Metonomy [Metonymy] to Mina
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
metonomy [metonymy], n. (1)
ACri 12.300 14 All conversation, as all literature,
appears to me the
pleasure of rhetoric, or, I may say, of metonomy.
Metonomy [metonymy], n. (1)
ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what the
books call
Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
metonymy, n. (2)
PI 8.15 15 ...it is the use of life to learn metonymy.
PI 8.25 1 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in
things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
metre, n. (11)
Pt1 3.9 2 ...we do not speak now of men...of industry
and skill in metre...
UGM 4.18 5 The perception of these laws [of identity
and of reaction] is a
kind of metre of the mind.
ShP 4.195 26 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and
know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene
with
Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare...the lines are
constructed on a given tune...
ET9 5.148 16 A man's personal defects will commonly
have, with the rest
of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If
he
makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a
convenient
metre of character...
ET14 5.256 3 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle
through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
PI 8.46 16 Metre begins with pulse-beat...
PI 8.49 18 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt
conventional metre...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out
of conventionality...
PI 8.49 21 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be
at once lifted out of
conventionality, and will modify the metre.
PI 8.52 10 The best thoughts run into the best words;
imaginative and
affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
Shak1 11.448 20 [Shakespeare] is our metre of culture.
PPr 12.391 16 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too
burly in his frame and
habit to submit to the limits of metre.
Metre, Short Particular, n. (1)
Bost 12.201 25 There is a little formula...I 'm as good
as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the
American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung...in
every note of Old Hundred and Hallelujah and Short Particular Metre.
metre-making, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.9 25 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a
poem...
metres, n. (9)
Pt1 3.9 25 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a
poem...
Pt1 3.38 6 ...[America] will not wait long for metres.
UGM 4.34 9 For a time our teachers serve us personally,
as metres or
milestones of progress.
PI 8.23 25 The senses imprison us, and we help them
with metres as
limitary...
PI 8.46 20 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the
common English
metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
PI 8.46 23 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the
common English
metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
PI 8.49 14 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with
grander pairs and
alternations, and will require an equal expansion in his metres.
PI 8.49 15 There is under the seeming poverty of metres
an infinite
variety...
PI 8.49 19 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt
conventional metre, as
the...one of the fixed lyric metres) will by any sprightliness be at
once lifted
out of conventionality...
metrical, adj. (5)
PI 8.53 22 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every
fact:--the clouds
clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this
treatment
always attempts a metrical grace.
PPo 8.253 16 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's]
poetic flourishes the
metrical form which they seem to require...
Milt1 12.277 22 The lover of Milton reads one sense in
his prose and in his
metrical compositions;...
Pray 12.354 3 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form.
EurB 12.370 5 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of
this writer [Tennyson]...his metrical skill...discriminate the musky
poet of gardens and
conservatories...
Metrical Romances [George (1)
Boks 7.206 23 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Ellis's Metrical Romances...
metropolis, n. (3)
LLNE 10.363 20 There [at Brook Farm] was the
accomplished Doctor of
Music [John S. Dwight], who has presided over its literature ever since
in
our metropolis.
HDC 11.47 8 He is ill informed who expects, on running
down the [New
England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of
patriots...
Bost 12.190 14 ...Dr. Mather writes of
[Boston]...within a few years after
the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English
America.
metropolitan, adj. (5)
LT 1.263 20 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of
order here in
Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
GoW 4.271 21 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany
played no such
leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons
with
any metropolitan pride...
CbW 6.278 19 The secret of culture is to learn that a
few great points
steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in
the
miscellany of metropolitan life...
Boks 7.204 13 I like to be beholden to the great
metropolitan English
speech...
Clbs 7.247 23 ...it was explained to me, in a Southern
city, that it was
impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern
dinner. I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same
necessity;...
Metternich, Klemens Lothar (2)
LT 1.268 12 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full
justice to the side
of conservatism.
F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a
few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Metternich...and the
rest.
Metternich, Klemens Wenzel (4)
LLNE 10.347 13 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great
generosity the
acts of...Prince Metternich...
FSLC 11.204 24 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but
it means as much
from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand.
FRep 11.514 20 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions
begin in the best
heads and run steadily down to the populace.
FRep 11.514 23 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions
begin in the best
heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old
observation; not truer because Metternich said it...
mettle, n. (2)
ET4 5.61 12 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in
the tenth and
eleventh centuries, and was the receptacle into which all the mettle of
that
strenuous population was poured.
ET6 5.102 4 [The English] have in themselves what they
value in their
horses,--mettle and bottom.
Meudon, France, n. (1)
Elo1 7.65 26 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets
have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin...or that of the minstrel of Meudon...
Meung [Meun], John of, n. (1)
ShP 4.198 3 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious
translation from
William of Lorris and John of Meung...
Mexican, adj. (3)
Art1 2.353 20 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to
have been held and
guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the
human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese
and Mexican idols...
Pow 6.63 22 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's
Mexican war
were not those who knew better...
CPL 11.502 5 It was the symbolical custom of the
ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the
sun...
Mexican, n. (1)
ET5 5.96 16 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican,
bandannas for
the Hindoo...
Mexicans, n. (1)
CInt 12.118 21 We should not think it much to beat
Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
Mexico, Gulf of, n. (2)
ACiv 11.298 15 In every house, from Canada to the Gulf,
the children ask
the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
ACiv 11.306 13 There does exist, perhaps, a popular
will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole
breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf.
Mexico, n. (5)
Hist 2.11 7 ...all curiosity respecting...Mexico...is
the desire to do away this
wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and
Trafalgar beaten out
thin;...
Pow 6.63 16 Men expect from good whigs put into office
by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with
Mexico...than
from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
Pow 6.69 2 The roisters who are destined for infamy at
home, if sent to
Mexico will cover you with glory...
FSLN 11.231 1 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
knew Cuba would
be had, and Mexico would be had...
Mexicos, n. (2)
F 6.32 17 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a
thousand years in
yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands, a hundred Mexicos.
F 6.32 19 ...more than Mexicos...are awaiting you.
Meyer, Hans Heinrich, n. (1)
Chr1 3.104 4 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has
written memoirs
of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a
pension
for Meyer...
miasma, n. (3)
PerF 10.75 20 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the
garden...the miasma out
of the town.
SovE 10.190 25 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious
elements, her deluges miasma, disease, poison;...
FSLC 11.201 23 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure
and private who
have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well, but who
feel the
disgrace of the new legislation creeping like miasma into their
homes... disown him...
mice, n. (10)
NR 3.248 15 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I
loved man, if
men seemed to me mice and rats;...
SwM 4.125 27 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to
themselves to be
abiding in cells where their money is deposited, and these to be
infested
with mice.
MoS 4.150 16 Read the haughty language in which Plato
and the Platonists
speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions:
other men are rats and mice.
Pow 6.62 3 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty
trees, which grow
in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the
profligate
swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
Elo1 7.65 25 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets
have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew...rats and mice;...
Imtl 8.348 11 How ill agrees this majestical
immortality of our religion
with the frivolous population! Will you build magnificently for mice?
MoL 10.246 5 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a
Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats and mice
it
will feed.
HDC 11.55 19 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems
to have caused
some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet
summer blighted the corn;...and the crops suffered much from mice.
Bost 12.192 10 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops
suffered from pigeons
and mice.
MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and
night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.
Michaelangelo, n. (5)
PC 8.218 17 Some Dante or Angelo...is always allowed.
II 12.86 17 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings
till he can no longer
read, except by holding the book over his head.
Mem 12.105 9 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a
work of any other
artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make
use of
any portion thereof, he could do so...
CInt 12.114 10 Michael Angelo gave himself to art...
MAng1 12.238 1 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to
Michelangelo], before
your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright
in it
very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then,
returned
Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.
Michael's, St., n. (1)
Wth 6.108 9 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a
shilling, it costs a shilling to
raise it.
Michael's, St., Square, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.144 23 Another mode [of winning a place in
fashion] is to pass
through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's
Square...
Michelangelo Buonarotti, n. (1)
PC 8.216 20 Michel Angelo was the conscience of Italy.
Michelangelo, Life of [Gior (1)
Boks 7.206 4 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets
and Letters
must be read, with his Life by Vasari, or, in our day, by Hermann
Grimm.
Michelangelo, n. (44)
PC 8.219 17 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and
Raffaelle is
thinking of Michel Angelo.
Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him
that his constant
labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he
said;...
Bost 12.197 22 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante, Michael
Angelo
and Milton;...
MAng1 12.215 4 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo
Buonarotti agree
together.
MAng1 12.216 7 Above all men whose history we know,
Michael Angelo
presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
MAng1 12.217 6 This truth, that perfect beauty and
perfect goodness are
one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
MAng1 12.219 11 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but a
document or
verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].
MAng1 12.220 11 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a
toilsome
observation of Nature.
MAng1 12.221 12 When Michael Angelo would begin a
statue, he made
first on paper the skeleton;...
MAng1 12.222 19 Not easily in this age will any man
acquire by himself
such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the
student
of art owes to...the paintings and statues of Michael Angelo...
MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste which
led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed
figures...
MAng1 12.223 13 ...it is an essential fact in the
history of Michael Angelo
that his love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep
understanding
of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.224 3 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to
superintend the erection of the necessary works.
MAng1 12.224 15 On the 24th of October, 1529, the
Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills
surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw
up a rampart to storm the
bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of
Michael Angelo.
MAng1 12.224 15 Michael [Angelo] made such good
resistance that the
Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San
Miniato].
MAng1 12.224 25 After an active and successful service
to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a
treachery that
was ripening within the walls.
MAng1 12.225 13 Michael Angelo is represented as having
ordered his
defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was
compelled to retire.
MAng1 12.225 23 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted
by Pope Paul
III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
MAng1 12.226 10 Michael Angelo made known his opinion
that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the
current;...
MAng1 12.226 22 ...besides the sublimity and even
extravagance of
Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute
mechanical contrivances.
MAng1 12.226 27 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo,
the pope's
architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be
repaired
in the picture.
MAng1 12.227 5 Michael [Angelo] removed the whole, and
constructed a
movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine
Chapel].
MAng1 12.232 8 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the
times of Michael
Angelo.
MAng1 12.234 25 When the Pope suggested to him that the
[Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with
gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the
characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
MAng1 12.235 11 Michael Angelo, who believed in his own
ability as a
sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused
[to build
St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
MAng1 12.236 5 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one
hundred crowns
of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was
accustomed to work
at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he
stuck a
candle...
MAng1 12.238 6 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles]
after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo
refused to receive
them.
MAng1 12.238 7 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles]
after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo
refused to receive
them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles
have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
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 12.239 5 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's
pictures that when
they were first painted they must have been alive.
MAng1 12.239 25 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy
to say, Only an
inventor can use the inventions of others.
MAng1 12.240 23 Condivi, his friend, has left this
testimony; I have often
heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard
him
speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
MAng1 12.241 11 An eloquent vindication of
[Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the
Italian scholar, in the
Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...
MAng1 12.242 4 In conversing upon this subject [death]
with one of his
friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve
that
one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no
restoration.
MAng1 12.242 7 In conversing upon this subject [death]
with one of his
friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve
that
one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no
restoration. No, replied Michael, it is nothing;...
MAng1 12.242 14 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]
that a man ought
not to smile, when all those around him weep;...
