25 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.

melodies, n. (7)

    DSA 1.125 22 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    LE 1.182 4 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet and make him the utterer of melodies that pierce the ear of eternal time.
    Pt1 3.24 3 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap and pierce into the deeps of infinite time.
    Pt1 3.25 6 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    SwM 4.137 8 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs;...
    Insp 8.285 15 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    PLT 12.29 6 To the poet all sounds and words are melodies and rhythms.

melodious, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.40 10 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
    AmS 1.102 3 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating...melodious verse...
    LE 1.168 25 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    PI 8.40 1 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation]...is melodious...
    II 12.69 2 [Instinct]...is melodious, and at all points a god.
    Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming world...
    Milt1 12.275 2 Milton's sublimest song, bursting into heaven with its peals of melodious thunder, is the voice of Milton still.
    MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.

melodiously, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.54 9 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot, in one of our ordinary English tunes, melodiously.

melodrama, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.344 20 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all;...

melodramatic, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.69 6 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.

melody, n. (20)

    DSA 1.133 17 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
    DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion, that by its very melody imparadises my heart...
    Lov1 2.188 4 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
    Pt1 3.25 9 ...the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    NER 3.271 25 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    SwM 4.144 6 ...[Swedenborg's] books have no melody...
    GoW 4.282 2 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and imagery, articulation and melody.
    ET11 5.179 4 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
    Art2 7.47 15 Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
    Boks 7.204 7 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    PI 8.47 12 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists...
    PI 8.48 22 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
    PI 8.57 3 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will wash and float him also...
    SovE 10.185 19 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    RBur 11.442 26 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    Shak1 11.449 2 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.
    CPL 11.500 26 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.
    Milt1 12.261 1 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
    MLit 12.331 24 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which dissipate by dreadful melody all this iron network of circumstance...
    PPr 12.391 18 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods...

Melody, n. (1)

    PI 8.45 9 Melody, Rhyme, Form.--Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...

melon, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 5 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru...

melons, n. (4)

    Nat 1.59 8 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    CbW 6.250 13 Nature makes fifty poor melons for one that is good...
    Farm 7.148 12 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons...

Melrose Abbey, Scotland, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.326 20 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...

melt, v. (11)

    Nat 1.77 1 As when the summer comes from the south the snow-banks melt...so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...melt it to liquid...it will always weigh a pound;...
    NR 3.235 25 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that they are like grass and trees...
    NR 3.241 2 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use...
    UGM 4.25 23 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...
    Suc 7.286 15 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    Imtl 8.336 13 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow, to melt again to water in the first thaw.
    HDC 11.86 2 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of John Eliot...who had a courage that intimidated those savages whom his love could not melt;...
    War 11.164 2 It is really a thought that built this portentous war-establishment, and a thought shall also melt it away.
    FSLC 11.209 5 '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 churches will melt their plate.
    RBur 11.442 6 ...[Burns's] love-songs still woo and melt the youths and maids;...

melted, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.335 5 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

melted, v. (10)

    Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
    Cir 2.302 9 The Greek sculpture is all melted away...
    Exp 3.71 1 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope. Life is hereby melted into an expectation or a religion.
    NER 3.277 12 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
    SS 7.1 1 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl/...
    PI 8.16 18 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men...
    PI 8.16 19 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words...
    QO 8.187 7 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    Thor 10.484 3 I ask to be melted.
    HDC 11.86 2 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...

melting, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.185 9 Does that other [lover] see...the same melting cloud...that now delights me?
    Milt1 12.261 14 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...

melting, v. (3)

    Nat 1.54 15 The charm dissolves apace/ And, as the morning steals upon the night,/ Melting the darkness, so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Schr 10.259 7 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
    HDC 11.60 19 ...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.

melts, v. (9)

    Comp 2.124 2 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    Int 2.325 20 ...[the mind] melts will into perception...
    PPh 4.51 12 The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces.
    ET5 5.99 12 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...
    Farm 7.144 21 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe,--a menstruum which melts the mountains into it.
    Farm 7.145 21 Intellect is a fire: rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
    Insp 8.269 20 In spring, when the snow melts, the maple-trees flow with sugar...
    Thor 10.484 5 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them.
    Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...which melts self-conceit...

