Moves to Much-Travelled

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

moves, v. (24)

    LT 1.266 26 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    Hist 2.7 15 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal allusions.
    SR 2.87 11 The wave moves onward...
    SL 2.142 9 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then is he a part of the machine he moves;...
    Prd1 2.222 4 [Prudence] moves matter after the laws of matter.
    Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for ages shows empire the way.
    NER 3.266 6 ...the force which moves the world is a new quality...
    PPh 4.60 17 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence that moves the sea and land.
    ET4 5.63 3 ...one may say of England that this watch moves on a splinter of adamant.
    ET13 5.217 2 [The English Church] moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts...
    F 6.30 8 One way is right to go; the hero sees it, and moves on that aim...
    F 6.33 10 Man moves in all modes...
    F 6.40 23 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...
    Bhr 6.179 10 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Wsp 6.221 17 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Bty 6.299 17 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...moves...she confers a favor on the world.
    PI 8.24 8 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    Imtl 8.333 5 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Imtl 8.336 25 Nature never moves by jumps...
    Aris 10.58 10 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day, and the more falls he gets, moves faster on;...
    Plu 10.300 24 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    FRO2 11.490 21 The earth moves, and the mind opens.
    PLT 12.49 12 How [Intellect] moves when its pace is accelerated!
    MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.

moving, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.50 18 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore from a moving ship...
    Art1 2.357 6 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...
    Art1 2.368 3 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, reproductive;...
    Mrs1 3.123 15 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    UGM 4.4 16 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting, like moving cheese...
    MoS 4.159 9 Men are a sort of moving plants...
    Schr 10.265 12 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.272 4 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him.
    LS 11.20 6 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses, a moving provocation to works like his...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    Bost 12.206 17 ...here [in Boston] was the moving principle itself, the primum mobile...

moving, v. (4)

    NMW 4.254 22 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering. There are two levers for moving men,--interest and fear.
    Insp 8.269 12 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
    SMC 11.367 26 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving...
    MLit 12.317 10 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.

mow, v. (2)

    SR 2.56 20 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    HDC 11.29 24 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...mow the grass and reap the corn, shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.

Mowbrays, n. (1)

    ET11 5.175 10 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.

mowed, v. (2)

    Comp 2.112 2 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.
    Wth 6.119 3 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...mowed his hay...

mowers, n. (1)

    Schr 10.273 27 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...in the field he will be shamed by mowers and reapers.

mower's, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.229 1 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Pray 12.354 2 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

mowing, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.24 18 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.

mowing-machines, n. (1)

    WD 7.159 2 ...the mowing-machines, gas-light, lucifer matches...are new in this century...

mown, v. (1)

    ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.

moyens, n. (1)

    UGM 4.6 21 Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, n (1)

    Tran 1.343 5 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?

Mozley [Mosely], Thomas (?) (1)

    ET15 5.266 14 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...

Mt. Criffel, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.18 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...

Mt. Etna, Sicily, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.

Mt. Sinai, n. (1)

    ET13 5.229 10 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai...

Mt. Snowdon, Wales, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 16 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...Highlands in Scotland, Snowdon in Wales...

much, adj. (492)