MAng1 12.243 14 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you
see that statue of Saint
George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.
MAng1 12.243 16 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do
you see this fine church of
Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
MAng1 12.243 20 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ...
Look at these bronze gates of
the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael
Angelo
said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
MAng1 12.244 9 There [in Santa Croce]...stands the
monument of Michael
Angelo Buonarotti.
MAng1 12.244 18 The traveller from a distant continent,
who gazes on that
marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in
the
foreign church; for the great name of Michael Angelo sounds hospitably
in
his ear.
Milt1 12.259 14 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was
sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael
Angelo and Correggio;...
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an
artist, whose hands can
execute what his mind has conceived.
Michelangelo's, n. (4)
MAng1 12 226 8 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons
Palatinus] was taken
from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays
but
a pitiful part in Michael's history.
MAng1 12.239 4 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works
is to this day
the stamp of fame.
MAng1 12.239 24 It is more commendation to say, This
was Michael
Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
MAng1 12.240 2 There is yet one more trait in Michael
Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its
loftiness; this is his
platonic love.
Michelet, Jules, n. (1)
FRO1 11.479 6 Read in Michelet, that in Europe, for
twelve or fourteen
centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
Michigan, adj. (1)
CbW 6.256 24 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared
with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish
capitalists
who built the...Michigan...roads;...
Michigan, n. (2)
Wth 6.86 17 A clever fellow was acquainted with the
expansive force of
steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.
Wth 6.86 21 The steam puffs and expands as before, but
this time it is
dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry
England.
micis, n. (1)
SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/
Aurum, et de terris
terram concrescere parvis;/...
microcosm, n. (3)
Nat 1.43 14 Each particle is a microcosm...
PNR 4.86 24 [Plato] domesticates the soul in nature:
man is the microcosm.
SwM 4.113 16 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces
[Swedenborg'
s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus, that the atom
may
be known by the mass; or, in Plato, the macrocosm by the microcosm;...
microscope, n. (13)
Comp 2.101 20 The microscope cannot find the animalcule
which is less
perfect for being little.
UGM 4.30 3 The microscope observes a monad or
wheel-insect among the
infusories circulating in water.
SwM 4.104 24 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing
for scalpel or
microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a
dimple as firmly as
he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will bear the scrutiny
of the
solar microscope.
ET15 5.261 12 A relentless inquisition [the
newspaper]...turns the glare of
this solar microscope on every malfaisance...
WD 7.183 2 ...[the savant] is on stilts at a
microscope...
Insp 8.270 5 The aboriginal man...in the dim lights of
Darwin's
microscope, is not an engaging figure.
Thor 10.467 16 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used, more
important to him
than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim
which grew on him by indulgence...
Thor 10.469 23 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old
music-book to
press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds, microscope,
jack-knife
and twine.
Thor 10.471 15 [Thoreau] saw as with microscope...
War 11.154 20 The microscope reveals miniature butchery
in atomies and
infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of
water;...
FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this
sort of solar
microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition
less.
EurB 12.366 3 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the
Dante...have...the eye to
see...the test-objects of the microscope...
microscopes, n. (7)
AmS 1.104 14 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek
a temporary peace
by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed
questions...peeping
into microscopes...
GoW 4.272 21 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this
plague of
microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
GoW 4.274 27 Eyes are better on the whole than
telescopes or microscopes.
ET1 5.8 27 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown
me his
microscopes...
Bty 6.282 25 The human heart concerns us more than the
poring into
microscopes...
AsSu 11.250 8 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their
eyes like
microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to
find a flaw...
CL 12.160 9 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature]
shows every fact
in large bodies somewhere.
microscopic, adj. (5)
Nat 1.60 11 ...the soul holds itself off from a too
trivial and microscopic
study of the universal tablet.
PPh 4.46 25 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become
microscopic...
GoW 4.287 19 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an
artist. Was it...that
his sight was microscopic...
Wth 6.116 19 Sir David Brewster gives exact
instructions for microscopic
observation...
Plu 10.306 22 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is
wanting, the student is
prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
mid, adj. (1)
PPh 4.60 5 What moderation and understatement and
checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
midday, n. (1)
LLNE 10.344 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared
in the last
moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
middle, adj. (26)
LE 1.155 8 I have reached the middle age of man;...
LT 1.267 5 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions!
he is now
reduced almost to the middle height;...
SL 2.138 9 Every man sees that he is that middle point
whereof every thing
may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
Exp 3.62 16 The middle region of our being is the
temperate zone.
Pol1 3.212 22 There is a middle measure which satisfies
all parties...
NER 3.251 4 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance
with society in
New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and
those
leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the
character
and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity
of
thought and experimenting.
MoS 4.155 1 The abstractionist and the materialist thus
mutually
exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of
materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground
between
these two, the skeptic, namely.
NMW 4.224 17 The instinct of active, brave, able men,
throughout the
middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate
Democrat.
NMW 4.239 25 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates
discover the
information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
NMW 4.252 13 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of
the middle class of
modern society;...
NMW 4.253 5 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men
every where, which
pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's]
history
bright and commanding.
ET2 5.25 8 The occasion of my second visit to England
was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in
1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty
towns
and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and
northward
into Scotland.
ET4 5.69 6 [The English] have a vigorous health and
last well into middle
and old age.
ET6 5.107 15 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his
house. If he is rich, he
buys a demesne and builds a hall; if he is in middle condition, he
spares no
expense on his house.
ET10 5.163 7 ...all that can succor the talent or arm
the hands of the
intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
ET11 5.196 11 ...advantages once confined to men of
family are now open
to the whole middle class.
ET11 5.197 22 Whilst the privileges of nobility are
passing to the middle
class [in England], the badge is discredited...
ET18 5.303 4 [The English people's] many-headedness is
owing to the
advantageous position of the middle class...
CbW 6.259 26 ...all great men come out of the middle
classes.
Aris 10.31 20 [The best young men] do not yet covet
political power...nor
do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but the middle
term...they
find in the idea of gentleman.
LLNE 10.361 2 There was no doubt great variety of
character and purpose
in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main
of
young people-few of middle age, and none old.
RBur 11.440 4 ...Robert Burns, the poet of the middle
class, represents in
the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
RBur 11.440 6 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind
of men to-day that
great uprising of the middle class...
FRep 11.529 11 The government...knows the leading men
in the middle
class...
Bost 12.209 2 What public souls have lived here [in
Boston]...and where is
the middle class so able, virtuous and instructed?
Trag 12.415 13 A tender American girl doubts of Divine
Providence whilst
she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...
Middle Age, n. (6)
Hist 2.34 11 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain
themselves as a
masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of
that
period toiled to achieve.
Pt1 3.37 19 We have yet had no genius in
America...which...saw, in the
barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same
gods
whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then in the Middle Age;...
ET11 5.175 11 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs
of manhood and
devotion.
Boks 7.205 23 There is Dante's poem, to open the
Italian Republics of the
Middle Age;...
Clbs 7.242 21 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in
the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek
and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.
Middle Ages [Henry Hallam] (1)
Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal Institution,
Mr. Hallam's
Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable
outlines.
Middle Ages, n. (8)
GoW 4.271 4 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be
a simple and
comprehensible affair;...
ET4 5.55 18 ...[The Celts] made the best popular
literature of the Middle
Ages...
ET6 5.109 24 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets
of London.
PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark
Ages.
Schr 10.262 23 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be (as the poets
were called in the Middle Ages) Professors of the Joyous Science...
RBur 11.439 20 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.
FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that
one
compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better
than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
Bost 12.193 13 ...these Englishmen [who settled
Massachusetts], with the
Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian
thought.
middle, n. (10)
SL 2.139 19 Place yourself in the middle of the stream
of power and
wisdom...
MoS 4.169 9 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms,
no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the
road.
ET16 5.282 1 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on
Salisbury Plain stretches
across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the
meridian
line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral
is obstructed by
the organ in the middle...
Art2 7.41 9 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a
piece of stronger timber
for the middle of the under-surface...
DL 7.101 1 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which
the incarnate soul
must climb/...
Imtl 8.323 9 The hearth blazes in the middle and a
grateful heat is spread
around...
Plu 10.295 4 In France, in the middle of the most
turbulent civil wars, Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened
general attention.
Thor 10.481 18 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with
special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he
visited every year when it
bloomed, in the middle of July.
HDC 11.64 17 From the beginning to the middle of the
eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the
tranquility of the inhabitants [of
Concord]...
Middle States, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 12 The singularity and latitude of the
summons [to the
Chardon Street Convention] drew together, from all parts of New England
and also from the Middle States, men of every shade of opinion...
middle-aged, adj. (2)
Thor 10.482 17 The youth gets together his materials to
build a bridge to
the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a
wood-shed
with them.
Bost 12.187 12 In...the farthest colonies...a
middle-aged gentleman is just
embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and
spend his
old age in Paris;...
middle-class, adj. (4)
Ctr 6.155 9 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into
literature...
ALin 11.334 11 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state
was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last.
ALin 11.334 12 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state
was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last.
RBur 11.441 23 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and,
shall I say it? of
middle-class Nature.
Middlesex County, Massachus (1)
HDC 11.55 7 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it
became
expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in
Middlesex.
Middlesex Hotel, Concord, (1)
HDC 11.37 23 It is said that the covenant made with the
Indians...was
made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the
Middlesex
Hotel [Concord].
Middlesex, Massachusetts, ad (1)
SlHr 10.442 15 ...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?
Middlesex, Massachusetts, n. (4)
Farm 7.150 7 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we
did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord,
which we are now
getting the best crops from; a Middlesex under Middlesex;...
SlHr 10.442 6 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar]
was at the head of
the bar in Middlesex...
SlHr 10.443 8 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not
be elected to
Congress a second time from Middlesex.
CL 12.157 6 Can you bring home...the Savin groves of
Middlesex?...
Middlesex Yeoman, n. (1)
EzRy 10.389 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the
columns of his
weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the
Middlesex
Yeoman.
Middleton, Thomas, n. (1)
ShP 4.192 14 The best proof of [the Elizabethan
theatre's] vitality is the
crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow,
Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele,
Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
Midianites, n. (2)
Pol1 3.202 12 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes
them looked after
by an officer on the frontiers, lest the Midianites shall drive them
off;...
Pol1 3.202 15 Jacob has no flocks or herds, and no fear
of the Midianites, and pays no tax to the officer.
midland, adj. (1)
ET4 5.64 25 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime;...
midnight, adj. (8)
Lov1 2.177 5 ...A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/
These are the sounds
we [lovers] feed upon./
Suc 7.290 11 I hate this shallow Americanism which
hopes...to get
knowledge by raps on midnight tables...
PI 8.55 17 Welcome, folded arms and fixed
eyes,/...Midnight walks, when
all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...
PI 8.55 19 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A
midnight bell, a
passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon/...
Imtl 8.337 23 I have seen what glories...of midnight
sky;...
Edc1 10.130 8 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark...
SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral
stoops,/ No winding
torches paint the midnight air;/...
MAng1 12.227 25 The midnight battles, the forced
marches, the winter
campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater
strength
of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
midnight, n. (11)
Nat 1.9 14 ...every hour and change [in nature]
corresponds to and
authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to
grimmest
midnight.
