Moth to Movers

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

moth, n. (6)

    Wsp 6.220 16 The curve of the flight of the moth is preordained...
    Insp 8.275 7 The moth flies into the flame of the lamp;...
    Insp 8.292 4 The moth must fly to the lamp...
    LLNE 10.350 16 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    SHC 11.431 14 Man is a moth among these longevities [trees].
    FRep 11.542 7 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world and is not a moth or incumbrance in it.

moth-eaten, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 8 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.

mother, adj. (3)

    Boks 7.204 19 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    HDC 11.68 11 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this, as well as the mother country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    ACri 12.286 16 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb,-never exchange a word, in the mother tongue of either, with prince or peasant;...

Mother Ann [Ann Lee], n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 2 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield, and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Mother Mirabeau, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 27 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!

mother, n. (55)

    Nat 1.59 10 I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother...
    DSA 1.136 23 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow, - father and mother...
    LE 1.156 23 Men looked...that nature, too long the mother of dwarfs, should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    Con 1.303 13 ...[the existing world] is the mother of whom you were born.
    YA 1.379 12 That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope, the prolific mother of reforms.
    SR 2.51 25 I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
    SR 2.72 24 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    SR 2.74 15 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...mother...
    Comp 2.99 27 [The man of genius] must hate father and mother, wife and child.
    Lov1 2.178 26 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
    Fdsp 2.210 4 Why...know [your friend's] mother and brother and sisters?
    Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Pt1 3.34 27 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world, wife, babes and mother...not far off.
    NR 3.237 27 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    UGM 4.27 1 Every mother wishes one son a genius...
    PPh 4.54 18 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    SwM 4.97 27 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    ET4 5.52 20 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it;...
    ET16 5.288 24 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET19 5.313 21 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes...
    F 6.10 7 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes...
    Ctr 6.163 17 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Bhr 6.182 5 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.
    Ill 6.324 14 The notions, I am, and This is mine, which influence mankind, are but delusions of the mother of the world...
    SS 7.3 7 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory, the mother of the Muses.
    Civ 7.22 17 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and carried them to her mother...
    Civ 7.22 18 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
    Civ 7.22 19 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    DL 7.103 9 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    DL 7.120 5 ...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...
    Cour 7.255 1 ...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 mother does of the child;...
    Suc 7.287 11 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/...
    SA 8.104 26 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love of the mother for her child;...
    QO 8.198 27 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...
    Chr2 10.99 9 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...
    Edc1 10.148 21 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.
    Plu 10.295 15 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    LLNE 10.329 15 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    MMEm 10.400 6 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...
    MMEm 10.400 26 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again...
    EWI 11.111 4 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    FSLC 11.211 17 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts, as she is the mother of all the New England states...
    AsSu 11.251 26 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every mother thinks of him as the protector of families;...
    HCom 11.344 13 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender,- Tell mother I will not disgrace her;...
    Wom 11.425 21 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.426 7 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    Bost 12.190 12 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all, and her mother, Old Boston in England, also;...
    Bost 12.204 8 Nature is a frugal mother...
    MAng1 12.229 27 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
    Milt1 12.270 1 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.
    EurB 12.377 18 [The Vivian Greys] would quiz their father and mother and lover and friend.

Mother, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 9 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...

Mother, Virgin, n. (1)

    Wom 11.413 5 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother...

mother-earth, n. (1)

    Hist 2.31 16 ...every time [Antaeus] touched his mother-earth his strength was renewed.

mothers, n. (11)

    Con 1.315 10 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
    YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    Exp 3.59 20 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    F 6.10 18 Men are what their mothers made them.
    CbW 6.259 4 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...
    Cour 7.257 11 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Elo2 8.122 10 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Plu 10.319 3 [Alexander] persuaded...the Persians to reverence, not marry their mothers;...
    HCom 11.344 11 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.
    SMC 11.360 13 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
    SMC 11.363 2 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them...

mother's, n. (8)

    ShP 4.211 13 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...
    F 6.9 25 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
    F 6.10 27 When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
    Pow 6.73 14 ...a man cannot return into his mother's womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
    DL 7.101 6 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms/...
    DL 7.103 5 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    Chr2 10.119 2 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
    Edc1 10.148 20 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.

Mother-Tongue, n. (1)

    SwM 4.143 23 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?

mother-wit, n. (10)

    ET1 5.4 27 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...with right mother-wit and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET4 5.47 7 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...which resulted in this mother-wit...
    Ctr 6.134 16 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture...
    Wsp 6.214 23 The cure for false theology is mother-wit.
    Clbs 7.235 9 What is a match at...chess, to a match of mother-wit...
    Clbs 7.236 14 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Edc1 10.157 14 I advise teachers to cherish mother-wit.
    Schr 10.280 8 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours...to the mother-wit...
    Schr 10.283 10 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books, but knew it all already;...
    AsSu 11.248 21 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...

moths, n. (4)

    MR 1.238 8 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... cloth by moths;...
    F 6.45 21 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    PI 8.41 11 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
    II 12.80 2 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets...