    Nat 1.17 24 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
    Nat 1.37 19 ...debt, which consumes so much time...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Nat 1.42 20 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    Nat 1.42 22 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky...
    Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Nat 1.46 12 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.65 9 We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
    Nat 1.74 4 Love is as much [the spirit's] demand as perception.
    AmS 1.87 6 So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does [the scholar] not yet possess.
    AmS 1.87 7 So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does [the scholar] not yet possess.
    AmS 1.95 2 Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
    AmS 1.95 16 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    AmS 1.95 17 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    AmS 1.98 8 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived...
    AmS 1.105 7 As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.
    DSA 1.124 6 All evil is so much death or nonentity.
    DSA 1.124 8 So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
    LE 1.167 2 ...to have as much learning as our contemporaries...satisfies us.
    LE 1.184 14 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    LE 1.184 19 [The scholar] will learn that it is not much matter what he reads...
    MN 1.191 14 We hear something too much of the results of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
    MN 1.214 20 Does not the same law hold for virtue? It is vitiated by too much will.
    MN 1.215 8 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned with so much pride and hope.
    MN 1.217 15 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule-is it not so much death?
    MR 1.229 6 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    MR 1.235 1 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted,-no matter how much of it is offered to us,-we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    MR 1.239 25 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    MR 1.244 8 ...it is...not worship, that costs so much.
    MR 1.245 23 Much of the economy which we see in houses is of a base origin...
    LT 1.279 9 With so much awe, with so much fear let [the sanctuary of the heart] be respected.
    LT 1.282 26 Can there be too much intellect?
    Con 1.309 6 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me, what I want of it to till and to plant; nor could I, without pusillanimity, omit to claim so much.
    Con 1.309 13 It is God's world and mine; yours as much as you want, mine as much as I want.
    Con 1.310 16 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...
    Con 1.326 12 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.
    Tran 1.341 22 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    Tran 1.349 17 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
    YA 1.378 18 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    Hist 2.5 10 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.
    Hist 2.25 5 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow...
    Hist 2.28 24 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but... even much sympathy with the tyranny,--is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SR 2.46 23 Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on [a man], and another none.
    SR 2.54 14 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.
    SR 2.59 15 ...I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.61 5 The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.
    SR 2.70 18 All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain.
    SR 2.77 11 That which [men] call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
    SR 2.85 7 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    SR 2.86 15 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
    Comp 2.98 17 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...
    Comp 2.105 17 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has...fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death.
    Comp 2.113 25 Beware of too much good staying in your hand.
    Comp 2.127 1 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with...too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    SL 2.131 19 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.145 10 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.
    SL 2.153 6 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought. How much water does it draw?
    SL 2.153 23 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    SL 2.158 21 As much virtue as there is, so much appears;...
    SL 2.158 22 ...as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands.
    SL 2.164 12 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading?
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    Lov1 2.181 21 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Fdsp 2.203 17 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing...
    Fdsp 2.204 18 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Fdsp 2.208 8 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
    Fdsp 2.216 25 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it...feels rid of so much earth and feels its independency the surer.
    Prd1 2.226 23 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Prd1 2.229 3 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    Prd1 2.229 12 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.234 7 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Prd1 2.234 9 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
    Prd1 2.235 22 How much of human life is lost in waiting!...
    Hsm1 2.262 20 Let [a man] quit too much association...
    OS 2.278 18 We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
    OS 2.279 8 In my dealing with my child...as much soul as I have avails.
    OS 2.288 2 Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom...
    Cir 2.306 25 ...yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much;...
    Cir 2.314 27 ...all [the great man's] prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.
    Cir 2.321 13 ...events pass over [the great man] without much impression.
    Int 2.330 18 Everybody knows as much as the savant.
    Int 2.339 26 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Pt1 3.10 27 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Exp 3.47 14 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine...that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Exp 3.47 16 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Exp 3.51 9 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?
    Exp 3.57 22 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect.
    Exp 3.58 13 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform...
    Exp 3.60 14 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    Exp 3.65 11 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
    Exp 3.68 26 ...for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Exp 3.80 22 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    Exp 3.81 23 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him.
    Chr1 3.93 4 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
    Chr1 3.99 27 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices.
    Chr1 3.111 11 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist, after much exchange of good offices, between two virtuous men...
