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

more, adj. (524)

    Nat 1.3 17 There is more wool and flax in the fields.
    Nat 1.13 5 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Nat 1.44 12 Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference...
    Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants...
    Nat 1.69 16 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Nat 1.77 10 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.82 14 Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of [the American Scholar's] biography.
    AmS 1.113 27 If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce [the scholar's] ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all;...
    DSA 1.146 21 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    DSA 1.150 23 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor...
    LE 1.175 17 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... theatres, can teach you no more than a few can.
    MN 1.202 15 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more...
    MN 1.204 15 What account can [man] give of his essence more than so it was to be?
    MN 1.208 14 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom...
    MR 1.230 27 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...
    MR 1.240 25 ...where a man does not yet discover in himself any fitness for one work more than another, [the husbandman's] may be preferred.
    MR 1.246 15 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these they crave also...
    MR 1.246 24 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform...
    MR 1.251 18 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
    MR 1.255 9 Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer?
    MR 1.256 25 ...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers...
    LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    LT 1.274 20 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage.
    LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
    LT 1.280 13 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power...
    LT 1.288 9 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far. But what know they more than we?
    Con 1.296 10 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he made nothing more...
    Con 1.296 23 O Saturn, replied Uranus, thou canst not hold thine own but by making more.
    Con 1.316 14 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have more clothes, but am not so warm;...
    Con 1.316 15 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have...more armor, but less courage;...
    Con 1.316 16 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have...more books, but less wit.
    Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
    YA 1.389 17 The more need of a withdrawal from the crowd...by the brave.
    YA 1.394 12 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    Hist 2.4 20 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.
    Hist 2.9 21 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay. I will not make more account of them.
    SR 2.45 6 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
    SR 2.66 26 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    SR 2.67 11 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more;...
    SR 2.70 2 Who has more obedience than I masters me...
    SR 2.85 25 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
    Comp 2.109 21 Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less.
    Comp 2.113 15 If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
    Comp 2.118 6 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point.
    Comp 2.122 15 Our instinct uses more and less in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...
    Comp 2.122 19 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
    Comp 2.123 5 I do not wish more external goods...
    SL 2.141 10 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    SL 2.154 18 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    Lov1 2.174 26 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.180 23 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.
    Fdsp 2.191 1 We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
    Fdsp 2.206 20 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two.
    Fdsp 2.208 5 Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
    Prd1 2.227 1 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics; the more he has, the less is he willing to spare any one.
    Prd1 2.228 2 There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
    Hsm1 2.262 8 More freedom exists for culture.
    OS 2.267 6 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    Int 2.341 3 [The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's] changes.
    Int 2.343 7 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
    Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
    Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Pt1 3.35 2 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant.
    Exp 3.46 2 Ah that our Genius were a little more of a genius!
    Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.48 26 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,-- no more.
    Exp 3.56 23 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
    Exp 3.59 22 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Exp 3.63 25 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man...
    Exp 3.66 16 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out. Irresistible nature made men such, and makes legions more of such, every day.
    Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
    Exp 3.69 17 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    Exp 3.70 14 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was...coactive from three or more points.
    Exp 3.77 26 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
    Chr1 3.91 9 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Chr1 3.101 4 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.
    Chr1 3.107 22 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    Chr1 3.114 24 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages. It requires the more wariness in our private estimates.
    Mrs1 3.124 4 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these...
    Mrs1 3.127 12 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    Mrs1 3.141 16 The favorites of society...are able men and of more spirit than wit...
    Mrs1 3.151 21 Where [Lilla] is present all others will be more than they are wont.
    Gts 3.159 3 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay...
    Gts 3.165 15 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
    Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    Nat2 3.185 19 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.185 24 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a new whirl, for a generation or two more.
    Pol1 3.197 12 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Pol1 3.201 1 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.
    Pol1 3.202 25 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    Pol1 3.203 21 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    Pol1 3.214 10 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    Pol1 3.219 8 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
    NR 3.231 3 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    NR 3.238 17 The recluse thinks of men as having his manner, or as not having his manner; and as having degrees of it, more and less.
    NR 3.240 23 We want the great genius only...for one star more in our constellation...
    NR 3.240 24 We want the great genius only...for one tree more in our grove.
    NR 3.242 16 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
    NR 3.243 10 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see;...
    NR 3.244 25 ...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    NER 3.264 3 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large.
    NER 3.267 20 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man...which engages the more regard, from the consideration that the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    UGM 4.4 17 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting... like hills of ants or of fleas,--the more, the worse.
    UGM 4.6 18 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
    UGM 4.22 15 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land; and if I have so much more, every other must have so much less.
    UGM 4.28 7 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    UGM 4.33 27 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away;...