Melzi, n. (1)

    NMW 4.243 19 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two,--Dandolo and Melzi.

member, n. (36)

    Nat 1.41 10 Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part [of nature], [discipline] is its public and universal function...
    LT 1.265 3 Let us paint the agitator...and the member of Congress...
    Con 1.298 17 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame...
    Tran 1.352 23 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height; I was at my old tricks, the selfish member of a selfish society.
    YA 1.373 7 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness, serving the whole even to the ruin of the member;...
    YA 1.373 10 [Destiny's] law is, you shall have everything as a member, nothing to yourself.
    OS 2.288 11 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is...some overgrown member...
    NER 3.264 5 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
    NER 3.264 9 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.264 11 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.267 12 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union]...
    UGM 4.17 3 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind, which respond, member for member, to the parts of the body.
    MoS 4.172 26 [The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he is no better member of the philanthropic association.
    ShP 4.198 21 The learned member of the legislature...speaks and votes for thousands.
    ET7 5.121 15 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum.
    ET15 5.269 20 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    SS 7.10 15 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member.
    Elo1 7.63 4 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism, which fills each member, in his own degree...
    Elo1 7.75 2 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    Boks 7.221 5 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    OA 7.315 3 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    SA 8.90 16 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which every member returns a true echo...doubles the value of life.
    Elo2 8.122 25 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams, at that time a member of the United States Senate at Washington, was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Elo2 8.132 3 ...it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.
    Aris 10.61 3 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...
    Aris 10.61 7 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    SovE 10.185 10 ...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.
    CSC 10.374 15 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...many persons whose church was a church of one member only.
    EzRy 10.387 27 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place, a member of the church...
    SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an active member.
    Thor 10.472 18 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its discoverer, or even its member.
    EWI 11.145 24 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
    SMC 11.352 24 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    Scot 11.463 3 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society, of which he was for ten years an honorary member.
    FRO2 11.488 2 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    FRep 11.523 24 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.

members, n. (68)

    AmS 1.83 14 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
    MR 1.236 13 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    Tran 1.347 25 ...[Transcendentalists] are not good citizens, not good members of society;...
    YA 1.384 8 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    SR 2.49 27 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
    SR 2.50 1 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    SL 2.156 20 Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body.
    Exp 3.70 25 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will.
    Mrs1 3.130 14 ...that assembly once dispersed, its members will not in the year meet again.
    Pol1 3.208 19 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position...
    NR 3.233 7 I am faithful again to the whole over the members in my use of books.
    NER 3.251 22 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    NER 3.254 6 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
    NER 3.264 22 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men...
    NER 3.267 27 ...[our system of education] is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members...
    NER 3.273 4 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    UGM 4.17 2 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind...
    UGM 4.24 5 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    ET1 5.20 19 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    ET7 5.122 1 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET11 5.182 26 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET11 5.184 27 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET12 5.209 8 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET14 5.251 17 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology: so members of Parliament are made, and churchmen.
    ET16 5.276 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    ET17 5.296 3 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    F 6.21 20 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
    F 6.22 11 Man is not order of nature...belly and members...
    Pow 6.63 17 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Bhr 6.172 3 When we reflect on...how, in all clubs, mannners make the members;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.187 5 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    DL 7.116 21 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    Clbs 7.247 10 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    PI 8.42 21 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    PC 8.232 13 The community of scholars...dishearten each other by tolerating political baseness in their members.
    Aris 10.42 9 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    Aris 10.60 24 The Golden Table never lacks members;...
    Aris 10.60 26 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...
    Prch 10.224 13 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance; their fingers and toes, their members...are superfluously active...
    MoL 10.244 4 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
    LLNE 10.359 2 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships. Why not have a larger one, and with more various members?
    LLNE 10.359 16 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...
    LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...
    LLNE 10.360 5 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.360 27 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.361 23 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother, of English Oxford, were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.
    LLNE 10.362 5 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm, and he, or members of his family, continued there to the end.
    LLNE 10.362 12 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    LLNE 10.367 1 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    EzRy 10.386 3 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    GSt 10.505 24 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with...members of Congress...
    HDC 11.45 7 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    HDC 11.84 22 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...
    EWI 11.128 2 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion, in order to give members time,-Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.128 16 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists; the planters are not, excepting in rare examples, members of the legislature.
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    EWI 11.142 18 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust.
    EWI 11.145 25 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
    FSLN 11.244 18 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year.
    SMC 11.356 7 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.
    Shak1 11.447 21 We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our members Sumner and Motley.
    PLT 12.47 9 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them.
    CInt 12.117 1 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...
    CInt 12.119 26 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that...they serve him with a million hands just as implicitly as his own members obey him.
    ACri 12.291 23 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    Pray 12.353 14 Are they only the valuable members of society who labor to dress and feed it?
    Let 12.400 1 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field, where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away into the sand?