    Mrs1 3.134 12 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.140 24 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Mrs1 3.151 23 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Nat2 3.171 17 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
    Nat2 3.183 3 We may easily hear too much of rural influences.
    Nat2 3.185 8 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance a slight generosity, a drop too much.
    Pol1 3.200 17 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.203 27 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
    Pol1 3.206 11 [A cent's value] is so much warmth, so much bread...
    Pol1 3.206 12 [A cent's value] is...so much water, so much land.
    Pol1 3.217 20 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    NR 3.227 21 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    NR 3.235 11 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
    NER 3.255 19 ...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...
    NER 3.261 10 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected, but of much that the man be in his senses.
    NER 3.285 19 Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives?
    NER 3.285 22 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has...taught it so much...
    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...ingots that cost too much.
    UGM 4.22 14 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land;...
    UGM 4.26 24 ...we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates...
    UGM 4.33 16 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of energy, in any quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
    PPh 4.49 20 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant.
    PPh 4.55 27 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PNR 4.85 3 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia;...
    SwM 4.98 1 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...
    SwM 4.102 3 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    SwM 4.112 22 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    SwM 4.132 15 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein, with much pomp and graduation, the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    MoS 4.153 11 [The men of the senses] believe...that there is much sentiment in a chest of tea;...
    MoS 4.154 15 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.166 11 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    MoS 4.169 19 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so.
    MoS 4.174 26 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    MoS 4.179 10 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    ShP 4.192 21 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakspeare there is much more.
    ShP 4.194 7 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    NMW 4.226 23 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow: and he did speak it, with much effect, at the next day's session.
    NMW 4.226 26 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    NMW 4.232 4 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so much comprehension.
    NMW 4.237 1 ...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    NMW 4.247 3 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.268 12 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class...have too much sympathy with the speculative class.
    GoW 4.279 20 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn, and with such few strokes, and not a word too much... that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    GoW 4.285 17 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much.
    GoW 4.287 18 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it that he knew too much...
    ET1 5.11 18 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.12 8 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more...
    ET1 5.16 4 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    ET1 5.16 6 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET1 5.24 10 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
    ET4 5.52 2 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET4 5.56 13 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET4 5.59 6 If a [Norse] farmer has so much as a hay-fork, he sticks it into a King Dag.
    ET4 5.61 17 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries, like a tree which bears much fruit when young...
    ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
    ET5 5.80 2 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association...
    ET6 5.103 9 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service, and as they never tire, they prove too much for their tenders.
    ET6 5.106 22 ...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of character as they ever had.
    ET6 5.106 23 ...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of character as they ever had.
    ET6 5.114 27 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
    ET7 5.121 9 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour. They are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about...
    ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
    ET10 5.157 7 An Englishman, while he eats and drinks no more or not much more than another man, labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.158 21 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before.
    ET10 5.158 25 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...
    ET10 5.168 6 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    ET10 5.170 15 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET11 5.176 14 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
    ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to gain as much as they lose by their position.
    ET11 5.186 17 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners...
    ET11 5.188 20 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET12 5.201 20 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.
    ET12 5.203 23 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.
    ET12 5.211 4 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    ET12 5.212 3 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET13 5.217 27 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET13 5.221 1 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET14 5.251 9 ...much of [English] aesthetic production is antiquarian and manufactured...
    ET14 5.256 26 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources, out of which all this, and much more readily springs;...
    ET16 5.273 15 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man...who had as much penetration and as severe a theory of duty as any person in it [Carlyle].
    ET16 5.277 23 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET16 5.278 25 We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.284 26 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary,--to which Carlyle, catalogue in hand, did all too much justice,--yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.286 22 On Sunday we had much discourse, on a very rainy day.
    ET16 5.288 16 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious, too much by half for man in the picture...
    ET16 5.288 20 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...and on it man seems not able to make much impression.
    ET17 5.291 10 My journeys [in England] were cheered by so much kindness from new friends, that my impression of the island is bright with agreeable memories...
    ET17 5.292 17 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
    ET17 5.297 16 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
