Mongol to Mordaunt

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

Mongol, n. (1)

    Bost 12.184 4 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...

monied, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.184 5 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?

monies, n. (1)

    HDC 11.46 6 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.

Moniteur, n. (1)

    NMW 4.254 3 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...

monitor, n. (2)

    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 monitor...then all its habits... become sublime.
    GoW 4.265 24 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes, and the returning reason of the community thanks the reason of the monitor.

monitors, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 19 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors;...
    SovE 10.198 24 ...it is...our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.

monitory, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.84 12 [The scholar] Nature solicits with...all her monitory pictures;...
    ET7 5.118 2 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...

monk, n. (8)

    GoW 4.266 24 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    ET16 5.286 10 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.
    Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Bhr 6.193 22 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated...
    Bhr 6.194 6 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    PPo 8.248 20 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
    ACri 12.289 17 The Devil a monk was he, means, he was no monk...
    ACri 12.289 18 The Devil a monk was he, means, he was no monk...

monkeys, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.189 25 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
    FSLN 11.227 16 [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?

monkish, adj. (3)

    MN 1.215 19 You shall love...an unimpeded mind, and not a monkish diet;...
    ET13 5.216 1 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories...
    Grts 8.316 5 I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way.

monks, n. (3)

    Tran 1.339 19 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks...
    Hist 2.28 9 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    Edc1 10.142 5 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.

Monks, n. (1)

    MR 1.228 16 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...

Monmouth, Geoffrey of, n. (2)

    ET7 5.117 24 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    ET16 5.281 14 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here, as Geoffrey of Monmouth relates?...

Monoco, John, n. (1)

    HDC 11.58 17 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...

monomania, n. (2)

    MN 1.196 19 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
    GoW 4.265 9 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.

monomaniacs, n. (2)

    Wth 6.93 26 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices...
    War 11.156 19 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society, who converse on horses;...

monopolies, n. (2)

    Con 1.310 2 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that with all its admitted defects, rotten boroughs and monopolies, it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Comp 2.98 20 Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

monopolist, n. (1)

    Carl 10.492 19 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.

monopolists, n. (1)

    SovE 10.193 6 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].

monopolize, v. (4)

    LT 1.275 3 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men, to use and not to fence in and monopolize.
    Pow 6.72 3 The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
    Edc1 10.135 27 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man he is not yet sound...
    CInt 12.116 3 ...[the college] deals with a force which it cannot monopolize or confine;...

monopolized, v. (2)

    DSA 1.131 16 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... even virtue and truth...monopolized.
    FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.

monopolizer, n. (1)

    NMW 4.226 6 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.

monopolizing, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.253 23 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals; egotistic and monopolizing;...

monopolizing, v. (1)

    F 6.16 10 We see the English, French, and Germans...monopolizing the commerce of [America and Australia].

monopoly, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.125 14 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.

monopoly, n. (12)

    YA 1.374 10 We legislate against forestalling and monopoly;...
    SL 2.149 9 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    OS 2.278 6 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.
    NMW 4.252 20 [Napoleon] was...the subverter of monopoly and abuse.
    ET11 5.184 17 This monopoly of political power has given [the English peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
    ET15 5.261 20 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...
    Suc 7.308 12 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...one monopoly, and the other hospitality of mind.
    QO 8.182 22 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    MoL 10.247 6 A scholar defending the cause...of monopoly...is a traitor to his profession.
    SMC 11.349 13 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit.
    FRep 11.543 8 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...
    CInt 12.116 8 If the colleges...had any monopoly of it, nay, if they really had it, had the power of imparting valuable thought...we should all rush to their gates;...

monosyllables, n. (2)

    ET14 5.235 13 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    Ctr 6.150 21 ...[the man of the world]...speaks in monosyllables...

monotones, n. (4)

    Bhr 6.173 15 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist; the monotones;...
    Clbs 7.233 3 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...then the heady men...the monotones...
    PLT 12.50 21 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    PLT 12.51 3 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea...

monotonous, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.411 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths...

monotony, n. (5)

    Hist 2.23 13 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration...
    Hsm1 2.260 19 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    PI 8.45 14 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    Edc1 10.136 3 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought.
    CL 12.143 25 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland...

Monro, Alexander, n. (1)

    SwM 4.102 11 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...

Monroe, James, n. (1)

    OA 7.333 16 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age, General Washington was about fifty-eight, and I was about fifty-eight, and Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Madison, and Mr. Monroe.

Mons, Jean-Baptiste Van, n [Mons,] (3)

    UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Van Mons, of pears;...
    II 12.76 5 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CW 12.173 24 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.

monsieur, n. (1)

    ET16 5.287 27 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.

monsoons, n. (1)

    PI 8.50 8 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey, and seasons, and monsoons.

monster, n. (1)

    ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].

Monster, n. (1)

    DSA 1.129 23 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster.

monsters, n. (14)

    AmS 1.83 16 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters...
    Comp 2.126 6 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
    Int 2.337 21 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of woods and of monsters...
    Art1 2.363 18 ...[art] is impatient...of making cripples and monsters...
    Mrs1 3.144 16 ...these [social lions] are monsters of one day...
    MoS 4.150 19 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    F 6.15 23 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    Cour 7.276 1 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...
    Cour 7.276 8 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...parricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters.
    Comc 8.167 9 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters...
    PerF 10.74 17 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
    Supl 10.163 20 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects were monsters and extremes.
    Supl 10.175 2 You shall not catch [Nature]...swaggering into any monsters.
    SovE 10.188 16 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the scavengers, executioners, diggers...

monstrous, adj. (10)

    MN 1.203 24 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.
    Hist 2.11 13 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous...
    NER 3.269 24 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man...and the result was monstrous.
    ET5 5.76 15 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    Dem1 10.9 15 However monstrous and grotesque [dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
    Dem1 10.18 17 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals]...
    Dem1 10.18 28 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    Wom 11.417 4 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais, in whom it is monstrous exaggeration of temperament...
    ACri 12.288 16 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...

monstrous, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.6 14 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.

monstrously, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.71 22 [Socrates]...was monstrously fond of Athens...

Mont Blanc, Switzerland, n. (1)

    Boks 7.213 20 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour to Mont Blanc...make such amends as they can.