    PPh 4.43 5 A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
    PPh 4.59 14 ...the rich man wears no more garments...than the poor...
    PPh 4.59 15 ...the rich man...drives no more horses...than the poor...
    PPh 4.59 15 ...the rich man...sits in no more chambers than the poor...
    PPh 4.72 7 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    PNR 4.80 5 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    PNR 4.81 18 [Plato] is more than an expert...
    SwM 4.96 21 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all. How much more, if he that inquires be a holy and godlike soul!
    SwM 4.100 4 [Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...
    SwM 4.107 16 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
    SwM 4.118 18 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.126 10 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The more angels, the more room...
    SwM 4.126 11 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The more angels, the more room...
    SwM 4.135 24 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
    MoS 4.153 14 Are you tender and scrupulous,--you must eat more mince-pie.
    MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
    MoS 4.154 17 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.157 16 ...there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?
    MoS 4.159 25 [Unbelief and universal doubting] are no more [the skeptic' s] moods than are those of religion and philosophy.
    MoS 4.160 9 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence, as of more safety...
    MoS 4.160 10 ...skepticism] is [a position] of more opportunity and range...
    MoS 4.180 1 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
    MoS 4.181 6 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth. It is a question of temperament, or of more or less immersion in nature.
    MoS 4.182 15 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it. But he denies out of more faith, and not less.
    ShP 4.193 8 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
    ShP 4.214 1 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that...more or fewer pictures, is a thing indifferent.
    ShP 4.215 21 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
    ShP 4.218 8 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream, or Winter Evening's Tale: what signifies another picture more or less?
    NMW 4.229 26 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    NMW 4.254 17 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.
    GoW 4.262 5 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal.
    GoW 4.269 17 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.
    GoW 4.274 16 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone, omitting a great deal more than he writes...
    GoW 4.283 4 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    ET1 5.9 15 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books, and has never more than a dozen at a time in his house.
    ET2 5.26 3 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment of more leisure...
    ET3 5.35 18 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain.
    ET3 5.38 22 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET3 5.38 23 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain, amounting in 1852 to more than a thousand a day.
    ET4 5.65 11 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET4 5.71 25 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.
    ET5 5.86 6 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET5 5.86 9 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
    ET5 5.88 9 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET5 5.89 11 ...that is characteristic of all [the Englishmen's] work,--no more is attempted than is done.
    ET5 5.91 6 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;...
    ET5 5.94 15 ...there is more gold in England than in all other countries.
    ET5 5.99 21 [The English] embrace their cause with more tenacity than their life.
    ET6 5.110 13 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.110 16 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET7 5.125 20 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together...
    ET8 5.130 26 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET8 5.131 19 Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples [than England].
    ET8 5.132 2 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough;...
    ET8 5.133 26 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
    ET8 5.141 10 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe: for they have more personal force than any other people.
    ET10 5.157 7 An Englishman, while he eats and drinks no more or not much more than another man, labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.160 3 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a common catastrophe.
    ET11 5.198 17 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET12 5.204 25 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.
    ET12 5.211 8 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET12 5.212 3 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET13 5.219 18 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    ET13 5.223 2 I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican than in other churches...
    ET14 5.247 1 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks...
    ET14 5.248 18 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... not by any tutoring more or less of Newton...
    ET14 5.253 7 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
    ET14 5.255 22 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.
    ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's].
    ET16 5.280 17 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops.
    ET17 5.296 19 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board.
    ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    ET18 5.307 16 ...the American people do not yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
    ET18 5.307 20 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
    F 6.11 23 Most men and most women are merely one couple more.
    F 6.17 3 One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
    F 6.32 19 ...more than Mexicos...are awaiting you.
    F 6.37 27 There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his food.
    F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Pow 6.73 25 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle, endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
    Pow 6.74 5 Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more...
    Pow 6.79 3 More are made good by exercitation than by nature, said Democritus.
    Pow 6.81 8 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    Wth 6.88 7 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Wth 6.88 27 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet, and of more planets than his own.
    Wth 6.90 12 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence...
    Wth 6.95 7 The rich take up something more of the world into man's life.
    Wth 6.97 15 They should own who can administer...they whose work carves out work for more...
    Wth 6.102 15 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.102 24 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Wth 6.103 14 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Wth 6.103 25 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Wth 6.116 21 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Ctr 6.143 6 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ctr 6.156 25 ...if [solitude] can be shared between two or more than two, it is happier and not less noble.
    Bhr 6.180 21 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
    Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not express more repose than his behavior.
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Wsp 6.207 14 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. We think and speak with more temperance and gradation,--but is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    Wsp 6.210 20 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no more virtue than they possess;...