    F 6.12 7 Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become itself a new centre.
    F 6.16 14 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    F 6.19 19 ...'t was much if each [drowning man] could keep afloat alone.
    F 6.23 21 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    F 6.27 7 Just as much intellect as you add, so much organic power.
    Pow 6.55 22 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will, with just as much ease, sail six hundred...miles further...
    Pow 6.64 14 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
    Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
    Pow 6.74 15 No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Pow 6.75 24 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild], and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
    Pow 6.76 15 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.77 15 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
    Pow 6.80 20 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Wth 6.101 25 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;...
    Wth 6.101 26 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;-- how much rain, frost and sunshine.
    Wth 6.101 27 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Wth 6.102 1 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing.
    Wth 6.102 23 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.103 25 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Wth 6.104 9 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, which all need;...
    Wth 6.107 12 A pound of paper costs so much...
    Wth 6.108 14 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Wth 6.109 12 Money often costs too much...
    Wth 6.111 13 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it...
    Wth 6.112 14 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. This is so much economy that...it is the sum of economy.
    Wth 6.119 16 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
    Ctr 6.141 5 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Ctr 6.141 18 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that...as much good would not have accrued from a different system.
    Ctr 6.145 1 I am not much an advocate for travelling...
    Ctr 6.146 3 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
    Ctr 6.148 10 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    Bhr 6.175 15 It is much to conquer one's face...
    Bhr 6.180 25 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...take all too much notice...
    Bhr 6.190 25 Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too much demonstration.
    Bhr 6.192 11 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold, not enriched by so much as an idea or a virtuous impulse.
    Bhr 6.195 1 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
    Wsp 6.201 11 I have...no belief that it is of much importance what I or any man may say...
    Wsp 6.202 21 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
    Wsp 6.215 3 I know no words that mean so much [as the words moral and spiritual].
    Wsp 6.218 4 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin proverb.
    Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect, drew back with anger...
    Wsp 6.237 22 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Wsp 6.241 21 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...make [man] know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend.
    CbW 6.245 3 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.245 4 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.251 3 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...nor does it seem to make much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...
    CbW 6.253 20 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get.
    CbW 6.257 8 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    CbW 6.261 12 'T is a fatal disadvantage to be cockered and to eat too much cake.
    CbW 6.268 11 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small... there's too much sky, too much outdoors;...
    Bty 6.288 24 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement-- much of it superficial and absurd enough--about works of art...
    Bty 6.293 17 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges, and how much it can be hoped to effect.
    Ill 6.310 19 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Ill 6.321 26 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them, and we think how much good time is gone that might have been saved had any hint of these things been shown.
    SS 7.7 2 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence.
    Civ 7.20 26 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must not know too much...
    Civ 7.21 8 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Civ 7.25 25 Climate has much to do with this melioration.
    Civ 7.27 19 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Civ 7.28 10 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.
    Civ 7.28 11 ...after much thought and many experiments we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Civ 7.31 11 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much.
    Art2 7.38 3 Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
    Art2 7.43 14 It will be seen that in each of these [fine] arts there is much which is not spiritual.
    Art2 7.44 5 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
    Art2 7.44 6 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure, as so much deduction from the merit of Art...
    Art2 7.44 20 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.45 7 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 15 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art, of which there is much in every work of art.
    Art2 7.45 16 ...how much is there that is not original in every particular building...
    Art2 7.49 10 So much as we can shove aside our egotism...and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Art2 7.53 14 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
    Elo1 7.80 7 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
    Elo1 7.91 9 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator. His talents are too much for him...
    DL 7.114 1 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff.
    DL 7.114 17 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution. Give us wealth. You ask too much.
    DL 7.115 9 If [man]...is mean-spirited and odious, it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.118 3 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.122 11 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came, not so much for repose as study...
    DL 7.122 21 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions...
    DL 7.122 22 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions,--as much, or more...
    DL 7.129 8 ...when men shall meet as they should...each a benefactor...so rich with deeds, with thoughts, with so much accomplishment,--it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.150 17 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp.
    WD 7.174 27 ...your homage to Dante costs you so much sailing;...
    WD 7.175 1 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
    WD 7.183 26 There are people who do not need much experimenting;...
    Boks 7.195 1 Nature is much our friend in this matter [of reading].
    Boks 7.199 21 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much;...
    Boks 7.201 24 Aristophanes is now very accessible, with much valuable commentary, through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