Montague, Basil (?), n. (2)

    ET1 5.14 3 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET1 5.14 7 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...

Montague House, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 19 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...

Montagu's, Mary Wortley, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 7 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...

Montaigne, Michael Eyquem, (1)

    Shak1 11.452 14 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (32)

    Con 1.323 6 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    SL 2.146 24 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes...of Montaigne?...
    Exp 3.55 17 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book;...
    MoS 4.162 7 ...some stark sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation. These qualities meet in the character of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.162 9 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...
    MoS 4.163 2 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.163 6 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    MoS 4.163 10 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and...had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.163 17 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.163 25 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    MoS 4.164 3 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.164 16 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    MoS 4.164 23 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    MoS 4.164 24 Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
    MoS 4.168 22 Montaigne talks with shrewdness...
    MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
    MoS 4.170 4 Shall we say that Montaigne has spoken wisely...
    MoS 4.171 18 ...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason...
    GoW 4.288 14 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris;...
    ET1 5.8 5 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...
    ET9 5.151 19 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi are men of the world;...
    Wth 6.113 15 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Montaigne...
    Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...
    Boks 7.208 25 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Montaigne;...
    QO 8.180 25 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    PPo 8.258 14 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets, and they have matched on this head the absoluteness of Montaigne.
    Insp 8.289 18 ...Montaigne travelled with his books, but did not read in them.
    Insp 8.295 10 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the newest French book.
    MLit 12.316 26 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.
    WSL 12.339 15 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
    WSL 12.341 12 When we pronounce the names of...Erasmus, Scaliger and Montaigne;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

Montaigne Michel Eyquem, n. [Montaigne,] (14)

    MoS 4.169 25 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
    SovE 10.187 24 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms;...
    Plu 10.295 23 Montaigne...says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    Plu 10.299 22 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne...
    Plu 10.299 23 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    Plu 10.299 26 Plutarch had a religion which Montaigne wanted...
    Plu 10.300 4 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.300 10 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
    Plu 10.307 8 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles; as do Plutarch, Montaigne, Hume and Goethe.
    Plu 10.309 1 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.
    CW 12.172 14 Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...
    ACri 12.285 25 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany...
    ACri 12.295 22 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    ACri 12.296 15 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that his subject cost him nothing...

Montaigne, St. Michel de, n (1)

    MoS 4.173 11 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.

Montaigne's, Michel Eyquem (3)

    Mrs1 3.136 9 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    SwM 4.137 9 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    Boks 7.208 8 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Montaigne's Essays;...

Montalembert, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.70 9 ...when you espouse...a Bourbon or a Montalembert party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.

Montebello, Italy, n. (1)

    NMW 4.238 3 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...

Montesquieu, Charles de Sec (12)

    ET5 5.82 19 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world.
    ET5 5.82 26 Montesquieu said, No people have true common-sense but those who are born in England.
    Civ 7.34 17 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Clbs 7.241 27 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    PI 8.13 18 If you agree with me, or if Locke or Montesquieu agree, I may yet be wrong;...
    Imtl 8.330 5 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Imtl 8.341 16 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    Plu 10.296 1 Montesquieu drew from [Plutarch] his definition of law...
    EWI 11.141 19 It was the sarcasm of Montesquieu, it would not do to suppose that negroes were men, lest it should turn out that whites were not;...
    FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...Burlamaqui, Montesquieu...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    ACiv 11.301 1 Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
    CPL 11.504 25 Montesquieu, one of the greatest minds that France has produced, writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.

Montesquieu's, Charles de S (2)

    QO 8.191 8 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    FSLN 11.238 18 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.

month, n. (31)

    Nat 1.19 7 ...the river...boasts each month a new ornament.
    MN 1.196 9 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
    Hist 2.22 10 The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month.
    Cir 2.306 26 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Cir 2.317 13 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Exp 3.83 19 I should feel it pitiful to demand...an overt effect on the instant month and year.
    PPh 4.46 15 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    ET2 5.30 27 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET11 5.193 18 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    Pow 6.72 25 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...month after month, the sibyls and prophets.
    Wth 6.115 17 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Boks 7.214 21 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee, which represent the fashion of the month, are to portraits.
    Clbs 7.239 17 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?
    OA 7.331 6 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age, and received a stroke in every month or year.
    Insp 8.284 3 A day to [Mirabeau] was of more value than a week or a month to others.
    CSC 10.373 1 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
    MMEm 10.419 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on. Ended miserably the month which began so worldly.
    MMEm 10.429 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] enter my dear sixty the last of this month.
    HDC 11.32 11 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.71 13 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    HDC 11.77 24 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
    LVB 11.91 24 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    FSLN 11.232 23 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
    AKan 11.263 12 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions, adjourning...from month to month.
    Koss 11.401 6 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    PLT 12.26 15 A subject of thought to which we return from month to month...has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    PLT 12.26 16 A subject of thought to which we return from month to month...has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    CL 12.136 8 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./
    CL 12.137 26 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
    CW 12.174 24 Make a calendar...of the year, that you may never miss your favorites [among the plants] in their month.
    Trag 12.415 24 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month.

monthly, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.121 20 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend.

Montholon, Charles Tristan, (1)

    NMW 4.251 15 [Bonaparte's] memoirs, dictated to Count Montholon and General Gourgaud at St. Helena, have great value...

months, n. (46)

    AmS 1.93 9 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
    AmS 1.101 2 ...[the scholar]...watching days and months sometimes for a few facts;...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    LE 1.158 23 ...over [the scholar] streams Time, scarcely divided into months and years.
    MN 1.196 21 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
    MR 1.237 9 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name once in three months to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    Prd1 2.226 7 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Prd1 2.236 9 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Exp 3.59 6 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    NER 3.260 3 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    MoS 4.178 25 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years...
    ET1 5.3 12 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET5 5.99 1 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET7 5.124 25 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...
    ET12 5.204 26 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing. This three years is about twenty-one months in all.
    Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
    Wsp 6.235 15 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country.
    Bty 6.302 19 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Civ 7.29 10 ...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...between his first observation and his second...
    Clbs 7.239 19 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Clbs 7.249 9 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
    Comc 8.167 7 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea;...
    Insp 8.282 9 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse, darkening months or years, the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.283 25 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    MoL 10.248 6 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest;...
    Schr 10.265 21 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    Schr 10.284 6 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
    Thor 10.468 4 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months...
    HDC 11.78 2 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga, and died, after a few months, of the distemper that prevailed in the camp.
    HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    EWI 11.117 2 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.128 5 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...
    FSLC 11.186 18 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
    FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    AsSu 11.247 3 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    SMC 11.365 20 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].
    Shak1 11.452 12 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...
    CPL 11.506 2 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...
    CPL 11.506 3 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,-three months since the dawn...
    Mem 12.94 9 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    Bost 12.185 22 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.199 3 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    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 12.228 3 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MAng1 12.231 16 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's].
    ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...