Hist 2.18 18 The man who has seen the rising moon break
out of the clouds
at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of
light and
of the world.
Lov1 2.175 23 ...the figures, the motions, the words of
the beloved object... make the study of midnight...
Nat2 3.188 14 Each young and ardent person writes a
diary, in which, when
the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The
pages
thus written are to him burning and fragrant; he reads them on his
knees by
midnight...
Elo1 7.59 7 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../
...though he speak in
midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the
listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
PPo 8.261 1 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce
the day;/ In the ring
of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
Dem1 10.4 17 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by
spectral jokes and
waking suddenly with ghastly laughter, to be rebuked by the cold,
lonely, silent midnight...
EWI 11.114 23 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;...
FSLC 11.182 16 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law]
had the
illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.
MLit 12.311 2 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books which take
the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them, and give him to the
midnight...
Trag 12.411 5 ...a terror of freezing to death that
seizes a man in a winter
midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family
at
night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...
midnights, n. (2)
Insp 8.284 21 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the
sweet muses./
EurB 12.368 9 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn
and on the margin
of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime
midnights for his theme...
mid-noon, n. (1)
Cir 2.301 17 ...there is always another dawn risen on
mid-noon...
mid-plain, n. (1)
WD 7.171 21 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on
which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
midshipman, n. (2)
ET5 5.101 9 The chancellor carries England on his mace,
the midshipman
at the point of his dirk...
Cour 7.262 3 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an
officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...a midshipman in his fourteenth
year, accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the
vessel
we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
midshipmen, n. (1)
Boks 7.215 8 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the
French novel in the
courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
midst, adj. (1)
GoW 4.290 22 The secret of genius is...first, last,
midst and without end, to
honor every truth by use.
midst, n. (20)
YA 1.378 3 [Trade] is now in the midst of its career.
SR 2.54 2 ...the great man is he who in the midst of
the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst
of wild nature...
Chr1 3.109 17 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet
Zertusht, advanced
into the midst of the assembly.
Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst
of the objects of
nature...
NER 3.263 8 In the midst of abuses...wherever, namely,
a just and heroic
soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
UGM 4.24 26 ...in the midst of this chuckle of
self-gratulation, some figure
goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
PPh 4.48 14 In the midst of the sun is the light, in
the midst of the light is
truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the
Vedas.
PPh 4.48 15 In the midst of the sun is the light, in
the midst of the light is
truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the
Vedas.
SwM 4.96 19 ...the soul having heretofore known all,
nothing hinders but
that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of
himself
recover all his ancient knowledge...if he have but courage and faint
not in
the midst of his researches.
Bty 6.291 20 In the midst of a military show and a
festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a
wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made
it describe the
most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the
decorated procession by this startling beauty.
SS 7.6 25 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness
the danger and
vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary
exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but
separate, house and
house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of
angels.
EzRy 10.388 19 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to
call on the
Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general
conversation Mr. Frost came in...
Thor 10.484 27 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should
leave in the midst
his broken task...
LS 11.22 6 In the midst of considerations as to what
Paul thought, and why
he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue
to or
from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
ALin 11.334 18 In the midst of fears and
jealousies...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find
what the people wanted, and how to
obtain that.
Bost 12.197 12 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
Milt1 12.257 27 In the midst of London, [Milton]
seems...to have been
tuned in concord with the order of the world;...
ACri 12.292 25 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...in our
midst;...
AgMs 12.358 17 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest
respect.
midsummer, adj. (5)
LE 1.158 24 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor:
its fragrant
midsummer breath...
Chr1 3.101 4 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has
no more gravity
than in a midsummer pond.
Pow 6.70 20 The luxury of ice is in tropical countries
and midsummer days.
Dem1 10.20 1 [Belief in the demonological] is a
midsummer madness...
EPro 11.319 1 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the
damage of a year
of war.
midsummer, n. (3)
MR 1.255 16 An Arabian poet describes his hero by
saying, Sunshine was
he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
CL 12.140 22 We are very sensible of this [power of the
air], when, in
midsummer, we go to the seashore, or mountains...
CL 12.152 22 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at
midsummer, and send
him, like an Indian, to the sea.
Midsummer Night's Dream [S (1)
PI 8.43 14 Better examples [of poetry] are
Shakspeare's...fairies in the
Midsummer Night's Dream.
Midsummer Night's Dream [W (1)
PLT 12.52 20 ...to arrange general reflections in their
natural order, so that
I shall have one homogeneous piece...a Hamlet, a Midsummer Night's
Dream,-this continuity is for the great.
Midsummer...Dream, A [Wm. (1)
ShP 4.207 13 Can any biography shed light on the
localities into which the
Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
Midsummer-Night's Dream, n. (1)
ShP 4.218 6 ...when the question is, to life and its
materials and its
auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It
is
but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream...
mid-volley, n. (1)
EurB 12.378 17 We must here check our gossip in
mid-volley...
midway, adj. (1)
ET11 5.187 11 [English nobility] is a romance adorning
English life with a
larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy
tales
and poetry.
midway, adv. (1)
ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with
the flattery that
Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
mid-world, n. (1)
Exp 3.64 4 The mid-world is best.
mien, n. (8)
SL 2.149 24 Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how
aristocratic, how
Roman his mien and manners!...
SL 2.150 1 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how Roman his mien
and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your
friend's] mien and action, do
not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
Hsm1 2.258 19 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not
extraordinary. When we see their
air and mien...we admire their superiority;...
ET4 5.53 12 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all
grandeur of mien and
manners;...
Bhr 6.167 15 Little [man] says to [graceful women,
chosen men]/, So
dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of
wit, of
words, of rest./
Bhr 6.169 10 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but
in man she tells it all
the time, by form...mien...
Elo2 8.114 1 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty
of his mien, Nature has
marked her son;...
mieux, adv. (1)
Suc 7.289 6 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes.
might, n. (37)
AmS 1.114 7 ...this confidence in the unsearched might
of man belongs...to
the American Scholar.
MR 1.240 16 Only such persons interest us...who have
stood in the jaws of
need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
LT 1.260 26 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the
sentiment of Love
as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
Con 1.310 5 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British
Constitution, namely that...every interest did by right, or might, or
sleight
get represented;-the same defence is set up for the existing
institutions.
SL 2.129 8 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/
House at once and
architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and
recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
SL 2.143 19 In himself is [a man's] might.
Int 2.328 10 I have been floated into hour...by secret
currents of might and
mind...
Exp 3.77 11 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and
at every
comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.
Mrs1 3.147 13 ...For 't is the eternal law/ That first
in beauty shall be first
in might./
Pol1 3.205 21 ...the attributes of a person, his wit
and his moral energy, will
exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper
force...with
right, or by might.
NMW 4.235 15 Having decided what was to be done,
[Napoleon] did that
with might and main.
GoW 4.289 9 ...compared with any motives on which books
are written in
England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which
belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its
ancient
might and dignity.
ET6 5.103 17 The mechanical might and organization [in
England] requires
in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
F 6.46 9 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it
aright/ For it is warned
too derkely./
Pow 6.72 14 This aboriginal might gives a surprising
pleasure when it
appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
Wth 6.91 20 The manly part is to do with might and main
what you can do.
Civ 7.28 27 That is the way we are strong, by borrowing
the might of the
elements.
Farm 7.144 17 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing
from the ground by
its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
PerF 10.83 22 Every [force] has the might of all...
PerF 10.84 1 ...if you wish to avail yourself of [the
world's energies'] might...you must take their divine direction...
PerF 10.88 11 ...the massive might of ideas is
irresistible at last.
SovE 10.204 18 Luther would cut his hand off sooner
than write theses
against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his
might
the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
MMEm 10.423 23 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might
has laid low
the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
SlHr 10.441 25 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of
putting his statement
with all his might...
LVB 11.96 12 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 6 ...by doing and by omitting to do,
[emancipation] goes
forward. Therefore I will speak,-or, not I, but the might of liberty in
my
weakness.
EWI 11.144 15 ...now, the arrival in the world of such
men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American
humanity. The anti-slavery
of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor
squeamishness and nervousness: the might and the right are here...
FSLN 11.225 18 ...it is the genius and temper of the
man which decides
whether he will stand for right or for might.
JBB 11.266 4 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a
steadfast Yankee
farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
ACiv 11.306 6 We fancy that the endless debate...has
brought the free
states to some conviction...that by concert or by might we must put an
end
to [slavery].
ALin 11.334 20 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought
incessantly with all his might
and all his honesty, laboring to find what the people wanted, and how
to
obtain that.
Wom 11.410 8 ...[women] create [easy circumstances]
with all their might.
Wom 11.426 6 ...there are always a certain number of
passionately loving
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the
endeavor
to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits
best.
PLT 12.54 16 [The tree or the brook] is, with all its
might and main, what it
is...
CL 12.153 5 What freedom of grace has the sea with all
this might!
CL 12.154 5 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of
life, and every sparkle is a
fish. What freedom and grace with all this might!
Milt1 12.266 19 [Milton] celebrates in the martyrs the
unresistible might of
weakness.
mightier, adj. (3)
YA 1.391 12 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are
vehicles of a truth
before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
SwM 4.110 2 What we call gravitation, and fancy
ultimate, is one fork of a
mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
LLNE 10.329 14 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made
the strength of
past ages, mightier than it knew...all gone;...
mightily, adv. (2)
Insp 8.285 12 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to
the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my
lattice,/ Wake me out of
the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
SMC 11.370 27 Being informed that he misunderstood the
order, which
was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George
Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground
manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported,
pleased
the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
mighty, adj. (27)
Nat 1.28 27 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to
extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be...a
little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits...become sublime.
Nat 1.69 20 Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath/
Another to attend
him./
LE 1.172 26 ...nothing is great.-not mighty Homer and
Milton, beside the
infinite Reason.
LE 1.180 25 ...when all tactics had come to an end then
[Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most
formidable soldiers in
nature.
MN 1.221 3 ...Let us worship the mighty and
transcendent Soul.
MR 1.239 15 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing
heart, which the
father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
Fdsp 2.215 17 ...I know well I shall mourn always the
vanishing of my
mighty gods.
Cir 2.311 6 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by
mighty symbols
which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
Pt1 3.14 21 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits,
in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual
perceptions;...
Exp 3.75 2 I exert the same quality of power in all
places. Thus journeys
the mighty Ideal before us;...
Nat2 3.184 12 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we
can show how all
this mighty order grew.
Nat2 3.194 4 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the
fresh rainbow into the
deep...
ET1 5.15 5 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid
desolate heathery
hills, where the lonely scholar [Carlyle] nourished his mighty heart.
ET10 5.166 9 Such as we have seen is the wealth of
England; a mighty
mass...
Ill 6.316 9 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly
with us...insinuates
into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
Elo2 8.124 5 In social converse with the mighty dead of
ancient days, you
will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty
living of the present age.
Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead of
ancient days, you
will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty
living of the present age.
Res 8.153 8 When I see in these brave plants [the
willows] this vigor and
immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in
observing
the mighty law of vegetation...
Comc 8.166 9 This precious brother having slain,/ In
times of peace, an
Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an
infidel),/ The
mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
PerF 10.69 20 ...show [a man] what mighty allies and
helpers he has.
PerF 10.83 1 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to
[the susceptible man] and become property...