    Boks 7.214 25 So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched;...
    Boks 7.215 5 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Clbs 7.231 20 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as one thought...
    Clbs 7.232 22 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    Clbs 7.246 19 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    Clbs 7.248 8 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    Cour 7.260 3 Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Complaining never so loud and with never so much reason is of no use.
    Cour 7.260 3 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere...
    Cour 7.263 12 [The soldier] sees how much is the risk...
    Cour 7.263 25 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
    Cour 7.268 8 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.270 27 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Suc 7.285 11 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them...with too much experience of their craft and treachery to him,--the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.287 20 These feats that we extol do not signify so much as we say.
    Suc 7.288 6 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet have as much self-respect as the English...
    Suc 7.309 23 As much love, so much perception.
    Suc 7.312 3 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    Suc 7.312 4 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    Suc 7.312 7 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
    OA 7.317 7 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.332 26 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    PI 8.22 24 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights. It is even much to name them.
    PI 8.39 25 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men. How much of the original craft remains in him, and he a mortal man!
    PI 8.42 6 There was as much creative force then as now...
    PI 8.53 1 Substance [in poetry] is much, but so are mode and form much.
    PI 8.53 2 Substance [in poetry] is much, but so are mode and form much.
    PI 8.70 16 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...
    PI 8.74 12 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages, and other men report as much, but none wholly and well.
    PI 8.75 6 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to fill the mind...
    SA 8.79 1 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.
    SA 8.87 21 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    SA 8.97 25 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used...
    Elo2 8.111 21 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence...
    Elo2 8.121 22 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God.
    Res 8.148 25 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...
    Comc 8.172 21 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I...have also much wealth...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
    Comc 8.173 9 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade, so much for so much, the intellect feels again the half-man.
    QO 8.197 1 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
    PPo 8.247 26 The difference is not so much in the quality of men's thoughts as in the power of uttering them.
    Insp 8.269 17 [The intellect's] supplies are found without much thought as to studies.
    Insp 8.286 28 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Insp 8.288 24 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm, and have all too much sympathy.
    Insp 8.289 15 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.290 7 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity, even to the drinking too much water on the preceding day.
    Grts 8.304 25 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Grts 8.311 14 There is so much to be done that we ought to begin quickly to bestir ourselves.
    Grts 8.315 12 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Imtl 8.331 22 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul...
    Imtl 8.341 8 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has learned is that there is much more to be learned.
    Dem1 10.12 9 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
    Dem1 10.24 7 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.37 2 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
    Aris 10.46 17 ...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering.
    Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...
    Aris 10.49 10 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.
    Aris 10.56 7 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have...avails.
    Aris 10.56 8 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land... avails.
    Aris 10.56 9 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land, as much house-room and dinner, avails.
    Aris 10.59 26 The youth...falls abroad with too much freedom.
    PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Chr2 10.95 14 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
    Chr2 10.106 14 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years: we all see so much.
    Edc1 10.131 2 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt? What but that much revolving of similar facts in his mind has shown him that always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    Edc1 10.140 21 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric, should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.141 23 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.152 12 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
    Edc1 10.153 13 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...
    Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
    Supl 10.169 10 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    Supl 10.171 12 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    Supl 10.173 5 We...cannot live without much outlet for all our sense and nonsense.
    SovE 10.189 13 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process of much time and delicacy...
    Prch 10.219 13 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
    Prch 10.219 14 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
    Prch 10.233 6 ...as much justice as we can see and practise is useful to men...
    MoL 10.242 22 ...the wealth of the globe was here, too much work and not men enough to do it.
    MoL 10.244 24 There is much criticism...but an affirmative philosophy is wanting.
    MoL 10.254 2 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Schr 10.266 18 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
    Schr 10.276 19 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons; a little pure, and not too much, to every head.
    LLNE 10.333 21 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton, and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed;...
    LLNE 10.339 6 There was...much vague expectation...
    LLNE 10.339 9 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...
    LLNE 10.347 16 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    LLNE 10.348 14 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head, and much more.
    LLNE 10.351 24 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...the indignation they felt and uttered in the presence of so much social misery, commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.351 26 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.351 27 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.354 1 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    LLNE 10.355 19 In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made by thousands, as in no other country. Then property proves too much for the man...