months', n. [month's,] (4)

    SMC 11.366 1 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, enlisted as nine months' men...
    SMC 11.366 25 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    Mem 12.98 22 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books.
    MAng1 12.236 5 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.

Montluc Blaise de, n. [Montluc,] (3)

    cour 7.261 16 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    Res 8.147 4 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Grts 8.308 10 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.

Montluc's, Blaise de, n. (1)

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

Montpellier, France, n. (1)

    NMW 4.250 10 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.

Montreal, Canada, n. (3)

    ET7 5.120 15 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal...I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    CbW 6.268 8 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is...near Montreal.
    Bost 12.187 10 In New York, in Montreal...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;...

Monument, Concord, n. (2)

    SMC 11.351 27 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    SMC 11.352 19 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...

Monument, London, n. (1)

    ET13 5.230 25 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument or the Tower...

monument, n. (16)

    NR 3.230 21 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    SwM 4.144 17 [Swedenborg's books have become a monument.
    MoS 4.163 1 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    ET5 5.91 26 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research by Sir Charles Followes for the Xanthian monument...
    ET12 5.201 20 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.
    ET13 5.217 4 [The English Church]...names every day of the year, every town and market and headland and monument...
    ET16 5.273 6 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
    ET16 5.273 8 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.278 22 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
    ET16 5.281 12 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here...
    Plu 10.319 5 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
    Plu 10.321 5 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...
    HDC 11.81 15 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    FSLC 11.209 7 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
    FSLN 11.233 27 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the Union is rotten in four years.
    MAng1 12.244 8 There [in Santa Croce]...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.

Monument, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.221 18 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster.

monumental, adj. (4)

    Boks 7.193 5 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    PI 8.70 10 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin, monumental as he now looks, whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    PC 8.212 13 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    MAng1 12.229 11 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental;...

monuments, n. (11)

    DSA 1.139 22 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like...the astronomical monuments of the Hindoos...
    Hist 2.7 11 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    NMW 4.254 18 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation] continues...
    ET2 5.30 2 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET3 5.39 22 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    ET4 5.66 4 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET16 5.281 21 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    Schr 10.262 6 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica...
    EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.
    Koss 11.397 13 ...Concord is one of the monuments of freedom;...
    CW 12.173 23 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.

Monuments, n. (2)

    SHC 11.433 3 In the valley where we stand [in Sleep Hollow Cemetery] will be the Monuments.
    SHC 11.433 7 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village and is out of sight of the Monuments;...

mood, n. (31)

    MN 1.200 20 Thou must ask in another mood...
    Tran 1.342 5 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...
    Tran 1.356 19 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject...
    SL 2.145 13 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us.
    Fdsp 2.198 15 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Cir 2.320 9 We do not guess to-day the mood...of to-morrow...
    Pt1 3.24 22 The poet also resigns himself to his mood...
    Exp 3.50 12 It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
    Exp 3.56 8 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion gives me tidings of their mood...
    NR 3.248 4 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought...
    SwM 4.108 18 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    SwM 4.141 14 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
    ET12 5.199 21 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind...
    Bhr 6.178 10 ...in its altered mood by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
    CbW 6.265 21 ...hope puts us in a working mood...
    Boks 7.188 2 That book is good/ Which puts me in a working mood./
    Clbs 7.250 17 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    Cour 7.272 18 The hero could not have done the feat...in a lower mood.
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    PI 8.47 6 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.70 22 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood deals sovereignly with matter...
    Insp 8.296 4 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
    PerF 10.82 11 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    HCom 11.342 21 It is easy to recall the mood in which our young men... went to the war.
    Wom 11.406 17 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important.
    PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    Bost 12.188 8 London now for a thousand years has been in an affirmative or energizing mood;...
    ACri 12.300 8 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    ACri 12.305 19 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question...of...not particular merits, but the mood of mind into which one and another can bring us.
    WSL 12.348 5 The dense writer has...even a gamesome mood often between his valid words.
    EurB 12.367 6 ...Wordsworth, though satisfied if he can suggest to a sympathetic mind his own mood...is really a master of the English language...

moods, n. (28)

    Tran 1.356 18 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such...alienations and misgivings,-they have so many moods about it;...
    Hist 2.16 15 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Fdsp 2.198 17 ...my moods are quite attainable...
    Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid moods...
    Cir 2.306 18 Our moods do not believe in each other.
    Art1 2.364 18 Nature transcends all our moods of thought...
    Art1 2.364 20 ...the [art] gallery stands at the mercy of our moods...
    Exp 3.48 10 There are moods in which we court suffering...
    Exp 3.50 4 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads...
    Exp 3.55 5 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.
    Exp 3.72 10 ...I have described life as a flux of moods...
    NR 3.247 4 If we could have any security against moods!
    NR 3.247 25 I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
    NER 3.271 1 I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods...
    UGM 4.31 16 We pass very fast, in our personal moods, from dignity to dependence.
    MoS 4.159 25 [Unbelief and universal doubting] are no more [the skeptic' s] moods than are those of religion and philosophy.
    MoS 4.175 15 There is the power of moods...
    MoS 4.183 6 All moods may be safely tried...
    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...great range and many moods...
    Ill 6.321 18 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility?
    SS 7.13 26 The remedy is to reinforce each of these moods from the other.
    WD 7.169 20 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    PI 8.30 17 ...colder moods are forced to respect the ways of saying [the poet's thought]...
    Insp 8.274 4 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods in any degree within control?
    Aris 10.33 5 A many-chambered Aristocracy lies already organized in [a man's] moods and faculties.
    Aris 10.33 6 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    PLT 12.11 16 I write...a sort of Farmer's Almanac of mental moods.
    CL 12.154 17 ...the variety of our moods has an answering variety in the face of the world...