    Wsp 6.226 13 There was never a man born so wise or good but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty and report it.
    Wsp 6.233 13 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty.
    Wsp 6.238 14 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more.
    CbW 6.250 6 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote.
    CbW 6.250 21 The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more they are used when they come.
    CbW 6.255 14 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    CbW 6.255 15 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    CbW 6.266 9 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick...and that of the traveller...
    Bty 6.281 23 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Bty 6.282 19 All our science lacks a human side. The tenant is more than the house.
    Bty 6.285 25 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force.
    Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann, more than a hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.294 6 One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose...
    Ill 6.315 24 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion.
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    SS 7.12 15 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose, and must decline its turn in the conversation. But they who speak have no more...
    SS 7.15 27 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
    Civ 7.17 28 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Civ 7.21 15 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    Art2 7.41 27 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.44 20 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.45 26 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    Art2 7.54 9 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and as more traditions cluster round it, is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    Art2 7.54 10 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    Art2 7.55 19 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.
    Elo1 7.66 24 [Every audience] know so much more than the orator...
    Elo1 7.73 13 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.74 14 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.74 19 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly; without new information, or precision of thought, but the same thing, neither less nor more.
    Elo1 7.77 14 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another...
    Elo1 7.83 5 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
    Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.92 9 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
    Elo1 7.96 3 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob, because he is more mob than they...
    Elo1 7.96 9 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more;...
    DL 7.105 22 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.118 22 Let a man...say...an eating-house and sleeping-house for travellers [my house] shall be, but it shall be much more.
    DL 7.120 3 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    DL 7.121 27 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    DL 7.122 22 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions,--as much, or more...
    DL 7.127 11 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the spine,--no more;...
    Farm 7.140 11 ...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of it than citizens.
    Farm 7.141 14 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Farm 7.150 15 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.
    Farm 7.152 9 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    WD 7.163 11 Much will have more.
    WD 7.165 9 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer...
    WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
    WD 7.180 14 One more view remains.
    Boks 7.196 11 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for though they cost more, they do not cost much more...
    Boks 7.201 19 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
    Boks 7.201 22 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    Boks 7.219 5 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
    Clbs 7.230 2 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more;...
    Clbs 7.231 19 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
    Clbs 7.242 13 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity...
    Clbs 7.249 7 ...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...
    Cour 7.255 2 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them as...the man that knows more does of the man that knows less...
    Cour 7.257 21 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more.
    Cour 7.263 25 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
    Cour 7.264 23 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    Cour 7.265 6 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility anticipate it...
    Suc 7.288 14 The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
    Suc 7.299 27 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? a little more or less signifies nothing.
    Suc 7.302 9 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
    Suc 7.303 23 ...the lover has more senses and finer senses than others;...
    Suc 7.307 8 One more trait of true success.
    Suc 7.308 20 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto...renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    OA 7.319 14 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    OA 7.325 13 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    PI 8.6 25 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara.
    PI 8.31 8 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    PI 8.36 2 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table...than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.36 3 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.57 20 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    PI 8.69 24 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity;...
    PI 8.72 21 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account.
    SA 8.84 23 Less credit will there be? You are mistaken. There will always be more and more.
    SA 8.84 24 Less credit will there be? You are mistaken. There will always be more and more.
    SA 8.87 18 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours.
    SA 8.95 11 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Elo2 8.111 3 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
    Res 8.136 1 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    Comc 8.163 14 Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
    Comc 8.166 18 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Comc 8.171 10 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    QO 8.194 3 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    QO 8.195 1 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
    QO 8.199 19 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who, with more health or better perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    PC 8.212 24 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock, no more a measure of time than an hour-glass or an egg-glass...
    PC 8.220 13 How much more are men than nations!...
    PC 8.225 27 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such, of two or more such...and you have organized victory.
    PC 8.234 4 ...more, when I look around me, and consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.238 19 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    PPo 8.250 19 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...
    PPo 8.254 2 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.254 17 And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    Insp 8.284 2 A day to [Mirabeau] was of more value than a week or a month to others.
    Insp 8.291 8 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days. One was rest; more was lost time.
    Grts 8.301 2 There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim.
    Grts 8.301 3 There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim.
    Grts 8.307 18 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path, with more or less variation from any other man's.
    Grts 8.313 1 All greatness is in degree, and there is more above than below.
    Grts 8.314 1 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...
    Imtl 8.323 23 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it. Things being so, I feel that if this new faith can give us more certainty, it deserves to be received.
    Imtl 8.325 17 ...[the Greek] built no more of those doleful mountainous tombs.