membership, n. (1)

    EurB 12.376 17 [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...

membrane, n. (1)

    Comp 2.125 4 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...

memoir, n. (4)

    WD 7.182 26 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...
    WD 7.183 3 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Plu 10.293 4 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...no accurate memoir of his life, not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Thor 10.471 8 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society.

Memoires [Friedrich Melchio (1)

    QO 8.183 17 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson;...

memoires, n. (2)

    Bty 6.296 21 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier...
    PLT 12.14 26 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.

Memoires, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.182 24 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.
    Comc 8.171 18 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms...which are copiously recounted in the French Memoires.

Memoires pour servir, n. (1)

    MN 1.201 25 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy, for example, with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.

Memoirs [Blaise de Montluc] (1)

    SMC 11.361 14 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.

Memoirs [Bubb Dodington], n (1)

    Aris 10.48 4 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...

Memoirs [Edward Gibbon], n. (1)

    Boks 7.205 14 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his Memoirs of Himself...

Memoirs [Herbert of Cherbur (1)

    Boks 7.208 9 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as...Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs;...

Memoirs [Jean Francois de (1)

    Boks 7.208 9 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz;...

Memoirs [Maximelien, Duc de (1)

    Boks 7.208 25 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Sully's Memoirs;...

Memoirs, Military [Jean Se (1)

    NMW 4.234 15 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives, in his Military Memoirs, the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.

memoirs, n. (6)

    Chr1 3.101 10 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.
    Chr1 3.103 26 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    NMW 4.225 8 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    NMW 4.251 15 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value...
    Clbs 7.243 18 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age, and thence down through French, English and German memoirs...would be an important chapter in history.
    Grts 8.315 1 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.

Memoirs [Napoleon Bonaparte (1)

    NMW 4.240 2 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all parts of his Memoirs...

memorable, adj. (28)

    Nat 1.33 13 ...the memorable words of history...consist usually of a natural fact...
    LE 1.183 26 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience, knowing that truth can make even silence eloquent and memorable.
    YA 1.391 7 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    OS 2.281 17 Every moment when the individual feels himself invaded by [the soul] is memorable.
    Int 2.338 8 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    NMW 4.227 16 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures... and not these alone, but on every happy and memorable expression.
    ET2 5.32 3 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up...
    Bhr 6.195 23 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty...
    Bty 6.304 23 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
    Art2 7.54 16 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    Elo1 7.86 4 ...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.
    WD 7.183 13 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality,--no stilts, no tiptoe; and their results are wholesome and memorable to all men.
    Boks 7.198 1 ...in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Insp 8.279 14 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us.
    Imtl 8.324 6 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
    Imtl 8.347 27 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable.
    Plu 10.297 11 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...or in memorable sayings, drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.313 8 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    LLNE 10.333 6 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
    CSC 10.375 20 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...
    CSC 10.377 2 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations...
    MMEm 10.403 21 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    LS 11.6 3 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
    FRep 11.521 17 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    II 12.74 14 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    Milt1 12.268 9 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    Milt1 12.276 4 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears. The fact is memorable.
    ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...