moody, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.1 1 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    ET19 5.312 24 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish...
    MLit 12.318 8 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit...

moon, n. (74)

    Nat 1.19 14 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel;...
    Nat 1.20 15 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators. So are the sun and moon...
    Nat 1.20 20 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.47 13 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon...
    Nat 1.71 16 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon;...
    Nat 1.71 17 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon; from man the sun, from woman the moon.
    Nat 1.72 1 Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the follower of the moon.
    AmS 1.106 3 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
    LE 1.167 16 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
    LE 1.169 16 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.187 7 Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world? Hides his thoughts! Hide the sun and moon.
    MN 1.219 5 [Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
    MR 1.256 27 ...the time will come when we too...shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
    Con 1.309 21 ...the moon and the north star you would quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
    Tran 1.342 8 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    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.
    Hist 2.26 23 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    SR 2.73 14 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me...
    Comp 2.91 5 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./
    SL 2.137 18 ...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.
    SL 2.147 20 People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and the trees;...
    SL 2.164 5 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Fdsp 2.205 5 [Friendship] must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.
    Prd1 2.224 19 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Prd1 2.225 6 There revolve...the sun and moon...
    Prd1 2.226 12 At night [the islander] may sleep on a mat under the moon...
    OS 2.269 16 We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;...
    Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature, the sun and moon...which should be their toys.
    Exp 3.55 9 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Mrs1 3.144 15 ...here is...Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.
    Nat2 3.179 2 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire, and not with reflex rays of sun and moon.
    Nat2 3.183 23 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    SwM 4.121 5 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...the moon, faith;...
    ShP 4.207 5 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
    ShP 4.207 10 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    ET14 5.235 15 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    Wth 6.95 22 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Wth 6.98 3 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Wsp 6.218 23 We have learned the manners of the sun and of the moon...
    Bty 6.297 27 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form with moon and stars...
    Bty 6.302 14 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    SS 7.4 9 ...the sun and moon put [my new friend] out.
    SS 7.5 18 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
    Civ 7.28 20 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...
    Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon...
    Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    DL 7.105 14 [The boy] walks daily among wonders: fire, light, darkness, the moon, the stars...
    DL 7.117 16 [A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
    Farm 7.153 23 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to sun and moon...
    WD 7.181 12 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    WD 7.183 7 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes;...
    SA 8.105 16 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry,--and roses, and the moon...
    PPo 8.244 10 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Dem1 10.10 15 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;...
    Dem1 10.26 7 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.
    Aris 10.55 20 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere;...
    Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
    Edc1 10.131 21 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away moon, and planet...by comprehending their relation and law.
    Edc1 10.132 5 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    Prch 10.219 5 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.
    MoL 10.250 1 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute the ellipse of the moon...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Schr 10.260 1 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
    EzRy 10.392 20 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    MMEm 10.418 21 The moon and stars reproach me, because I [Mary Moody Emerson] had to do with mean fools.
    Thor 10.482 15 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.
    HDC 11.80 8 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error, not yet dismissed to the moon, that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    Wom 11.404 2 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.424 23 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds...of the same influences that make the sun and moon.
    PLT 12.41 17 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun and moon...
    CW 12.176 24 A man...should know...the quarter of the moon and the daily tides.
    MLit 12.315 11 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident with the sun and moon...
    MLit 12.331 23 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...
    WSL 12.341 17 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have quitted all beneath the moon...
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

Moon, n. (4)

    Exp 3.46 19 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the Moon...
    PI 8.51 4 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
    PPo 8.259 22 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough;...
    PPo 8.260 1 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

moonbeams, n. (1)

    SwM 4.98 14 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his contemporaries a visionary and elixir of moonbeams, no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...

moon-drawn, adj. (1)

    NR 3.223 2 In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave strives/...

moonlight, adj. (4)

    Lov1 2.177 3 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Art2 7.46 12 The effect of music belongs how much to the place, as...the moonlight walk;...
    EzRy 10.390 3 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    CPL 11.506 23 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.

moonlight, n. (8)

    Nat 1.19 11 The shows of day...moonlight...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Lov1 2.176 10 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the moonlight was a pleasing fever...
    Art1 2.349 3 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...
    Nat2 3.173 3 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight...
    ShP 4.207 18 The forest of Arden...the moonlight of Portia's villa...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    DL 7.106 18 The first ride into the country...the first game out of doors in moonlight...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    SHC 11.435 5 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day, are magical painters...
    Bost 12.191 7 Snow and moonlight make all places alike;...

moonlike, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.197 10 ...the planet has a faint, moonlike ray.

moonrise, n. (1)

    Nat 1.17 14 ...the sunset and moonrise [are] my Paphos...

moons, n. (8)

    Nat 1.68 24 ...head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./
    Cir 2.303 21 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
    Pt1 3.21 13 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    ShP 4.217 18 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    PI 8.50 7 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    Dem1 10.11 13 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./
    Humb 11.457 21 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!
    PLT 12.18 1 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons...

moon's, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 13 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?

moonshine, n. (1)

    Tran 1.356 5 ...there will be subtilty and moonshine.

Moor, Culloden, Scotland, (1)

    ET11 5.189 4 Scotland was a camp until the day of Culloden.

moor, n. (2)

    ET1 5.17 27 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it.
    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...

Moore, Abel [Major S.], n. (2)

    AgMs 12.362 4 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
    AgMs 12.362 16 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.

Moore, Thomas, n. (5)

    PI 8.50 13 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    QO 8.186 13 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    QO 8.203 18 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    RBur 11.441 24 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East...
    EurB 12.368 2 We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and conventional Europe, as Scott and Moore...

moored, v. (2)

    Ill 6.307 13 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    Trag 12.413 21 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored;...

Moore's, Thomas, n. (1)

    QO 8.197 10 In Moore's Diary, Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.

moorings, n. (1)

    Int 2.342 7 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.