Motier, Marie du [Marquis d (1)

    PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of... Lafayette...

Motier, Marie [Marquis de (1)

    MMEm 10.400 1 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.

motion, n. (43)

    Nat 1.15 9 ...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.
    Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion.
    Nat 1.28 17 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
    Nat 1.40 21 Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.58 27 It appears that motion, poetry...all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    AmS 1.86 5 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
    DSA 1.121 17 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of... motion...
    LE 1.166 20 ...motion is as easy as rest.
    LE 1.179 4 Napoleon...walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motion in the French mode.
    MR 1.255 25 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which distributes the motion equably over all the wheels...
    Con 1.297 5 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must there not be motion?
    Comp 2.97 8 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...motion, rest;...
    Comp 2.101 22 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    OS 2.274 19 The soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line...
    Pt1 3.22 16 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...
    Nat2 3.179 20 A little heat, that is a little motion, is all that differences the... cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    Nat2 3.180 16 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.184 6 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.192 14 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead, enjoying, as it seemed, their height and privilege of motion...
    PPh 4.51 17 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...rest; the other, motion...
    PNR 4.81 9 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass before the motion of the earth can be suspected;...
    SwM 4.104 15 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.106 12 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.110 11 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...vortical motion...
    MoS 4.184 19 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    ET2 5.29 1 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and odor [at sea] are not to be dispensed with.
    ET13 5.230 22 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion...
    F 6.32 11 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Wth 6.101 6 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker]...
    Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the periodical motion of planets...
    Clbs 7.229 16 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
    Suc 7.284 5 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    PI 8.18 11 What is motion? what is beauty?...
    PI 8.24 2 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    QO 8.204 10 We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
    QO 8.204 12 ...thought has its own proper motion...
    Insp 8.272 6 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Imtl 8.337 3 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion...are not random whims...
    Imtl 8.337 6 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature, and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by knowledge.
    EdAd 11.392 16 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments, as the motion of bodies rests on geometry.
    FRep 11.533 4 Blessed is all that agitates the mass, breaks up this torpor, and begins motion.
    PLT 12.32 22 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.

Motion, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 17 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest.
    Nat2 3.194 26 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.

motions, n. (9)

    Nat 1.43 27 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...
    Hist 2.16 21 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    SR 2.57 12 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life...
    SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...motions as swift...these all are his...
    Lov1 2.175 20 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Prd1 2.239 18 The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
    Clbs 7.240 11 Can you stop the motions of good sense?
    Imtl 8.340 18 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Prch 10.218 12 ...[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. The gracious motions of the soul...I do not find.

motivated, v. (1)

    Hist 2.11 16 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he, so armed and so motived...the problem is solved;...

motive, adj. (2)

    MN 1.219 15 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    Chr1 3.92 7 The same motive force [of character] appears in trade.

motive, n. (28)

    DSA 1.143 8 ...the motive that holds the best there [in the church] is now only a hope and a waiting.
    DSA 1.143 15 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    Tran 1.335 1 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    GoW 4.289 23 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...drawing his motive and his plan from his own breast, tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    ET6 5.109 4 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    F 6.27 26 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    Ctr 6.164 24 ...I think it a presentable motive to a scholar, that...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Wsp 6.210 25 How prompt the suggestion of a low motive!
    Bty 6.284 1 The motive of science was the extension of man...
    Civ 7.27 4 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Clbs 7.228 20 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days!
    Dem1 10.4 19 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.
    Aris 10.31 13 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    Chr2 10.91 4 Morals respects the source or motive of this action.
    Chr2 10.92 21 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
    Chr2 10.92 26 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice. All the virtues are special directions of this motive;...
    Chr2 10.102 19 Character...by implication points to the source of right motive.
    Chr2 10.102 21 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Prch 10.224 21 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives;...
    Prch 10.224 26 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    Prch 10.227 22 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree. I agree with their heart and motive;...
    Prch 10.233 24 Spirit is motive and ascending.
    MoL 10.255 19 ...[the work of art] should have a commanding motive in the time and condition in which it was made.
    MMEm 10.406 13 ...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive...
    Carl 10.492 7 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government...
    EWI 11.137 20 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion...
    War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without...some equal motive...
    FRep 11.515 2 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished...by the motive.

motives, n. (16)

    AmS 1.114 8 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives...to the American Scholar.
    YA 1.380 22 These [Communities] proceeded from a variety of motives...
    SR 2.74 27 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    Comp 2.114 23 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives.
    GoW 4.289 4 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...
    DL 7.128 3 Happy will that house be...in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
    Boks 7.214 16 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    OA 7.325 8 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    Imtl 8.339 4 ...the man must have new motives, new companions, new condition and another term.
    Dem1 10.26 6 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Chr2 10.102 16 Character denotes...habitual regard to interior and constitutional motives...
    Prch 10.224 22 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives;...
    MoL 10.245 11 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    LLNE 10.329 26 The young men were born with...a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
    EWI 11.127 13 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives.
    FSLC 11.189 22 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...instead of noble motives and inspirations...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.

motley, adj. (2)

    Schr 10.272 5 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him. He knew the motley system in its egg.
    MMEm 10.424 6 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work...