memoranda, n. (3)

    GoW 4.261 22 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures...
    ET1 5.5 9 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    Plu 10.310 4 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision...

memorandum, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.200 16 The law is only a memorandum.
    Comc 8.166 28 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...

memoriae, n. (1)

    Mem 12.95 26 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius. Tantum ingenii quantum memoriae.

memorial, adj. (3)

    LS 11.7 25 ...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 11.13 11 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    SMC 11.349 10 ...every other town and city has its own heroes and memorial days...

memorials, n. (2)

    UGM 4.21 3 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    SwM 4.100 18 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.

memories, n. (13)

    LT 1.290 23 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
    Pt1 3.17 25 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men;...
    GoW 4.261 19 Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.
    ET11 5.175 8 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET11 5.197 4 All the [noble English] families are new, but the name is old, and they have made a covenant with their memories not to disturb it.
    ET17 5.291 12 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
    Elo1 7.89 17 [The orator's] expressions fix themselves in men's memories...
    Clbs 7.226 20 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.
    SlHr 10.446 21 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...
    SMC 11.351 11 ...the memories of these martyrs, the noble names which yet have gathered only their first fame...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.351 18 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument], standing on such memories...mixes with surrounding nature...
    II 12.74 1 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    Mem 12.100 13 ...it is remarked that inventive men have bad memories.

memory, n. (199)