SovE 10.194 13 [Good men] do not see that particulars
are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work;
that in the moment
when they desist from interference, these particulars...become the
language
of mighty principles.
JBS 11.279 8 Our farmers were Orthodox Calvinists,
mighty in the
Scriptures;...
Koss 11.398 1 The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust
the sound of liberty./
CInt 12.111 3 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of
nature reconciled-/
Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
CInt 12.112 1 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when
they sing,/ And now
I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of
genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the
universe/
From God's adoring lover./
Let 12.398 8 [American youths] are in the state of the
young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and
said, Behold the
signs of evil days are come;...
mighty, adv. (1)
Elo1 7.84 10 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he
spoke indeed
excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played
with
it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty
pretty.
migrate, v. (3)
Ill 6.318 16 Yonder mountain must migrate into your
mind.
Edc1 10.131 19 Yonder mountain must migrate into
[man's] mind.
CL 12.161 20 By what compass the geese steer, and the
herring migrate, we would so gladly know.
migrated, v. (1)
ET4 5.61 19 The power of the race migrated and left
Norway void.
migration, n. (1)
Hist 2.30 18 Beside its primary value as the first
chapter of the history of
Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of
the
mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus]
gives the history of religion...
migrations, n. (1)
MMEm 10.405 8 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her
migrations
from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher
with sense or piety, or both.
Mikania scandens, n. (1)
Thor 10.481 15 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with
special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily,-then, the gentian, and
the Mikania scandens...
Milan, Italy, n. (2)
Art1 2.361 27 ...that which I fancied I had left in
Boston was here in the
Vatican, and again at Milan and at Paris...
Boks 7.210 23 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was
heard in the
libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
Milanese, n. (1)
LE 1.162 24 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to
the surrounding
woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
milch-cow, n. (1)
NMW 4.235 21 We like to see every thing do its office
after its kind, whether it be a milch-cow or a rattle-snake;...
mild, adj. (14)
Comp 2.100 14 If the law is too mild, private vengeance
comes in.
NER 3.284 8 ...[man] will learn one day the mild lesson
[gravity and the
globe] teach, that our own orbit is all our task...
ET4 5.67 25 I apply to Britannia...the words in which
her latest novelist
portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she
is
mild.
ET4 5.67 26 I apply to Britannia...the words in which
her latest novelist
portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she
is
mild.
ET8 5.128 10 The English have a mild aspect...
ET8 5.129 15 [The English] are contradictorily
described as sour, splenetic
and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
ET15 5.265 17 I went one day with a good friend to The
[London] Times
office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in
Printing-House
Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a
powder-mill; but the door was opened by a mild old woman...
CbW 6.270 14 For remedy, while the case [of the
blockhead] is yet mild, I
recommend phlegm and truth;...
DL 7.121 12 [The eager, blushing boys] pine for freedom
from that mild
parental yoke;...
Thor 10.472 1 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born
among Indians, would
have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture,
he
played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
FSLN 11.216 2 We that had loved him so, followed him,
honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his
great language, caught
his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
PLT 12.6 24 ...if [the student] finds at first with
some alarm how
impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild
sectarian
may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave
to
meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
CInt 12.111 6 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of
nature reconciled-/
Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
EurB 12.378 1 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad
any rainy
morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things;
but
a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are
themes
for Olympus.
milder, adj. (6)
Con 1.307 9 We wrought for others under this law, and
got our lands so. I
repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite just, but necessary.
Moreover, it is juster now than it was when we were born; we have made
it
milder and more equal.
UGM 4.35 11 It is for man...on every side, whilst he
lives, to scatter the
seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be
milder...
ET5 5.95 19 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality
with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was
already
believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of
coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are
said to
disappear.
Res 8.147 22 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good
sense] applies milder
and nobler remedies.
Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still
milder remedies
sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
HDC 11.45 2 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early
assessed taxes; a
power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to
this
paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
mildest, adj. (3)
EzRy 10.395 5 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily, though
in its mildest form, the creed and catechism of the fathers...
FRep 11.524 12 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the
very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
Trag 12.415 15 A tender American girl doubts of Divine
Providence whilst
she reads the horrors of the middle passage; and they are bad enough at
the
mildest;...
mildly, adv. (1)
ET7 5.125 15 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the
opera to see
Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience
and the
performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
mildness, n. (3)
ET4 5.62 21 The mildness of the following ages has not
quite effaced these
traits of Odin;...
ET13 5.223 20 [The Anglican Church] has a general good
name for
amenity and mildness.
MMEm 10.413 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday
five or more
miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most
commonplace virtue.
mile, n. (24)
Hist 2.18 23 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad
cloud, which might
extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon...
Chr1 3.112 23 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to
meet.
PPh 4.79 6 ...it is still best that a mile should have
seventeen hundred and
sixty yards.
ET1 5.24 13 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a
better way
towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...
ET4 5.56 17 The men who have built a ship and invented
the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more
than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. For if they have not numerical
superiority where they anchor, they have only to sail a mile or two to
find it.
ET5 5.96 9 No man [in England] can afford to walk, when
the
parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET8 5.127 10 [The English], too, believe...that your
merry heart goes all
the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
ET10 5.165 4 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager
wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his
grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue.
ET11 5.181 17 The Duke of Bedford includes or included
a mile square in
the heart of London...
F 6.18 13 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure
of a degree of the
meridian.
F 6.38 26 The smallest candle fills a mile with its
rays...
Wth 6.87 5 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of
mankind their
secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three
quarters of a mile in
the deep Echo River...
Farm 7.148 13 In September, when the pears hang
heaviest...comes usually
a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
The
planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a
nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in
miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons, and the vines
beneath
them ran an eighth of a mile.
SA 8.104 20 We have come...to know...the good will that
is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages
of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to
hold fast
the country and penetrate every square mile of it with this American
civilization.
Imtl 8.335 18 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles
long does not help
the imagination;...
HDC 11.38 16 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under
the shelter of the
hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road,
their
first dwellings.
HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of
the old bridge [in
Concord] may still be seen, about half a mile from this spot, the first
organized resistance was made to the British arms.
SMC 11.367 20 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula,
in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one
mile
through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
SMC 11.373 25 On the first of January, 1865, the
Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of
works
before Petersburg.
CL 12.144 6 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like
some towns in the
more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so
that
if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the
hill
on your way out or on your way back.
CL 12.146 22 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide
distance from any
population is fence enough: the fence is a mile wide.
WSL 12.337 20 ...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans]
do not make elder-wine
and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed
with elder-bushes.
AgMs 12.361 7 Our [New England] roads are always
changing their
direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new
road is
opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
Miles, Charles, n. (1)
HDC 11.76 1 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in
the pursuit of
the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me,
that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and
acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
miles, n. (86)
DSA 1.140 11 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused
with shame, to
propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a
thousand
miles...
DSA 1.140 13 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused
with shame, to
propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such
poor
fare as they...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to
escape.
MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of
Atlantic brine
bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
Tran 1.332 4 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it
at a rate of thousands of miles the hour...
Hist 2.4 15 ...the light on my book is yielded by a
star a hundred millions of
miles distant...
SR 2.51 18 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable
ambition with this
incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter
landscape than the
horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of
nature, but a
still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk
left out...
Art1 2.361 18 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou
foolish child, hast thou
come out hither, over four thousand miles of salt water, to find that
which
was perfect to thee there at home?
Exp 3.74 22 ...the influence of action is not to be
measured by miles.
Mrs1 3.152 26 For the present distress...of those who
are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four,
will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
Gts 3.160 10 If a man should send to me to come a
hundred miles to visit
him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should
think
there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
PPh 4.79 4 ...when we praise the style, or the common
sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our
impatient criticism of the
dialectic, I suspect, is no better. The criticism is like our
impatience of
miles, when we are in a hurry;...
SwM 4.99 20 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of
engineering in
1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats
and a
sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
ET1 5.15 1 ...being intent on delivering a letter which
I had brought from
Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in
the
parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant.
ET1 5.15 22 Few were the objects and lonely the man
[Carlyle]; not a
person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of
Dunscore;...
ET2 5.26 12 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship
Washington Irving and
sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we
had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles.
ET2 5.27 8 The shortest sea-line from Boston to
Liverpool is 2850 miles.
ET2 5.27 9 The shortest sea-line from Boston to
Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles.
ET2 5.27 23 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the
sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of
hundreds of
miles every day...
ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467
miles...
ET3 5.35 3 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the
traveller [in
England] rides as on a cannon-ball...through mountains in tunnels of
three
or four miles...
ET3 5.41 15 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall
to
France...cutting off an island of eight hundred miles in length...
ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall
to
France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to
three
hundred miles;...
ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned...to
comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.
ET4 5.45 6 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which
reckon...20,000,000
of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a
population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
ET10 5.154 26 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill
forbidding parish
officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty
miles
from their home, Peel opposed...
ET11 5.178 4 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles
from London, a
family will last a hundred years;...
ET11 5.178 6 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles
from London, a
family will last a hundred years; at a hundred miles, two hundred
years; and
so on;...
ET11 5.182 7 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway
twenty-three
miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
ET11 5.182 11 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of
his house a
hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
ET11 5.182 19 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is
fifteen miles in
circuit.
ET12 5.211 7 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy
of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
With a hardier habit
and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces
less
eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
ET12 5.211 9 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy
of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
With a hardier habit
and resolute gymnastics...with a saddle and gallop of twenty miles a
day... the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
ET14 5.244 8 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and
miles of redoubts
to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
ET16 5.277 11 It was pleasant to see
that...[Stonehenge]--two upright
stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on
the
face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which
there
are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about
Stonehenge)...
ET16 5.278 9 The sacrificial stone [at
Stonehenge]...must have been
brought one hundred and fifty miles.
ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound
[Stonehenge] in
the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by
little
showers...
F 6.7 10 You have just dined, and however scrupulously
the slaughter-house
is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity...
F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils
far more reluctant... namely, cubic miles of earth...
Pow 6.55 23 If Eric is in robust health...at his
departure from Greenland he
will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out
Eric
and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships
will...sail...fifteen
hundred miles further...
Wth 6.116 3 Long free walks, a circuit of miles, free
[the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
CbW 6.249 2 'T is pedantry to estimate nations...by
square miles of land...
Ill 6.309 6 We traversed...the six or eight black miles
from the mouth of the
cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
SS 7.5 12 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get
the twitchings out of
his face...
SS 7.5 13 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get
the twitchings out of
his face...
Civ 7.29 13 ...the astronomer, having by an observation
fixed the place of a
star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then
repeating
his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit,
say two
hundred millions of miles, between his first observation and his
second...
DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in
your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may
well travel fifty miles...to
behold.
DL 7.121 27 [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...
Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote
at large in
miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
Farm 7.146 11 Water...transports vast boulders of rock
in its iceberg a
thousand miles.
Farm 7.146 23 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles
and hardly find
a stick or a stone.
Suc 7.299 26 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of
water?...
SA 8.81 10 Though the person so clothed [in
manners]...lodge in the same
chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off...
PPo 8.242 9 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the
annals...of
Afrasiyab...whose shadow extended for miles...
Insp 8.280 6 Sydney Smith said: You will never break
down in a speech on
the day when you have walked twelve miles.
Imtl 8.335 19 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles
long does not help
the imagination;...