Motley, John Lothrop, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.447 22 We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our members Sumner and Motley.

motor, n. (2)

    ET5 5.87 5 [The English] adopt every improvement in rig, in motor, in weapons...
    ET10 5.160 9 [Steam] makes the motor of the last ninety years.

Motte-Guyon, Jean Marie de (1)

    MMEm 10.399 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's life] has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin...

mottled, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.9 15 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...

motto, n. (9)

    LE 1.179 19 Means to ends, is the motto of all [Napoleon's] behavior.
    NER 3.255 17 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    Elo1 7.69 23 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    QO 8.188 18 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    ACiv 11.297 3 Ich dien, I serve, is a truly royal motto.
    Bost 12.205 4 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that the most noble motto was that of the Prince of Wales,-I serve...
    Bost 12.211 19 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    MAng1 12.221 1 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
    PPr 12.391 20 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...

mottoes, n. (1)

    ET7 5.118 1 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...

mould, n. (19)

    MR 1.238 8 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...
    MR 1.239 6 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    Tran 1.329 5 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times.
    Tran 1.335 4 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
    Tran 1.335 5 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould.
    Tran 1.335 7 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould.
    UGM 4.4 21 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. We run all our vessels into one mould.
    Pow 6.51 3 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Ctr 6.129 11 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    PI 8.23 11 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized, as if it had passed through the body and mind of man, and taken his mould and form.
    PPo 8.259 16 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Prch 10.219 21 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief...of men cast in a higher mould.
    LLNE 10.350 11 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould slipped...
    Thor 10.459 22 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould.
    Thor 10.469 4 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    EdAd 11.393 7 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs.
    PLT 12.33 11 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...
    PLT 12.57 23 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax...
    II 12.65 3 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...

mould, v. (8)

    Nat 1.40 8 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful.
    ET12 5.213 11 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities...
    Elo1 7.97 17 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them...
    PI 8.30 21 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    PI 8.64 18 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies...
    Res 8.142 24 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
    SovE 10.186 23 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
    SovE 10.202 26 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!

moulded, v. (9)

    Art1 2.349 23 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    ET4 5.67 12 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for law, lawful trade...
    ET10 5.161 15 By these new agents [steam and money] our social system is moulded.
    CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
    Art2 7.35 3 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    WD 7.175 3 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Imtl 8.329 8 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...
    LLNE 10.352 11 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be... moulded, polished...at the will of the leader;...
    Milt1 12.245 3 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./

mouldered, adj. (1)

    SR 2.66 15 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.

mouldiest, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.59 26 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...

moulding, v. (1)

    ET11 5.173 18 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy. Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect in every part.

moulds, n. (2)

    ET14 5.245 15 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds.
    ALin 11.328 5 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

moulds, v. (9)

    Nat 1.76 2 Spirit alters, moulds, makes [nature].
    AmS 1.95 27 [Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.
    GoW 4.264 5 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect will and is articulated.
    Bty 6.296 18 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm...
    Art2 7.57 13 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Cour 7.254 25 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues down that adversary, moulds society to his purpose...
    Aris 10.43 9 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...
    SovE 10.211 23 The credence of men it is that moulds them...
    Wom 11.425 15 ...woman moulds the lawgiver and writes the law.

moult, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.155 26 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

mound, n. (4)

    ET5 5.97 10 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
    ET16 5.277 12 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy...
    ET16 5.280 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...
    Koss 11.397 11 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...

mounds, n. (2)

    Hist 2.19 20 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    ET16 5.277 9 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...

Mounds, n. (1)

    Hist 2.29 7 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door...

Mount Agiochook, n. (1)

    LE 1.170 3 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.

Mount Agiocochook, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 13 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in your closet?

Mount Annursnuc, Massachuse (1)

    Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded him.

Mount Cenis, France, n. (1)

    Con 1.314 26 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...

Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador, (1)

    Pt1 3.9 12 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...

Mount Etna, Sicily, n. (1)

    AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...

Mount Greylock, Massachuset (1)

    CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...

Mount Hecla [Hekla], Icela (1)

    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...

Mount Helvellyn, England, n (3)

    Insp 8.287 13 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?
    EurB 12.368 7 Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...
    EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

Mount Hoosac, Massachusetts (1)

    AKan 11.262 4 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach of peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.

Mount Kaf, Arabia, n. [Mount] (2)

    PPo 8.240 22 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
    PPo 8.263 18 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...

Mount Katahdin, Maine, n. (1)

    MN 1.220 19 Shall we not...betake ourselves to some desert cliff of Mount Katahdin...