    Nat 1.22 5 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Nat 1.26 26 Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
    Nat 1.55 26 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
    DSA 1.129 6 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    DSA 1.141 16 ...[preaching in this country] comes out of the memory...
    DSA 1.147 1 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    LE 1.172 21 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
    MN 1.194 2 Is [the scholar] living in his memory?
    MN 1.197 2 In the divine order, intellect is primary; nature, secondary; it is the memory of the mind.
    MN 1.205 15 So must we admire in man...the cave of memory.
    MR 1.227 9 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    Con 1.299 2 Conservatism...is all memory.
    Con 1.320 12 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Tran 1.359 12 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded; these modes of living lost out of memory;...
    SR 2.46 24 This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.
    SR 2.57 3 Why drag about this corpse of your memory...
    SR 2.57 7 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
    SR 2.57 8 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory...
    SR 2.68 12 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    SR 2.85 16 [Man's] note-books impair his memory;...
    Comp 2.112 25 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor;...
    SL 2.131 8 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    SL 2.144 11 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.144 24 ...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.
    Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.174 26 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.175 11 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
    Lov1 2.175 12 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone;...
    Fdsp 2.192 24 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory...
    OS 2.270 18 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation...
    OS 2.296 6 ...in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of [the saints' and demigods'] memory...
    Cir 2.321 23 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to lose our sempiternal memory...
    Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    Int 2.334 8 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Art1 2.359 11 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
    Exp 3.70 15 Life has no memory.
    Chr1 3.103 3 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage...
    Chr1 3.110 20 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead;...
    Mrs1 3.124 12 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.
    Mrs1 3.124 14 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
    Mrs1 3.141 9 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    Nat2 3.170 26 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present...
    Pol1 3.207 12 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    Pol1 3.216 24 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.
    NER 3.257 15 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...a memory of words...
    NER 3.279 20 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    UGM 4.16 25 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as feats of memory...
    PNR 4.83 12 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac;...
    SwM 4.137 3 [Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in his visits to the souls.
    ShP 4.196 21 ...[the poet in illiterate times] comes to value his memory equally with his invention.
    GoW 4.262 8 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass...
    GoW 4.283 23 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    ET4 5.55 6 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory...
    ET4 5.60 22 The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow.
    ET6 5.110 21 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act, and on all occasions use their memory first.
    ET6 5.111 1 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
    ET8 5.140 20 The wrath of London...has a long memory...
    ET14 5.235 26 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale: the memory capacious like the storehouse of the rains.
    ET14 5.238 2 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET14 5.252 5 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory...
    F 6.30 13 A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy...
    Wth 6.86 4 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values...by song, or the reproductions of memory.
    Ctr 6.131 6 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac;...
    Bhr 6.176 5 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    Wsp 6.234 17 [Benedict] had hoarded nothing from the past, neither in his cabinets, neither in his memory.
    Wsp 6.235 27 [Benedict said] I would not degrade myself by casting about in my memory for a thought...
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    CbW 6.272 16 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.
    SS 7.1 16 ...[Seyd] wood-gods fed with honey wild/ And of his memory beguiled./
    SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to... forget memory itself, if it be possible?
    Elo1 7.70 5 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his memory, that he shall not remember the most pressing affairs;...
    Elo1 7.90 10 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory...
    Elo1 7.90 21 ...selection, tenacity of memory...are keys which the orator holds;...
    WD 7.168 26 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...
    WD 7.179 26 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are but hope and memory;...
    Boks 7.194 10 Let [each student]...not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.
    Boks 7.200 12 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...
    Boks 7.217 8 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...but we close the book and not a ray remains in the memory of evening.
    Clbs 7.227 20 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Clbs 7.228 13 What are the best days in memory?
    Clbs 7.230 3 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Clbs 7.231 12 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    Cour 7.256 4 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    Cour 7.270 1 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.311 20 ...[the inner life] makes no progress; was as wise in our first memory of it as now;...
    OA 7.316 13 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep.
    OA 7.329 21 We carry in memory important anecdotes...
    PI 8.24 25 It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience;...
    PI 8.32 18 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.
    Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Res 8.152 2 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Res 8.153 17 Resources of Man...it is the whole of memory...
    QO 8.177 15 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.183 4 A great man...will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
    QO 8.204 16 This vast memory [the Past] is only raw material.
    Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Grts 8.319 2 ...there was no room in [Lincoln's heart] to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Imtl 8.338 7 The future must be up to the style of our faculties,-of memory, of hope, of imagination, of reason.
    Dem1 10.4 18 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.
    Dem1 10.5 17 There is one memory of waking and another of sleep.
    Aris 10.44 9 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right classifier;...
    PerF 10.81 14 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    PerF 10.82 21 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...
    Chr2 10.103 1 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Chr2 10.111 15 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.
    Edc1 10.129 5 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts.
    Supl 10.172 25 The arithmetic of Newton, the memory of Magliabecchi... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    Schr 10.265 14 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.277 3 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...
    Schr 10.283 27 ...memory, arithmetic, practical power...are all good things...
    Plu 10.299 7 Plutarch's memory is full, and his horizon wide.
    Plu 10.302 6 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation...