Moorish, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.19 19 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.

moors, n. (5)

    ET1 5.17 22 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...moors for game...
    CL 12.151 13 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the nations out of doors./
    CW 12.177 22 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...
    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...

moose, n. (2)

    Farm 7.151 19 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear;...
    HDC 11.36 10 The moose was still trotting in the country...

Moosehead Lake, Maine, n. (1)

    MN 1.220 20 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake...

Moosehead, n. (1)

    Ill 6.317 1 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...

mooted, v. (1)

    CSC 10.376 27 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...

mop, v. (1)

    Cour 7.264 5 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...

mopings, n. (1)

    CbW 6.263 14 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings...

mops, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...all people will get mops and brooms;...

moral, adj. (371)

    Nat 1.25 14 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    Nat 1.32 27 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.
    Nat 1.33 16 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
    Nat 1.35 6 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    Nat 1.40 18 All things are moral;...
    Nat 1.41 26 ...every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
    Nat 1.41 27 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.
    Nat 1.42 14 ...this moral sentiment...is caught by man...
    Nat 1.42 17 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    AmS 1.106 26 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...
    AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    DSA 1.121 25 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.122 7 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.
    DSA 1.126 6 Man fallen...into sensuality, is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    DSA 1.136 9 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    DSA 1.136 13 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    DSA 1.136 25 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    DSA 1.138 27 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
    DSA 1.141 21 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...
    LE 1.176 16 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    LT 1.272 13 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man...
    LT 1.277 13 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
    LT 1.281 18 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    LT 1.289 10 That reality, that causing force is moral.
    Tran 1.354 22 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time...
    YA 1.366 7 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.366 22 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    YA 1.378 15 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
    YA 1.391 19 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Hist 2.29 14 [Each considerate person] learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
    SR 2.85 25 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
    Comp 2.102 6 All things are moral.
    Comp 2.103 26 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.103 27 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
    Comp 2.106 26 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.
    Comp 2.114 25 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    SL 2.133 13 ...our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    SL 2.137 22 He who sees moral nature out and out...is a pedant.
    Hsm1 2.249 7 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...
    OS 2.273 25 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    OS 2.275 10 This is the law of moral and of mental gain.
    OS 2.275 18 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    OS 2.283 23 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    OS 2.284 2 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    Cir 2.301 19 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Int 2.326 23 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Int 2.332 16 The immortality of man is as legitimately preached from the intellections as from the moral volitions.
    Int 2.341 18 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Art1 2.359 8 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all.
    Art1 2.363 9 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it is not practical and moral...
    Pt1 3.15 3 ...every thing in nature answers to a moral power...
    Pt1 3.35 22 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.
    Exp 3.52 16 Some modifications the moral sentiment avails to impose, but the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Exp 3.52 18 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Exp 3.68 21 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness...
    Exp 3.69 12 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...
    Exp 3.79 2 ...the intellect qualifies in our own case the moral judgments.
    Chr1 3.95 27 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.97 1 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor...
    Chr1 3.105 11 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
    Chr1 3.113 15 The ages are opening this moral force [of character].
    Chr1 3.114 19 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
    Mrs1 3.129 25 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.129 27 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.138 26 Moral qualities rule the world...
    Mrs1 3.149 8 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
    Nat2 3.175 27 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    Pol1 3.204 14 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.
    Pol1 3.205 16 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    Pol1 3.205 23 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.
    Pol1 3.209 9 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which are identical in their moral character...
    Pol1 3.211 6 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    Pol1 3.212 20 Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
    Pol1 3.219 14 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters; for this is a purely moral force.
    Pol1 3.220 22 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    Pol1 3.221 11 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    NR 3.227 20 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    NR 3.231 21 Property keeps the accounts of the world, and is always moral.
    UGM 4.13 25 ...all mental and moral force is a positive good.
    UGM 4.21 12 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    UGM 4.26 14 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy, or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband.
    PNR 4.83 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... More striking examples are his moral conclusions.
    PNR 4.85 5 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia; not less are the proportions constant of the moral elements.
    PNR 4.87 16 Before all men, [Plato] saw the intellectual values of the moral sentiment.
    PNR 4.88 22 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    PNR 4.88 24 ...in Plato, intellect is always moral.
    SwM 4.94 2 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.94 19 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    SwM 4.105 5 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology; whilst Locke and Grotius had drawn the moral argument.
    SwM 4.117 5 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.
    SwM 4.119 2 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    SwM 4.119 5 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.124 4 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.129 24 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    SwM 4.135 12 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment...
    SwM 4.136 25 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.141 4 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    MoS 4.175 8 I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous;...
    MoS 4.175 13 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    MoS 4.182 18 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...
    MoS 4.183 5 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    MoS 4.183 7 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections: the moral sentiment as easily outweighs them all, as any one.
    MoS 4.185 11 The appearance is immoral; the result is moral.
    NMW 4.237 15 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...
    NMW 4.258 12 [Napoleon] did all that in him lay to live and thrive without moral principle.
    GoW 4.284 4 ...[Goethe] is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment.
    ET1 5.19 18 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET3 5.36 20 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET4 5.46 26 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
    ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.66 24 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET6 5.104 19 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
    ET10 5.154 4 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET12 5.213 14 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind, as an appeal to moral order always must.
    ET14 5.259 11 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
    ET19 5.311 2 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
    F 6.12 15 People are born with the moral or with the material bias;...
    F 6.28 12 If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment.
    F 6.29 3 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    Pow 6.60 25 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.70 25 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    Pow 6.81 19 ...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 6.101 13 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world, and since those laws are intellectual and moral, an intellectual and moral obedience.
    Wth 6.101 20 The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social and moral changes.
    Wth 6.103 5 A dollar is not value, but representative of value, and, at last, of moral values.
    Wth 6.103 11 Wealth is mental; wealth is moral.
    Wth 6.111 8 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Wth 6.125 5 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Wth 6.126 15 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby...bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor.
    Ctr 6.147 12 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    Wsp 6.202 24 Heaven kindly gave our blood a moral flow./
    Wsp 6.208 15 There is no faith in the intellectual, none in the moral universe.
    Wsp 6.209 12 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Wsp 6.209 15 ...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
    Wsp 6.210 9 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    Wsp 6.211 11 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...
    Wsp 6.212 26 ...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Wsp 6.214 2 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    Wsp 6.214 24 ...obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Wsp 6.214 26 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence...
    Wsp 6.216 22 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Wsp 6.216 24 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
    Wsp 6.219 16 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    Wsp 6.221 10 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there in nature we see its fatal strength. We call it the moral sentiment.
    Wsp 6.227 9 In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment...
    Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    Wsp 6.241 10 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...
    CbW 6.251 10 All revelations, whether of mechanical or intellectual or moral science, are made...to single persons.
    CbW 6.257 16 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    CbW 6.258 11 ...there is no moral deformity but is a good passion out of place;...
    Bty 6.284 15 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose.
    Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of brain or method, moral beauty or beauty of the soul.
    Bty 6.306 1 All high beauty has a moral element in it...
    Bty 6.306 9 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,--her locks must appear to us sublime.
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    SS 7.9 5 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    SS 7.9 11 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union...
    SS 7.9 12 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Civ 7.26 5 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Civ 7.26 26 The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral;...
    Civ 7.27 1 What is moral?
    Civ 7.27 3 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Civ 7.32 27 In strictness, the vital refinements are the moral and intellectual steps.
    Art2 7.51 21 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Art2 7.52 6 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition...
    Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    Elo1 7.95 14 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Elo1 7.95 20 The natural connection by which [the resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral reforms...reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Elo1 7.97 23 The highest platform of eloquence is the moral sentiment.
    Elo1 7.98 6 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...
    DL 7.107 24 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your natural history;...
    Farm 7.140 22 ...it is from [the farmer] that the health and power, moral and intellectual, of the cities came.
    WD 7.166 23 ...with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    Boks 7.190 27 [Books] impart sympathetic activity to the moral power.
    Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Clbs 7.230 10 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Cour 7.273 6 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    Cour 7.276 8 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...parricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters.
    Suc 7.287 2 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
    Suc 7.300 6 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes.