Mount Killington, Vermont, (1)

    Supl 10.170 7 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits, as Killington...mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

Mount Monadnoc, New Hampsh (5)

    Wth 6.122 20 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc.
    Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
    Insp 8.287 12 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in your closet?
    HDC 11.39 5 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    Bost 12.191 24 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions; Monadnoc was burned over to kill them.

mount, n. (9)

    Pt1 3.31 16 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    MoS 4.174 19 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
    ET14 5.257 24 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people.
    DL 7.101 1 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb/...
    PI 8.1 5 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    Imtl 8.346 16 [Immortality] must be sacredly treated. Speak of the mount in the mount.
    Aris 10.29 10 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    II 12.79 11 It is not less the rule of this kingdom [of thought] that you shall not speak of the mount except on the mount;...
    PPr 12.380 5 ...he is the commander who is always in the mount...

Mount Plinlimmon, Wales, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 13 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?

Mount, Rydal, England, n. (2)

    ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    ET17 5.294 12 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.

Mount Uncanoonuc, New Hamp (2)

    Wth 6.122 20 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc.
    CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?

mount, v. (7)

    Fdsp 2.209 19 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room; let them mount and expand.
    Pt1 3.12 3 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live...
    PPh 4.69 11 All things mount and mount.
    Ctr 6.166 13 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Elo1 7.66 26 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels.
    Plu 10.322 5 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    War 11.161 13 The star once risen...will mount and mount...

Mount Vesuvius, Italy, n. (2)

    AmS 1.108 19 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples.
    Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...

Mount Vesuvius, n. (1)

    SMC 11.350 27 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.

Mount Wachusett, Massachuse (2)

    Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills, Wachusett...
    CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...

Mount Washington, New Hamp (1)

    Thor 10.464 1 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.

mountain, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.68 11 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every mountain stratum...
    AmS 1.114 20 Young men...inflated by the mountain winds...turn drudges...
    DSA 1.124 26 [The religious sentiment] is a mountain air.
    LT 1.264 9 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Hist 2.15 19 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Hist 2.16 4 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    OS 2.290 17 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps...the mountain lights, the mountain thoughts they enjoyed yesterday...
    Cir 2.302 13 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.
    Pt1 3.11 12 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble...may put the key into our hands.
    ShP 4.213 4 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort...
    Wsp 6.199 6 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold:/ Though they sealed him in a rock,/ Mountain chains he can unlock/...
    Art2 7.47 16 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo...
    Farm 7.145 2 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    Farm 7.148 10 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature;...
    Elo2 8.114 6 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was the companion of the mountain cattle...
    Imtl 8.334 25 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains...
    MMEm 10.428 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she... went out to ride in it, on horseback, in her mountain roads...
    Humb 11.458 10 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    FRep 11.542 23 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...
    PPr 12.391 9 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle. He shakes with his mountain mirth.

Mountain, Bear, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.401 18 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.

mountain, n. (50)

    Nat 1.15 6 ...the primary forms, as...the mountain...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the mountain...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    AmS 1.97 19 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day to the mountain...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    Hist 2.12 6 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.21 5 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
    Comp 2.91 3 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./
    Pt1 3.19 15 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
    Exp 3.50 8 From the mountain you see the mountain.
    Exp 3.50 9 From the mountain you see the mountain.
    UGM 4.15 24 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back. There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore.
    PPh 4.39 14 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
    SwM 4.137 6 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    ShP 4.203 27 You cannot see the mountain near.
    ShP 4.213 24 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain;...
    GoW 4.261 11 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...
    ET2 5.31 7 The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism;...
    ET10 5.163 26 This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.
    ET13 5.215 2 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    ET16 5.276 16 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.
    F 6.12 22 It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.19 5 These [laws of repression] are pebbles from the mountain...
    F 6.24 14 A man ought to compare advantageously with...a mountain.
    F 6.34 15 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and...rive every mountain laid on top of it.
    F 6.34 20 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society,-grouping it on a level instead of piling it into a mountain...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Wth 6.103 2 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston], no, not with a mountain of dollars.
    Bty 6.288 13 ...the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Bty 6.302 13 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...tapping a mountain for his water-jet;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.318 16 Yonder mountain must migrate into your mind.
    Elo1 7.64 18 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    Elo1 7.81 22 [Personal ascendency] is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet;...
    Elo1 7.86 9 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party up a mountain...
    Farm 7.147 21 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in groves, and from the wind by the walls of the mountain.
    WD 7.159 18 [Steam]...drags away a mountain.
    PI 8.9 7 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature, the animals, the mountain...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.10 23 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,--a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.
    Imtl 8.341 22 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit.
    Dem1 10.3 18 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    PerF 10.75 6 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    Edc1 10.131 19 Yonder mountain must migrate into [man's] mind.
    Schr 10.287 20 I invite you [scholars]...to the mountains of vision...
    War 11.157 7 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
    FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLC 11.210 6 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery]...
    FSLN 11.222 26 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet and sure feeling of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
    SMC 11.350 19 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    PLT 12.47 22 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    II 12.66 7 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.
    CL 12.154 8 The sea is the chemist that dissolves the mountain and the rock;...
    Bost 12.190 3 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river...
    EurB 12.369 9 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...

