Men (continued)
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Civ 7.17 3 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The
best of cities with
us, these learned classifiers/ Men knowing what they seek/...
Civ 7.23 12 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are
seldom more
innocently employed than when they are making money.
Civ 7.25 12 The skill that pervades complex
details;...the very prison
compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school
and a
manufactory of honest men out of rogues...these are examples of that
tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high
civilization.
Civ 7.26 7 ...some of our grandest examples of men and
of races come from
the equatorial regions...
Civ 7.32 10 ...when I...see...how self-helped and
self-directed all families
are,--knots of men in purely natural societies...I see what cubic
values
America has...
Civ 7.32 18 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent
people...I see
what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.34 20 Montesquieu says: Countries are well
cultivated, not as they
are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but
more true
of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
Art2 7.41 26 It is only within narrow limits that the
discretion of the
architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain, the size of men and
animals, and such like, have more to say than he.
Art2 7.48 18 The artist who is to produce a work which
is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
Art2 7.48 22 The artist who is to produce a work which
is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul
of all men circulates as
the common air through his lungs.
Art2 7.50 16 The whole language of men...points at the
belief that every
work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision
of
fate...
Art2 7.51 11 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from
our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active
operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are
organically
reproductive. This is not, but spiritually it is prolific by its
powerful action
on the intellects of men.
Art2 7.53 21 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of
Shakspeare...were made...in
tears and smiles of suffering and loving men.
Elo1 7.61 17 ...because every man is an orator...an
assembly of men is so
much more susceptible.
Elo1 7.62 17 Plato says that the punishment which the
wise suffer who
refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government
of
worse men;...
Elo1 7.62 23 ...this lust to speak marks the universal
feeling of the energy
of the engine, and the curiosity men feel to touch the springs.
Elo1 7.62 24 Of all the musical instruments on which
men play, a popular
assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
Elo1 7.63 17 Who can wonder at the
attractiveness...of...the bar, for our
ambitious young men...
Elo1 7.63 24 The definitions of eloquence describe its
attraction for young
men.
Elo1 7.64 18 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art
of ruling the minds of
men.
Elo1 7.64 23 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense
of added power [of
eloquence]...
Elo1 7.65 1 The orator sees himself the organ of a
multitude, and
concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the blood of twenty
thousand men/ Blushed in my face./
Elo1 7.65 10 Him we call an artist who shall play on an
assembly of men as
a master on the keys of the piano...
Elo1 7.66 16 If anything comic and coarse is spoken,
you shall see the
emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and
vivacious
that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are
started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and
wise
attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men
have
any degree of profoundness.
Elo1 7.71 25 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that
man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his
shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground, but he, like a
leader, walks about the bands of the men.
Elo1 7.75 14 One of our statesmen said, The curse of
this country is
eloquent men.
Elo1 7.75 21 In a Senate or other business committee,
the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent.
Elo1 7.75 24 In a Senate or other business committee,
the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they
can forward the work.
Elo1 7.76 6 ...this precious person makes a speech
which is printed and
read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind
over all
these executive men...
Elo1 7.76 21 We believe that there may be a man who is
a match for
events...against whom other men being dashed are broken...
Elo1 7.77 2 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a
storm,--do you understand how
to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring
yourself off
safe then?...
Elo1 7.77 13 What a difference between men in power of
face!
Elo1 7.77 26 A greater power of carrying the thing
loftily and with perfect
assurance, would confound...men of influence and power...
Elo1 7.78 25 What is told of [Caesar] is miraculous; it
affects men so.
Elo1 7.78 25 The confidence of men in [Caesar] is
lavish...
Elo1 7.79 6 Men and women are [Caesar's] game.
Elo1 7.79 9 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a
man. It was men of this
stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.
Elo1 7.79 17 ...there are men of the most peaceful way
of life and peaceful
principle, who are felt wherever they go...
Elo1 7.79 20 ...there are men of the most peaceful way
of life...who are felt
wherever they go...men who, if they speak, are heard...
Elo1 7.79 26 In old countries a high money value is set
on the services of
men who have achieved a personal distinction.
Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would
rather listen though
the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
Elo1 7.85 11 In any knot of men conversing on any
subject, the person who
knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
Elo1 7.85 15 In any knot of men conversing on any
subject, the person who
knows most about it will...lead the conversation, no matter what genius
or
distinction other men there present may have;...
Elo1 7.89 7 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its
law is method, which
constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
Elo1 7.89 8 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall;...
Elo1 7.89 27 By applying the habits of a higher style
of thought to the
common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and
magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this
genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and
legal
men.
Elo1 7.91 21 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas, and uses them only to express these; placing
facts, placing men;...
Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself that
something has been
shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he
cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and
affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal
force.
Elo1 7.94 13 The preacher enumerates his classes of men
and I do not find
my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
Elo1 7.95 5 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes
of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther]...
Elo1 7.95 23 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of
Nature in the heart of
commercial capitals.
Elo1 7.97 13 Men are averse and hostile, to give value
to their suffrages.
Elo1 7.98 7 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to
these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address
nations.
Elo1 7.98 24 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's]
perfection,--when the
orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such
sort that
he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to
that
standard...
Elo1 7.99 2 All the chief orators of the world have
been grave men...
Elo1 7.100 1 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave
men...
DL 7.108 10 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's]
polity, books, art, than to
come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.112 8 ...if you look at the multitude of
particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is
too precious a thing to dwell
with men and women.
DL 7.114 18 Men are not born rich;...
DL 7.117 20 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the
mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as
themselves;...
DL 7.118 6 With a change of aim has followed a change
of the whole scale
by which men and things were wont to be measured.
DL 7.122 2 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little
more than ten miles
from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most
polite
and accurate men of that University...
DL 7.123 26 [Every man] observes...the humility of the
expectations of the
greatest part of men.
DL 7.124 7 In men, it is their place of education...or
some other magnified
trifle which makes the meridian movement...
DL 7.124 17 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's
conversation, and
knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each
new
topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so
called, than in the uneducated.
DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college
festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
DL 7.125 14 The men we see in each other do not give us
the image and
likeness of man.
DL 7.125 16 The men we see are whipped through the
world;...
DL 7.125 26 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a
faith...in better men...
DL 7.126 6 ...Certainly this was not the intention of
Nature, to produce...so
cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good
and
true teach us better,--nay, the men themselves suggest a better life.
DL 7.127 24 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw
from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of
this world, especially we
learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which
the
heart is always prompting us to form.
DL 7.128 12 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who
doubts the
competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and
power
to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals, which
makes
the faith and the practice of all reasonable men.
DL 7.129 5 ...when men shall meet as they should...it
shall be the festival of
Nature...
DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character,
his relations to the
best men...acquire a graver importance;...
DL 7.131 9 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand
sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have
every day now for three
hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all
nations!
DL 7.133 18 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show
men how to lead a
clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our
cities
and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
DL 7.133 22 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat
and take my
repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the
life of man to splendor...
Farm 7.135 1 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is
an armory of
powers/...
Farm 7.137 8 Men do not like hard work...
Farm 7.138 3 ...[the countryman's] independence and his
pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests,
and the reaction of these
on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the
face
and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
Farm 7.138 4 All men keep the farm in reserve as an
asylum where, in case
of mischance, to hide their poverty...
Farm 7.140 4 This hard work [of the farm] will always
be done...by men of
endurance...
Farm 7.140 15 It is for [the farmer] to say whether men
shall marry or not.
Farm 7.140 24 The men in cities who are the centres of
energy...are the
children or grandchildren of farmers...
Farm 7.150 23 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men
breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
Farm 7.150 24 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men
multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an
arithmetical;...
Farm 7.154 4 Cities force growth and make men talkative
and
entertaining...
WD 7.158 1 Men love to wonder...
WD 7.164 6 Can anybody remember when sensible
men...were plentiful?
WD 7.164 6 Can anybody remember when...the right sort
of men, and the
right sort of women, were plentiful?
WD 7.166 7 What have these arts done for the character,
for the worth of
mankind? Are men better?
WD 7.166 10 Here are great arts and little men.
WD 7.167 6 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us
the origin of the
old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient
men, in
their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him
the
Day...
WD 7.175 12 [That flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their
admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...
WD 7.175 13 [That flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their
admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich
poverty which men hate;...
WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their
admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the
populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the
ligaments...which
attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
WD 7.179 25 These passing fifteen minutes, men think,
are time, not
eternity;...
WD 7.181 22 We do not want factitious men...
WD 7.182 7 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/
With the half-shut
eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
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 7.190 14 A company of the wisest and wittiest men
that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the
smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and
wisdom.
Boks 7.190 17 A company of the wisest and wittiest men
that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the
smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and
wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary...
Boks 7.191 3 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud
place, peopled with
men of positive quality...
Boks 7.199 4 Why should not young men be educated on
this book [Plato]?
Boks 7.199 7 Here [in Plato] is that which is so
attractive to all men,--the
literature of aristocracy shall I call it?...
Boks 7.199 16 ...who can overestimate the images with
which Plato has
enriched the minds of men...
Boks 7.203 1 If any one who had read with interest the
Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by
Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
Boks 7.203 7 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and
pleasing figures of gods
and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
Boks 7.207 2 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is
at the richest period
of the English mind, with the chief men of action and of thought which
that
nation has produced...
Boks 7.207 18 The [scholar's] task is aided by the
strong mutual light
which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
Boks 7.209 5 Many men are as tender and irritable as
lovers in reference to
these predilections [toward favorite books].
Boks 7.212 11 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly
habit...
Boks 7.212 18 ...in this rag-fair neither the
Imagination...nor the Morals, creative of genius and of men, are
addressed.
Boks 7.213 14 The novel is that allowance and frolic
the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for
redress to Byron, Scott...
Boks 7.214 25 So much novel-reading cannot leave the
young men and
maidens untouched;...
Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer
[the question of a
vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to
conventionalism, to the actual state and doings of men and women.
Boks 7.217 2 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew,
and persuading
the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the
main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men
and women.
Boks 7.217 14 ...this passion for romance, and this
disappointment, show
how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show
us...in all the plight and circumstance of men, the analogons of our
own
thoughts...
Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with
books of rich and believing men...
Boks 7.219 20 [The communications of the sacred
books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them
on
lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and
eye-sparkles of
men and women.
Boks 7.220 16 ...it would be well for sincere young men
to borrow a hint
from the French Institute and the British Association...
Clbs 7.223 1 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No
churl, immured in cave
or den;/...
Clbs 7.226 8 With some men [conversation] is a
debate;...
Clbs 7.227 5 The experience of retired men is
positive,--that we lose our
days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
Clbs 7.229 25 If men are less when together than they
are alone, they are
also in some respects enlarged.
Clbs 7.231 10 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;...
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make
allowance enough
for men of more active blood and habit.
Clbs 7.232 10 Men must not be off their centres.
Clbs 7.232 12 Some men love only to talk where they are
masters.
Clbs 7.233 3 ...there are the gladiators, to whom
[conversation] is always a
battle;...then the heady men...
Clbs 7.233 8 The greatest sufferers are often...men of
a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
Clbs 7.234 2 One lesson we learn early,--that...men are
all of one pattern.
Clbs 7.236 11 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic
works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
Clbs 7.236 26 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or
superstition, his deep
wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so
rare is
depth of feeling...among the light-minded men and women who make up
society;...
Clbs 7.241 4 Conversation is the Olympic games whither
every superior
gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the
inspirations of
powerful and public men, with the rest.
Clbs 7.242 5 I have known persons of rare ability who
were heavy
company to good social men...
Clbs 7.242 8 I have known persons of rare ability
who...were heavy to
intellectual men who ought to have known them.
Clbs 7.242 12 There are men who are great only to one
or two companions
of more opportunity...
Clbs 7.243 7 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...broke
through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and
learning as well as men of rank...
Clbs 7.243 8 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...broke
through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and
learning as well as men of rank...
Clbs 7.244 10 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men
than he...
Clbs 7.246 24 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and
shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come
from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men.
Clbs 7.247 19 Men are unbent and social at table;...
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...
Clbs 7.249 19 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak
of fairy gold, he will
yet tell...what men write and read abroad.
Clbs 7.250 4 There is no permanently wise man, but men
capable of
wisdom...
Cour 7.253 9 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an
over-weight, that they
are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to
his
own;...
Cour 7.254 1 Men admire the man who can organize their
wishes and
thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
Cour 7.254 23 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of
men, knows how to
come at their end;...
Cour 7.254 26 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of
men, knows how to
come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands;...
Cour 7.256 8 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a
cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
Cour 7.256 10 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
romances which delight men...may testify.
Cour 7.256 18 We have had examples of men who, for
showing effective
courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to
nations...
Cour 7.256 22 Men are so charmed with valor that they
have pleased
themselves with being called lions...
Cour 7.257 23 A large majority of men...never come to
the rough
experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman
self-subsistent
and fearless.
Cour 7.258 27 The political reigns of terror have
been...a total perversion
of opinion; society is upside down, and its best men are thought too
bad to
live.
Cour 7.259 14 ...the aggressive attitude of men who
will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be
taken by stout and sincere men...
Cour 7.259 19 ...the part of the leader and soul of the
vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
Cour 7.260 14 ...the measure of our sincerity and
therefore of the respect of
men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence
of
our right.
Cour 7.264 22 The general must stimulate the mind of
his soldiers to the
perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
Cour 7.265 4 ...men with little imagination are less
fearful;...
Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood,
which...does not feel
itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein
appears in
certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
Cour 7.267 1 In every school there are certain fighting
boys; in every
society, the contradicting men;...
Cour 7.267 17 It was told of the Prince of Conde that
there not being a
more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more
than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great
obligation to
his officers and men...
Cour 7.270 17 ...for a settler in a new country, one
good, believing, strong-minded
man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Cour 7.270 18 ...the right men will give a permanent
direction to the
fortunes of a state.
Cour 7.270 25 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one
of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him
down, I don't
expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
Cour 7.271 2 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men of
principle, that
make the best soldiers.
Cour 7.271 4 'T is still observed those men most
valiant are/ Who are most
modest ere they came to war./
Cour 7.271 6 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem
thereby to confess
themselves cowards.
Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world men
who, almost as
soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire, the hatred and
execrations of our fellow
men, appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
Cour 7.276 6 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a
taste for carrion who
batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...men in whom
every
ray of humanity was extinguished...
Cour 7.276 16 ...we must have a scope as large as
Nature's to deal with
beast-like men...
Cour 7.277 21 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards
have sung them
well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
Suc 7.283 19 Men are made each with some triumphant
superiority...
Suc 7.283 24 Men are made each with some triumphant
superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art; and not
only we, but all men of
European stock, value these certificates.
Suc 7.287 5 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere
set a higher value
on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other
men...
Suc 7.287 23 These boasted arts are of very recent
origin. They...do not
really add to our stature. The greatest men of the world have managed
not
to want them.
Suc 7.288 16 Men see the reward which the inventor
enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
Suc 7.289 14 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives
momentary strength
and concentration to men...
Suc 7.289 17 I could point to men in this country...of
this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
Suc 7.291 25 ...[every man] is to dare...not help
others as they would direct
him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to
neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among
men.
Suc 7.292 3 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common
sense and plain
dealing...
Suc 7.296 6 We assume that there are few great men, all
the rest are little;...
Suc 7.301 14 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men
is more true and
wise than their speaking is wont to be.
Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of
sensibility] are the
greatest men...
Suc 7.306 23 Everything lasting and fit for men the
Divine Power has
marked with this stamp [of beauty].
Suc 7.311 6 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm
action...that is the
work of divine men.
OA 7.316 7 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are
these uniforms to hide cowards!
OA 7.318 15 How many men habitually believe that each
chance passenger
with whom they converse is of their own age...
OA 7.321 6 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was
sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain
Young Men's
Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under
seventy.
OA 7.321 12 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of
the Church, and the
like, all signify simply old men.
OA 7.321 17 We have, it is true, examples of an
accelerated pace by which
young men achieved grand works;...
OA 7.322 2 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of
seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely
old,-- namely, the men who fear no city, but by whom cities stand;...
OA 7.322 13 We still feel the force of Socrates, whom
well-advised the
oracle pronounced wisest of men;...
OA 7.324 2 All men carry seeds of all distempers
through life latent...
OA 7.330 1 We have an admirable line worthy of
Horace...but have
searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult
the
reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not
this.
OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old
men take in
completing their secular affairs...
OA 7.331 16 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old
men take in
completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments,
and all
old men in finishing their houses...
OA 7.331 24 America is the country of young men...
PI 8.13 26 There is no more welcome gift to men than a
new symbol.
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...
PI 8.17 25 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 all men understand him;...
PI 8.22 3 Men are imaginative...
PI 8.22 11 Charles James Fox thought...that men first
found out they had
minds, by making and tasting poetry.
PI 8.23 3 The poet discovers that what men value as
substances have a
higher value as symbols;...
PI 8.25 5 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in
things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times
we find a charm in the
metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing. All men are so far poets.
PI 8.26 22 ...all men know the portrait [of the true
poet] when it is drawn...
PI 8.29 3 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and
puppets which we choose to
call men and women;...
PI 8.31 19 To the poet...the men are ready for
virtue;...
PI 8.31 24 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the
ideal law to...the
present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will
invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
PI 8.37 25 Poetry is the consolation of mortal men.
PI 8.38 18 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving
men that are the texts
on which religions and states are founded.
PI 8.38 22 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry
is to inform men in
the just reason of living.
PI 8.39 9 Men in the courts or in the street think
themselves logical and the
poet whimsical.
PI 8.39 25 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the
Creator that made and
makes men.
PI 8.42 3 Better men saw heavens and earths;...
PI 8.44 14 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of
Macbeth, have each their
swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and
reported
the men...
PI 8.55 8 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men
were wise to see 't,/ But
only melancholy./
PI 8.56 6 ...the imagination is not a talent of some
men but is the health of
every man...
PI 8.59 15 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a
song which I need
only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...
PI 8.64 16 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men
of new images and
symbols...
PI 8.64 18 Bring us...poetry...that shall assimilate
men to it...
PI 8.66 2 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode,
not with syllables, but
men.
PI 8.66 27 A good poem...goes about the world offering
itself to reasonable
men...
PI 8.67 16 Do you think Burns has had no influence on
the life of men and
women in Scotland...
PI 8.71 8 The solid men complain that the idealist
leaves out the
fundamental facts;...
PI 8.71 10 ...the poet complains that the solid men
leave out the sky.
PI 8.72 6 Power of generalizing differences men.
PI 8.72 25 Let the poet, of all men, stop with his
inspiration.
PI 8.73 7 The high poetry which shall...dissipate the
dreams under which
men reel and stagger...is deeper hid...
PI 8.73 13 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every
degree of skill...
PI 8.74 5 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest
in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or
ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly
received.
PI 8.74 7 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest
in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or
ill-bred,--the brains are so marred...brains
of the sons of fallen men, that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth
and reports it, and
his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages, and other men
report as much, but none wholly and well.
PI 8.74 21 We too shall know how to take up...this
Western civilization, into thought, as easily as men did when arts were
few;...
PI 8.75 4 Men are facts as well as persons...
SA 8.77 7 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle
with mirth;/ And the
unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
SA 8.82 20 Intellectual men pass for vulgar...
SA 8.84 7 ...every change in our experience instantly
indicates itself on our
countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face
of a
clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there. Some
men
may be obtuse to read it, but some men are not obtuse and do read it.
SA 8.84 18 As long as men are born babes they will live
on credit for the
first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
SA 8.90 26 [The highly organized person] of all men
would keep the right
of choice sacred...
SA 8.94 1 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary
converser that
was known in her time, and it was a time full of eminent men and
women;...
SA 8.97 13 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me
think that if other
men were like him cooperation were impossible.
SA 8.99 11 When men consult you, it is not that they
wish you to stand
tiptoe and pump your brains...
SA 8.100 20 There is in America a general conviction in
the minds of all
mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by
perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by
a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men...
SA 8.102 4 I have been often impressed at our country
town-meetings with
the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or
ten men...
SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be
found a certain number
of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work
in
the interest of the churches, of schools...
SA 8.103 19 ...I said to myself, How little this man
[an American to be
proud of] suspects, with his sympathy for men...that he is not likely,
in any
company, to meet a man superior to himself.
SA 8.103 24 The young men in America at this moment
take little thought
of what men in England are thinking or doing.
SA 8.103 25 The young men in America at this moment
take little thought
of what men in England are thinking or doing.
SA 8.104 3 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs
and thoughts and
men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other
people... they are sublime;...
SA 8.107 4 Any other affection between men than this
geometric one of
relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
SA 8.107 12 ...I believe that with all liberal and
hopeful men there is a firm
faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
Elo2 8.112 11 There are not only the wants of the
intellectual and learned
and poetic men and women to be met...
Elo2 8.112 17 ...the political questions...find or form
a class of men by
nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
Elo2 8.113 7 ...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding
men with hope and joy.
Elo2 8.113 15 ...[the orator] is the benefactor that
lifts men above
themselves...
Elo2 8.115 2 [Eloquence] instructs in the power of man
over men;...
Elo2 8.115 8 Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
Elo2 8.116 8 [The people] have sent their best men;...
Elo2 8.117 22 As soon as a man shows rare power of
expression...all the
great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman, so that he is at
once...a
ruler of men.
Elo2 8.118 17 All men are competitors in this art [of
eloquence].
Elo2 8.119 2 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political
meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as
natural
as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do.
Elo2 8.126 17 Men differ so much in control of their
faculties!
Elo2 8.126 25 ...we have all of us known men who lose
their talents...at any
sudden call.
Elo2 8.126 26 ...we have all of us known men who
lose...their fancy, at any
sudden call. Some men, on such pressure, collapse...
Elo2 8.127 7 Something which any boy would tell with
color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they
heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study...
Elo2 8.127 27 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost
some natural
relation to men...
Elo2 8.130 19 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of
character...
Elo2 8.132 22 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending
stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and
persuasion...reaching, as all good men trust, into
a vast future...
Res 8.137 1 Men are made up of potencies.
Res 8.139 23 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms
deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of
men
to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
Res 8.144 5 The commander called for men in the ranks
who could rebuild
the road.
Res 8.144 6 The commander called for men in the ranks
who could rebuild
the road. Many men stepped forward...
Res 8.146 25 [The determined man] reveals to us the
enormous power of
one man over masses of men;...
Res 8.147 1 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the
means by which it can be attained, is not only better than ten men or a
hundred men, but victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and
the
means.
Res 8.147 5 When a man is once possessed with fear,
said the old French
Marshal Montluc, and loses his judgment, as all men in a fright do, he
knows not what he does.
Res 8.150 12 In England men of letters drink wine;...
Res 8.151 5 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is
so large and exigent
that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot
satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice
would
interest much more.
Res 8.153 26 It is in vain to make a paradise but for
good men.
Res 8.154 7 ...the resources of America and its future
will be immense only
to wise and virtuous men.
Comc 8.159 14 We have a primary association between
perfectness and
this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do
not
make good this anticipation;...
Comc 8.159 19 Reason does not joke, and men of reason
do not;...
Comc 8.162 1 The perception of the Comic is a tie of
sympathy with other
men...
Comc 8.162 6 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still
convertible. If that
sense is lost, his fellow men can do little for him.
Comc 8.162 9 Men celebrate their perception of halfness
and a latent lie by
the peculiar explosions of laughter.
Comc 8.162 12 So painfully susceptible are some men to
these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the
room where they are, it
seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the
face
and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
Comc 8.163 17 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless
they speak...
Comc 8.164 25 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when
the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
Comc 8.173 12 ...when the men appear who ask our votes
as
representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
QO 8.179 24 In a hundred years, millions of men, and
not a hundred lines
of poetry...
QO 8.181 8 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's,
Behmen's, Spinoza'
s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation
throughout history.
QO 8.183 10 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the
bar or in the
Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear
cited
as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could
defer
till to-morrow;...
QO 8.185 9 A pleasantry which ran through all the
newspapers a few years
since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a
hundred
years ago, that the world was made up of men and women and Herveys.
QO 8.187 25 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate
lotus-bud and leaf-stem
of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill
of
the latest.
QO 8.187 26 ...shall we say that only the first men
were well alive...
QO 8.188 6 A more subtle and severe criticism might
suggest that...that
men are off their centre;...
QO 8.188 7 A more subtle and severe criticism might
suggest that...that
multitudes of men do not live with Nature...
QO 8.190 1 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser
men than he...
QO 8.190 17 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an
almost absolute
ascendant over their nearest companions.
QO 8.192 17 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that
truth...is the
treasure of all men.
QO 8.196 15 ...many men can write better under a mask
than for
themselves;...
QO 8.199 10 ...does it not look as if we men were
thinking and talking out
of an enormous antiquity...
QO 8.199 15 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a
circle of intelligences
that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and
women...
PC 8.207 16 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in
time and place as
in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide
continent;...
PC 8.207 19 Men come hither by nations.
PC 8.209 21 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts
of good nature... proposed by statesmen...
PC 8.210 21 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very
inventions...have evoked!-all implying the appearance of gifted men...
PC 8.211 11 Steffens said, The religious opinions of
men rest on their
views of Nature.
PC 8.213 16 ...we have not on the instant better men to
show than Plutarch'
s heroes.
PC 8.214 6 ...if these [romantic European] works still
survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left
remains that certify a
height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
PC 8.214 8 ...if these [romantic European] works still
survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left
remains that certify a
height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still
cherish...
PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are
born a whole age too
soon.
PC 8.215 27 The founders of nations, the wise men and
inventors who
shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in their own
time.
PC 8.216 10 Probably the men [early geniuses] were so
great...that the
recognition of them by others was not necessary to them.
PC 8.216 16 I think I have seen two or three great men
who, for that
reason, were of no account among scholars.
PC 8.217 20 If a man know the laws of Nature better
than other men, his
nation cannot spare him;...
PC 8.217 25 If [a man] can converse better than any
other, he rules the
minds of men...
PC 8.217 26 ...if [a man] has imagination, he
intoxicates men.
PC 8.219 6 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments
and steam, is worth
many hundred men...
PC 8.220 14 How much more are men than nations!...
PC 8.220 27 ...one of the distinctions of our century
has been the devotion
of cultivated men to natural science.
PC 8.226 4 At any time, it only needs the
contemporaneous appearance of a
few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the
public
mind.
PC 8.226 7 The benefactors we have indicated were
exceptional men...
PC 8.226 24 There is anything but humiliation in the
homage men pay to a
great man;...
PC 8.227 2 Great men shall not impoverish, but enrich
us.
PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their credit;...
PC 8.227 25 To know in each social crisis how men feel
in Kansas, in
California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.
PC 8.229 3 ...great men are sincere.
PC 8.229 3 Great men are they who see that spiritual is
stronger than any
material force...
PC 8.229 8 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his
talent, instead of his
performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
PC 8.229 13 ...when [a man] talks to men with the
unrestrained frankness
which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not
his
vanity.
PC 8.230 8 It is an old legend of just men, Noblesse
oblige;...
PC 8.230 15 The Divine Nature carries on its
administration by good men.
PC 8.231 12 I believe that the checks are as sure as
the springs. It is thereby
that men are great and have great allies.
PC 8.231 25 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard
times...
PC 8.232 25 We have suffered our young men of ambition
to play the game
of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
PC 8.234 7 ...when I...consider the sound material of
which the cultivated
class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what
hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot
distrust
this great knighthood of virtue...
PC 8.234 15 I read the promise of better times and of
greater men.
PPo 8.241 1 When Solomon travelled, his throne was
placed on a carpet of
green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to
stand
upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his
left.
PPo 8.244 2 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two
only men
contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from
whom is knowledge hid./
Insp 8.272 25 I think [a thought] comes to some men but
once in their life...
Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory
holds yesterday and
to-day together.
Insp 8.274 9 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off
electricity from Jove
himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...
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.
Insp 8.277 1 See how the passions augment our
force,-anger, love, ambition!-sometimes sympathy, and the expectation
of men.
Insp 8.277 7 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of
the doctrine that
The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Insp 8.282 4 Another consideration, though it will not
so much interest
young men, will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is
diurnal and secular rest.