Aris 10.42 23 The horn of Roland, in the romance, is
heard sixty miles.
MMEm 10.413 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday
five or more
miles...
Thor 10.455 20 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...
Carl 10.493 1 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three
or four miles of
human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and
these
were mites.
HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their
stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
HDC 11.36 27 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run
between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw
Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to
the English...
HDC 11.38 9 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was
concluded, Mr. Simon
Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they
had
bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
FSLC 11.188 4 ...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...
AKan 11.263 2 I think the American Revolution bought
its glory cheap. If
the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were
united, and the enemy three thousand miles off.
JBS 11.278 16 ...[John Brown] was much considered in
the family where
he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had
conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
SMC 11.364 19 [George Prescott writes] We started and
marched two
miles without stopping to rest...
SMC 11.369 20 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend
of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with
respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very
fortunate to save
it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two
miles in
blankets.
SMC 11.369 23 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend
of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with
respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place
nearer than
Baltimore where we could have got a coffin, and I suppose it was eighty
miles there.
SMC 11.372 27 On the sixteenth of June, [the
Thirty-second Regiment]... marched to within three miles of Petersburg.
PLT 12.32 14 White huckleberries are so rare that in
miles of pasture you
shall not find a dozen.
PLT 12.44 16 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near,
but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can
take up
the block as one. That indescribably small interval is as good as a
thousand
miles...
CL 12.139 5 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows,
or might grow, in
Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of barren waste with oak and
pine...we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.141 22 You shall never break down in a speech,
said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
CL 12.141 25 In the English universities, the reading
men are daily
performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs, or a long gallop
of
many miles in the saddle...
CL 12.141 27 In the English universities, the reading
men are daily
performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their
famed
constitutionals, walks of eight and ten miles.
CL 12.143 22 There is no good walk in that state
[Illinois]. The reason is, a
square yard of it is as good as a hundred miles.
CL 12.143 24 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the
cows a horse
feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
CL 12.159 3 Those who persist [in walking] from year to
year...and know
all the good points within ten miles...these we call professors.
CW 12.171 15 ...every house on that long street [in
Concord] has a back
door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a
skiff, or a dory, gives you...access...all winter, to miles of ice for
the skater.
CW 12.171 20 ...I have a problem long waiting for an
engineer,-this-to
what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the
Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
CW 12.172 8 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... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of
apple-trees or miles
of corn and rye to thrive.
Bost 12.209 16 You cannot conquer [Boston]...by square
miles...
Milt1 12.266 25 [Milton] advises that in country
places, rather than to
trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer
home, as in a house or barn.
Let 12.393 3 When a railroad train shoots through
Europe every day...it
cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
Miles, n. (1)
HDC 11.30 18 Here are still around me the lineal
descendants of the first
settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Stow, Hoar, Heywood, Hunt,
Miles...
miles', n. (1)
Thor 10.458 25 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of
Harvard
University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted
the
loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others
resident
within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
milestones, n. (1)
UGM 4.34 9 For a time our teachers serve us personally,
as metres or
milestones of progress.
mile-wide, adj. (1)
ET2 5.29 17 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this
aggressive water
opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
military, adj. (52)
LE 1.178 26 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file
of English
soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
Hsm1 2.250 6 To this military attitude of the soul we
give the name of
Heroism.
Chr1 3.101 17 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite
equal to what
they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a
grand
and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a
high-water
mark in military history.
Mrs1 3.130 10 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and
through it, a meeting of merchants, a military corps...
Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the
field at night, and he
has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
NER 3.275 11 ...a naval and military honor, a general's
commission...have
this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and
unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself
inferior.
NMW 4.239 21 Bonaparte had passed through all the
degrees of military
service...
NMW 4.242 22 ...those who smarted under the immediate
rigors of the new
monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the
military system which had driven out the oppressor.
NMW 4.247 19 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief
of all military
men that there could be nothing new in war;...
ET3 5.37 22 The innumerable details [in England]...the
military strength
and splendor...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence
and
endless wealth.
ET4 5.63 20 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates
that at a military school
they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
ET5 5.75 18 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a
feudal or military
tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
ET5 5.85 24 [The Englishmen's] military science
propounds that if the
weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting,
the
latter is destroyed.
ET5 5.99 22 Though not military, yet every common
subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
ET7 5.120 10 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his
military works at
Lisbon...
Wth 6.124 9 Friendship buys friendship;...military
merit, military success.
Bhr 6.181 1 The military eye I meet, now darkly
sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
Bty 6.291 20 In the midst of a military show and a
festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a
wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made
it describe the
most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the
decorated procession by this startling beauty.
OA 7.316 7 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are
these uniforms to hide cowards!
Res 8.147 21 Disorganization [good sense] confronts
with organization, with police, with military force.
PC 8.218 7 If [a man] has a military genius...he is the
king's king.
Insp 8.278 25 Bonaparte said: There is no man more
pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.
Dem1 10.15 17 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in
political
and military projects...
Aris 10.38 12 ...they only prosper or they prosper best
who have a military
mind...
PerF 10.85 3 ...a military genius, instead of using
that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and
political
consideration;...
Edc1 10.148 5 ...this function of opening and feeding
the human mind is
not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
Edc1 10.150 23 [In colleges] You have to work for large
classes instead of
individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with
your
discipline and college police.
Edc1 10.155 5 Leave this military hurry and adopt the
pace of Nature.
Edc1 10.157 5 The will, the male power...makes that
military eye which
controls boys as it controls men;...
Supl 10.167 10 An eminent French journalist paid a high
compliment to the
Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve
volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in
them.
MoL 10.253 14 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when
the Mameluke
cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the
front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It
made a good
story, and circulated in that day. But how stands it now? The military
expedition was a failure.
LLNE 10.327 18 College classes, military corps, or
trades-unions may
fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
SlHr 10.438 21 ...when the mob of Charleston was
assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the
last
point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...it was
now
time for the military officer to be sent;...
SlHr 10.439 20 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic
might have inspired
fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made
him
modest and courteous, though his courtesy had a grave and almost
military
air.
Thor 10.455 25 There was somewhat military in
[Thoreau's] nature...
HDC 11.54 17 A military company had been organized [in
Concord] in
1636.
HDC 11.58 9 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River,
the scene of war
was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
Concord
was a military post.
HDC 11.72 6 All the military movements in this town
[Concord] were
solemnized by acts of public worship.
HDC 11.72 13 On 13th March [1775], at a general review
of all the
military companies [of Concord], [William Emerson] preached to a very
full assembly...
HDC 11.72 21 A large amount of military stores had been
deposited in this
town [Concord]...
HDC 11.74 9 ...when the smoke began to rise from the
village where the
British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the
Americans
resolved to force their way into town.
EWI 11.122 27 ...[the civility] of Rome [lay] in
military arts and virtues...
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought
different families
of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce,
to
trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous
benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
War 11.163 21 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this
martial music and
endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem
to
us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries
to the
feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
ACiv 11.299 1 We have attempted to hold together two
states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and
the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old
military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands,
makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.305 16 Congress can...as a part of the military
defence which it is
the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
EPro 11.319 17 The force of the act [the Emancipation
Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers, civil,
military, naval, of the
Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
HCom 11.342 3 Even Divine Providence...always seems to
work after a
certain military necessity.
SMC 11.363 15 [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.
FRep 11.513 14 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill
and
military education, on that one compound...
CInt 12.113 14 ...it were a compounding of all
gradation and reverence to
suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and
feebleness of
military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and
omnipotence
of Intellectual Law.
Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military
prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
Military Architect and Engi (1)
MAng1 12.224 3 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to
superintend the erection of the necessary works.
Military Memoirs [Jean Ser (1)
NMW 4.234 15 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives, in
his Military
Memoirs, the following sketch of a scene after the battle of
Austerlitz.
military, n. (1)
PPh 4.66 5 Such as were fit to govern, into their
composition the informing
Deity mingled gold; into the military, silver;...
militia, n. (9)
Art1 2.361 2 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great
pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like
the spontoons and standards
of the militia...
NER 3.256 2 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary
nullifiers...who...embarrass...the
commander-in-chief of the militia by non-resistance.
HDC 11.73 14 Eight hundred British soldiers...at
Lexington had fired upon
the brave handful of militia...
HDC 11.73 15 Eight hundred British soldiers...at
Lexington had fired upon
the brave handful of militia, for which a speedy revenge was reaped by
the
same militia in the afternoon.
HDC 11.73 17 When [British troops] entered Concord,
they found the
militia and minute-men assembled...
HDC 11.75 3 The militia and minute-men...ran over the
hills opposite the
battle-field...
HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of
Massachusetts
resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
War 11.163 9 We have all grown up in the sight...of
arsenals and militia.
SMC 11.356 4 It is an interesting part of the history
[of the Civil War], the
manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.
milk, n. (19)
AmS 1.111 15 The meal in the firkin; the milk in the
pan;...show me the
ultimate reason of these matters;...
Mrs1 3.129 14 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke
anger in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new
class
finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of
milk...
SwM 4.101 4 ...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and
vegetables;...
MoS 4.153 15 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther
had milk in him
when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein
Narr
sein Leben lang;/...
ET4 5.72 10 The [Tartar] children were fed on mares'
milk.
ET10 5.167 27 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the
adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish,
nor sugar
sweeten...
ET16 5.280 16 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only
milk for one cup
of tea.
Pow 6.69 25 Strong race or strong individual rests at
last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which...is still
in reception of the milk from
the teats of Nature.
Wth 6.120 4 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a
creature that is fed on hay
and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives
milk for three
months; then her bag dries up.
Wsp 6.237 6 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to
put [the sick
woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny
on
your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will
fatten
Jenny.
Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company
and squalid
condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
Elo1 7.68 1 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily
fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator]
are
then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome,
compared with a substantial cordial man, made of milk as we say...
Elo1 7.71 11 ...every literature contains these high
compliments to the art
of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the
Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water
out of
a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
Farm 7.140 9 ...[the farmer's] milk at least is
unwatered;...
Farm 7.149 7 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving
turkeys on bread
and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they
like
best.
Clbs 7.234 17 ...the ground of our indignation is our
conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises
on himself. He
checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk.
PI 8.42 19 Anything, child, that the mind covets, from
the milk of a cocoa
to the throne of the three worlds, thou mayest obtain, by keeping the
law of
thy members and the law of thy mind.
Thor 10.482 11 Some circumstantial evidence is very
strong, as when you
find a trout in the milk.
Milk Street, Boston, Massa (1)
Wth 6.122 15 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or
Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine
outlook from
his windows;...
milk-pans, n. (1)
Ctr 6.145 26 Do you suppose there is any country where
they do not scald
milk-pans...
milkweed, n. (1)
CL 12.149 17 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that
we know not! How
an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed, or withe-bush...for
strings;...
Milky Way, n. (1)
EurB 12.366 2 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the
Dante...have...the eye to see
the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
Milky Ways, n. (1)
SHC 11.434 23 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the
sky arching there
upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with...Milky Ways, for truck-roads.
mill, adj. (1)
HDC 11.84 27 ...without any considerable mill
privileges, the natural
increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant
emigration of
the youth.
mill, calico-, n. (1)
Pow 6.81 23 The world-mill is more complex than the
calico-mill, and the
architect stooped less.
mill, gingham-, n. (1)
Pow 6.81 24 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a
shred spoils the web
through a piece of a hundred yards...