Mountain, Saddle-back, Main (1)

    Supl 10.170 8 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits, as... Saddle-back, etc., mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

Mountain, Wachusett, Massac (1)

    HDC 11.39 5 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.

mountain-chains, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.182 24 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.

mountaineer, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 25 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.

mountaineers, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 6 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!

mountainous, adj. (6)

    Con 1.298 8 ...[conservatism] must saddle itself with the mountainous load of the violence and vice of society...
    Comp 2.123 27 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish.
    ShP 4.219 4 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they read...all-excluding mountainous duty;...
    GoW 4.289 14 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET13 5.215 1 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    Imtl 8.325 18 ...[the Greek] built no more of those doleful mountainous tombs.

mountain-ridge, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 10 The sea, the mountain-ridge...pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...

Mountains, Allegheny [Alleg (2)

    ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent [America], in high Alleghany pastures...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.

Mountains, Allegheny, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.176 9 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
    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.
    PI 8.41 12 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
    Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...

Mountains, Alps, n. (12)

    Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no Alps to climb...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SL 2.148 7 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] levels the Alps;...
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said;...
    NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
    NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
    NMW 4.248 23 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps.
    ET11 5.183 18 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or in the Alps...
    WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters, tunneling alps...
    WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

Mountains, Andes, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...

Mountains, Andes, n. (6)

    LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
    SR 2.58 7 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    Fdsp 2.200 21 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

Mountains, Atlas, n. (1)

    LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...

Mountains, Catskill, n. (1)

    Supl 10.170 4 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.

Mountains, Caucasus, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.31 16 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Aris 10.29 10 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

Mountains, Ghats [Ghauts], (1)

    ET11 5.183 20 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...on the Ghauts.

Mountains, Ghauts [Ghats], (1)

    Boks 7.213 21 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the thour...to the White Hills and the Ghauts, make such amends as they can.

Mountains, Harz, Germany, n (1)

    ET11 5.183 19 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...in the Harz Mountains...

Mountains, Himmaleh, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.182 24 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.

Mountains, Himmaleh, n. (3)

    LT 1.260 9 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
    SR 2.58 8 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...wading up the snowy Himmaleh;...

mountains, n. (104)

    Nat 1.8 5 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
    Nat 1.19 10 The shows of day...mountains...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.21 3 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?
    Nat 1.32 3 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the cattle low upon the mountains...
    Nat 1.32 21 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    DSA 1.119 23 ...in its mountains of metal and stone;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    LE 1.156 25 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should...run up the mountains of the West with the errand of genius and love.
    LE 1.163 5 ...in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains... behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.167 16 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
    LE 1.169 24 ...in the mountains, [men] may believe in the adaptations of the eye.
    MN 1.212 7 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
    MN 1.223 5 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering with all its mountains in the vast West?
    LT 1.289 14 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains...
    Con 1.304 13 The respect for the old names of places, of mountains and streams, is universal.
    YA 1.368 7 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make...chains of mountains quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    YA 1.371 4 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and thence proceeding inward to the prairie and the mountains...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.372 15 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances...even of lesser mountains...from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    Hist 2.7 24 Praise is looked...from the mountains and the lights of the firmament.
    Hist 2.26 19 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Prd1 2.238 26 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
    Exp 3.71 18 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...
    Nat2 3.175 3 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
    UGM 4.12 3 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...
    SwM 4.99 7 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes grubbing into mines and mountains...
    SwM 4.141 6 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains...
    ShP 4.219 5 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them...
    NMW 4.248 20 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    NMW 4.248 23 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...
    ET3 5.35 2 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...through mountains in tunnels of three or four miles...
    ET3 5.42 18 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET4 5.55 9 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems...
    ET10 5.161 4 [Steam] can clothe shingle mountains with ship-oaks...
    ET14 5.244 7 The absence of the faculty [of generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts...
    F 6.20 20 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains...
    F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...mountains...
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Wth 6.98 2 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Wth 6.121 24 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...through mountains, over streams...
    Ctr 6.160 7 ...the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations...
    Wsp 6.216 18 ...genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude;...
    CbW 6.262 12 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
    CbW 6.268 1 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains...
    Bty 6.305 7 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines, like mountains on the horizon, as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
    Ill 6.322 2 A sudden rise in the road shows us the system of mountains...
    SS 7.1 24 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...
    Elo1 7.95 23 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    DL 7.117 19 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    Farm 7.144 21 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe,--a menstruum which melts the mountains into it.
    Farm 7.145 13 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Farm 7.152 11 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
    Boks 7.217 7 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky, a morning among the mountains;...
    Boks 7.217 13 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...in stars and mountains...the analogons of our own thoughts...
    Cour 7.278 1 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
    Cour 7.278 14 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
    PI 8.2 2 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/...
    PI 8.16 15 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;...
    PI 8.18 26 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
    PI 8.19 24 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    PI 8.26 11 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.
    Elo2 8.109 15 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    PC 8.224 27 Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions...
    PC 8.229 9 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    PPo 8.239 21 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures, which have the same kind of effect on the wild tribes of the Persian mountains.
    Insp 8.276 10 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if tea, or wine, or sea-air, or mountains...could...wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Grts 8.305 3 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men, with a taste for mountains and rocks...
    Imtl 8.325 15 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    Dem1 10.22 2 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    Dem1 10.28 10 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
    Aris 10.60 8 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...
    Supl 10.170 8 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
    Supl 10.170 10 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises, and reserve the word mountains for the range.
    MoL 10.249 20 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    LLNE 10.344 25 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
    MMEm 10.397 19 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    Thor 10.453 18 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.479 12 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    Thor 10.481 9 ...[Thoreau]...never willingly walked in the road, but in the grass, on mountains and in woods.
    Thor 10.484 11 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    LVB 11.91 21 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
    FSLC 11.202 1 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...
    FSLN 11.240 22 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    JBB 11.270 12 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...the fugitives still hunted in the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania;...
    JBS 11.279 26 [John Brown] made his hard bed on the mountains with [animals];...
    ACiv 11.300 19 There are already mountains of facts [on slavery]...
    SMC 11.353 25 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the mountains, bridges river and lake...
    PLT 12.5 4 It is not then cities or mountains...that any longer commands us, but only man;...
    PLT 12.36 2 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...
    II 12.76 15 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us...
    Mem 12.107 5 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.
    CL 12.136 19 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.140 23 We are very sensible of this [power of the air], when, in midsummer, we go to the seashore, or mountains...
    CL 12.154 20 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
    CL 12.156 2 ...mountains are silent poets...
    CL 12.156 24 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.
    CL 12.160 6 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...
    CL 12.160 14 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
    Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
    Bost 12.199 27 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its mountains of security...
    MAng1 12.237 13 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
    ACri 12.300 14 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
    ACri 12.300 15 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
    MLit 12.320 22 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine, we felt the awe of mountains...
    PPr 12.386 8 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes, to the very mountains and stars almost...