Insp 8.286 23 ...eminently thoughtful men...have
insisted on an hour of
solitude every day...
Insp 8.291 25 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in
talking and dealing
with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
Insp 8.292 2 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe
to publish some
commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
Insp 8.293 12 ...two men of good mind will excite each
other's activity...
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have
suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Insp 8.297 2 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who
needed only a little
wealth.
Insp 8.297 5 [Scholars] are men whom a book could
entertain...
Grts 8.301 15 ...we admire eminent men, not for
themselves, but as
representatives.
Grts 8.301 24 [Greatness] is...the only platform on
which all men can meet.
Grts 8.304 4 Sensible men are very rare.
Grts 8.304 13 ...you shall not tell me that you have
learned to know men;...
Grts 8.304 21 Young men think that the manly character
requires that they
should go to California...
Grts 8.305 2 There are to each function and department
of Nature
supplementary men...
Grts 8.305 3 There are to each function and department
of Nature
supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men...
Grts 8.308 19 This necessity...of speaking your private
thought and
experience, few young men apprehend.
Grts 8.308 19 Set ten men to write their journal for
one day, and nine of
them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
Grts 8.309 13 There is a certain transfiguration; all
great orators have it, and men who wish to be orators simulate it.
Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or
men...
Grts 8.312 21 ...the highest wisdom does not concern
itself with particular
men...
Grts 8.314 5 Scintillations of greatness appear here
and there in men of
unequal character...
Grts 8.315 15 How many men...of whom...we have
learned...to see them
as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
Grts 8.316 13 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and
men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household
life are wanting...
Grts 8.316 20 We must have some charity for the sense
of the people, which admires natural power, and will elect it over
virtuous men who have
less.
Grts 8.316 25 Intellect...will see the force of morals
over men, if it does not
itself obey.
Grts 8.317 14 Men are ennobled by morals and by
intellect;...
Grts 8.318 6 The Greeks surpass all men till they face
the Romans...
Grts 8.318 9 ...degrees of intellect interest only
classes of men who pursue
the same studies...
Grts 8.318 12 ...there are always men who have a more
catholic genius...
Grts 8.318 13 ...there are always men who...are really
great as men...
Grts 8.319 18 ...a very common [illusion] is the
opinion you hear expressed
in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no
superior
women in my town.
Grts 8.320 8 If men were equals, the waters would not
move;...
Grts 8.320 14 With self-respect...there must be in the
aspirant the strong
fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to
him
as their leader and representative.
Imtl 8.324 16 The credence of men...makes their manners
and customs;...
Imtl 8.324 21 ...among rude men moral judgments were
rudely figured
under the forms of dogs and whips...
Imtl 8.327 13 Swedenborg described an intelligible
heaven, by continuing
the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know; men in
societies, in houses, towns, trades, entertainments;...
Imtl 8.328 3 These truths, passing out of
[Swedenborg's] system into
general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views
and
creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
Imtl 8.331 8 There is a profound melancholy at the base
of men of active
and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in the
United States
Senate...
Imtl 8.331 13 Both [men] were men of distinction and
took an active part
in the politics of their day and generation.
Imtl 8.331 15 [Both men] were men of intellect...
Imtl 8.332 17 ...though men of good minds, [the two
friends] were both
pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
Imtl 8.338 26 Most men are insolvent...
Imtl 8.339 17 The fable of the Wandering Jew is
agreeable to men, because
they want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
Imtl 8.343 15 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins
property, health, life
itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the
man by
their praise for this act.
Imtl 8.345 1 Do you think that the eternal chain of
cause and effect...leaves
out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a
caprice...
Imtl 8.346 22 ...only by rare integrity...can the
vision of [immortality] be
clear to a use the most sublime. And hence the fact that in the minds
of men
the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and
penetration.
Imtl 8.350 22 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those
desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy
pleasure;-those
fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by
men.
Dem1 10.6 15 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of
the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as
these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
Dem1 10.14 6 ...says Plutarch...we cannot believe that
men are sacred and
favorites of Heaven.
Dem1 10.18 3 ...[the demonaical property] stands
specially in wonderful
relations with men...
Dem1 10.19 2 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
Dem1 10.19 6 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... A power goes out from
them
which draws all men and events to favor them.
Dem1 10.19 14 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff,
when men as wise
as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
Dem1 10.19 26 ...[belief in the demonological] extends
the popular idea of
success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist,
whose
good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...
Dem1 10.21 7 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of
this
kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can
well be spared. Men are not fit to be trusted with these talismans.
Dem1 10.21 23 Great men feel that they are so by
sacrificing their
selfishness...
Dem1 10.22 8 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may
fancy...that he is not in the roll of common men...
Dem1 10.23 20 The fault of most men is that they are
busybodies;...
Dem1 10.24 21 While the dilettanti have been prying
into the humors and
muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the
world
by using their eyes.
Dem1 10.24 25 Men who had never wondered at
anything...have been
unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the
somnambulist.
Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet
wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it
behold;/...
Aris 10.29 13 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet
wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it
behold;/...
Aris 10.29 20 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/
Is not annexed to
possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire,
lo, in
his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do
shame
and vilanie./
Aris 10.31 7 There is an attractive topic, which...is
impertinent in no
community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...to be found
in
every country and in every company of men.
Aris 10.31 9 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that
concern which all well-disposed
persons will feel, that there should be model men...
Aris 10.31 14 ...the cogent motive with the best young
men who are
revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit
of
honor...
Aris 10.33 18 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice
men have in favor of
a hereditary transmission of qualities.
Aris 10.34 9 If one thinks of the interest which all
men have in beauty of
character and manners;...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure
such a
result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all
mankind
to see that the steps were taken...
Aris 10.34 16 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if
money could secure such a
result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all
mankind
to see that the steps were taken...
Aris 10.39 1 Men of aim must lead the aimless;...
Aris 10.39 2 Men of aim must lead the aimless; men of
invention the
uninventive.
Aris 10.39 3 I wish catholic men...who carry the world
in their thoughts;...
Aris 10.39 6 I wish...men of universal politics...
Aris 10.39 13 I wish...men who see the dance in men's
lives as well as in a
ball-room...
Aris 10.39 16 I wish...men who are charmed by the
beautiful Nemesis as
well as by the dire Nemesis...
Aris 10.40 1 I enumerate the claims by which men enter
the superior class.
Aris 10.40 13 If the finders of glass, gunpowder,
printing, electricity...if
these men should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of
mankind
serve them as gods?
Aris 10.41 3 Do not hearken to the men, but to the
Destiny in the
institutions.
Aris 10.41 5 An aristocracy is composed of simple and
sincere men for
whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
Aris 10.42 19 The ancients were fond of ascribing to
their nobles gigantic
proportions and strength. The hero must have the force of ten men.
Aris 10.45 8 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love,
hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in
his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
Aris 10.45 19 Men are born to command...
Aris 10.47 11 There are men who may dare much and will
be justified in
their daring.
Aris 10.48 20 ...[slavery] had this good in it,-the
pricing of men.
Aris 10.50 27 It is not sufficient that your work...is
organic, to give you the
magnetic power over men.
Aris 10.51 24 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that
is, who are
incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the
populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
Aris 10.52 23 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by
all men as their delegate.
Aris 10.52 24 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by
all men as their delegate. It has
indeed the best right, because it raises men above themselves...
Aris 10.52 27 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains
of use, temperament
and drudgery...
Aris 10.53 22 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to
suppress them, that he has
poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
Aris 10.53 25 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him, all sorts of men, interested the whole village...in his facts;...
Aris 10.54 11 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh,
and weep, in their
eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge
whispering-gallery, to report the tale to all men...
Aris 10.55 7 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in
objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is
there...any
cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air
presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire...
Aris 10.55 12 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire and which men
not noble affect.
Aris 10.56 4 I am acquainted with persons who go
attended with this
ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the
field
are those of men at rest...
Aris 10.59 14 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant
that we have no prizes
offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...
Aris 10.60 3 ...there is an order of men, never quite
absent, who enroll no
names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
Aris 10.60 14 The solitariest man who shares [a certain
order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who
prefers these
associates to profane companions. They also take shape in men, in
women.
Aris 10.63 8 By tendency, like all magnanimous men,
[the man of honor] is
a democrat.
Aris 10.64 12 No great man has existed who did not rely
on the sense and
heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as
correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the
lettered men of the world.
Aris 10.64 27 It is the interest of society that good
men should govern...
Aris 10.65 22 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses
only the outsides
of cultivated men...
PerF 10.74 24 [Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a
persuader of men... and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or
series that resides in
him and enables him to work on the material elements.
PerF 10.81 26 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and
see the game masterly
played, the best player is the first of men;...
PerF 10.82 20 By this wondrous susceptibility to all
the impressions of
Nature the man finds himself the receptacle...of happy relations to all
men.
PerF 10.83 15 The last revelation of intellect and of
sentiment is that in a
manner it severs the man from all other men;...
PerF 10.84 18 The effort of men is to use [things] for
private ends.
PerF 10.85 20 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us
out of that despair
into which Saxon men are prone to fall...
PerF 10.88 15 The soul of God is poured into the world
through the
thoughts of men.
PerF 10.88 21 ...as...the planet on space in its
flight, so do nations of men
and their institutions rest on thoughts.
Chr2 10.91 1 Morals respects what men call goodness...
Chr2 10.91 2 Morals respects...that which all men agree
to honor as
justice...
Chr2 10.91 7 [Morals] is that which all men profess to
regard...
Chr2 10.93 12 ...our first experiences in moral, as in
intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind,
identical in all men.
Chr2 10.93 18 [the sense of Right and Wrong] is in all
men, and constitutes
them men.
Chr2 10.93 19 [the sense of Right and Wrong] is in all
men, and constitutes
them men.
Chr2 10.93 19 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong]
is dormant...
Chr2 10.93 20 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong]
is dormant, as
health is in men entranced or drunken;...
Chr2 10.96 26 Devout men...have used different images
to suggest this
latent [moral] force;...
Chr2 10.97 5 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force]
saith, I am;...
Chr2 10.97 24 ...in all men is this majestic [moral]
perception and
command;...
Chr2 10.99 23 ...men act powerfully on us.
Chr2 10.99 24 There are men who astonish and delight...
Chr2 10.99 25 There are...men who instruct and guide.
Chr2 10.100 6 Men appear from time to time who receive
with more purity
and fulness these high communications.
Chr2 10.100 21 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born
which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts
are
perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such
souls
are as the apparition of gods among men...
Chr2 10.100 22 Men are forced by their own self-respect
to give [some
souls] a certain attention.
Chr2 10.100 24 Men are forced by their own self-respect
to give [some
souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage
by
hiding or apologizing for their action.
Chr2 10.101 1 When a man is born...preferring truth,
justice and the
serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the
superiority.
Chr2 10.101 1 When a man is born with a profound moral
sentiment...men
readily feel the superiority.
Chr2 10.101 11 The Arabians delight in expressing the
sympathy of the
unseen world with holy men.
Chr2 10.102 1 Great men serve us as insurrections do in
bad governments.
Chr2 10.102 20 We sometimes employ the word [character]
to express the
strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
Chr2 10.103 13 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment]
suggests-as when
it impels a man to go forth and impart it to other men...are the homage
we
render to this sentiment...
Chr2 10.103 15 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment]
suggests-as when
it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to abate some
nuisance...are the
homage we render to this sentiment...
Chr2 10.107 13 ...it by no means follows, because those
[earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women
are irreligious;...
Chr2 10.107 25 ...the distinctions of the true
clergyman are not less
decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as
he
teaches? Is he a benefactor?
Chr2 10.108 17 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and
dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very
time, the
best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
Chr2 10.109 14 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay
bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim,
with disappointment, Is that all?
Chr2 10.110 1 Paganism...outvotes the true men by
millions of majority...
Chr2 10.110 18 The time will come, says Varnhagen von
Ense, when we
shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals
of
Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean
honestly...
Chr2 10.111 1 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great,
D'Alembert] preached the true God...
Chr2 10.111 2 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great,
D'Alembert] preached the true God,-Him whom men serve by justice and
uprightness;...
Chr2 10.112 10 Romanism in Europe does not represent
the real opinion of
enlightened men.
Chr2 10.114 10 Men will learn to put back the emphasis
peremptorily on
pure morals...
Chr2 10.117 6 In the worst times, men of organic virtue
are born...
Chr2 10.117 7 In the worst times, men of organic virtue
are born,-men
and women of native integrity...
Chr2 10.117 19 Men may well come together to kindle
each other to
virtuous living.
Edc1 10.126 4 Humanly speaking, the school, the
college, society, make
the difference between men.
Edc1 10.129 12 No dollar of property can be created
without...some
acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest
with
the active faculties of men...
Edc1 10.130 16 If Newton come and first of men perceive
that not alone
certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all
bodies in the
Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his
mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.134 5 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men
by the trenchant
sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
Edc1 10.134 23 We teach boys to be such men as we are.
Edc1 10.135 5 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys,
engineers; but not
to make able, earnest, great-hearted men.
Edc1 10.135 18 A man is a little thing whilst he works
by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and
justice, is godlike...and all
men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
Edc1 10.138 9 ...let us have men whose manhood is only
the continuation
of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great men,
great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
Edc1 10.142 19 ...the most genial and amiable of men
must alternate
society with solitude...
Edc1 10.149 23 Happy the natural college thus
self-instituted around every
natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates;...
Edc1 10.150 18 ...the youth of genius...are...not men
of the world...
Edc1 10.151 11 Is it not manifest...that wise men
thinking for themselves... should dare to arouse the young to a just
and heroic life;...
Edc1 10.157 6 The will, the male power...makes that
military eye which
controls boys as it controls men;...
Edc1 10.158 22 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak,
to you it is
committed to educate men.
Edc1 10.159 9 Consent yourself to be an organ of your
highest thought, and
lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
Supl 10.165 20 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most
men have realized
only in dreams and nightmares.
Supl 10.170 12 I once attended a dinner given to a
great state functionary
by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade.
Supl 10.170 25 Men of the world value truth, in
proportion to their ability;...
Supl 10.172 15 All men like an impressive fact.