    Suc 7.301 7 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities...
    OA 7.336 10 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.5 9 The ends of all are moral...
    PI 8.22 2 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.38 20 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded. And this perception has at once its moral sequence.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    PI 8.70 21 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
    SA 8.97 19 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it...
    SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom...
    Res 8.154 3 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    Comc 8.159 20 ...a prophet, in whom the moral sentiment predominates, or a philosopher...these do not joke...
    Comc 8.160 20 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
    PC 8.225 16 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
    PC 8.228 10 The foundation of culture...is at last the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.228 17 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.229 27 When the will is absolutely surrendered to the moral sentiment, that is virtue;...
    PC 8.233 18 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
    Grts 8.302 20 ...the scholars represent...the intellect and the moral sentiment...
    Grts 8.303 9 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Grts 8.306 27 ...[every man] shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment...
    Grts 8.314 7 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Grts 8.316 21 ...natural is really allied to moral power...
    Imtl 8.324 21 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...
    Imtl 8.327 5 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Imtl 8.331 6 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Imtl 8.343 5 We have our indemnity only in the moral and intellectual reality to which we aspire.
    Imtl 8.343 12 The moral sentiment measures itself by sacrifice.
    Dem1 10.11 14 Not a mathematical axiom but is a moral rule.
    Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies, natural and moral, which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.18 3 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world, though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...
    Dem1 10.18 21 All united moral powers avail nothing against [demonic individuals].
    Dem1 10.22 25 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.
    Aris 10.41 2 ...the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.64 24 ...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power.
    Aris 10.65 11 ...it suffices...that the interest of intellectual and moral beings is paramount with [the man of generous spirit]...
    Aris 10.66 7 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments...
    PerF 10.77 6 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    PerF 10.83 8 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.86 6 Things are saturated with the moral law.
    PerF 10.87 18 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    PerF 10.88 18 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    Chr2 10.91 12 ...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.92 19 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
    Chr2 10.93 10 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.94 25 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Chr2 10.95 10 The moral element invites man to great enlargements...
    Chr2 10.95 16 Not by adding...does the moral sentiment help us;...
    Chr2 10.96 5 The moral sentiment is alone omnipotent.
    Chr2 10.100 26 When a man is born with a profound moral sentiment... men readily feel the superiority.
    Chr2 10.104 20 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms...
    Chr2 10.112 26 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Chr2 10.113 23 All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.114 23 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient...
    Chr2 10.117 11 There will always be a class of imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the adoration of the moral sentiment...
    Chr2 10.119 18 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Chr2 10.121 9 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler, and the like in every intelligent and moral society.
    Edc1 10.135 7 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one;...
    Edc1 10.135 21 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Edc1 10.147 11 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Edc1 10.151 15 Is it not manifest...that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room...
    SovE 10.183 9 ...the intellectual and moral worlds are analogous to the material.
    SovE 10.184 15 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    SovE 10.185 13 The high intellect is absolutely at one with moral nature.
    SovE 10.185 18 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone...
    SovE 10.185 20 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.186 17 ...when I say that the world is made up of moral forces, these are not separate.
    SovE 10.186 21 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity, but they are always in combination. And so moral powers;...
    SovE 10.187 10 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    SovE 10.192 22 Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
    SovE 10.202 26 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!
    SovE 10.207 2 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    SovE 10.208 20 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend, but in the moral sentiment and the metaphysical fact which the legends enclosed...
    SovE 10.212 6 The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
    SovE 10.213 26 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.219 6 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.
    Prch 10.225 6 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    Prch 10.228 20 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    Prch 10.229 4 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions...
    MoL 10.257 10 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once.
    Schr 10.272 11 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    Plu 10.296 24 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...
    Plu 10.297 10 Whatever is eminent...in institutions, in science,-natural, moral, or metaphysical...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.300 2 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.
    Plu 10.311 8 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.
    Plu 10.313 9 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    LLNE 10.334 18 It was not the intellectual or the moral principles which [Everett] had to teach.
    LLNE 10.338 26 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times. The age was moral.
    LLNE 10.354 18 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is;...
    LLNE 10.365 17 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,- that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.409 9 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy...
    MMEm 10.425 8 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    MMEm 10.433 10 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
    Carl 10.491 20 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    Carl 10.495 9 ...pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    Carl 10.495 22 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...
    LS 11.21 1 ...the reason why [Christianity] is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.
    LVB 11.95 26 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.101 24 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    EWI 11.104 16 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...
    EWI 11.125 6 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.
    EWI 11.135 12 This event [emancipation in the West Indies] was a moral revolution.
    EWI 11.137 23 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
    EWI 11.146 3 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    War 11.156 2 In some parts of this country, where the intellectual and moral faculties have as yet scarcely any culture, the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
    War 11.156 25 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
    War 11.164 5 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    War 11.167 17 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...
    War 11.168 24 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.174 18 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have, by their intellectual insight or else by their moral elevation, attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    FSLC 11.188 11 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.188 12 The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.199 26 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
    FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLC 11.205 2 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLC 11.213 10 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    FSLN 11.223 22 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    FSLN 11.228 1 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.
    FSLN 11.229 23 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal...to the men...of delicate moral sense.
    FSLN 11.236 4 ...we are in this world...to be instructed...in the laws of moral and intelligent nature;...
    FSLN 11.237 22 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes...
    FSLN 11.238 5 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
    JBB 11.270 24 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    ACiv 11.309 11 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly, which is the tribute of a moral action.
    ACiv 11.309 24 ...the government of the world is moral...
    EPro 11.319 22 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.
    EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    ALin 11.337 25 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    SMC 11.351 20 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...having no reference to utilities, but only to the grand instincts of the civil and moral man, mixes with surrounding nature...
    SMC 11.352 9 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they overlooked the moral law...
    SMC 11.352 12 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...did not wink at it...
    SMC 11.359 23 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...the moral qualities of a commander...
    EdAd 11.385 10 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities; that the moral and intellectual effects are not on the same scale with the trade and production.
    EdAd 11.385 24 The moral influence of the intellect is wanting.
    EdAd 11.386 13 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.
    EdAd 11.386 15 Every material organization exists to a moral end...
    EdAd 11.392 15 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments...
    EdAd 11.392 20 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere...
    Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
    Wom 11.417 12 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    Shak1 11.448 3 [Shakespeare's] fame is settled on the foundations of the moral and intellectual world.
    FRO1 11.479 21 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the perfection of taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.486 5 ...the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made;...
    FRO2 11.488 6 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRO2 11.488 25 We want all the aids to our moral training.
    FRep 11.519 3 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
    FRep 11.529 26 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...that we can see and feel moral distinctions...in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.530 1 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.537 6 We want...men of moral mind...
    PLT 12.23 26 ...if one remembers how contagious are the moral states of men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
    PLT 12.35 22 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
    PLT 12.40 5 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    PLT 12.46 2 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    PLT 12.55 15 We disown our debt to moral evil.
    PLT 12.61 25 Strength enters as the moral element enters.
    II 12.68 20 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
    II 12.71 14 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
    II 12.76 1 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.81 9 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
    Mem 12.90 7 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action.
    CInt 12.117 18 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    CInt 12.131 24 ...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every moment new and commanding...
    CL 12.139 8 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    Bost 12.206 3 Moral values become also money values.
    MAng1 12.215 13 Especially we venerate [Michelangelo's] moral fame.
    MAng1 12.243 8 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?
    Milt1 12.254 2 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.
    Milt1 12.262 21 [Milton's] gifts are subordinated to his moral sentiments;...
    Milt1 12.263 17 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...
    Milt1 12.264 16 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.269 2 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    ACri 12.294 12 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth...
    ACri 12.299 12 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
    ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    MLit 12.315 17 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions...
    MLit 12.326 13 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions, but to lower the moral influence of the man.
    MLit 12.328 20 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
    MLit 12.330 2 ...because Nature is moral, that mind only can see, in which the same order entirely obtains.
    MLit 12.331 27 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
    WSL 12.345 19 A moral force...[character] works directly and without means...
    EurB 12.365 11 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception...
    Trag 12.416 19 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.
    Trag 12.417 3 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