Mill, John Stuart, n. (1)
ET9 5.150 11 The habit of brag runs through all classes
[in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith,
down to the boys of
Eton.
mill, n. (21)
Nat 1.18 1 Was there no meaning in the live repose of
the valley behind the
mill...
LE 1.165 27 Men grind and grind in the mill of a
truism...
MR 1.255 25 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down
in time for the
blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a
quality
which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...
Art1 2.368 13 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find
beauty and holiness...in the
shop and mill.
Exp 3.84 2 I say to the Genius, if he will pardon the
proverb, In for a mill, in for a million.
NR 3.239 1 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a
mill...and in each new
place he is no better than an idiot;...
ET5 5.76 4 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred
links, against a cotton-spinner
with steam in his mill;...
ET5 5.98 15 Man in England submits to be a product of
political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as
water in a sluice-way...
ET10 5.157 3 The ambition to create value evokes every
kind of ability [in
England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation, and every
house a mill.
ET10 5.162 17 ...old energy of the Norse race [in
England] arms itself with
these magnificent powers [of steam];...and the mill buys out the
castle.
ET13 5.225 11 The chatter of French politics...the hum
of the mill...had
quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
ET14 5.256 6 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle
through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the
miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill...
F 6.19 8 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of
mechanical exactness, as of a loom or mill in what we call
casual...events.
Pow 6.61 24 A timid man...might easily believe that he
and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can
against the
coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence
fifty
times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a
mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are
here in play
make our politics unimportant.
Pow 6.81 18 ...in these [machines man] is forced to
leave out his follies and
hindrances, so that when we go to the mill, the machine is more moral
than
we.
Wth 6.93 25 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map,
and inherited his
fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and
survey...
Bty 6.286 1 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves to
their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have
they...the
equality to any event which we demand in man, or only the reactions of
the
mill, of the wares, of the chicane?
Art2 7.42 16 ...we build a mill in such position as to
set the north wind to
play upon our instrument...
Res 8.148 14 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid
from the water-works of
his mill...
MoL 10.242 27 ...the bribe came to men of intellectual
culture,-Come, drudge in our mill.
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?
mill, world-, n. (1)
Pow 6.81 22 The world-mill is more complex than the
calico-mill, and the
architect stooped less.
mill-dam, n. (1)
HDC 11.49 8 It is the consequence of this institution
[the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been set
up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town
[Concord] having a voice in the
affair.
Mill-dam, n. (1)
SMC 11.357 2 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...the village
politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail
hereafter...to the well-known companions on the Mill-dam;...
Mille, Cent, n. (1)
CbW 6.250 11 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille.
millenium, n. (1)
LE 1.169 6 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where
the living
columns of the oak and fir tower up from the ruins of the trees of the
last
millenium;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
millennial, adj. (1)
ET11 5.188 16 I pardoned high park-fences [in England],
when I saw that... these have preserved...millennial trees...
Millennial Church, n. (1)
NR 3.235 4 So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism,
and the
Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism
on
the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
Millennium, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.208 25 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the Millennium
mathematics...
millennium, n. (8)
AmS 1.106 16 ...in a millennium, one or two men;...
Exp 3.60 15 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to
me as five
minutes in the next millennium.
ET3 5.35 14 ...if there be one successful country in
the universe for the last
millennium, that country is England.
ET8 5.141 3 ...if hereafter the war of races...should
menace the English
civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating
castles
and find...a second millennium of power in their colonies.
ET15 5.272 26 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] the least
of its victories would be to give to England a new millennium of
beneficent
power.
SHC 11.431 15 [Man] plants for the next millennium.
PLT 12.50 10 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been
a thousand
years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought
familiar
to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already
a
proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in
effect is
really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.
ACri 12.294 20 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand
years old when he
wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so
solidly
worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to
become
one. Well, that millennium is really only a little acceleration in his
process
of thought;...
Millennium, n. (1)
OS 2.273 24 ...we say...that the Millenium approaches...
millenniums, n. (8)
Con 1.301 27 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they
have done for six
millenniums, a word at time;...
OS 2.273 11 See how the deep divine thought reduces
centuries and
millenniums...
PNR 4.80 21 It seems as if nature, in regarding the
geologic night behind
her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six
men, as
Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the
result.
SwM 4.117 21 The earth had fed its mankind through five
or six
millenniums...
ET4 5.48 1 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew,
who, for two
millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
Wsp 6.239 10 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it
is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this
conviction than to have the lease of
indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
Boks 7.220 8 ...it takes millenniums to make a Bible.
Schr 10.270 15 Even the demonstrations of Nature for
millenniums seem
not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet]
arrives.
miller, n. (3)
Bty 6.285 22 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves
to their own details...
Insp 8.272 14 Every youth should know the way to
prophecy as surely as
the miller understands how to let on the water...
PLT 12.29 2 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the
wheel and weave
carpets and broadcloth.
Miller, n. (1)
Nat 1.8 16 Miller owns this field...
millers, n. (2)
Exp 3.46 2 We are like millers on the lower levels of a
stream...
FRep 11.526 19 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a
shoemaker, and
the rest, millers, farmers, sailors, fishermen.
miller's, n. (1)
AgMs 12.359 17 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero
of the Robin
Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/
But
it was worth a groom./
milliner, n. (1)
Bty 6.293 11 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know
how to reconcile
the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just
gradations.
million, adj. (49)
MN 1.193 5 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall
I admire a million
units?
SL 2.166 16 We know the authentic effects of the true
fire through every
one of its million disguises.
Fdsp 2.200 19 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which
hardens the ruby in a
million years...
Int 2.338 14 ...the world has a million writers.
PPh 4.69 10 The universe is perforated by a million
channels for [the
supreme Good's] activity.
ShP 4.214 6 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch
its image on his
plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million.
NMW 4.225 7 Every one of the million readers of
anecdotes or memoirs or
lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his
own
history.
NMW 4.258 15 It was...the eternal law of man and of the
world which
baulked and ruined [Napoleon]; and the result, in a million
experiments, will be the same.
ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned...to
comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.
ET4 5.45 5 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which
reckon...20,000,000
of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a
population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
ET4 5.45 9 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a
population
of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
ET4 5.45 10 The British Empire is reckones to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps
a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these
millions are of
British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a
population
of English descent and language of 60,000,000, and governing a
population
of 245,000,000 souls.
ET4 5.49 1 Trades and professions carve their own lines
on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less
effective; as...the million
opportunities and outlets for expanding and misplaced talent;...
ET10 5.159 19 The power of machinery in Great Britain,
in mills, has been
computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
ET10 5.160 14 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone
on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000
in 1854.
ET10 5.160 15 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone
on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000
in 1854.
ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET18 5.300 9 In the home population of near thirty
millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
ET18 5.307 12 ...retrospectively, we may strike the
balance and prefer one
Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one
Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
Wsp 6.223 2 God has delegated himself to a million
deputies.
CbW 6.249 17 I do not wish any mass at all...no
shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or
lazzaroni at all.
CbW 6.250 20 Nature...only hits the white once in a
million throws.
Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right
[book] is to be
computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not
a
choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all
alike.
Boks 7.193 12 ...the number of printed books extant
to-day may easily
exceed a million.
Clbs 7.223 6 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten,
or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
Clbs 7.238 13 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir]
replies...with Odin
contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the
gods
and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the
million
mansions of heaven and of earth;...
Suc 7.286 8 We have seen an American woman write a
novel of which a
million copies were sold...
Suc 7.286 21 Our civilization is made up of a million
contributions of this
kind.
Suc 7.295 9 ...it is sanity to know that, over my
talent or knack, and a
million times better than any talent, is the central intelligence...
PI 8.25 3 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.
Res 8.139 20 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms
deep.
PPo 8.263 4 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a
purple tablet letters
cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes
down at last;/...
Supl 10.172 20 At the Bank of England they put a scrap
of paper that is
worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
Thor 10.468 14 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which
have been hoed at
by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...
EWI 11.111 27 ...these missionaries [to the West
Indies] were persecuted
by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them.
These
outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured
into
Parliament: a million persons signed their names to these;...
EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave
products of the
colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of
the
slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
EWI 11.113 14 The Ministers...estimated the total value
of the slave
property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
EWI 11.113 17 The Ministers...proposed to give the
[West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves'
time as the act [of
emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a
population of half a
million...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.132 8 Let the senators and representatives of
the State [of
Massachusetts], containing a population of a million freemen, go in a
body
before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so
imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is
satisfied.
EWI 11.133 13 To what purpose have we clothed each of
those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons, and each
senator with near half a million, if they are to sit dumb at their
desks and
see their constituents captured and sold;...
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 23 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;...
FRep 11.513 20 Our sleepy civilization...has built its
whole art of war...on
that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and
Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if
the
earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies,
the
discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
II 12.66 22 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's]
experience is invariably
identical in a million individuals.
Mem 12.93 25 ...in addition to this [photographic]
property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the
million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in
the centre of the plate in the moment
when we want it.
CInt 12.119 25 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how...to enchant
men so that...they serve him with a million hands...
MLit 12.320 6 ...whilst every line of the true poet
will be genuine, he is in a
boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
Million, Hundred, n. (1)
CbW 6.250 12 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille.
Add honesty to
him, and they might have called him Hundred Million.
:/million, n/. [million,] (16)
, n/.
Exp 3.84 2 I say to the Genius, if he will pardon the proverb, In
for a mill, in for a million.
Chr1 3.104 15 The true charity of Goethe is to be
inferred from the account
he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
Each
bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own
money, the fortune I inherited...have been expended to instruct me in
what I now
know.
NR 3.236 9 ...[nature]...insults the philosopher in
every moment with a
million of fresh particulars.
ShP 4.196 15 There was no literature for the million
[in Shakespeare's day].
ET10 5.160 15 A thousand million of pounds sterling are
said to compose
the floating money of commerce [of England].
ET10 5.163 4 Some English private fortunes reach, and
some exceed a
million of dollars a year.
F 6.18 3 Doubtless in every million there will be an
astronomer...
F 6.34 7 The opinion of the million was the terror of
the world...
Ctr 6.150 6 ...we must remember the high social
possibilities of a million
of men.
Ctr 6.152 8 ...among a million of good coats a fine
coat comes to be no
distinction...
Boks 7.195 18 There has already been a scrutiny and
choice from many
hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which
you
read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young
adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who
sits and weighs, and, ten years hence, out of a million of pages,
reprints one.
SA 8.100 1 In every million of Europeans or of
Americans there shall be
thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
PC 8.219 15 Every book is written with a constant
secret reference to the
few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the
million.
Chr2 10.96 9 ...there is no man who will bargain to
sell his life, say at the
end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
Koss 11.399 17 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in
all centuries and in
all parties only the men of heart. I do not know but you will have the
million yet.
millionaire, n. (2)
Wth 6.91 1 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a
millionaire to be a man of his
word...