Supl 10.173 2 The arithmetic of Newton...the
inspiration of Shakspeare, are
sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
Supl 10.173 15 The expressors are the gods of the
world, but the men
whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative
citizens...
Supl 10.175 26 The men whom [Nature] admits to her
confidence...are
uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
Supl 10.176 3 The old and the modern sages of clearest
insight are plain
men...
SovE 10.186 1 ...we exaggerate when we represent these
two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares
them both; but it is
true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or
of
the other element.
SovE 10.186 6 ...in mature life the moral element
steadily rises in the
regard of all reasonable men.
SovE 10.187 8 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
SovE 10.187 17 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came
the
day when...the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation
that
all men are born free and equal.
SovE 10.189 11 The excellence of men consists in the
completeness with
which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
SovE 10.190 26 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious
elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...
SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's
pernicious
elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and
pitiless
avarice.
SovE 10.192 9 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by
unseen guides to read and
learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to
multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes...
SovE 10.193 1 If you love and serve men, you cannot by
any hiding or
stratagem, escape the remuneration.
SovE 10.193 22 To good men, as we call good men, this
doctrine of Trust
is an unsounded secret.
SovE 10.199 4 Then you find so many men infatuated on
that topic [religion]!
SovE 10.199 10 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the
public mind that religion
is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready
enough to
show on other things, do not apply.
SovE 10.201 21 The creeds into which we were initiated
in childhood and
youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
SovE 10.203 14 Far be it from me to underrate the men
or the churches that
have fixed the hearts of men...
SovE 10.203 15 Far be it from me to underrate the men
or the churches that
have fixed the hearts of men...
SovE 10.204 9 The religion of seventy years ago was an
iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now
men
fall abroad...
SovE 10.205 16 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as
soon as in the vulgar
it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
SovE 10.205 25 Men are respectable only as they
respect.
SovE 10.206 11 It is very sad to see men who think
their goodness made of
themselves;...
SovE 10.207 25 If theology shows that opinions are fast
changing, it is not
so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
SovE 10.209 16 ...the inspirations we catch of this
[moral] law are...joyful
sparkles...and that is their priceless good to men, that they charm and
uplift...
SovE 10.210 20 ...is it quite impossible to believe
that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another
in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
SovE 10.211 9 Men live by their credence.
SovE 10.211 23 The credence of men it is that moulds
them...
SovE 10.212 18 ...all the religion we have is the
ethics of one or another
holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will...and
delight of
good men and women in him.
SovE 10.213 4 Once men thought Spirit divine, and
Matter diabolic;...
SovE 10.213 16 [The man of this age] must not be one
who can be
surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant
and acute men may utter in his hearing...
Prch 10.219 5 We do not see that heroic resolutions
will save men from
those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral,
emotive
and intellectual nature.
Prch 10.219 21 No age and no person is destitute of the
[religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and
periodical,-the ages of belief...of men cast in a higher mould.
Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against
the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned.
Prch 10.221 23 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are
they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in
God's
resplendent creation?
Prch 10.223 21 I see that sensible men and
conscientious men all over the
world were of one religion...
Prch 10.223 23 I see that sensible men and
conscientious men all over the
world were of one religion...men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and
feeling for others.
Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or
twenty less men than
himself, acting at discord with one another...
Prch 10.225 1 ...when [a man] shall act from one
motive, and all his
faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell
in the result
as if twenty men had cooperated...
Prch 10.225 5 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when
[a man] shall act from one
motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more
facts, nor
new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of
men and
things?
Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which
being...strongest in the
best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of
Men.
Prch 10.225 18 All wise men regard [the moral
sentiment] as the voice of
the Creator himself.
Prch 10.226 25 In matters of religion, men eagerly
fasten their eyes on the
differences between their creed and yours...
Prch 10.227 2 ...the charm of the study is in finding
the agreements and
identities in all the religions of men.
Prch 10.227 18 The Catholic Church has been immensely
rich in men and
influences.
Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure
and holy soul...bent on
serving, teaching and uplifting men.
Prch 10.228 23 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his
roguery among divines or
literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
Prch 10.229 11 The opinions of men lose all worth to
him who perceives
that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
Prch 10.230 17 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large
liberties.
Prch 10.232 5 ...we are...allied to men around us...
Prch 10.233 7 ...as much justice as we can see and
practise is useful to
men...
Prch 10.234 25 ...though I observe the deafness to
counsel among men, yet
the power of sympathy is always great;...
Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable,
are the aims [the
Church] labors to set before men!
MoL 10.241 7 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of
you, to be the men
of letters, critics, philosophers;...
MoL 10.242 6 Are men perplexed with evil times?
MoL 10.242 23 ...the wealth of the globe was here, too
much work and not
men enough to do it.
MoL 10.242 26 ...the bribe came to men of intellectual
culture,-Come, drudge in our mill.
MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish
history became flesh
and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
MoL 10.245 27 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a
Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support.
MoL 10.247 14 The fears and agitations of men who watch
the markets... are not for [the scholar].
MoL 10.248 12 Italy, France-a hundred times those
countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they...yield
new
men and new revenues.
MoL 10.249 14 ...let us have masculine and divine men,
formidable
lawgivers...
MoL 10.250 19 ...what does the scholar represent? The
organ of ideas, the
subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
MoL 10.252 3 Where there is no vision, the people
perish. The fault lies
with...the men of study and thought.
MoL 10.252 9 ...the scholar...defers to the men of this
world.
MoL 10.252 15 Thought makes us men;...
MoL 10.252 18 Men are as they believe.
MoL 10.252 19 Men are as they think...
MoL 10.252 21 ...the man who knows any truth not yet
discerned by other
men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide
relations are
concerned.
MoL 10.254 27 Men over forty are no judges of a book
written in a new
spirit.
MoL 10.256 5 I distrust all the legends of great
accomplishments or
performance of unprincipled men.
MoL 10.256 17 [Senators and lawyers] read that they
might know, did they
not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know.
MoL 10.256 19 [Senators and lawyers] read that they
might know, did they
not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They
blundered; they were utterly ignorant of...the rights of men and women.
MoL 10.257 17 We do not often have a moment of grandeur
in these
hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men [in the war]
has
taught us much.
MoL 10.257 19 We will not again disparage America, now
that we have
seen what men it will bear.
Schr 10.261 7 ...the society of lettered men is a
university which does not
bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...
Schr 10.261 10 Literary men gladly acknowledge these
ties which find for
the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
Schr 10.262 2 ...in the worldly habits which harden us,
we find with some
surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have
called
the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
Schr 10.262 18 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our
tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy
of
blessing. Beauty...the leader of gods and men...comes in and puts a new
face on the world.
Schr 10.263 8 A celebrated musician was wont to say,
that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did
others;...
Schr 10.263 19 The scholar is here...to draw all men
after the truth...
Schr 10.263 19 The scholar is here...to keep men
spiritual and sweet.
Schr 10.264 14 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered,
not by the cares of life
as men say...but by the depth of his draughts of the cup of
immortality.
Schr 10.264 19 Men are ashamed of their intellect.
Schr 10.264 19 The men committed by profession as well
as by bias to
study...talk hard and worldly...
Schr 10.266 23 Men run out of one superstition into an
opposite
superstition...
Schr 10.267 3 Young men, I warn you against the clamors
of these self-praising
frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...
Schr 10.267 15 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet
incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an acceptance of the method and
frauds of
other men;...
Schr 10.267 18 The action of these [busy] men I cannot
respect...
Schr 10.268 20 Let us hear no more of the practical
men...
Schr 10.269 4 The dry-goods men...are idealists...
Schr 10.269 9 The shallow clamor against theoretic men
comes from the
weak.
Schr 10.269 10 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt
for thought...
Schr 10.269 13 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in
proportion as they are men? What but truth...
Schr 10.269 14 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in
proportion as they are men? What but truth...
Schr 10.269 27 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at
night he reported
to the young men at dawn.
Schr 10.271 14 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from
taxes
and tolls levied on other men;...
Schr 10.271 15 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
Schr 10.271 27 ...men know that ideas are the parents
of men and things;...
Schr 10.272 1 ...men know that ideas are the parents of
men and things;...
Schr 10.273 14 Other men are planting and building...
Schr 10.274 7 I thought there were as many courages as
men.
Schr 10.274 9 Men of thought fail in fighting down
malignity, because they
wear other armor than their own.
Schr 10.274 25 It is the corruption of our generation
that men value a long
life...
Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries
and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and
money, and power...
Schr 10.277 1 ...I delight...to see that men can come
at their ends.
Schr 10.277 14 I delight in men adorned and weaponed
with manlike arts...
Schr 10.280 21 The objection of men of the world to
what they call the
morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the
idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
Schr 10.280 23 The objection of men of the world to
what they call the
morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the
idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
Schr 10.282 5 ...a true orator will make us feel that
the states and
kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and
caterpillars...
Schr 10.282 23 ...it is the end of eloquence...to
persuade a multitude of
persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they
came
in...
Schr 10.284 12 [The scholar] will have to answer
certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all
women...are the interrogators...
Schr 10.284 21 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you
can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
Schr 10.284 23 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you
can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;
bestowing
on the general mind of men organic creations...
Schr 10.285 4 Men of talent fill the eye with their
pretension.
Schr 10.285 7 [Men of talent]...noisily persuade
society that this thing
which they do is the needful cause of all men.
Schr 10.285 26 Genius delights only in statements which
are themselves
true...which are live men...
Plu 10.293 3 It is remarkable that of an author so
familiar as Plutarch, not
only to scholars, but to all reading men...not even the dates of his
birth and
death, should have come down to us.
Plu 10.305 2 The paths of life are large, but few are
men directed by the
Daemons.
Plu 10.305 8 ...I had rather a great deal that men
should say, There was no
such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was
one
Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as
the
poets speak of Saturn.
Plu 10.305 15 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be
read by poets, and
other wise men;...
Plu 10.307 9 These men [who revere the spiritual power]
lift themselves at
once from the vulgar and are not the parasites of wealth.
Plu 10.307 18 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who
does not hesitate to
say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by
sense
withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which
appears.
Plu 10.308 18 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to
commend himself to
men of public regards and ruling genius...
Plu 10.312 2 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living
with men of business... learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
Plu 10.312 17 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:
God divided man
into men, that they might help each other;...
Plu 10.314 16 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and
young men, in England
and America, and through them of their fathers.
Plu 10.315 10 [Plutarch] is the most amiable of men.
Plu 10.321 3 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old
version [of Plutarch's
Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or
fifty
University men...it is a monument of the English language...
Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to publish
a book that can force
ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
LLNE 10.324 4 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With
faerie gardens
cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
LLNE 10.325 9 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a
misfortune to have
been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were
nothing.
LLNE 10.326 5 Men grew reflective and intellectual.
LLNE 10.329 24 The young men were born with knives in
their brain...
LLNE 10.332 2 ...all [Everett's] learning was available
for purposes of the
hour. It was all new learning, that wonderfully took and stimulated the
young men.
LLNE 10.337 15 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every
sacred
secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to
scientific
men...
LLNE 10.340 9 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who
vindicate the
power of the American race to produce greatness.
LLNE 10.341 27 ...the men of talent complained of the
want of point and
precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
LLNE 10.342 20 ...there was no concert, and only here
and there two or
three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual
vivacity.
LLNE 10.345 16 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple
warmth the belief
of himself and five or six young men with whom he agreed in opinion, of
the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
LLNE 10.346 21 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held
conversations
wherever he found listeners; the most amiable, sanguine and candid of
men.
LLNE 10.346 26 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is
your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will
remain after
you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
LLNE 10.347 7 [Robert Owen's] love of men made us
forget his Three
Errors.
LLNE 10.347 9 [Robert Owen's] charitable construction
of men and their
actions was invariable.
LLNE 10.347 16 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as
tender hearts and
as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
LLNE 10.347 21 [The Socialists] appeared the inspired
men of their time.
LLNE 10.348 1 Fourier...has put men under the
obligation which a
generous mind always confers...
LLNE 10.348 17 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars,
atmospheres and
animals, and men and women...
LLNE 10.349 26 By reason of the isolation of men at the
present day, all
work is drudgery.
LLNE 10.350 18 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men
to make one
Man, complete in all the faculties;...
LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in
the reign of Attractive
Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
LLNE 10.353 2 [Fourier's] mistake is that this
particular order and series is
to be imposed, by force or preaching and votes, on all men...
LLNE 10.353 15 ...it would be better to say, Let us be
lovers and servants
of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a
holy
and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law...
LLNE 10.354 24 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 10.355 20 ...the men of science, art, intellect,
are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
LLNE 10.358 23 Each man of thought is surrounded by
wiser men than
he...
LLNE 10.359 16 The West Roxbury Association was formed
in 1841, by a
society of members, men and women...
LLNE 10.360 2 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was
distributed in orderly
committees to the men and women.
LLNE 10.360 20 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our
ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men
to
combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily
labor.
LLNE 10.369 6 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of
clergymen, young
collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters, with men
and women of rare opportunities and delicate culture...
CSC 10.374 12 The singularity and latitude of the
summons [to the
Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of
opinion...
CSC 10.374 20 Madmen, madwomen, men with beards...all
successively... seized their moment [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
CSC 10.376 6 These men and women [at the Chardon Street
Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than
a vote or a
definition...
EzRy 10.382 20 There were an unusually large number of
distinguished
men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
EzRy 10.386 23 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of
severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered
to
relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but
the
Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to
all the
congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair,
sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
EzRy 10.390 6 Like other credulous men, [Ezra Ripley]
was opinionative...
EzRy 10.390 17 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable,
manly and public-spirited; his nature social, his house open to all
men.
EzRy 10.390 23 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved men...
EzRy 10.393 6 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra
Ripley] studied them
all...
MMEm 10.398 13 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of
men to that of
women;...
MMEm 10.423 12 War devastates the conscience of men,
yet corrupt peace
does not less.
SlHr 10.439 24 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel
Hoar] to associate... with plain, uneducated, poor men...
SlHr 10.440 1 ...[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 10.440 10 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a
plainness and almost
poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy
use, readily lending it to young men...
SlHr 10.440 11 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a
plainness and almost
poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy
use, readily lending it to...industrious men...