mountain's, n. (1)

    Wth 6.84 1 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/

Mountains, Norway Alps, n. (3)

    CL 12.155 5 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
    CL 12.155 11 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again ascended the Alps, I revived as before.
    CL 12.155 17 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...

Mountains, Notch, Massachus (2)

    Nat2 3.175 2 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country, in the Notch Mountains, for example, which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
    Boks 7.213 19 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the Notch Mountains...make such amends as they can.

Mountains, Rocky, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.204 3 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of the Rocky Mountains...
    Thor 10.473 25 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...

Mountains, Shenandoah, n. (1)

    JBS 11.281 22 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than [John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...

Mountains, White, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.401 16 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains...

mountain-sides, n. (1)

    CbW 6.268 4 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides;...

mountain-tops, n. (1)

    Insp 8.290 15 Certain localities, as mountain-tops...are excitants of the muse.

mounted, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.73 18 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    WD 7.164 27 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.

mounted, v. (7)

    F 6.26 27 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted, the impersonality...that engage us.
    Wsp 6.228 16 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...
    Boks 7.203 11 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi;...
    Clbs 7.238 4 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    PI 8.13 1 When some familiar truth or fact appears...mounted as on a fine horse...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    QO 8.189 6 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say;...
    HDC 11.60 13 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.

mounting, adj. (2)

    SL 2.165 18 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...motions as swift, mounting, extravagant...these all are his...
    Mem 12.101 18 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest. And who shall set a boundary to this mounting value?

mounting, v. (3)

    Nat 1.13 24 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country...
    PPh 4.75 27 Mounting into heaven...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...

mounts, v. (12)

    Nat 1.1 6 And, striving to be man, the worm/ Mounts through all the spires of form./
    PPh 4.57 27 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness, which mounts...to piety.
    SwM 4.141 27 When [Swedenborg] mounts into the heaven, I do not hear its language.
    MoS 4.169 5 [Montaigne] keeps the plain; he rarely mounts or sinks;...
    ET4 5.50 12 As the scale mounts, the organizations become complex.
    ET10 5.155 21 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.
    Elo1 7.80 12 ...among our cool and calculating people, where every man mounts guard over himself...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    WD 7.162 21 Civilization mounts and climbs.
    PI 8.54 21 Ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts.
    PI 8.54 22 Ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts.
    Insp 8.280 24 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./
    Schr 10.288 6 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame, pure as the stars to which it mounts.

mourn, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.215 17 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

mourned, v. (1)

    ALin 11.330 1 ...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief: the man was not so to be mourned.

mourner, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 16 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle...nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner;...

mourners, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    EzRy 10.387 22 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...
    GSt 10.507 7 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
    TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it...

mournful, adj. (5)

    LT 1.264 7 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
    Exp 3.81 13 The life of truth is cold and so far mournful;...
    NR 3.244 7 ...men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries...
    ET19 5.312 14 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country...
    PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.

mourning, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.9 16 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    MMEm 10.397 22 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    ALin 11.329 20 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...

mourning, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.83 27 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    CPL 11.500 25 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced. All things have put on mourning but they...

mourning, v. (1)

    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./

mourns, v. (3)

    LE 1.162 20 ...in a remote village, the ardent youth loiters and mourns.
    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    GSt 10.501 14 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.

mouse, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 2 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation...

mouse, n. (4)