Aris 10.53 11 Like a great general, or a great poet, or
a millionaire, [the
eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
millionaires, n. (1)
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what
gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is
wonderful the effect on the
company. They are not the men they were. They have all been to
California
and all have come back millionaires.
million-colored, adj. (1)
SR 2.80 20 ...the immortal light...million-colored, will
beam over the
universe...
million-orbed, adj. (1)
SR 2.80 19 ...the immortal light...million-orbed...will
beam over the
universe...
millions, n. (81)
AmS 1.82 1 The millions that around us are rushing into
life, cannot always
be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
DSA 1.151 13 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain
immortal
sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
MN 1.209 13 In all the millions who have heard the
voice, none ever saw
the face.
Hist 2.4 15 ...the light on my book is yielded by a
star a hundred millions of
miles distant...
SR 2.61 12 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to
[Christ's] genius that
he is confounded with virtue...
Pt1 3.19 12 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing
how many mechanical
inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics
has
not gained a grain's weight.
Exp 3.66 18 ...what are these millions who read and
behold, but incipient
writers and sculptors?
Mrs1 3.149 23 I have seen an individual...who shook off
the captivity of
etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin
Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be,--calm, serious and
fit to
stand the gaze of millions.
NR 3.223 5 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect
Adam lives./
NER 3.268 20 ...the ground on which eminent public
servants urge the
claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with
thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep
them
from our throats.
NMW 4.240 8 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the
millions whom he
directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
NMW 4.243 17 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men
are! There are
eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
NMW 4.244 20 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred
millions in my
coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
NMW 4.257 10 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's]
vast talent and
power, of these...immolated millions of men...
GoW 4.279 24 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so
new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it
we
can, assured that it has...millions of readers yet to serve.
ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock.
ET4 5.45 4 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which
reckon...20,000,000
of people...and you have a population of English descent and language
of
60,000,000...
ET4 5.45 12 The British census proper reckons
twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries.
ET4 5.46 1 ...it remains to be seen whether [the
English] can make good
the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
ET4 5.47 22 It is race, is it not, that puts the
hundred millions of India
under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and
the sympathetic cry
of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and
planted
anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same
land
that fed three millions.
ET11 5.189 14 Against the cry of the old tenantry and
the sympathetic cry
of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and
planted
anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same
land
that fed three millions.
ET14 5.260 14 ...the two complexions, or two styles of
mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting
mutually...these two nations, of genius
and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and
the
second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord
yield
the power of the English State.
ET18 5.300 9 In the home population of near thirty
millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
F 6.16 23 The German and Irish millions...have a great
deal of guano in
their destiny.
F 6.17 11 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred
millions, something
like accuracy may be had.
F 6.18 20 ...there will, in a dozen millions of
Malays...be one or two
astronomical skulls.
F 6.19 14 The force with which we resist these torrents
of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made
by a minority of one, under compulsion of millions.
Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping
at bay the snarling
majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow
promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
Wth 6.110 7 Britain, France and Germany...send out,
attracted by the fame
of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor
people, to share the crop.
Ctr 6.165 18 We call these millions men; but they are
not yet men.
Bhr 6.180 27 There are eyes...that give no more
admission into the man
than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded
Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against
them.
CbW 6.256 27 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared
with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish
capitalists
who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads; which have
evoked
not only all the wealth of the soil, but the energy of millions of men.
Civ 7.29 13 ...the astronomer, having by an observation
fixed the place of a
star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then
repeating
his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit,
say two
hundred millions of miles, between his first observation and his
second...
Civ 7.31 9 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found
vices very good
patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy...
WD 7.171 20 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on
which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
Elo2 8.112 16 ...the political questions, which agitate
millions, find or form
a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these
measures...
Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the
service of science, the
demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the
instant
practice of thirty millions of people.
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 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms
deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to
add
only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of
sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
QO 8.179 24 In a hundred years, millions of men, and
not a hundred lines
of poetry...
PC 8.220 19 How much more are...the wise and good
souls...than the
foolish and sensual millions around them!
PC 8.226 12 The poet Wordsworth asked, What one is, why
may not
millions be? Why not?
PC 8.234 3 ...when I say the educated class, I know
what a benignant
breadth that word has...reaching millions instead of hundreds.
Insp 8.282 2 The wealth of the mind in this respect of
seeing is like that of
a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of
objects
which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready
and
perfect as ever for new millions.
Imtl 8.337 27 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery
of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power
can
easily provide me millions more as good.
Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise man
looks forward with
equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of
years, on
the verge of still newer existence?...
Dem1 10.16 18 In the popular belief, ghosts are a
selecting tribe, avoiding
millions, speaking to one.
Aris 10.45 11 ...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.
That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or
hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
Aris 10.45 12 ...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.
That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or
hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
Though millions
attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.
Chr2 10.96 10 ...there is no man who will bargain to
sell his life, say at the
end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...outvotes the true men by
millions of majority...
Edc1 10.130 24 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature
draws to every other atom...he reports the condition of millions of
worlds
which his eye never saw.
SovE 10.209 11 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not
now formulated and
concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have
not
those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out
its
scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?
Prch 10.228 16 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as
Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
MoL 10.242 24 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia
sent millions of
laborers;...
Schr 10.276 13 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea
full, sky full; who cares
for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured
portions... we will buy it with millions.
Carl 10.492 11 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament
gathers up six millions
of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
HDC 11.77 6 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord]
belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament,
and
this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of
tongues.
LVB 11.95 7 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation
of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that
the millions of virtuous
citizens...have no place to interpose...
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.
FSLC 11.185 10 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and
power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty
millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
FSLC 11.194 4 ...the womb conceives and the breasts
give suck to
thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your
statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost
two thousand
millions of dollars.
FSLC 11.210 3 These thirty nations [the United States]
are equal to any
work, and are every moment stronger. In twenty-five years they will be
fifty millions.
FSLC 11.210 9 Let [the United States] confront this
mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and
shovel it once for all, down
into the bottomless Pit. A thousand millions were cheap.
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.
JBS 11.279 1 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own
account of the
matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he
said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
EPro 11.324 15 If you could add, say [foreign critics],
to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce
eight millions of people to come under this government against their
will.
ALin 11.333 15 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude
of good sayings, so
disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at
first but
as jests; and only later, by the very acceptance and adoption they find
in the
mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
ALin 11.335 19 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before
[the American
people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart...
EdAd 11.388 20 In hours when it seemed only to need one
just word from
a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen
the
best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for
what
is called a New England sentiment any longer.
CPL 11.508 17 ...there is no end to the praise of
books, to the value of the
library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all
the
millions read and write?
FRep 11.538 4 Is it that Nature has only so much vital
force, and must
dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
CInt 12.121 17 ...a larger angle of vision, commands
centuries of facts and
millions of thoughtless people.
CInt 12.121 22 Here are still perverse millions full of
passion, crime and
blood.
Bost 12.209 17 You cannot conquer [Boston]...by counted
millions of
wealth.
Bost 12.211 19 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto
shall be the prayer of
millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so
God be
with us!
MLit 12.310 26 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents books...that seem
to heave with the life of millions...
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.
millionth, n. (1)
ET10 5.160 27 Whitworth divides a bar to a millionth of
an inch.
mill-owner, n. (2)
ET8 5.129 4 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden
more than once
all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the
same
persons, and no word exchanged.
ET11 5.174 16 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to
trade, politics
and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant
and
the mill-owner;...
mill-owners, n. (1)
ET10 5.159 11 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts]
succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of
mill-owners...
mill-privilege, n. (1)
EdAd 11.384 24 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior
question...the WHERE
TO of all this [American] power and population...this taxing and
tabulating, mill-privilege, roads, and mines.
mill-round, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.189 15 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The
mill-round of our fate
appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./
Mills, Dabney's, Virginia, (1)
SMC 11.374 1 At Dabney's Mills, in a sharp fight, [the
Thirty-second
Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.
mills, n. (21)
Art1 2.368 21 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect
which belongs to our
great mechanical works, to mills, railways, and machinery, the effect
of the
mercenary impulses which these works obey?
PPh 4.53 15 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in
architecture and sculpture
seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion
of...new
mills at Lowell.
ET5 5.89 5 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told
there is no luck in
making good steel;...
ET5 5.94 13 [England's] short rivers do not afford
water-power, but the
land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
ET5 5.97 11 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away
political power
from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and
Manchester, whose mills paid for the wars of Europe, had no
representative.
ET6 5.103 9 Mines, forges, mills, breweries...have
operated [in England] to
give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
ET9 5.150 25 The English dislike the American structure
of society, whilst
yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can
to
create in England the same social condition.
ET10 5.159 18 The power of machinery in Great Britain,
in mills, has been
computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
ET10 5.167 6 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the
mills to the
Leicester stockinger...
ET10 5.167 27 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the
adulteration...of almost every fabric in her mills and shops;...
ET11 5.183 7 All over England, scattered at short
intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises
of the nobles...
ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton
mills weave carpet and
Sheffield grinds steel.
ET15 5.270 19 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the
class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of...every strike in the mills...[the editors
of the
London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
Pow 6.81 10 Success has no more eccentricity than the
gingham and muslin
we weave in our mills.
Farm 7.146 9 Water...sets its irresistible shoulder to
your mills or your
ships...
PI 8.42 5 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble
instruments of
noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks...
PI 8.69 7 I find Faust a little too modern and
intelligible. We can find such
a fabric at several mills...
PerF 10.79 21 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and
after many years
succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce, brought
up
the stock of his mills to par...
FRep 11.511 3 It is a rule that holds in economy as
well as in hydraulics
that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the
shops... have all found out this secret.
FRep 11.522 18 [The American] is easily fed with wheat
and game, with
Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by
political
power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the
banks.
Bost 12.204 14 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want
epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...builders of mills and forges...
Mills, n. (1)
ET15 5.262 22 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and
Froudes and
Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or
short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on
the
hustings...
mill-wheel, n. (1)
Schr 10.276 12 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea
full, sky full; who cares
for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured
portions, on a mill-wheel, or boat-paddle, we will buy it with
millions.
mill-wheels, n. (1)
WD 7.160 9 What of this dapper caoutchouc and
gutta-percha, which
make...belting for mill-wheels...
Milman, Henry Hart, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 23 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Milnes, Milman,
Barry Cornwall...
Milnes, Richard Monckton, n (2)
ET17 5.292 22 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Milnes, Milman,
Barry Cornwall...
Ctr 6.151 23 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/
For you 'll find it
certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look
through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the
Humble...
Milton, John, n. (114)
LE 1.161 8 ...see how much you would impoverish the
world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
LE 1.161 17 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato
was...and Milton...
LE 1.172 27 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and
Milton, beside the
infinite Reason.
LT 1.261 22 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal
their platoons, and
called them Heaven and Hell.
LT 1.273 3 Milton...describes a relation between
religion and the daily
occupations...
SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,
Plato, and Milton is
that they...spoke...what they thought.
SR 2.61 19 Scipio, Milton called the height of Rome;...
Lov1 2.173 25 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very
truly and heartily
will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk
such
as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
Lov1 2.183 6 Somewhat like this have the truly wise
told us of love in all
ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and
Apuleius
taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
Hsm1 2.258 3 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough
for Washington
to tread, and London streets for the feet of Milton.
OS 2.288 25 Humanity shines...in Milton.
OS 2.292 12 [Men's] highest praising, said Milton, is
not flattery...
Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink
wine and live
generously...
Pt1 3.38 15 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet,
we have our
difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
Pt1 3.38 15 Milton is too literary...