SlHr 10.442 16 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any
God-fearing men in
it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar
believed to be just?
SlHr 10.443 2 ...in many a town it was asked, What does
Squire Hoar think
of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines
to make
known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that
opinion was.
SlHr 10.445 23 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or
aspirations to a black-letter
lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the
stabs which the
ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel
Hoar].
SlHr 10.447 17 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those
formal but reverend
manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so
called
under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I
suppose, is
an optical illusion, as there is...always a few young men to whom these
manners are native.
SlHr 10.447 27 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall
could afford to
lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common
men would find it out.
Thor 10.449 7 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures
more,/ And more to
purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find
with
glass in ten times ten./
Thor 10.455 24 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking
hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's
houses... because there he could better find the men and the
information he wanted.
Thor 10.459 21 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news
or bonmots gleaned
from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes
fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other...
Thor 10.461 7 It was said of Plotinus that he was
ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for
it,-that his body was a bad
servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world, as
happens
often to men of abstract intellect.
Thor 10.463 3 ...setting, like all highly organized
men, a high value on his
time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
Thor 10.464 11 ...there was an excellent wisdom in
[Thoreau], proper to a
rare class of men...
Thor 10.464 25 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other
world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his
opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life. This made him
a
searching judge of men.
Thor 10.465 8 I have repeatedly known young men of
sensibility converted
in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in
search of...
Thor 10.465 10 I have repeatedly known young men of
sensibility
converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man
they
were in search of, the man of men...
Thor 10.472 23 ...not a particle of respect had
[Thoreau] to the opinions of
any man or body of men...
Thor 10.473 10 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt,
too, the
superiority of character which addressed all men with a native
authority.
Thor 10.483 19 We are strictly confined to our men to
whom we give
liberty.
Carl 10.490 2 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy
man...displeased and
hindered by all men and things about him...
Carl 10.491 4 Young men...press to see [Carlyle]...
Carl 10.493 13 If a scholar goes into a camp of
lumbermen or a gang of
riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
Carl 10.496 5 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge
education
indurates the young men...
Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question
for wise men...to
address themselves to the problem of society.
Carl 10.497 17 Carlyle has, best of all men in England,
kept the manly
attitude of his time.
Carl 10.498 5 ...in England, where the morgue of
aristocracy has very
slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...made himself a
power
confessed by all men...
GSt 10.501 1 We do not know how to prize good men until
they depart.
GSt 10.501 8 ...on the instant of [good men's] death,
we wonder at our past
insensibility, when we see how impossible it is to replace them. There
will
be other good men, but not these again.
GSt 10.502 7 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the
Massachusetts State
Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was
obtained for the free-state men...
GSt 10.502 12 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to
this cause [of
Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown,
who... had a rare magnetism for men of character...
GSt 10.503 16 [George Stearns] passed his time in
incessant consultation
with all men whom he could reach...
GSt 10.503 18 ...there are few men with real or
supposed influence, North
or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
GSt 10.504 17 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom
disasters, which
dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.
GSt 10.506 11 There [George Stearns] sat in the
council...an enthusiast
only in his love of freedom and the good of men;...
GSt 10.506 18 For a year or two, the most affectionate
and domestic of
men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
GSt 10.507 6 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...beheld his work
prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among
men.
GSt 10.507 16 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that,
after all
his efforts to serve men without appearing to do so, there is hardly a
man in
this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional
honor.
LS 11.3 10 Without considering the frivolous questions
which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the
Lord's
Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every
church...
LS 11.4 22 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a
tradition in which
men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for
difference
of opinion upon this particular.
LS 11.8 8 ...men more easily transmit a form than a
virtue...
LS 11.8 10 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples
would meet to
remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind
that
this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet
have
been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times
and all
countries.
LS 11.15 12 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive
Church] that at that
time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with
fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we
receive, that his
second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of
men...
LS 11.19 8 Most men find the bread and wine [of the
Lord's Supper] no aid
to devotion...
LS 11.20 4 I will...not pay [Jesus] a stiff sign of
respect, as men do those
whom they fear.
LS 11.21 2 ...[Christianity] presents men with truths
which are their own
reason...
LS 11.21 22 [Christianity] has for its object simply to
make men good and
wise.
LS 11.21 24 [Christianity] has for its object simply to
make men good and
wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men.
LS 11.22 22 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify
and send forth a
man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
LS 11.23 7 ...now...Christians must contend that it
is...really a duty, to
commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that
form be agreeable to their understandings or not. ... Is not this to
make
men,-to make ourselves,-forget that not forms, but duties...are
enjoined;...
LS 11.24 18 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand
to the end of the
world, if it please men and please Heaven...
HDC 11.27 6 Where are these men? asleep beneath their
grounds:/ And
strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
HDC 11.28 5 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the
land and sea/ And
make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
HDC 11.29 23 ...the little society of men who now, for
a few years, fish in
this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their
forefathers.
HDC 11.31 13 ...some of these [suspended
ministers]...were punished with
imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men
in
England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds
the
serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
HDC 11.36 21 [The Indians'] physical
powers...astonished the white men.
HDC 11.39 4 The maple...reddened over those houseless
men [the settlers
of Concord].
HDC 11.42 1 The first record [of Concord] now remaining
is that of...the
appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
HDC 11.45 9 ...[the settlers of Concord] stood in awe
of each other, as
religious men.
HDC 11.45 11 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John
Winthrop, the
Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined
the
powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
HDC 11.59 11 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or
a village; but the
association of the white men and their arts of war give them an
overwhelming advantage...
HDC 11.64 12 The public charity seems to have been
bestowed in a
manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town lends its commons as
pastures, to poor men;...
HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the
people. Sixty men enlisted...
HDC 11.73 27 The British following [the minute-men]
across the bridge, posted two companies, amounting to about one hundred
men, to guard the
bridge...
HDC 11.74 1 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and
Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that
Major Buttrick found
himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
HDC 11.74 23 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and
gave the
command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his
men.
HDC 11.74 24 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and
gave the
command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his
men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.
HDC 11.75 21 These men [the minute-men] did not babble
of glory.
HDC 11.76 7 The presence of these aged men who were in
arms on that
day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
HDC 11.76 15 We hold by the hand the last of the
invincible men of old...
HDC 11.76 21 If ever men in arms had a spotless cause,
you [veterans of
the battle of Concord] had.
HDC 11.76 23 ...having quit you like men in the battle,
you [veterans of the
battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous
families;...
HDC 11.76 24 ...you [veterans of the battle of Concord]
have quit
yourselves like men in your virtuous families;...
HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this
town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
HDC 11.79 14 The numbers [of of men for the Continental
army], say [the
General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the
fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers
proportioned
to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men...
HDC 11.79 16 For these men [in the Continental army]
[Concord] was
continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and
beef.
HDC 11.85 22 ...[Concord] has been consecrated by the
presence and
activity of the purest men.
LVB 11.90 11 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the
painful labors of
these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of
eternal inferiority...
LVB 11.90 20 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the
good pleasure and the
understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the
matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land,
that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
LVB 11.91 19 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up
and say, This is
not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of
deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the
Senate
and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see
them...
LVB 11.92 1 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.
LVB 11.92 15 The piety, the principle that is left in
the United States, if
only in its coarsest form, a regard to the speech of men,-forbid us to
entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
LVB 11.92 26 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the
heart's heart of all
men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
LVB 11.94 24 On the broaching of this question [of the
moral character of
government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any
good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery,
appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
LVB 11.96 11 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray
with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe.
EWI 11.100 7 The subject [emancipation] is said to have
the property of
making dull men eloquent.
EWI 11.101 1 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of
a race of men a
small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his
own
comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his
cream
and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair
footing than by robbing them.
EWI 11.102 12 These men [negro slaves]...I am
heart-sick when I read how
they came there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old
men...we too should
wince.
EWI 11.105 2 It became plain to all men...that the
crimes...of the slave-traders
and slave-owners could not be overstated.
EWI 11.107 19 ...[the Quakers] were religious,
tender-hearted men and
women;...
EWI 11.114 25 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
EWI 11.121 11 ...men of all colors have equal rights in
law [in Jamaica]...
EWI 11.124 5 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant
scenes on the coast
of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by
some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go, for high wages, and
bring us the men...
EWI 11.124 15 The sugar [the negroes] raised was
excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world.
What! all raised by these men, and no wages?
EWI 11.127 12 These considerations, I doubt not, had
their weight [in
emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest
of the
revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men
should feel these motives.
EWI 11.128 8 For months and years the bill [on
emanicipation in the West
Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost
men of
the earth;...
EWI 11.129 27 I could not see the great vision of the
patriots and senators
who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me. No:
I
see other pictures,-of mean men;...
EWI 11.130 1 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very
ignorant men...yet
citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-
whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and
Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those
ports...
EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of
this our Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of
South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels
in
which they visited those ports...
EWI 11.130 14 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the
States of South Carolina and
Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel
remained
in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to
pay the
costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are
to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law
EWI 11.131 23 The rich men may walk in State Street, but
they walk
without honor;...
EWI 11.131 26 ...the farmers may brag their democracy
in the country, but
they are disgraced men.
EWI 11.132 3 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its own
shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are
those men dumb?
EWI 11.133 22 I may as well say, what all men feel,
that whilst our very
amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are
accomplished lawyers and merchants...there is a disastrous want of men
from New England.
EWI 11.133 27 ...whilst our very amiable and very
innocent
representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at
caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
EWI 11.134 17 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious
class of young men and
political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and
without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take
up [the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
EWI 11.135 16 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was
achieved by plain
means of plain men...
EWI 11.137 5 All men remember the subtlety and the fire
of indignation
which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in
the West Indies];...
EWI 11.138 11 It is notorious that the political,
religious and social
schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been
matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of
these
assemblies [on emancipation].
EWI 11.138 13 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the
West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in
their
days of darkness, they had overlooked.
EWI 11.138 17 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the
West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in
their
days of darkness, they had overlooked. Virtuous men will not again rely
on
political agents.
EWI 11.139 4 What happened notoriously to an American
ambassador in
England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the
fact
that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
EWI 11.139 10 What great masses of men wish done, will
be done;...
EWI 11.139 25 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally
exerts,-no more, no
less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place
to the
opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive
and
defraud men, shudder at the change...
EWI 11.140 5 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive
and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.
EWI 11.141 20 It was the sarcasm of Montesquieu, it
would not do to
suppose that negroes were men, lest it should turn out that whites were
not;...
EWI 11.143 23 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies
and mites but their
spawning numbers, which no ravages can overcome. It deals with men
after
the same manner.
EWI 11.144 8 ...now, the arrival in the world of such
men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all
the English and
American humanity.
EWI 11.146 17 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when [the
negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly
offended
by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet
defenders of
the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the
human race;...
EWI 11.147 8 There have been moments, I said, when men
might be
forgiven who doubted [emancipation].
EWI 11.147 13 There is a blessed necessity by which the
interest of men is
always driving them to the right;...
War 11.151 12 War, which to sane men at the present day
begins to look
like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a
part of
the connection of events...
War 11.152 19 War...brings men into such swift and
close collision in
critical moments that man measures man.
War 11.152 26 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves
above
each other by new merits...
War 11.154 14 ...[war] has been the principal
employment of the most
conspicuous men;...
War 11.156 11 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity]
into a circle of
cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy...
War 11.156 15 To men of a sedate and mature
spirit...the detail of battle
becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
War 11.156 27 Trade, as all men know, is the antagonist
of war.
War 11.157 4 ...trade brings men to look each other in
the face...
War 11.157 7 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge
that these enemies
over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
War 11.157 26 ...the art of war...has made, as all men
know, battles less
frequent and less murderous.
War 11.160 2 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast
societies of men...
War 11.160 5 For ages...the human race has gone on
under the tyranny...of
this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
War 11.161 14 The star once risen...will mount and
mount, until it
becomes visible to other men...
War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men
refuse to believe the
advent of peace...
War 11.161 23 That the project of peace should appear
visionary to great
numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
War 11.162 8 ...you overestimate the virtue of men.
War 11.162 12 You forget that the quiet...which lets
the wagon go
unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect
understanding
of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind
there...
War 11.162 16 All admit that [peace] would be the best
policy...if all the
men were the best men...
War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history
teaches wise men, to put
trust in ideas...
War 11.163 11 The reference to any foreign register
will inform us of the
number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast
colonial system of the British Empire...
War 11.164 24 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a
million
sheets; you shall see men and horses and wheels made to walk, run and
roll
for it...
War 11.165 8 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance,
a perception in the
wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea; though he
alone
of all men has that thought, and they all jeer,-it will build ships;...
War 11.165 12 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a
colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
War 11.166 3 ...the least change in the man will change
his
circumstances;...the least mitigation of his feelings in respect to
other men;...
War 11.166 5 ...the least change in the man will change
his
circumstances;...if, for example, he could be inspired with a tender
kindness
to the souls of men...
War 11.167 12 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into
the region of
holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as
one
engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an
individual but
to the common soul of all men.
War 11.168 24 If you have a nation of men who have
risen to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men.
War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men.
War 11.169 4 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that
nation;... I
shall find them men of love...
War 11.169 5 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that
nation;... I
shall find them...men of immense industry;...
War 11.169 6 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that
nation;... I
shall find them...men whose influence is felt to the end of the
earth;...
War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that
nation;... I
shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of
honor and shame;...
War 11.170 14 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...
War 11.171 19 The manhood that has been in war must be
transferred to
the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm, and peace be
venerable to
men.
War 11.174 12 If peace is to be maintained, it must be
by brave men...
War 11.174 17 If peace is to be maintained, it must be
by brave men...men
who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that
they
do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved
by
such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
War 11.174 25 ...if the desire of a large class of
young men for a faith and
hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be
an
omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
War 11.176 2 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this
broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall,
and the
green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters
of
oppression and guilt;...
War 11.176 4 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this
broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind,
shall say what shall be;...
FSLC 11.179 22 There are men who are as sure indexes of
the equity of
legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
FSLC 11.182 26 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave
Law]...showed that
men would not stick to what they had said...
FSLC 11.183 2 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave
Law]...showed...that the
resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and
put on
record of public men, will not bind them.