    Imtl 8.326 9 No more truth can be conveyed than the popular mind can bear...
    Imtl 8.332 11 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held...
    Imtl 8.337 8 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Imtl 8.337 27 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power can easily provide me millions more as good.
    Imtl 8.339 2 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Imtl 8.339 17 ...[men] want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
    Dem1 10.5 26 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Dem1 10.14 13 Let me add one more example of the same good sense...
    Dem1 10.23 27 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
    Aris 10.47 21 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician...
    Aris 10.56 22 The nearer my friend...the more diameter our spheres have.
    Aris 10.58 10 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day, and the more falls he gets, moves faster on;...
    Aris 10.60 20 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    PerF 10.71 26 When the heat is less here it is not lost, but more heat is there.
    PerF 10.74 3 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces, and more than these.
    PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power...
    Chr2 10.96 24 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts of horse-power.
    Chr2 10.100 7 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.
    Chr2 10.108 21 ...all the dogmas rest on morals, and...it is only a question of youth or maturity, of more or less fancy in the recipient;...
    Chr2 10.121 3 The more reason, the less government.
    Edc1 10.141 27 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Edc1 10.146 1 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
    Edc1 10.152 16 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
    Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    SovE 10.184 8 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals; but a better discernment finds that the difference is only of less and more.
    SovE 10.184 19 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature; there is no difference of quality, but only of more and less.
    SovE 10.186 22 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
    SovE 10.186 23 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
    SovE 10.188 2 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    SovE 10.202 7 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    Prch 10.218 11 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find.
    Prch 10.225 3 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    Prch 10.236 14 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...which yet is more than a match for any physical resistance.
    MoL 10.242 25 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers; still the need was more.
    MoL 10.247 26 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm...
    Schr 10.279 7 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief and misleading;...
    Schr 10.281 17 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    Schr 10.283 7 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...
    Schr 10.284 21 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
    Schr 10.288 15 ...the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
    Plu 10.294 23 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.297 12 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...came to [Plutarch' s] pen with more or less fulness of record.
    Plu 10.301 6 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
    Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    LLNE 10.326 14 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.345 20 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    LLNE 10.367 17 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
    EzRy 10.385 8 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion? Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
    EzRy 10.394 7 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    EzRy 10.394 13 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.
    EzRy 10.394 16 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.400 22 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days. More and sadder work for this young girl.
    MMEm 10.402 26 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    MMEm 10.413 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...
    MMEm 10.415 16 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
    MMEm 10.416 1 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to learn my own unpopular destiny, and that-but no more;...
    MMEm 10.421 26 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time, make epochs, write histories,-to do more, to date the revelations of God to man.
    MMEm 10.424 12 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.
    SlHr 10.437 1 Here is a day on which more public good or evil is to be done than was ever done on any day.
    SlHr 10.447 16 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...
    Thor 10.449 5 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.449 6 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.461 24 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    Thor 10.467 7 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of its dimensions on an inch-rule...
    Thor 10.470 27 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    Thor 10.477 8 [Thoreau's] thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own:-I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./ And still more in these religious lines...
    Carl 10.491 8 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].
    LS 11.18 5 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    HDC 11.30 7 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason that we should give to our being what permanence we can;...
    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.
    HDC 11.39 20 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.39 22 Many were [the settlers of Concord's] wants, but more their privileges.
    HDC 11.43 6 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...
    HDC 11.53 3 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
    HDC 11.57 13 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more than twenty years from 1654 to 1676.
    HDC 11.71 18 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...
    HDC 11.72 12 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people. Sixty men enlisted and, in a few days, many more.
    HDC 11.80 24 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    LVB 11.96 9 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
    EWI 11.106 3 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    EWI 11.109 1 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.120 4 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...
    EWI 11.121 21 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required, and adds that more are still demanded.
    EWI 11.126 21 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    EWI 11.126 22 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    EWI 11.126 25 More than this, the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England...
    EWI 11.139 21 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less.
    War 11.161 10 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact. This having come, much more will follow.
    FSLC 11.196 25 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLC 11.198 26 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.
    FSLC 11.209 23 We are on the brink of more wonders.
    FSLN 11.221 19 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.230 15 We [in Massachusetts] have more money and value of every kind than other people...
    FSLN 11.230 19 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    FSLN 11.233 2 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    FSLN 11.241 3 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires...seems to demand of us more than mere hoping.
    FSLN 11.244 9 Now at last we are disenchanted and shall have no more false hopes.
    AsSu 11.250 4 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.
    AKan 11.255 6 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present.
    JBB 11.272 9 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use than idiots.
    TPar 11.287 1 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    TPar 11.287 19 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions. Perhaps more tenderness would have been graceful;...
