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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