FSLC 11.183 15 The popular assumption that all men
loved freedom, and
believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
FSLC 11.185 2 I thought none, that was not ready to go
on all fours, would
back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can
see
nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
FSLC 11.188 5 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a
thousand miles for
his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and
catch...
FSLC 11.188 9 ...all men that are born are, in
proportion to their power of
thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of
this [Fugitive Slave] law.
FSLC 11.188 15 I had thought, I confess, what must come
at last would
come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this
statute [the
Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.188 17 I thought it a point on which all sane
men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
FSLC 11.188 19 I thought that all men of all conditions
had been made
sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired
moments they
had been made to see how man is man...
FSLC 11.188 25 ...whilst animals have to do with eating
the fruits of the
ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
FSLC 11.189 27 ...all men are beloved as they raise us
to [the spiritual
element];...
FSLC 11.192 24 How can a law be enforced that fines
pity, and imprisons
charity? As long as men have bowels, they will disobey.
FSLC 11.195 26 A wicked law cannot be executed by good
men...
FSLC 11.195 26 A wicked law cannot be executed by good
men, and must
be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed...
FSLC 11.196 16 The first execution of the [Fugitive
Slave] law, as was
inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the
glib
officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing
men.
FSLC 11.196 27 The humiliating scandal of great men
warping right into
wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the
cities.
FSLC 11.197 18 Every person who touches this business
[the Fugitive
Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another
moment when public men were personally lowered by their political
action.
FSLC 11.197 25 ...here are gentlemen whose believed
probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into
the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in
the
country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with
them...would now shrink from their touch...
FSLC 11.199 4 [Webster's] pacification has
brought...all scrupulous and
good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.
FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real
thing, an alliance of men
of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and
ideas.
FSLC 11.207 20 Since it is agreed by all sane men of
all parties...that
slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the
smallest
counsel of her own?
FSLC 11.208 27 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the
British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course,
and is
innocent. Here is a right social or public function, which one man
cannot
do, which all men must do.
FSLC 11.209 16 Nothing is impracticable to this nation,
which it shall set
itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed?
FSLC 11.209 27 The genius of this people, it is found,
can do anything
which can be done by men.
FSLC 11.211 8 Greece was the least part of Europe.
Attica a little part of
that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still
rules the
intellect of men.
FSLN 11.218 15 Look into the morning trains which, from
every suburb, carry the business men into the city...
FSLN 11.219 12 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law.
FSLN 11.219 13 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what
are called
brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
FSLN 11.219 14 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what
are called
brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
FSLN 11.219 15 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts
of...accomplished
men, men of high station...but men without self-respect...
FSLN 11.219 16 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts
of...men of
eloquent speech, but men without self-respect...
FSLN 11.219 17 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts
of...men of
eloquent speech, but men without self-respect...
FSLN 11.220 14 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was
able,-fault of the
total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties
with
him.
FSLN 11.220 20 There is always...men who calculate on
the immense
ignorance of the masses;...
FSLN 11.220 25 ...all men like to be made much of.
FSLN 11.221 14 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic
capacity, as if he
alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the ear...
FSLN 11.227 15 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the
question...whether the
Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system, which is a kind
of
mill or factory for converting men into monkeys, shall be upheld and
enlarged?
FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
FSLN 11.228 9 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do,
made very low
bows to the Christian Church...
FSLN 11.229 7 The way in which the country was dragged
to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of the men of
letters...was the darkest passage in the history.
FSLN 11.229 8 The way in which the country was dragged
to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of educated
men... was the darkest passage in the history.
FSLN 11.229 19 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate
index, in men and
nations, of general progress.
FSLN 11.229 22 The theory of personal liberty must
always appeal...to the
men of the rarest perception...
FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted
was Union. I
went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the
rest, and
inquired why they took this part?
FSLN 11.232 16 Events roll, millions of men are
engaged, and the result is
the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the
nursery.
FSLN 11.234 22 Covenants are of no use without honest
men to keep
them;...
FSLN 11.235 6 Cromwell said, We can only resist the
superior training of
the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
FSLN 11.238 19 ...when the Southerner points to the
anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's
remark, It will not do to
say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
FSLN 11.238 25 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries
and ages, and will tax
the faith of short-lived men.
FSLN 11.241 6 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of
slavery] spreads...I
think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the
mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
FSLN 11.241 24 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing
single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other
parts of
the country appreciate the service...
FSLN 11.242 5 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason
tax the coldness and
indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
FSLN 11.244 3 ...Liberty is the Crusade of all brave
and conscientious
men...
FSLN 11.244 16 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue
the eyes of men...
AsSu 11.249 20 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity
of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men with
whom he acted;...
AsSu 11.250 22 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing
his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States,
with
discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human
being
were not...a believer that all men should be free.
AsSu 11.252 4 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles
Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to
all
honorable men and true patriots...
AsSu 11.252 5 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles
Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so
precious...to the
Almighty Maker of men.
AKan 11.254 1 And ye shall succor men;/ 'T is nobleness
to serve;/...
AKan 11.256 22 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
AKan 11.257 5 I think we are to give largely, lavishly,
to these [Kansas] men.
AKan 11.260 19 Is it to be supposed that there are no
men in Carolina who
dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?
JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a
steadfast Yankee
farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
JBB 11.268 8 ...[John Brown] is so transparent that all
men see him
through.
JBB 11.268 22 [John Brown] believes in two
articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the
Declaration of Independence; and he
used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that
a
whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a
violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this
country.
JBB 11.271 2 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the
executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
JBS 11.279 16 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a
romantic
character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of
self-indulgence or
compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men
we
know;...
JBS 11.279 20 ...as happens usually to men of romantic
character, [John
Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
JBS 11.280 16 I am not a little surprised at the easy
effrontery with which
political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say
that
there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John
Brown.
JBS 11.280 27 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do
not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed
handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
JBS 11.281 9 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain
of a party of men
united in opposition to slavery.
TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of
study...rapidly pushing his
studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
TPar 11.287 22 The opinions of men are organic.
TPar 11.288 27 The vice charged against America is the
want of sincerity
in leading men.
TPar 11.289 20 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted beyond all
men in pulpits... that the essence of Christianity is its practical
morals;...
TPar 11.291 3 There are men of good powers who have so
much sympathy
that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
TPar 11.292 9 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be
consoled in the
transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will
affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke;...
TPar 11.292 24 We have few such men [as Theodore
Parker] to lose;...
ACiv 11.297 9 ...now here comes this conspiracy of
slavery...this stealing
of men and setting them to work...
ACiv 11.298 4 All honest men are daily striving to earn
their bread by their
industry.
ACiv 11.302 14 We want men of original perception and
original action...
ACiv 11.307 2 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men
from that section [the
South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair
administration of the government...
ACiv 11.308 8 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a
bold and good
measure when once it is taken...
ACiv 11.310 7 ...ideas must work through the brains and
the arms of good
and brave men...
EPro 11.319 8 ...all men of African descent who have
faculty enough to
find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American
law.
EPro 11.322 16 ...this taxation, which makes the land
wholesome and
habitable, and will draw all men unto it, is the best investment in
which
property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
ALin 11.328 27 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true
elder race,/ And
one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell,
Commemoration
Ode.
ALin 11.329 3 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 11.330 2 [Lincoln] was the most active and hopeful
of men;...
ALin 11.331 4 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's]
chances in politics as
incalculable.
ALin 11.332 2 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
ALin 11.336 6 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy
[death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the
massacre are already burning
into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen
mean
men preferred.
ALin 11.336 9 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to
keep the greatest
promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition
of
slavery?
HCom 11.339 8 These boys we talk about like ancient
sages/ Are the same
men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
HCom 11.342 15 [The war] charged with power, peaceful,
amiable men...
HCom 11.342 22 It is easy to recall the mood in which
our young men... went to the war.
HCom 11.344 10 A single company in the Forty-fourth
Massachusetts
Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as
I
the story of these dedicated men...
HCom 11.344 16 These [Harvard] men...were always in the
front and
always employed.
HCom 11.345 3 We shall not again disparage America, now
that we have
seen what men it will bear.
HCom 11.345 7 We see...a new era...worth to the world
the lives of all this
generation of American men, if they had been demanded.
SMC 11.347 1 They have shown what men may do,/ They
have proved
how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each
face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
SMC 11.347 2 They have shown what men may do,/ They
have proved
how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each
face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
SMC 11.348 23 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/
Beneath Time's
changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men
come
to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when
to
die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
SMC 11.353 6 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses
the magnets in
the ship, and south is north. The storm of war works the like miracle
on
men.
SMC 11.354 24 The opinions of masses of men...the
[Civil] war
discovered;...
SMC 11.355 3 ...cities of men are the first effects of
civilization...
SMC 11.355 13 ...there are noble men everywhere...
SMC 11.355 18 ...we have all heard passages of generous
and exceptional
behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers
and
men...
SMC 11.356 7 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable,
God-fearing men
as the members of our school committee here.
SMC 11.356 18 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...
SMC 11.356 19 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war,-the roughs, men
who liked harsh play and violence...
SMC 11.356 20 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war,-the roughs...men
for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
SMC 11.357 2 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...young men...of
excellent education and polished manners...
SMC 11.357 5 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...men hitherto of
narrow opportunities of knowing the world...
SMC 11.357 8 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...men hitherto of
narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the
grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were
idealists, men who
went from a religious duty.
SMC 11.358 1 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these
words: You may
think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from
danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that
tunes
the hearts of men...
SMC 11.358 5 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes
home of another of
his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of
men;...
SMC 11.359 1 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you
would have picked out for
the rough dealing of war...
SMC 11.359 6 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a
chilblain in his men;...
SMC 11.359 11 The army officers were welcome to their
jest on [George
Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his
men
limp on the march, and told him to ride.
SMC 11.359 12 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men
had found out, first
that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
SMC 11.359 17 [George Prescott] was...the most modest
and amiable of
men...
SMC 11.360 5 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains
and lieutenants, and
the privates too, are domestic men...
SMC 11.361 13 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain
the sincere praise of
men whom I now see in this assembly.
SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care
of the men...
SMC 11.362 3 [George Prescott] never remits his care of
the men, aiming
to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the
first
point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to
visit
their families and keep them informed about the men;...
SMC 11.362 10 At one time [George Prescott] finds his
company
unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another
class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on
our
men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
SMC 11.362 16 One day [George Prescott] writes, I
expect to have a time
this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is
very
profane, and I will not stand it. If he does not stop it, I will march
my men
right away when he is drilling them.
SMC 11.362 18 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine
for officers
swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used
to
such talk.
SMC 11.362 22 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant
seems to think that
these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been
at
West Point four years.
SMC 11.363 1 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point
officer] I had a
good many young men in my company...
SMC 11.363 17 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep
[his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of
baseball, and pitching
quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham
fights. The
best men heartily second him...
SMC 11.363 19 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to
use
the time to the wisest advantage...
SMC 11.364 7 It looked very much like a severe
thunder-storm, writes the
captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep
out of
doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
SMC 11.364 11 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles,
and went to the
colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would
cover
twenty-four men...
SMC 11.364 15 [George Prescott writes] We only had
about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or
other duty]...
SMC 11.366 2 This [old artillery] company...was later
embodied in the
Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, enlisted as nine
months' men...
SMC 11.366 19 In August, 1862...mainly through the
personal example
and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself,
were enlisted for three years...
SMC 11.366 24 ...a very good account has been heard,
not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of
these men.
SMC 11.367 19 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula,
in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
SMC 11.368 19 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to
the battle of
Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
SMC 11.368 22 On the second of July [the Thirty-second
Regiment] had to
cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and
on both
flanks. Seventy men were killed or wounded out of seven companies.
SMC 11.369 10 The Colonel [George Prescott] took
evident pleasure in the
fact that he could account for all his men.
SMC 11.371 7 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a
few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and
run
in circles...
SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
SMC 11.372 19 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which the men
drew
shoes and socks...
SMC 11.373 18 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and
comrades...uses
these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
SMC 11.375 7 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges
in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil
War]...
SMC 11.375 18 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil
War] will hardly be
called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already
trampled with
your victories.
SMC 11.375 25 A gloom gathers on this assembly,
composed as it is of
kindred men and women...
EdAd 11.382 1 The old men studied magic in the
flowers,/ And human
fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring
things to names, for these were men/...
EdAd 11.382 4 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/
And human
fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring
things to names, for these were men/...
EdAd 11.384 4 ...the train...shows our traveller what
tens of thousands of
powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
EdAd 11.384 12 [The traveller] reflects on...what
levers, what pumps, what
exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit
of
masses of men.
EdAd 11.385 18 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and
disinclination in our
educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.
EdAd 11.385 27 We hearken in vain for any profound
voice...cheering
timid good men...
EdAd 11.386 3 We hearken in vain for any profound
voice...intelligently
announcing duties which clothe life with joy, and endear the face of
land
and sea to men.
EdAd 11.386 7 It is a poor consideration...that
political interests on so
broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
EdAd 11.387 11 ...every acre on the globe, every family
of men, every
point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define
[America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
EdAd 11.389 15 Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny
are logical.
EdAd 11.389 22 ...we are far from believing politics
the primal interest of
men.
EdAd 11.389 26 ...men of a solid genius are only
interested in substantial
things.
EdAd 11.390 10 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment
of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the
prizes of office appear
polluted...
EdAd 11.390 20 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness
by...arguing
diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
EdAd 11.393 20 We rely on the talents and industry of
good men known to
us...
Koss 11.399 16 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in
all centuries and in
all parties only the men of heart.
Koss 11.401 2 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth]
preach to willing
and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
Wom 11.405 11 In that race which is now predominant
over all the other
races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular
nature.
Wom 11.405 13 [Women] are more delicate than men...
Wom 11.406 10 Men remark figure...
Wom 11.406 23 Plato said, Women are the same as men in
faculty, only
less in degree.
Wom 11.408 10 ...in general, no mastery in either of
the fine arts...has yet
been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
Wom 11.409 7 It was Burns's remark when he first came
to Edinburgh that
between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little
difference;...