    TPar 11.292 27 ...taking all the duties he could grasp, and more... [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    ACiv 11.300 18 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of these statistics?
    ACiv 11.307 5 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel.
    ACiv 11.310 25 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure than has been spoken.
    ACiv 11.311 4 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    ACiv 11.311 6 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart...
    ALin 11.333 6 ...more than all, [good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...
    ALin 11.334 1 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    SMC 11.354 9 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;-the strength is now to be tested by the eternal facts. There will be no doubt more.
    SMC 11.355 4 ...cities of men are the first effects of civilization, and also instantly causes of more civilization...
    SMC 11.355 25 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    SMC 11.373 14 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...
    SMC 11.374 5 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold...
    SMC 11.374 26 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SMC 11.376 10 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.
    Koss 11.397 21 [The people of Concord] set no more value than you [Kossuth] do on cheers and huzzas.
    Wom 11.416 19 ...one right is an accession of strength to take more.
    SHC 11.428 11 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    SHC 11.428 16 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    SHC 11.436 14 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?
    RBur 11.439 22 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we...but they could not have better reason.
    RBur 11.442 16 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man. But more than this. He had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech...
    Shak1 11.453 2 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent...
    Humb 11.458 21 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;-not because there are more elephants in Germany...
    FRO1 11.480 14 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example; and it were easy to find more.
    FRO2 11.486 25 I believe that not only Christianity is as old as the Creation...but more, that a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea in numberless conversations.
    CPL 11.497 12 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CPL 11.502 11 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    CPL 11.507 16 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do.
    FRep 11.525 10 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.
    FRep 11.535 21 I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have...
    FRep 11.535 22 I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have, but for more than there is in the world.
    PLT 12.13 4 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit. We should feel more confidence in the same results from the mouth of a man of the world.
    PLT 12.25 13 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out. We have more than we use.
    PLT 12.26 14 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.
    PLT 12.32 24 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    PLT 12.33 18 Newton did not exercise more ingenuity but less than another to see the world.
    PLT 12.34 9 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages; and we are sure that it can do more than ever was done.
    PLT 12.52 15 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
    PLT 12.58 5 [People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.
    PLT 12.58 20 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop, and the greater it grows the more is the mischief and the misleading...
    II 12.65 15 [Instinct] is that which never pretends: nothing seems less, nothing is more.
    II 12.66 19 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts;...
    II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.72 5 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.73 12 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    II 12.77 27 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
    Mem 12.91 19 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
    Mem 12.92 1 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Mem 12.93 24 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
    Mem 12.98 24 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. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no more...
    Mem 12.99 17 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.
    Mem 12.102 12 There are more inventions in the thoughts of one happy day than ages could execute...
    Mem 12.106 2 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.
    CInt 12.117 21 I presently know whether my companion has more candor or less...
    CInt 12.117 21 I presently know whether my companion has...more hope for men or less...
    CInt 12.122 24 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages, and we are sure we can do more than ever was done.
    CInt 12.123 20 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading...
    CInt 12.130 17 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do.
    CL 12.143 11 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention.
    CL 12.144 9 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...
    CL 12.144 17 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CL 12.155 24 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.
    CL 12.158 16 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...retains more susceptibility than the lower...
    CL 12.159 21 ...there are more insane persons than are so called...
    CL 12.166 5 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems.
    CL 12.166 7 We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
    CL 12.166 8 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one.
    CW 12.175 10 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.178 1 ...no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of the naturalist]..
    Bost 12.187 27 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason, they praised Athens, the Violet City.
    Bost 12.199 15 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    Bost 12.200 13 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country...
    MAng1 12.239 23 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
    MAng1 12.240 1 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    Milt1 12.254 12 If hereby we attain any more precision, we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.260 5 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    Milt1 12.260 24 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other;...
    ACri 12.291 1 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    ACri 12.297 10 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
    ACri 12.302 23 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    ACri 12.303 4 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    MLit 12.310 4 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    MLit 12.328 3 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...
    MLit 12.333 8 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself. Being so much, we cannot forgive him for not being more.
    WSL 12.342 24 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this; there are many more which this commands.
    WSL 12.348 7 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.354 15 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    AgMs 12.360 8 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman.
    EurB 12.376 8 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    PPr 12.389 25 One word more respecting [Carlyle's] remarkable style.
    Let 12.392 5 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...
    Let 12.395 5 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
    Let 12.396 5 The more discontent, the better we like it.
    Let 12.397 24 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
    Trag 12.405 3 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.
    Trag 12.411 9 ...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, any more than seasickness...