    Chr1 3.98 6 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate...mouse to Hecate;...
    Bhr 6.184 7 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will, as the cat does the mouse;...
    Comc 8.158 25 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...as a man might look at a mouse...
    Carl 10.495 19 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence, as a man might look at a mouse.

mouse-ear, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 27 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen, the ictodes prepares its flower, and the mallows and mouse-ear.

moustache, n. (1)

    Cour 7.264 25 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.

mouth, n. (50)

    LE 1.165 15 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;...
    MN 1.198 26 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear;...
    MN 1.211 7 [A poet] was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom.
    LT 1.278 10 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...a little breath of your mouth?
    Con 1.300 19 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
    Hist 2.18 27 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
    Fdsp 2.196 2 Our own thought sounds new and larger from [our friend's] mouth.
    Hsm1 2.246 30 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    OS 2.273 14 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    Exp 3.85 6 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny.
    Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his mouth ate, his hand paid for...
    Nat2 3.189 20 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    UGM 4.29 19 Serve the great. ... Be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth.
    SwM 4.134 3 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...
    NMW 4.228 10 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    NMW 4.233 7 Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth...
    NMW 4.258 24 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...and our wine will burn our mouth.
    ET4 5.50 11 The low organizations are simplest; a mere mouth, a jelly, or a straight worm.
    ET7 5.120 26 In the power of saying rude truth, sometimes in the lion's mouth, no men surpass [the English].
    F 6.39 5 ...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
    Wsp 6.205 26 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
    Ill 6.309 7 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Civ 7.28 10 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.
    Elo1 7.89 18 [The orator's] expressions...fly from mouth to mouth.
    Farm 7.140 19 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the mouth.
    Clbs 7.238 7 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
    Clbs 7.240 21 Who can stop the mouth of Luther...
    Cour 7.255 25 ...the pure article...self-possession at the cannon's mouth...is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Cour 7.268 4 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    PI 8.44 6 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...puts words in their mouth such as they should have spoken...
    Elo2 8.109 15 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    QO 8.190 15 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    PPo 8.243 25 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.260 3 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    PPo 8.261 21 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Edc1 10.139 12 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    EzRy 10.391 26 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say...
    MMEm 10.411 4 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    LS 11.9 26 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?-I reply they are not extraordinary expressions from him. They were familiar in his mouth.
    FSLC 11.201 12 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
    FSLN 11.238 10 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    Wom 11.404 3 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is honey in the mouth...
    RBur 11.443 13 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them from a book, but from mouth to mouth.
    PLT 12.13 5 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.
    CW 12.176 17 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
    MAng1 12.241 1 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    WSL 12.340 11 ...we...have no wish...to put an argument in the mouth of [Landor's] critics.
    Pray 12.351 13 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    PPr 12.389 2 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

mouthful, n. (3)

    PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large.
    ET2 5.29 18 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water... makes a mouthful of a fleet.
    Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

mouthfuls, n. (1)

    OA 7.318 4 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!

mouth-piece, n. (1)

    HDC 11.47 14 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece...

mouths, n. (15)

    LE 1.176 9 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths...
    Mrs1 3.145 7 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees. What if they are in the mouths of selfish men...
    Mrs1 3.148 15 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    ET4 5.59 2 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET8 5.129 4 In mixed company [the English] shut their mouths.
    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.
    Elo1 7.69 2 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    DL 7.104 27 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.
    WD 7.162 22 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    Grts 8.303 19 ...he who rests on what he is...can make mouths at Fortune.
    LLNE 10.334 16 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    LLNE 10.367 19 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
    TPar 11.291 9 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so they shut their mouths.
    ALin 11.333 15 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later, by the very acceptance and adoption they find in the mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
    WSL 12.345 8 The word Character is in all mouths;...

Moutier, Marie du [Marquis (2)

    NMW 4.228 11 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...Lafayette is an ideologist.
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...

movable, adj. (4)

    OA 7.324 9 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
    QO 8.179 5 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    EzRy 10.383 27 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from the movable seats.
    MAng1 12.227 6 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...

move, n. (1)

    Cour 7.269 9 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.

move, v. (26)

    Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does rest, heaven move.../
    DSA 1.123 16 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    MR 1.231 3 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...he cannot move hand or foot in them.
    Con 1.304 27 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    Tran 1.351 11 ...I will not move until I have the highest command.
    Hist 2.20 3 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
    Cir 2.312 5 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.
    NR 3.243 13 ...if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.
    ET10 5.157 26 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...
    Pow 6.66 22 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that as there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues;...
    Bty 6.290 25 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.
    Bty 6.292 16 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    DL 7.127 14 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world,--so slow, and lazily, and great, they move.
    Comc 8.164 2 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    PC 8.215 5 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
    Grts 8.320 9 If men were equals, the waters would not move;...
    Supl 10.164 20 From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move admiration by quantity.
    SovE 10.186 19 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...
    SovE 10.198 22 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open. There is power enough in them to move the world;...
    ACiv 11.304 3 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    SMC 11.373 27 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to move next morning at daylight.
    EdAd 11.393 1 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    PLT 12.47 22 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    Mem 12.99 1 ...[the loadstone] gains new particles all the way as you move it, but one falls off for every one that adheres.
    Trag 12.409 20 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.
    Trag 12.416 16 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it;...