    Plu 10.303 25 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
    Plu 10.307 23 ...[Plutarch] delights in memory...
    LLNE 10.348 26 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    LLNE 10.356 23 [Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no Government, no society, almost no memory.
    EzRy 10.383 10 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
    MMEm 10.424 15 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored by the memory of defeats in virtue...
    MMEm 10.432 6 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    SlHr 10.442 2 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory...
    SlHr 10.446 16 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Thor 10.462 26 [Thoreau] lived for the day, not cumbered and mortified by his memory.
    Thor 10.471 16 ...[Thoreau's] memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.
    GSt 10.507 15 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed, and will cover his memory with benedictions;...
    LS 11.7 19 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    LS 11.12 22 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ...
    EWI 11.106 24 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    FSLC 11.203 24 Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his memory...
    FSLN 11.217 17 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they...affirm these...only from their memory...
    FSLN 11.219 21 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions, they had no memory for what they had been saying like the Lord's Prayer all their lifetime...
    TPar 11.290 15 Two days, bitter in the memory of Boston, the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
    SMC 11.348 18 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    RBur 11.442 27 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    RBur 11.443 9 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    Scot 11.463 1 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society...
    CPL 11.497 10 Every faculty casts itself into an art, and memory into the art of writing...
    CPL 11.500 4 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory...
    FRep 11.528 9 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
    II 12.79 19 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
    Mem 12.90 1 Memory is a primary and fundamental faculty...
    Mem 12.90 9 ...memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.90 15 ...most of all we like a great memory.
    Mem 12.90 17 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we.
    Mem 12.91 6 Memory performs the impossible for man...
    Mem 12.91 23 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind, through the incessant purification and better method of its memory.
    Mem 12.92 23 Memory is not a pocket...
    Mem 12.93 9 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Mem 12.93 10 There is no book like the memory...
    Mem 12.93 17 The memory collects and re-collects.
    Mem 12.94 19 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
    Mem 12.94 19 Late in life we live by memory...
    Mem 12.94 22 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...
    Mem 12.95 6 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...
    Mem 12.95 15 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.
    Mem 12.96 6 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.
    Mem 12.96 13 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary.
    Mem 12.96 18 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought;...
    Mem 12.99 8 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    Mem 12.99 13 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
    Mem 12.99 16 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.
    Mem 12.99 20 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion? the rule being that for every fact added to the memory, one is crowded out...
    Mem 12.99 25 The reason of the short memory is shallow thought.
    Mem 12.100 4 ...defect of memory is not always want of genius.
    Mem 12.100 26 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words and so assisting the memory.
    Mem 12.101 17 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest.
    Mem 12.102 11 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain.
    Mem 12.102 20 The memory is one of the compensations which Nature grants to those who have used their days well;...
    Mem 12.103 4 I value the praise of Memory. And how does memory praise?
    Mem 12.103 5 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    Mem 12.103 11 Have you not found memory an apotheosis or deification?
    Mem 12.104 8 ...Passing sweet are the domains of tender memory/.
    Mem 12.104 10 You may perish out of your senses, but not out of your memory or imagination.
    Mem 12.104 11 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.
    Mem 12.104 18 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring. Well, it is so with other tricks of memory.
    Mem 12.104 19 Of the most romantic fact the memory is more romantic;...
    Mem 12.104 22 The memory is as the affection.
    Mem 12.104 24 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
    Mem 12.105 2 The memory of all men is robust on the subject of a debt due to them...
    Mem 12.105 27 ...each man's memory is in the line of his action.
    Mem 12.106 3 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    Mem 12.106 15 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...
    Mem 12.106 19 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    Mem 12.106 23 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.
    Mem 12.108 16 This past memory is the baggage, but where is the troop?
    Mem 12.109 27 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    Mem 12.110 2 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that there must be a proportion between the power of memory and the amount of knowables;...
    Mem 12.110 4 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large.
    Mem 12.110 16 Memory is a presumption of a possession of the future.
    Bost 12.205 12 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    Milt1 12.265 2 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till...memory have its perfect fraught;...
    Milt1 12.269 27 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin, which contained all the treasures of his memory.
    ACri 12.299 10 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is...stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably marked and medalled in the memory by what they were, had and did;...
    MLit 12.309 4 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day.
    MLit 12.310 5 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.319 19 A good English scholar [Shelley] is, with ear, taste and memory;...
    WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    PPr 12.387 11 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them;...
    Trag 12.405 16 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain, retiring within narrower walls by the loss of memory...
    Trag 12.405 19 There is a simultaneous diminution of memory and hope.

Memory, n. (10)

    Con 1.295 22 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition...of Memory and Hope...
    SS 7.3 7 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...
    SS 7.13 3 Before [animal spirits] what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!
    PerF 10.78 3 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory...
    II 12.76 22 ...Memory, Imagination, Fancy...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    Mem 12.95 22 ...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of Memory...
    Mem 12.97 7 It sometimes occurs that Memory has a personality of its own...
    Mem 12.98 14 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory...
    Mem 12.103 3 I value the praise of Memory.
    Mem 12.103 13 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.

Memphian, adj. (1)

    WD 7.175 4 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...

Memphis, Egypt, n. (4)

    Con 1.311 16 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this world of Rome and Memphis...
    Hist 2.11 7 ...all curiosity respecting...Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    PI 8.51 16 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes...
    Dem1 10.11 25 ...Pancrates, journeying from Memphis to Coppus, and wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

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