more, adv. (929)

    Nat 1.10 17 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    Nat 1.29 7 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
    Nat 1.31 3 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind...
    Nat 1.33 10 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
    Nat 1.44 8 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Nat 1.44 26 The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
    Nat 1.48 27 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.50 4 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    Nat 1.60 14 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...
    Nat 1.60 25 [The soul] is a watcher more than a doer...
    Nat 1.65 8 As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident.
    Nat 1.66 19 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...
    Nat 1.66 21 ...a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation...
    Nat 1.76 24 ...disagreeable appearances...are temporary and shall be no more seen.
    Nat 1.77 7 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way, until evil is no more seen.
    AmS 1.82 20 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself;...
    AmS 1.86 22 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.87 17 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.94 13 I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day, - are addressed as women;...
    AmS 1.96 11 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel the feet...
    AmS 1.98 22 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    AmS 1.107 25 The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy...than any kingdom in history.
    AmS 1.107 25 The private life of one man shall be...more formidable to its enemy...than any kingdom in history.
    AmS 1.107 26 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    AmS 1.108 12 ...we crave a better and more abundant food.
    DSA 1.119 14 The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
    DSA 1.120 21 A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.126 9 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
    DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross...
    DSA 1.133 19 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.137 20 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    LE 1.161 4 Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
    LE 1.162 4 No more will I dismiss...the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    LE 1.163 21 ...the more quaintly you inspect its evanescent beauties...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.163 24 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.165 21 Nothing is more simple than greatness;...
    LE 1.170 18 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
    LE 1.172 6 The book of philosophy is...no more inspiring fact than another, and no less;...
    LE 1.175 27 ...we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    LE 1.185 24 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;- then dies the man in you;...
    LE 1.185 25 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
    MN 1.192 18 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
    MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
    MN 1.197 11 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost...
    MN 1.198 10 In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.203 11 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    MN 1.212 19 ...[the stars] desire to republish themselves in a more delicate world than that they occupy.
    MN 1.216 14 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    MN 1.218 25 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe, more than there is straining in nature to exist.
    MN 1.220 23 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
    MR 1.240 20 I do not wish to...insist that every man should be a farmer, any more than that every man should be a lexicographer.
    MR 1.246 26 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    MR 1.247 4 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...
    MR 1.249 20 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    MR 1.250 1 ...no class more faithless than the scholars or intellectual men.
    LT 1.261 27 We do not think the sky will be bluer...or our climate more temperate...
    LT 1.264 17 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles.
    LT 1.266 11 Now and then comes...a more surrendered soul, more informed and led by God...
    LT 1.267 18 We...stand in the light of Ideas, whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark.
    LT 1.272 7 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...
    LT 1.273 25 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion is now no more within himself...
    LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    LT 1.276 19 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    LT 1.276 25 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man, which will work best the more it is trusted;...
    LT 1.277 10 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    LT 1.279 3 ...I urge the more earnestly the paramount duties of self-reliance.
    LT 1.287 16 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    Con 1.298 25 Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
    Con 1.298 26 ...reform [is] more disposed to maintain and increase its own [worth].
    Con 1.307 9 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite just, but necessary. Moreover, it is juster now than it was when we were born; we have made it milder and more equal.
    Con 1.308 14 ...I should be more unworthy if I did not tell you why I cannot walk in your steps.
    Con 1.319 8 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Con 1.320 13 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Tran 1.343 4 ...[Transcendentalists] have even more than others a great wish to be loved.
    Tran 1.348 16 ...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
    Tran 1.352 21 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas, and I should never be fool more.
    YA 1.367 7 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.385 23 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...
    YA 1.385 24 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...
    YA 1.387 20 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation, one of a more generous sentiment...
    YA 1.395 13 ...we shall quickly enough advance...into a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.
    Hist 2.6 2 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    Hist 2.7 19 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation, not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    Hist 2.14 25 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture...
    Hist 2.15 11 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    Hist 2.27 2 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
    Hist 2.28 10 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    Hist 2.33 24 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    Hist 2.38 7 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time.
    SR 2.45 20 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
    SR 2.46 2 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
    SR 2.51 7 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
    SR 2.56 10 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    SR 2.60 14 Let us never bow and apologize more.
    SR 2.65 15 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily;...
    SR 2.76 26 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...we pity him no more...
    SR 2.78 17 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of...putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
    SR 2.86 19 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    Comp 2.98 21 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    Comp 2.99 17 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    Comp 2.105 3 We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Comp 2.105 14 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.
    Comp 2.108 26 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    Comp 2.119 8 If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more.
    Comp 2.120 5 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;...