moral, n. (23)

    LE 1.160 17 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of the Plutarchs... who give us the story of men or of opinions.
    YA 1.379 11 That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope...
    Hist 2.13 22 ...a poet makes twenty fables with one moral.
    Cir 2.301 9 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Art1 2.352 12 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...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    Nat2 3.171 25 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    UGM 4.14 21 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution. ... This is the moral of biography;...
    ET1 5.20 27 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
    F 6.46 24 ...the moral is that what we seek we shall find;...
    Wsp 6.218 8 The moral must be the measure of health.
    Wsp 6.234 5 The moral equalizes all: enriches, empowers all.
    PI 8.23 2 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning.
    PC 8.223 4 Nature is a fable whose moral blazes through it.
    PPo 8.246 11 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords...
    Dem1 10.11 19 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...
    Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    Edc1 10.134 22 If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so are the practical and the moral.
    SovE 10.185 16 The moral is the measure of health...
    LLNE 10.368 4 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    FSLN 11.237 24 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed.
    II 12.87 22 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    CL 12.147 25 ...[the man growing old against his will] may draw a moral from the fact that 't is the old trees that have all the beauty and grandeur.
    CL 12.160 1 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...these point the moral, and persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.

Moral Nature, n. (1)

    DSA 1.134 4 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first; this, namely; that the Moral Nature...is not explored...

Moral Sentiment, n. (2)

    LT 1.289 10 That reality, that causing force is moral. The Moral Sentiment is but its other name.
    Con 1.301 10 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...

morale, n. (1)

    HCom 11.342 12 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.

moralist, n. (6)

    Tran 1.336 20 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use...
    UGM 4.12 25 Engineer...moralist...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    Chr2 10.111 21 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost, as we feel when we go back to each original moralist.
    Plu 10.312 8 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims;...
    EWI 11.137 8 ...every liberal mind, poet, preacher, moralist, statesman, has had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.199 16 There is...not a moralist but is prying into [slavery's] quality;...

moralists, n. (4)

    Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should take these moralists at their word and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.96 3 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Chr2 10.116 1 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    SovE 10.186 4 In youth and in age we are moralists...

morality, n. (25)