Wom 11.411 5 ...how should we better measure the gulf
between the best
intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American
capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms,
and the
eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of
taste or
comeliness?
Wom 11.412 10 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal
than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element
of fancy if they
did not lend and give themselves to it.
Wom 11.413 3 We men have no right to say it, but the
omnipotence of Eve
is in humility.
Wom 11.413 23 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit
their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
Wom 11.414 6 There is much that tends to give [women] a
religious height
which men do not attain.
Wom 11.417 18 ...it would be easy for women to
retaliate in kind, by
painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
Wom 11.418 1 There are plenty of people who believe
that the world is
governed by men of dark complexions...
Wom 11.418 3 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of
contemplative men...
Wom 11.418 13 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do,
say, read or
write, they are thinking of themselves...
Wom 11.418 16 Men are not to the same degree
temperamented [as
women]...
Wom 11.418 17 ...there are multitudes of men who live
to objects quite out
of them...
Wom 11.419 19 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and
political equality
with men...it must not be refused.
Wom 11.420 10 On the questions that are
important...whether men shall be
holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or
shall
be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I
suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.420 13 On the questions that are
important...whether men shall be
hanged for stealing, or hanged at all;...[women] would give, I suppose,
as
intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.420 24 If new power is here, of a
character...which...opens new
careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well
leave voting to the old dead people.
Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in
politics], but it rots the
men now...
Wom 11.423 19 ...when I read the list of men of
intellect, of refined
pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted
for, I
think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
Wom 11.423 21 ...when I read the list of men...of
social distinction, leading
men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what
they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community
was
ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
Wom 11.424 8 ...let [women] have and hold and give
their property as men
do theirs;...
Wom 11.425 18 Improve and refine the men, and you do
the same by the
women...
Wom 11.425 27 The slavery of women happened when the
men were
slaves of kings.
SHC 11.430 9 Men go up and down;...
SHC 11.436 11 ...all great men find eternity affirmed
in the promise of
their faculties.
SHC 11.436 14 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew
agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute
their thoughts in?
RBur 11.439 19 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden
consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are
here to
hold our parliament with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the
Middle Ages.
RBur 11.440 5 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind
of men to-day that
great uprising of the middle class...
RBur 11.441 13 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the
poet, too, of poor
men...
Shak1 11.446 7 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The
sense and bound of
Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the
air
was fame./
Shak1 11.448 4 Wherever there are men, and in the
degree in which they
are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of
the world.
Shak1 11.449 10 Men were so astonished and occupied by
[Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and
condition...
Shak1 11.450 6 ...[Shakespeare] is yet to all wise men
the companion of
the closet.
Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry
[Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
Shak1 11.451 22 The egotism of men is immense.
Shak1 11.452 1 There are periods fruitful of great
men;...
Shak1 11.452 21 In our ordinary experience of men there
are some men so
born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or
low,-they
fit well, and lead it!...
Shak1 11.452 22 ...there are some men so born to live
well that, in
whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
Shak1 11.453 11 I could name in this very
company...very good types [of
men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be
parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the
rule; and king of men, by this grace of God also, is Shakspeare.
Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary
men
of this century is entitled...
Scot 11.463 12 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which
all
English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
Scot 11.467 17 ...wherever he lived, [Scott] found
superior men...
ChiE 11.472 21 When Socrates heard that the oracle
declared that he was
the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they
were
wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
ChiE 11.472 22 When Socrates heard that the oracle
declared that he was
the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they
were
wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
FRO1 11.477 20 ...[the Free Religious Association] has
prompted an equal
magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...to unite in a
movement
of benefit to men...
FRO1 11.478 2 ...[the Free Religious Association] has
prompted an equal
magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever
relation they
stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to
men...
FRO1 11.479 1 ...the Church should always be new and
extemporized, because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of
men, or it does not
exist.
FRO2 11.486 27 ...a man of religious susceptibility,
and one at the same
time conversant with many men...can find the same idea [that
Christianity
is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
FRO2 11.487 21 I think wise men wish their religion to
be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
FRO2 11.488 20 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary
to that law of
Nature which all wise men recognize;...
FRO2 11.489 12 Let [the lesson of the New Testament]
stand, beautiful
and wholesome, with whatever is most like it in the teaching and
practice of
men;...
FRO2 11.489 24 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding
something out
of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but
an
exhibition...removed out of the range of influence with thoughtful men.
FRO2 11.489 26 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or
remember the
religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
FRO2 11.490 18 ...the charm of the study is in finding
the agreements, the
identities, in all the religions of men.
CPL 11.502 10 It was the symbolical custom of the
ancient Mexican
priests...to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence
distribute it
as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation. It is a just type of
the service
rendered to mankind by wise men.
CPL 11.503 21 'T is a tie between men to have been
delighted with the
same book.
CPL 11.504 7 There is a wonderful agreement among
eminent men of all
varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet
said, Men are
either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
CPL 11.505 11 A man, that strives to make himself a
different thing from
other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all
fortunes he
hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
CPL 11.505 14 I have found several humble men and women
who gave as
affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
CPL 11.507 10 It is a tie between men to have read the
same book...
FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when
men with
religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last
records
the victory.
FRep 11.515 10 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when
men die for
what they live for...the better code of laws at last records the
victory.
FRep 11.518 12 ...liberal congresses and legislatures
ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures. The men themselves
are suspected and
charged with lobbying and being lobbied.
FRep 11.519 24 Our great men succumb so far to the
forms of the day as to
peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their
personal
character the authority of office...
FRep 11.520 25 ...the grasshopper on the turret of
Faneuil Hall gives a
proper hint of the men below.
FRep 11.524 12 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the
very men you know...
FRep 11.524 20 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men
whose names are a
knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their
active
retirements...
FRep 11.524 25 ...we know, all over this country, men
of integrity...
FRep 11.526 6 Ours is the country of poor men.
FRep 11.526 10 ...here is the human race poured out
over the continent to
do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities,
pretending to
be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
FRep 11.526 15 ...really, though you see wealth in the
capitals, it is only a
sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
FRep 11.527 12 The facility with which clubs are formed
by young men
for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the
notoriety of the questions.
FRep 11.529 10 The government...knows the leading men
in the middle
class...
FRep 11.529 16 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or
is
unbecoming in the government...
FRep 11.530 20 Never country had such a fortune, as men
call fortune, as
this...
FRep 11.532 24 Young men at thirty and even earlier
lose all spring and
vivacity...
FRep 11.533 2 The source of mischief is the extreme
difficulty with which
men are roused from the torpor of every day.
FRep 11.533 13 We buy much of Europe that does not make
us better
men;...
FRep 11.534 5 A man is coming, here as [in England], to
value himself on
what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a
far-off copy
of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is to make all men
alike;...
FRep 11.536 11 Our young men lack idealism.
FRep 11.536 21 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted
and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to
this despair.
FRep 11.536 23 Of no use are the men who study to do
exactly as was
done before...
FRep 11.537 1 We want men of original perception and
original action...
FRep 11.537 5 We want...men of elastic...
FRep 11.537 5 We want...men of moral mind...
FRep 11.538 22 ...if the spirit which...put forth such
gigantic energy in the
charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving
and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a
great
constituency of...faithful...lovers of men...
FRep 11.539 3 Here is the post where the patriot should
plant himself; here
the altar where virtuous young men...should bind each other to
loyalty;...
FRep 11.539 6 Here is the post where the patriot should
plant himself; here
the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of
men.
FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of
wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the
world
without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every
race
and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black men;...
FRep 11.541 22 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of
wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the
world
without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every
race
and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black men;...
FRep 11.542 1 I hope America will come to have its
pride in being a nation
of servants, and not of the served. How can men have any other ambition
where the reason has not suffered a disastrous eclipse?
FRep 11.543 27 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by
the ship of the great
Admiral which...has the force to draw men and states and planets to
their
good.
PLT 12.7 4 ...these questions which really interest
men, how few can
answer.
PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?
PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you
could not find a club of men
acute and liberal enough in the world.
PLT 12.7 20 There is really a grievous amount of
unavailableness about
men of wit.
PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars
either egotists or
worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or
five
or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
PLT 12.8 26 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
PLT 12.10 2 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled...
PLT 12.10 5 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every
way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe, cannot
arrive at this.
PLT 12.10 10 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every
way forwarded. Practical
men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be
done,-the
resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
PLT 12.12 19 We have invincible repugnance...to study
of the eyes instead
of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt
is
unnatural...
PLT 12.13 9 Metaphysics...must be the observations of a
working man on
working men;...
PLT 12.15 12 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation
of men of thought to
the existing religion and civility of the present time.
PLT 12.18 8 There are...minds that produce their
thoughts complete men...
PLT 12.18 25 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...ships and
cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...
PLT 12.23 26 ...if one remembers how contagious are the
moral states of
men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan
soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
PLT 12.27 15 These views of the source of thought and
the mode of its
communication...open to us the tendencies and duties of men of thought
in
the present time.
PLT 12.27 17 There is no permanent wise man, but men
capable of
wisdom...
PLT 12.30 9 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no
one to be civil to me. Strong men understand this very well.
PLT 12.32 3 ...individual men have secret senses, each
some
incommunicable sagacity.
PLT 12.32 5 ...men are primary or secondary as their
opinions and actions
are organic or not.
PLT 12.34 3 Each man has a feeling that what is done
anywhere is done by
the same wit as his. All men are his representatives...
PLT 12.34 18 [Instinct] is that glimpse of
inextinguishable light by which
men are guided;...
PLT 12.34 20 [Instinct] is that sense by which men feel
when they are
wronged...
PLT 12.34 23 [Instinct] is that source of thought and
feeling which acts on
masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
PLT 12.37 5 In its lower function, when it deals with
the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the
performance of all that is needful
to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and
connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...
PLT 12.38 16 The thought, the doctrine, the right
hitherto not affirmed is
published...in conversation...of men of the world...
PLT 12.39 15 ...this is the measure of all intellectual
power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
PLT 12.45 8 There is indeed this vice about men of
thought, that you
cannot quite trust them;...
PLT 12.45 10 There is indeed this vice about men of
thought, that you
cannot quite trust them; not as much as other men of the same natural
probity, without intellect;...
PLT 12.45 22 There are men of great apprehension...who
easily entertain
ideas, but are not exact...
PLT 12.46 20 Will is always miraculous, being the
presence of God to men.
PLT 12.46 24 All men know the truth, but what of that?
PLT 12.47 12 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a
certain feeling
and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
PLT 12.48 7 Each of these talents is born to be
unfolded and set at work for
the use and delight of men...
PLT 12.50 21 The excess of individualism, when it is
not...subordinated to
the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones,
men of one idea...
PLT 12.51 3 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of
one idea...
PLT 12.52 22 ...to arrange general reflections in their
natural order...this
continuity is for the great. The wonderful men are wonderful hereby.
PLT 12.54 3 ...without the violence of direction that
men have...no
excitement, no efficiency.
PLT 12.54 4 ...without the violence of direction that
men have, without
bigots, without men of fixed idea, no excitement, no efficiency.
PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a
settled despair as to the
realization of ideas in their own time.
PLT 12.55 27 The right partisan is a heady man,
who...sees some one thing
with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or
objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers,
deal with their
thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
PLT 12.61 26 Lovers of men are as safe as the sun.
PLT 12.63 16 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity
chiefly as a better eye-glass
to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us
like perfumes from a
far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting
ourselves
on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands,
creating men and methods...
II 12.66 13 All men are, in respect to this source of
truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
II 12.69 27 Here are we with...the spontaneous
impressions of Nature and
men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be
set
aglow.
II 12.70 9 Even those we call great men build
substructures...
II 12.71 3 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears
in new men...
II 12.72 26 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be
screened from the
evil influences of trade by force of money.
II 12.74 13 ...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.
II 12.79 15 All men are inspirable.
II 12.80 18 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of
thought. The whole
world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle,
which
distributes men.
II 12.80 27 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where
is no food, and it
thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil
by
shedding its leaves. Not less are the arts and institutions of men
created out
of thought.
II 12.81 10 The men are all drugged with this liquor of
thought...
II 12.81 12 ...the races of men rise out of the ground
preoccupied with a
thought which rules them...
II 12.82 22 [A man] has a facility, which costs him
nothing, to do
somewhat admirable to all men.
II 12.83 17 Many men are very slow in finding their
vocation.
II 12.83 24 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in
finding their
vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the
presumption
of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
II 12.84 9 ...men are best and most by themselves...
II 12.84 13 Men go through the world each musing on a
great fable
dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.
II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to
make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is
going forward in their
private theatre;...
II 12.85 8 Is there only one courage, one gratitude,
one benevolence? No, but as many as there are men.
II 12.85 11 I think the reason why men fail in their
conflicts is because they
wear other armor than their own.
II 12.86 8 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously
whither. To follow it is
thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality,
to
individualism? Follow it still.
II 12.86 23 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the
tree, exhausted and presently blown away. Men likewise, they put their
lives into their deed.
II 12.88 3 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a
more stringent creed
than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had
recourse.
II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous
biographies...of men and of
women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.
II 12.88 23 ...there is a religion which...is
worshipped and pronounced with
emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men...have run mad
for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
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 17 The memory plays a great part in settling
the intellectual
rank of men.
Mem 12.95 24 ...the power [of memory] exists in some
marked and
eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
Mem 12.96 13 In the minds of most men memory is nothing
but a farm-book
or a pocket-diary.
Mem 12.96 23 This thread or order of remembering, this
classification, distributes men...
Mem 12.98 15 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory,
these docked men
whom we behold.
Mem 12.100 6 ...men of great presence of mind...do not
need to rely on
what they have stored for use...
Mem 12.100 13 ...it is remarked that inventive men have
bad memories.
Mem 12.102 1 Who, [can judge] the new man? He that has
seen men.
Mem 12.102 15 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most
thoughtful men when
I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought
and
felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that
have
been published in a century.
Mem 12.105 3 The memory of all men is robust on the
subject of a debt
due to them...
CInt 12.117 11 Few men wish to know how the thing
really stands...
CInt 12.117 14 Few men wish to know how the thing
really stands, what is
the law of it without reference to persons. Other men are victims of
their
means...