    Comp 2.126 22 The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
    SL 2.133 6 What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
    SL 2.141 9 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    SL 2.145 2 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
    SL 2.151 12 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
    SL 2.162 13 I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of [Epaminondas's] hour.
    Lov1 2.177 26 In giving [the lover] to another [love] still more gives him to himself.
    Lov1 2.182 5 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty, more and more inflame their love of it...
    Lov1 2.184 2 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    Lov1 2.184 10 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day.
    Lov1 2.188 27 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
    Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift, more active...are these fine inward irradiations.
    Fdsp 2.191 18 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...more cheering, are these fine inward irradiations.
    Fdsp 2.193 12 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner,--but the throbbing of the heart and the communications of the soul, no more.
    Fdsp 2.197 8 I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth.
    Fdsp 2.205 25 The end of friendship is a commerce...more strict than any of which we have experience.
    Fdsp 2.206 23 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Fdsp 2.214 16 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more.
    Fdsp 2.214 18 ...seest thou not...that thus we part...only be more each other' s because we are more our own?
    Fdsp 2.214 19 ...seest thou not...that thus we part...only be more each other' s because we are more our own?
    Fdsp 2.215 25 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind...not with yourself but with your lustres, and I shall not be able any more than now to converse with you.
    Fdsp 2.216 7 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...
    Prd1 2.228 27 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Prd1 2.233 8 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.
    Prd1 2.237 18 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    Prd1 2.240 11 We are...too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
    Prd1 2.240 16 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names prouder, and that tickle the fancy more.
    Hsm1 2.248 10 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    Hsm1 2.248 18 ...I must think we are more deeply indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
    Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science...
    Hsm1 2.251 8 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    Hsm1 2.258 13 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    Hsm1 2.264 1 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    OS 2.288 18 [Genius] is...more like and not less like other men.
    OS 2.290 12 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    OS 2.292 8 Souls like these make us feel that sincerity is more excellent than flattery.
    OS 2.296 23 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me...
    Cir 2.303 14 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    Cir 2.303 21 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
    Cir 2.304 22 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law...
    Cir 2.310 3 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Cir 2.313 3 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Int 2.331 2 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    Int 2.345 1 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Art1 2.357 12 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
    Art1 2.359 10 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
    Pt1 3.4 13 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.5 6 The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
    Pt1 3.5 8 [Men of genius] receive of the soul as [the young man] also receives, but they more.
    Pt1 3.6 22 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    Pt1 3.8 12 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
    Pt1 3.8 13 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
    Pt1 3.10 26 ...Homer no more should be heard of.
    Pt1 3.12 10 Life will no more be a noise;...
    Pt1 3.13 16 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.14 3 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Pt1 3.14 6 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Pt1 3.16 12 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    Pt1 3.17 24 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...
    Pt1 3.17 24 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men;...
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Pt1 3.28 13 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Pt1 3.38 12 [The English poets] are wits more than poets...
    Pt1 3.39 11 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in. He can no more rest;...
    Exp 3.50 17 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament.
    Exp 3.61 6 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    Exp 3.66 8 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find their life no more excellent than that of mechanics or farmers...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    Exp 3.81 10 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous self-recoveries... possess our axis more firmly.
    Exp 3.81 12 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly.
    Chr1 3.87 7 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    Chr1 3.91 3 ...to use a more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Chr1 3.93 23 This virtue [of character] draws the mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
    Chr1 3.95 20 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
    Chr1 3.110 3 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Mrs1 3.120 22 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    Mrs1 3.121 26 [Good society] is made of the spirit, more than of the talent of men...
    Mrs1 3.127 2 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear, and the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere...
    Mrs1 3.129 20 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm. I am the more struck with this tenacity, when I see its work.
    Mrs1 3.130 7 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    Mrs1 3.136 10 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
    Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty.../
    Mrs1 3.155 21 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    Nat2 3.181 25 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.
    Nat2 3.196 6 The reality is more excellent than the report.
    Pol1 3.211 9 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    Pol1 3.211 18 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
    Pol1 3.221 21 ...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.226 20 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    NR 3.230 12 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    NR 3.230 13 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    NR 3.236 15 You have not got rid of parts by denying them, but are the more partial.
    NER 3.251 19 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    NER 3.252 18 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain, and makes it more palatable and more digestible.
    NER 3.260 14 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition...that man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.
    NER 3.265 26 ...concert is...neither more nor less potent, than individual force.
    NER 3.266 2 All the men in the world...cannot make...a blade of grass, any more than one man can.
    NER 3.267 9 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion; and the stricter the union the smaller and more pitiful he is.
    NER 3.277 5 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
    NER 3.277 14 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
    UGM 4.5 25 The stronger the nature, the more it is reactive.