moveable, adj. (1)

    LT 1.273 26 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable...

moved, v. (27)

    AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    LT 1.279 17 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of... fraudulent persons. Then they are greatly moved;...
    SR 2.55 24 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
    Comp 2.108 5 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal and was crushed to death beneath its fall.
    SL 2.149 26 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...and heaven and earth are moved to that end.
    Pt1 3.10 12 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table.
    Pt1 3.14 24 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    Mrs1 3.142 3 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    NER 3.277 18 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    ET6 5.104 22 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the trunk.
    ET13 5.227 11 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    Elo1 7.72 19 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    WD 7.171 22 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    Cour 7.279 22 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    PI 8.68 15 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as to lift us...
    SA 8.103 6 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent preference for others. Wherever he moved, he was the benefactor.
    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    PPo 8.239 19 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures...
    PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    Plu 10.316 16 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself...
    MMEm 10.407 23 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    Thor 10.469 12 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits, nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him.
    Thor 10.475 13 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought not to have moved trees...
    EWI 11.111 19 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    PLT 12.30 20 When, moved by love, a man teaches his child...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    MAng1 12.232 6 Every stroke of [Michelangelo's] pencil moved the pencil in Raphael's hand.

movement, adj. (2)

    LT 1.268 23 ...we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    NER 3.263 16 If partiality was one fault of the movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.

movement, n. (44)

    Nat 1.51 4 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    AmS 1.110 19 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    AmS 1.113 12 Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is the new importance given to the single person.
    MN 1.201 5 Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy, to be represented by a circular movement...
    LT 1.271 1 ...the [reform] movements are in reality all parts of one movement.
    LT 1.281 5 ...the reforming movement is sacred in its origin;...
    Con 1.297 20 Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
    YA 1.383 3 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    YA 1.387 26 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity... Which should be that nation but these States? Which should lead that movement, if not New England?
    Hist 2.5 13 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you.
    Lov1 2.181 17 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Cir 2.318 17 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Mrs1 3.129 26 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence, as a patriotic, a literary, a religious movement, and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Pol1 3.199 17 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement...
    Pol1 3.219 10 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. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history.
    GoW 4.268 18 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not...is he of the movement?..but...does he stand for something?
    ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET15 5.270 22 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
    F 6.18 13 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had...a mind parallel to the movement of the world.
    Bhr 6.169 3 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bhr 6.177 10 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    Bty 6.290 24 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.293 26 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...
    Ill 6.325 16 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd...whose movement and doings he must obey;...
    Comc 8.163 1 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.
    Dem1 10.11 11 A man reveals himself in every glance and step and movement and rest...
    Dem1 10.23 22 The fault of most men is that they...do not wait the simple movement of the soul...
    Aris 10.34 22 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    Prch 10.218 22 I see movement, I hear aspirations, but I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.223 9 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    LLNE 10.342 16 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
    LLNE 10.360 15 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors...
    EWI 11.138 6 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    FSLC 11.203 11 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    FSLN 11.217 15 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...
    AsSu 11.250 10 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    Wom 11.406 21 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.426 15 The new movement [for women's rights] is only a tide shared by the spirits of man and woman;...
    SHC 11.430 27 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    FRO1 11.477 15 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    FRO1 11.478 1 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    FRO1 11.479 25 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    PLT 12.59 8 We are passing into new heavens in fact by the movement of our solar system...
    Mem 12.90 23 It is essential to a locomotive that it can reverse its movement...

Movement, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 13 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

movements, n. (20)

    LT 1.269 15 These [modern reform] movements are on all accounts important;...
    LT 1.271 1 ...the [reform] movements are in reality all parts of one movement.
    LT 1.278 15 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Tran 1.354 22 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time...
    YA 1.380 10 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness the new movements in the civilized world...
    Cir 2.320 13 ...the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, he hideth;...
    Exp 3.68 9 Man lives by pulses; our organic movements are such;...
    NER 3.251 12 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in movements of abolitionists and of socialists;...
    NER 3.251 19 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    NER 3.253 27 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged a good result...
    NER 3.260 9 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
    Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
    Bhr 6.169 16 What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements of the body...
    Bhr 6.185 22 ...the movements of Blanche are the sallies of a spirit which is sufficient for the moment...
    Wsp 6.216 12 ...when great national movements began...the human soul was in earnest...
    Bty 6.292 25 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and angular but by gradual and curving movements.
    LLNE 10.326 13 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    HDC 11.72 6 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.
    War 11.154 9 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
    Wom 11.405 1 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.

mover, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.115 3 [Eloquence] instructs...that a man is a mover;...
    GSt 10.503 23 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy, and of many he has been the prime mover.

movers, n. (3)

    MN 1.205 18 See the play of thoughts!...what saurians, what palaiotheria shall be named with these agile movers?
    NER 3.251 20 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    Bhr 6.187 8 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...

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