Exp 3.63 14 I think I will never read any but the
commonest books,--The
Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare and Milton.
Chr1 3.109 26 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like
a consul, from
whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
ShP 4.199 7 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu,
Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
ShP 4.203 13 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents
and
acquaintances...John Milton, Sir Henry Vane...
ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the
common measure of
great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the
fact
in the twilight of human fate...
ET5 5.100 15 ...[the English people's] language seems
drawn from the
Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope,
Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
ET11 5.195 7 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his
brother, and Milton and
Evelyn, gave plain and hearty counsel.
ET12 5.207 7 The English nature takes culture kindly.
So Milton thought.
ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar
speech. Donne, Bunyan, Milton...wrote it.
ET14 5.234 12 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their
loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
ET14 5.234 20 The Saxon materialism and narrowness,
exalted into the
sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
ET14 5.238 17 ...Britain had many disciples of
Plato;...Chapman, Milton, Crashaw...
ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate in
the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to
Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
ET14 5.244 17 Milton...used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in
poetry, more rarely in prose.
ET14 5.246 4 ...better than Johnson [Hallam]
appreciates Milton.
ET14 5.253 1 ...a devotion to the theory of politics
like that of Hooker and
Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
ET17 5.297 10 A gentleman in London showed me a watch
that once
belonged to Milton...
ET18 5.307 11 ...retrospectively, we may strike the
balance and prefer one
Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one
Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
Ctr 6.141 24 The best heads that ever existed...Goethe,
Milton, were well-read, universally educated men...
Ctr 6.156 12 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not
live in a crowd...
DL 7.105 3 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man...
DL 7.116 7 What kind of a house was kept...by Milton
and Marvell...
Farm 7.153 21 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of
any clime--Milton, Firdusi, or Cervantes--would appreciate as being
really a piece of the old
Nature...
Boks 7.194 19 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a
gainer if all the
secondary writers were lost,--say, in England, all but Shakspeare,
Milton
and Bacon...
Boks 7.207 7 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar]
has Shakspeare... Herrick; and Milton, Marvell and Dryden, not long
after.
Boks 7.215 24 The question there [in Jane Eyre]
answered in regard to a
vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the
party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it
as...Cleopatra, as
Milton, as George Sand do...
Boks 7.218 4 The Greek fables...and even the prose of
Bacon and Milton... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
PI 8.29 18 Homer, Milton, Hafiz...are heartily
enamoured of their sweet
thoughts.
PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh
Bards;--these all deal with
Nature and history as means and symbols...
PI 8.48 1 Milton delights in these iterations...
PI 8.50 13 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better
poet...than any man between
Milton and Wordsworth.
PI 8.63 7 We are sometimes apprised that...the high
poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
PI 8.68 12 Perhaps Homer and Milton will be tin pans
yet.
PI 8.69 23 ...our English nature and genius has made us
the worst critics of
Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and
manners hold/ Which Milton held./
Elo2 8.110 8 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire
to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the
knowledge
of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in
well-ordered
files...fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.
QO 8.180 11 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow
are the limits of
human invention.
QO 8.202 19 Shakspeare, Milton, Wordsworth, were very
conscious of
their responsibilities.
Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben
Jonson, Milton...
Imtl 8.327 18 Milton anticipated the leading thought of
Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.347 1 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my
pastor, is there any
resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we
should
know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions
are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
Schr 10.288 27 [The scholar] is here to know the secret
of Genius; to
become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
LLNE 10.333 20 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton...
LLNE 10.339 10 I attribute much importance to two
papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon...
MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was
Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
MMEm 10.402 19 Nobody can...recall the conversation of
old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority
in
their mind...
MMEm 10.411 11 In her solitude of twenty years, with
fewest books and
those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or
title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his
work, she
found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody
Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
FSLN 11.216 5 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for
us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He
alone breaks from the
van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/
Browning, The Lost Leader.
ACiv 11.301 1 Can you convince...the iron interest, or
the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
Wom 11.413 9 The instincts of mankind have drawn the
Virgin Mother-
Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them
all./ This is the Divine Person whom Dante and Milton saw in vision.
Scot 11.464 20 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty
style of...Milton...
II 12.72 7 It is as impossible for labor to produce a
sonnet of Milton...as
Shakspeare's Hamlet...
CInt 12.113 21 You shall not put up in your Academy the
statue of Caesar
or Pompey...but of Archimedes, of Milton...
CInt 12.114 14 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is
besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other
times
wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to
be
reformed...
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the
air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
Bost 12.193 16 [The Massachusetts colonists] read
Milton, Thomas a
Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
Bost 12.194 4 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of
Saint Augustine...of
Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a
culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian]
sentiment;...
Bost 12.197 22 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante, Michael
Angelo
and Milton;...
Milt1 12.247 1 The discovery of the lost work of
Milton, the treatise Of the
Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
Milt1 12.247 9 ...the new-found book having in itself
less attraction than
any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly
subsided...
Milt1 12.247 22 It was very easy to remark an altered
tone in the criticism
when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
Milt1 12.248 3 The aspect of Milton, to this
generation, will be part of the
history of the nineteenth century.
Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already
undergone one or
two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
Milt1 12.249 3 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the
obstacles that are to be
overcome before that which he proposes can be done.
Milt1 12.250 27 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the
reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always
recovers himself. The
voice of the mob is silent, and Milton speaks.
Milt1 12.251 20 ...deeply as that peculiar state of
society, in which and for
which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the
world, it
shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in
Nature;...
Milt1 12.251 27 We have lost all interest in Milton as
the redoubted
disputant of a sect;...
Milt1 12.252 6 Milton the polemic has lost his
popularity long ago;...
Milt1 12.253 11 ...it would be great injustice to
Milton to consider him as
enjoying merely a critical reputation.
Milt1 12.253 22 ...no man can be named whose mind still
acts on the
cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable
to
that of Milton.
Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect, commanding...
Milt1 12.255 2 ...we think it impossible to recall one
in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same
vibration of
hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name
of
Milton awakens.
Milt1 12.256 4 ...the idea of a purer existence than
any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John
Milton.
Milt1 12.256 24 For the delineation of this heroic
image of man, Milton
enjoyed singular advantages.
Milt1 12.258 23 ...foreigners came to England, we are
told, to see the Lord
Protector and Mr. Milton.
Milt1 12.259 24 Among the advantages of his foreign
travel, Milton
certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and
polish that
great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power
of language.
Milt1 12.261 17 ...Milton was conscious of possessing
this intellectual
voice...
Milt1 12.262 15 ...as basis or fountain of his rare
physical and intellectual
accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
Milt1 12.262 24 Among so many contrivances as the world
has seen to
make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the
foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.
Milt1 12.266 4 To this antique heroism, Milton added
the genius of the
Christian sanctity.
Milt1 12.266 15 The indifferency of a wise mind to what
is called high and
low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are
revelations of
Christianity which Milton well understood.
Milt1 12.267 14 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of
Wordsworth;-Pure
as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's
common
way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
Milt1 12.267 21 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with
great promise and
small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in
danger, and then opening a private school.
Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in
returning from Italy
because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
Milton, wiser, felt no absurdity in this conduct.
Milt1 12.268 23 Thus chosen...for the clear perception
of all that is graceful
and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
Milt1 12.269 8 Milton...was set down in England in the
stern, almost
fanatic society of the Puritans.
Milt1 12.274 20 The perception we have attributed to
Milton, of a purer
ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
Milt1 12.275 2 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice
of Milton still.
Milt1 12.275 19 The most affecting passages in Paradise
Lost are personal
allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden, Adam and Milton are often
difficult to be separated.
Milt1 12.276 20 ...the genius and office of Milton were
different [from
those of Homer and Shakespeare]...
Milt1 12.277 9 Milton...tasked his giant
imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for
expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
MLit 12.321 18 There is in [Wordsworth] that property
common to all
great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents
which
they exert. It is the wisest part of Shakspeare and of Milton.
MLit 12.326 15 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw
them do their
best...
EurB 12.365 13 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral
perception, but
not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at
such
slipshod newspaper style.
EurB 12.365 16 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be
all improvised. Nothing of Milton, nothing of Marvell...could be.
EurB 12.366 24 In the debates on the Copyright
Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy
the
coroner.
EurB 12.368 11 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of
Helvellyn and on the
margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their
sublime
midnights for his theme, and...not Horace nor Milton nor Dante.
PPr 12.379 5 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and
Present] is a political
tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare
with
it.
PPr 12.390 1 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and
Milton the
moderns of the richest strains.
Milton, n. (1)
Milt1 12.277 21 The lover of Milton reads one sense in
his prose and in his
metrical compositions;...
Miltonic, adj. (1)
LE 1.168 21 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded
of these... Miltonic...pictures.
Milton's, John, n. (11)
ET11 5.190 16 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house,
for which
Milton's Comus was written...
ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John
Milton's Pro Populo
Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
QO 8.194 24 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have
their best fame within [this century].
Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben
Jonson, Milton,- and Milton's prose as his verse;...
SlHr 10.441 10 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest
Milton's picture of
John Bradshaw...
CPL 11.505 19 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a
Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very
modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other
books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took
up a sound cross in not reading them.
Milt1 12.255 15 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson,
students...of the same
subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to
the
amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
Milt1 12.260 22 ...Milton's mind seems to have no
thought or emotion
which refused to be recorded.
Milt1 12.274 26 ...Milton's [imagination] ministers to
the character.
Milt1 12.274 27 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice
of Milton still.
Milt1 12.278 6 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the
world of experience. Such
certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts.
Miltons, n. (1)
Milt1 12.272 19 [Milton's] opinions on all subjects are
formed for man as
he ought to be, for a nation of Miltons.
mimetic, adj. (1)
Ill 6.310 5 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave]
the mimetic habit
with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
mimic, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.172 13 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the mimic waving of
acres of houstonia...these are the music and pictures of the most
ancient
religion.
Art2 7.53 1 The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage
of the insect, has
a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
mimic, n. (2)
Suc 7.292 21 ...because we cannot shake off from our
shoes this dust of
Europe and Asia...every man is a borrower and a mimic...
Elo2 8.109 9 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast
his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
mimic, v. (4)
LE 1.173 5 Thus is justice done to each generation and
individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not...mimic his
ancestors;...
Ill 6.310 7 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave]
the mimetic habit
with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making night
to
mimic day...
Elo1 7.69 9 [The Sicilians] mimic the voice and manner
of the person they
describe;...
PLT 12.18 4 [Thoughts or intellections] again all mimic
in their sphericity
the first mind...
mimicked, v. (1)
Carl 10.497 26 This aplomb [of Carlyle] cannot be
mimicked;...
mimicking, v. (1)
SA 8.105 25 A little experience acquaints us with the
unconvertibility of
the sentimentalist, the soul that is lost by mimicking soul.
mimicry, n. (2)
DL 7.120 10 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy
with which [the
eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last
oration, or
mimicry of the orator;...
LLNE 10.334 4 ...every young scholar could recite
brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or
bad, of his voice.
mimics, n. (1)
QO 8.188 23 Admirable mimics have nothing of their own.
Mimir's, n. (2)
Ctr 6.138 1 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a
drink of Mimir's
spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
Ctr 6.138 12 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's]
parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at
Mimir's spring.
Mina, Francisco, n. (1)
WSL 12.339 4 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will
never be greater
soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he
will;...
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