    ET1 5.6 13 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
    ET15 5.270 6 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative...
    Wsp 6.207 24 The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Wsp 6.215 8 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Civ 7.24 2 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Civ 7.26 15 ...one condition is essential to the social education of man, namely, morality.
    Civ 7.26 17 There can be no high civility without a deep morality...
    Civ 7.27 7 Civilization depends on morality.
    Civ 7.33 13 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Civ 7.33 16 ...a purer morality, which kindles genius, civilizes civilization...
    Civ 7.34 15 Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential;...
    Farm 7.152 18 Population increases in the ratio of morality;...
    Farm 7.152 19 ...credit exists in the ratio of morality.
    SA 8.84 25 ...just in proportion to the morality of a people will be the expansion of the credit system.
    SovE 10.202 27 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    MMEm 10.430 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
    FSLC 11.183 14 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch: he will say, morality means pricking a vein.
    FSLC 11.188 18 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
    FSLC 11.205 4 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others;...
    FSLN 11.228 13 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    ACiv 11.309 16 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    ACiv 11.309 19 Morality is the object of government.
    FRep 11.529 20 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government,-at the want of humanity, of morality...
    FRep 11.540 25 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    FRep 11.540 27 Morality is the object of government.

morally, adv. (2)

    Hist 2.39 24 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. What do I know sympathetically, morally, of either of these worlds of life?
    Int 2.343 18 Who leaves all, receives more. This is as true intellectually as morally.

morals, n. (76)

    MN 1.204 23 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    YA 1.373 2 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    SL 2.145 21 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners and name of that interest...
    Fdsp 2.199 5 The laws of friendship are...of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
    Cir 2.309 2 ...the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Cir 2.318 2 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
    Exp 3.81 8 That need [of seeing things under private aspect] makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust.
    Mrs1 3.127 16 Thus grows up Fashion...which morals and violence assault in vain.
    NR 3.230 26 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
    PPh 4.39 9 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.40 24 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy, in its hand-book of morals...from [Plato].
    PPh 4.47 8 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    SwM 4.93 20 ...there is a class who lead us into another region,--the world of morals and of will.
    SwM 4.137 18 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    MoS 4.149 2 Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and on the other morals.
    ShP 4.209 24 What point of morals...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    ET14 5.247 10 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that [modern philosophy's] merit is to avoid ideas and avoid morals.
    ET14 5.247 25 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET14 5.254 2 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
    F 6.21 7 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...
    F 6.21 25 Thus we trace Fate in matter, mind, and morals;...
    Pow 6.64 14 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Wth 6.90 25 The subject of economy mixes itself with morals...
    Bhr 6.172 14 [Manners'] first service is very low,--when they are the minor morals;...
    Wsp 6.217 12 There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
    Elo1 7.100 6 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or letters, or morals, as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    WD 7.166 8 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals have not declined as the arts have ascended.
    Boks 7.191 16 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Suc 7.306 6 Morals are generated as the atmosphere is.
    OA 7.328 13 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    PC 8.222 22 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still, a fact really universal,-holding in intellect as in matter, in morals as in intellect...
    Insp 8.294 8 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the world of morals...found room to exist.
    Grts 8.307 26 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience;...
    Grts 8.316 24 Intellect...will see the force of morals over men, if it does not itself obey.
    Grts 8.317 14 Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect;...
    Imtl 8.324 20 Morals must be enjoined...
    Dem1 10.19 17 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Aris 10.62 26 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...
    PerF 10.72 11 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.
    Chr2 10.91 1 Morals respects what men call goodness...
    Chr2 10.91 4 Morals respects the source or motive of this action.
    Chr2 10.91 10 There is this eternal advantage to morals, that...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.91 18 ...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.91 23 Morals implies freedom and will.
    Chr2 10.92 17 Morals is the direction of the will on universal ends.
    Chr2 10.108 12 I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
    Chr2 10.108 14 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals.
    Chr2 10.108 18 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
    Chr2 10.108 19 ...all the dogmas rest on morals...
    Chr2 10.113 2 Morals is the incorruptible essence...
    Chr2 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...
    Chr2 10.114 15 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test...
    Chr2 10.119 24 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
    SovE 10.184 17 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature;...
    SovE 10.203 1 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    SovE 10.208 16 The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
    MoL 10.255 10 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the world of morals...found room to exist.
    Plu 10.298 7 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    LLNE 10.328 2 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week. In social manners and morals the revolution is just as evident.
    War 11.175 4 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.183 8 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...
    FSLC 11.189 10 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law, be it called morals, religion, or godhead, or what you will, constituted the explanation of life...
    FSLC 11.201 19 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...
    FSLN 11.227 27 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    FSLN 11.236 27 It is of no use to vote down gravitation of morals.
    TPar 11.289 22 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    ACiv 11.299 8 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.
    SMC 11.363 12 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath. So much for the care of [the men's] morals.
    ChiE 11.472 27 [Confucius's] morals...we read with profit to-day.
    FRep 11.540 23 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    PLT 12.4 3 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...intellect, morals and social life;-laws of the world?
    PLT 12.36 24 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature, running over all the ground of morals, of intellect and of sense.
    PLT 12.60 22 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals;...
    II 12.87 21 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word. Morals and the genius of humanity will also.
    CL 12.142 5 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    PPr 12.382 2 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...

Morals, n. (3)

    Boks 7.212 17 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed.
    PI 8.63 3 Morals.--We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    Plu 10.311 4 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...

Morals [Plutarch], n. (6)

    Boks 7.200 2 ...Plutarch's Morals is less known...
    Plu 10.294 26 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470, and the Morals, part by part, soon after...
    Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
    Plu 10.296 12 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603...
    Plu 10.296 20 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    Plu 10.318 17 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.

morasses, n. (1)

    Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...

Moravian Chapel, n. (1)

    EWI 11.116 9 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.

Moravian, n. (1)

    OS 2.282 13 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

Moravians, n. (1)

    EWI 11.111 16 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...

morbid, adj. (6)

    NR 3.247 15 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside by the same speaker, as morbid;...
    SwM 4.97 20 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled...
    Cour 7.276 1 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...
    Schr 10.280 22 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Wom 11.417 15 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all drawings of morbid anatomy...
    PPr 12.389 3 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...

mordant, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 16 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America.

mordants, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 13 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of the chemist;...

Mordaunt, Charles [Lord Pe (1)

    WSL 12.340 1 A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.

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