CInt 12.117 16 Two men cannot converse together on any
topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
CInt 12.117 22 I presently know whether my companion
has...more hope
for men or less...
CInt 12.119 23 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how...to enchant
men so that their will and purpose is in abeyance...
CInt 12.121 7 Men are as they think.
CInt 12.121 10 ...the man who knows any truth not yet
discerned by other
men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide
relations are
concerned.
CInt 12.121 11 ...the man who knows any truth not yet
discerned by other
men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide
relations are
concerned.
CInt 12.121 25 ...in the class called intellectual the
men are no better than
the uninstructed.
CInt 12.122 12 Men are ashamed of their intellect.
CInt 12.122 17 [A man] looks at all men as his
representatives...
CInt 12.123 3 [The Understanding] is the power which
the world of men
adopt and educate.
CInt 12.123 24 ...the idea of a college is an assembly
of such men, obedient
each to this pure light [of thought]...
CInt 12.124 19 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some
available
plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
CInt 12.127 14 You all well know...the facility with
which men renounce
their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too
high for
me;...
CInt 12.130 8 If I had young men to reach, I should say
to them, Keep the
intellect sacred.
CInt 12.131 11 ...the men and women of your time...are
the interrogators.
CInt 12.131 25 ...old men cannot see the powers of
society...passing, or
soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an
earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
CL 12.135 21 ...Nature has impressed on savage men
periodical or secular
impulses to emigrate...
CL 12.139 10 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows,
or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes,
Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.141 1 The power of the air was the first
explanation offered by the
early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
CL 12.141 23 In the English universities, the reading
men are daily
performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...
CL 12.142 8 Few men know how to take a walk.
CL 12.149 5 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), long-armed,
good-looking
Aswins!...guides of men, harness your car!
CL 12.150 8 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for
use...whilst white men
have theirs also for talking purposes.
CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with
music; and all men become poets...
CL 12.154 12 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes
old continents, and
builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and
performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the
races of
men over the surface...
CL 12.155 1 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he
preferred the Strand to
the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience of
imaginative
men...
CL 12.155 1 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he
preferred the Strand to
the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience...of men
with
good eyes and susceptible organizations.
CL 12.155 20 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I
[Linnaeus], a youth
of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men,
one
fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the
road...
CL 12.155 24 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than
seventy years old put
their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.
CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide
country...reinstates us
wronged men in our rights.
CL 12.158 19 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take
a walk...
CL 12.158 23 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many men
begin with
good resolution, but they do not hold out...
CL 12.165 6 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the
foldings of the
yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he
means
men and women.
CW 12.169 1 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of
close, low pine-woods
in a river town;/...
CW 12.169 6 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor
Rome, nor joyful
Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath
such a
soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As
is to
me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and
beneath/
Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
CW 12.171 22 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good
and true neighbors I was buying, men of thought and virtue...
CW 12.172 3 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...and...other men not known widely but known at home,
farmers...
CW 12.177 16 [Walking] is the consolation of mortal
men.
CW 12.177 18 ...physicians or naturalists are the only
professional men
who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
Bost 12.184 2 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and
opinion of the
Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that
all
take a Hindoo tint.
Bost 12.184 19 Even at this day men are to be found
superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special
powers
attach...
Bost 12.185 3 There is great testimony of
discriminating persons to the
effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a
longing in men there to live and there to die.
Bost 12.186 2 What Vasari said...of the republican city
of Florence might
be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully
generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession;...
Bost 12.186 5 What Vasari said...of the republican city
of Florence might
be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully
generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession;
whereby
all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not
remain in
the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like
themselves...
Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or
Merrimac water is more
clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the
men
that drink it get up earlier...
Bost 12.188 16 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of
principle...
Bost 12.191 13 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
Bost 12.191 20 The planters of Massachusetts do not
appear to have been
hardy men...
Bost 12.194 22 These men [Christian writers] are a
bridge to us between
the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men...send out their
perfumed breath across
the great tracts of time.
Bost 12.196 14 New England lies in the cold and hostile
latitude, which by
shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of
the
year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to
external
nature;...
Bost 12.200 12 There are always men ready for
adventures...
Bost 12.202 19 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the
officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the
men
who are never contented and never to be contented with the work
actually
accomplished...
Bost 12.202 23 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the
officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the
theorists
and extremists...these men will work and watch and rally...
Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom
that grew here [in
Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor
which
consumed all opposition...
Bost 12.204 10 When [Nature] has work to do, she
qualifies men for that...
Bost 12.204 22 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion,
the Emancipator; Religion which teaches equality of all men in view of
the spirit which
created man.
Bost 12.205 15 ...good men are as the green plain of
the earth is...the
foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
Bost 12.206 4 When men saw that these people [of
Boston], besides their
industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and
live here.
MAng1 12.215 1 Few lives of eminent men are
harmonious;...
MAng1 12.216 6 Above all men whose history we know,
Michael Angelo
presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
MAng1 12.218 19 In relation to this element of Beauty,
the minds of men
divide themselves into two classes.
MAng1 12.218 20 ...all men have an organization
corresponding more or
less to the entire system of Nature...
MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of
undoubted ability always
awakens the liveliest interest;...
MAng1 12.227 19 ...not only was this discoverer of
Beauty [Michelangelo], and its teacher among men, rooted and grounded
in those
severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he
was one
of the most industrious men that ever lived.
MAng1 12.227 23 ...[Michelangelo] was one of the most
industrious men
that ever lived.
MAng1 12.232 21 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own
mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.
MAng1 12.233 16 ...let no man suppose...that this
profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of
superficial beauty. To
him, of all men, it was transparent.
MAng1 12.235 1 When the Pope suggested to him that the
[Sistine] chapel
would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael
Angelo replied...the characters I have painted were...holy men, with
whom
gold was an object of contempt.
MAng1 12.238 18 Michael Angelo was of that class of men
who are too
superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect
sympathy.
MAng1 12.238 23 It has been the defect of some great
men that they did
not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of
others...
Milt1 12.252 4 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing
place in the mind of
men at this hour than ever before.
Milt1 12.253 14 It is the prerogative of this great man
[Milton] to stand at
this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
Milt1 12.253 16 It is the prerogative of this great man
[Milton] to stand at
this hour foremost of all men in literary history, and so (shall we not
say?) of all men, in the power to inspire.
Milt1 12.254 1 Milton stands erect...still visible as a
man among men...
Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few
men ever, possessed
so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
Milt1 12.256 3 ...the idea of a purer existence than
any he saw around him, to be realized in the life and conversation of
men, inspired every act and
every writing of John Milton.
Milt1 12.256 13 [Milton] declared that he who would
aspire to write well
hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not
presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless
he
have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is
praiseworthy.
Milt1 12.258 7 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton]
doubts whether, in the
fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
Milt1 12.258 21 [Milton's] house was resorted to by men
of wit...
Milt1 12.260 5 Very early in life [Milton] became
conscious that he had
more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
Milt1 12.260 19 The world, no doubt, contains many of
that class of men
whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
Milt1 12.262 17 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind,
because in him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in
him humanity
rights itself;...
Milt1 12.264 25 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 winter, often ere the sound
of any
bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
Milt1 12.266 5 Few men could be cited who have so well
understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...
Milt1 12.266 8 Few men could be cited who have so well
understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it
has
brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of
spiritual laws...
Milt1 12.270 6 [Milton] told the Parliament that the
imprimaturs of
Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the
language of
men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not
easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
Milt1 12.276 6 Shall we say that in our admiration and
joy in these
wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of
regret that the men knew not what they did;...
Milt1 12.279 4 ...are not all men fortified by the
remembrance of the
bravery...of this man [Milton]...
ACri 12.287 9 ...all able men have known how to import
the petulance of
the street into correct discourse.
ACri 12.288 11 ...some men swear with genius.
ACri 12.288 16 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a
poet in whose
talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses
were
pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it
reminds
one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque
peak...
ACri 12.289 3 We were educated in horror of Satan, but
Goethe remarked
that all men like to hear him named.
ACri 12.289 22 Goethe, who had collected all the
diabolical hints in men
and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of
collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
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;...
ACri 12.299 12 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] withal a book that is
a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners
of
modern times.
ACri 12.299 19 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
ACri 12.303 2 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in
the history of every mind
by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor
or
belief.
MLit 12.310 26 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books for which
men and women peak and pine;...
MLit 12.314 24 ...small men introduce us always to
themselves.
MLit 12.317 9 ...the street seems to be built, and the
men and women in it
moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very
short
and sordid ones.
MLit 12.317 19 There are facts on which men of the
world superciliously
smile, which are worth all their trade and politics;...
MLit 12.317 21 There are facts...which drive young men
into gardens and
solitary places...
MLit 12.322 10 ...of all men he who has united in
himself...the tendencies
of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
MLit 12.322 24 ...a thousand men seemed to look through
[Goethe's] eyes.
MLit 12.322 25 [Goethe] learned as readily as other men
breathe.
MLit 12.322 26 Of all the men of this time, not one has
seemed so much at
home in it as [Goethe].
MLit 12.327 12 In these days and in this
country...where men read easy
books and sleep after dinner, it seems as if no book could so safely be
put in
the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the
incessant
activity of this man...
MLit 12.327 15 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book
could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of
Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
MLit 12.328 12 ...that we may not seem to dodge the
question which all
men ask...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and
influence of this genius [Goethe].
MLit 12.329 1 All great men have written proudly...
MLit 12.329 9 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself:
There are poets
enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of
dreams, it
will still appear and reappear to wise men.
MLit 12.329 15 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
I have given my
characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
MLit 12.330 17 I find there [in Wilhelm Meister] actual
men and women
even too faithfully painted.
MLit 12.333 10 When one of these grand monads is
incarnated whom
Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think
that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily
life will
now end...
MLit 12.333 25 ...all the hints of omnipresence and
energy which we have
caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And
this is
the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at
this
day.
MLit 12.336 1 [The Genius of the time] will
describe...the now unbelieved
possibility...of clean and noble relations with men.
WSL 12.342 5 From the moment of entering a library and
opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
WSL 12.342 13 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual
life [a library] must
appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born
with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
WSL 12.343 5 Whatever can make for itself...the most
profound and
permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must
have a
reason for its being.
WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth and
beauty...belongs
to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have
a
better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
WSL 12.345 14 What is the quality of the persons who,
without being
public men, or literary men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in
all our
life's history...
WSL 12.345 15 What is the quality of the persons who,
without being
public men, or literary men, or rich men, or active men...have a
certain
salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who,
without being
public men...or (in the popular sense) religious men, have a certain
salutary
omnipresence in all our life's history...
WSL 12.345 25 ...though [character] may be resisted at
any time, yet
resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty
relation
to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their
conscience.
Pray 12.350 10 Pythagoras said that the time when men
were honestest is
when they present themselves before the gods.
Pray 12.350 23 Let us...have the prayers...of men in
all ages and religions
who have prayed well.
Pray 12.351 2 Many men have contributed a single
expression, a single
word to the language of devotion...
Pray 12.351 8 Among the remains of Euripides we have
this prayer: Thou
God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...
Pray 12.354 1 If but this tedious battle could be
fought,/ Like Sparta's
heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/
The
spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
Pray 12.355 19 I thank thee...especially for him who
brought me so perfect
a type of thy goodness and love to men.
Pray 12.355 25 Let these few scattered leaves, which a
chance (as men say, but which to us shall be holy) brought under our
eye nearly at the same
moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions
[prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
AgMs 12.360 22 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was
written for the literary
men.
AgMs 12.362 18 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he
never got rich by his
skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
AgMs 12.362 22 The way in which men who have farms grow
rich is either
by other resources, or by trade...
AgMs 12.363 5 The true men of skill, the poor
farmers...are the only right
subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
EurB 12.368 21 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and
Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least
attempt...to
show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet
Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to
the
country life...
EurB 12.370 26 ...[modern painters] will not paint for
their times, agitated
by the spirit which agitates their country; so should their picture
picture us, and draw all men after them;...
EurB 12.373 7 We have heard it alleged with some
evidence that the
prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved
a
main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England
and
America.
EurB 12.377 13 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far
the most agreeable
and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are
the
readers and victims.
EurB 12.377 26 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an
Iliad any rainy
morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women, though the greatest
and fairest, are stupid things;...
PPr 12.379 7 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples
honestly with the facts
lying before all men...
PPr 12.379 15 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the
book of a powerful and
accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful
political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much
on
these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn
to a
scholar's house...
PPr 12.380 18 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent,
and so
hits all other men...
PPr 12.382 6 It is not by sitting still at a grand
distance and calling the
human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
PPr 12.383 3 It requires great courage in a man of
letters to handle the
contemporary practical questions; not because he then has all men for
his
rivals, but because of the infinite entanglements of the problem...
PPr 12.386 3 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive
and more credible
than the sanity of duller men.
PPr 12.388 26 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand
arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for
expressing those unproven
opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of
his
men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or
Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
Let 12.396 13 It is not for nothing...that sincere
persons of all parties are
demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How
fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed, how
swiftly shrinking from the examination of practical men, let us not
lose the
warning of that most significant dream.
Let 12.396 21 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve
society] has always made
its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it
does not
remain a detached object...
Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of
the position of young
men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
Let 12.398 1 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on
young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college
education...
Let 12.398 21 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe;...
Let 12.399 18 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record
of...so much power without equal applicability, as our young men
pretend
to.
Let 12.401 20 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes
like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and
great, and
it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people...
Let 12.401 24 ...where the divine nature and the artist
is crushed...every
other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...
Let 12.402 19 In all the cases we have ever seen where
people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men said, from a blade too
sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they had not wit enough.
Let 12.403 16 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the
proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which,
driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go
to
work on the land;...
Trag 12.405 5 The conversation of men is a mixture of
regrets and
apprehensions.
Trag 12.406 11 Men and women at thirty years, and even
earlier, have lost
all spring and vivacity...
Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and
mistakes, darken the
brow and chill the heart of men.
Trag 12.410 23 Some men are above grief, and some below
it.
Trag 12.412 22 There is a fire in some men which
demands an outlet in
some rude action;...
Trag 12.414 2 If a man is centred, men and events
appear to him a fair
image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.
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