    UGM 4.10 16 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    UGM 4.15 5 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? We will never more think cheaply of ourselves...
    UGM 4.25 18 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    UGM 4.27 26 The more we are drawn [to geniuses], the more we are repelled.
    UGM 4.28 24 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    UGM 4.29 16 We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted.
    UGM 4.32 13 Ask the great man if there be none greater. His companions are; and not the less great but the more that society cannot see them.
    UGM 4.33 20 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    UGM 4.34 2 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow. No experience is more familiar.
    UGM 4.34 27 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
    PPh 4.53 14 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...
    PPh 4.57 16 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    PPh 4.59 6 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    PPh 4.60 10 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.
    PPh 4.62 3 No man ever more fully acknowledged the Ineffable [than Plato].
    PPh 4.64 10 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    PPh 4.64 18 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized, more genially one would say than any since, the hope of education.
    PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
    PNR 4.82 6 The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
    PNR 4.82 8 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.83 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... More striking examples are his moral conclusions.
    PNR 4.84 4 Plato affirms...that the lie was more hurtful than homicide;...
    PNR 4.84 5 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    PNR 4.84 25 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...
    SwM 4.99 3 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
    SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.106 25 ...[Swedenborg] held...that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
    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 4.112 23 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg], or expressed more subtly her goings.
    SwM 4.114 9 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally;...
    SwM 4.114 10 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally;...
    SwM 4.119 17 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    SwM 4.119 26 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.124 25 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.127 26 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
    SwM 4.131 12 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    SwM 4.131 15 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit, each more abominable than the last, round every new crew of offenders.
    SwM 4.135 1 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    SwM 4.135 25 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
    SwM 4.135 26 The more coherent and elaborate the system, the less I like it.
    SwM 4.137 9 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs; or perhaps still more like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    SwM 4.139 4 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind.
    SwM 4.146 2 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    MoS 4.149 18 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
    MoS 4.150 21 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters; and that of Goethe and Schiller...is scarcely more kind.
    MoS 4.151 23 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more...
    MoS 4.166 13 [Montaigne]...is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks the more barbarous man is, the better he is.
    MoS 4.175 12 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    MoS 4.175 14 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy, and lifts himself to a more absolute reliance.
    MoS 4.179 27 ...the excellence of each [man] is an inflamed individualism which separates him more.
    ShP 4.189 1 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    ShP 4.197 16 ...more recently not only Pope and Dryden have been beholden to [Chaucer], but, in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt is easily traced.
    ShP 4.216 9 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    ShP 4.219 19 ...right is more beautiful than private affection;...
    NMW 4.227 1 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity...
    NMW 4.227 3 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity and to much more than his predominance in France.
    NMW 4.231 20 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...
    NMW 4.236 13 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself.
    NMW 4.237 27 ...the stars were not more punctual than [Napoleon's] arithmetic.
    NMW 4.251 12 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    NMW 4.258 4 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.
    GoW 4.261 17 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march.
    GoW 4.264 10 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    GoW 4.267 17 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.267 18 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.270 3 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe...
    GoW 4.272 18 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.278 25 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    GoW 4.281 22 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared,--more or less understood;...
    GoW 4.283 27 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    GoW 4.284 7 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone...more touches the heart.
    GoW 4.285 9 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
    GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    GoW 4.288 25 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world. None was so fit to live, or more heartily enjoyed the game.
    ET1 5.3 18 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET1 5.8 4 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends;...
    ET1 5.8 15 [Landor] glorified Lord Chesterfield more than was necessary...
    ET1 5.9 12 I was more curious to see [Landor's] library...
    ET1 5.9 26 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET1 5.13 4 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    ET1 5.19 19 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition.
    ET1 5.21 28 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly...
    ET1 5.22 2 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.
    ET1 5.22 18 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET1 5.23 16 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET2 5.31 3 If sailors were contented, if they had not resolved again and again not to go to sea any more, I should respect them.
    ET3 5.36 12 The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.
    ET3 5.37 4 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard;...
    ET3 5.40 9 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
    ET4 5.46 18 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.
    ET4 5.53 23 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    ET4 5.54 7 The kitchen-clock is more convenient than sidereal time.
    ET4 5.55 7 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET4 5.58 22 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.
    ET4 5.70 5 [The English] have more constitutional energy than any other people.
    ET4 5.70 24 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island to America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
    ET4 5.72 21 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service...
    ET5 5.83 15 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET5 5.97 3 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system.
    ET5 5.99 20 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is more lasting than the cloth.
    ET5 5.101 3 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.
    ET6 5.108 15 Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical...than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].

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