    LLNE 10.366 21 There was a stove in every chamber [at Brook Farm], and every one might burn as much wood as he or she would saw.
    LLNE 10.368 2 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed, after much perilous experience, the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    LLNE 10.369 18 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest...
    CSC 10.376 4 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...by much vigor of thought...
    EzRy 10.392 9 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    MMEm 10.401 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it...give much piquancy to her letters in after years.
    MMEm 10.418 22 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars?
    SlHr 10.438 7 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that he was old, and his life was not worth much...
    Thor 10.455 6 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 18 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Thor 10.472 19 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    Carl 10.493 9 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...
    GSt 10.502 21 [George Stearns] never asked any one to give so much as he himself gave...
    LS 11.8 16 ...it should be granted us that, taken alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually thought...
    LS 11.16 19 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted occasion of much good;...
    LS 11.18 2 I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God...
    HDC 11.28 11 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
    HDC 11.28 12 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
    HDC 11.40 11 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things;...
    HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    HDC 11.83 23 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community...where no man has much time for words, in his search after things;...
    HDC 11.86 12 I have had much opportunity of access to anecdotes of families...
    EWI 11.101 4 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.110 7 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    EWI 11.113 15 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 21 After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] passed by large majorities.
    EWI 11.116 19 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...nor so much as a fiddle played.
    EWI 11.118 7 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.121 7 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as much in the enjoyment of abundance...as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.127 19 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    EWI 11.130 27 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    EWI 11.139 20 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts...
    War 11.153 10 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally, when much progress has been made, all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
    War 11.160 5 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...
    War 11.162 20 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    War 11.168 26 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.173 1 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue.
    FSLC 11.181 14 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.185 25 It is the law of the world,-as much immorality as there is, so much misery.
    FSLC 11.185 26 It is the law of the world,-as much immorality as there is, so much misery.
    FSLC 11.202 8 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon. But I have said too much on this painful topic.
    FSLC 11.202 14 I have as much charity for Mr. Webster, I think, as any one has.
    FSLC 11.204 11 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend. Lucky that so much had got well written when he came.
    FSLC 11.204 24 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand.
    FSLC 11.205 10 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
    FSLC 11.205 27 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    FSLC 11.206 1 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    FSLN 11.226 13 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
    AsSu 11.249 5 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    TPar 11.291 3 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    ACiv 11.305 7 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We shall still have to keep him under, and it will cost as much to hold him down as it did to get him down.
    ACiv 11.306 7 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    ALin 11.329 8 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    ALin 11.329 10 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together...
    SMC 11.363 11 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath. So much for the care of [the men's] morals.
    SMC 11.364 14 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so. He said he had no objection, only thought they would be too much for me.
    SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    Wom 11.408 13 So much sympathy as [women] have makes them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and those who want it...
    Wom 11.409 11 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though...unenlightened by science, he had found much observation and much intelligence;...
    SHC 11.432 16 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...all the ornaments of either adding so much value to all.
    SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    SHC 11.435 4 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    Shak1 11.453 4 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company.
    Scot 11.464 14 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    Scot 11.464 16 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required, so much suppression of details and leaping to the event, [Scott] would keep and use...
    FRO1 11.477 11 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    CPL 11.505 11 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    FRep 11.528 13 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
    FRep 11.538 3 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
    PLT 12.5 7 It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us, but only man; not the fact, but so much of man as is in the fact.
    PLT 12.7 16 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit...that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.8 13 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    PLT 12.10 18 By how much we know, so much we are.
    PLT 12.24 24 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground...
    PLT 12.28 21 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods, but she...will not so much as beckon or cough;...
    PLT 12.30 3 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.
    PLT 12.32 8 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.41 11 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.52 15 It is much to write sentences;...
    II 12.70 2 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow. How much material lies in every man!
    II 12.72 9 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.73 4 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.
    II 12.84 13 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step, and life requires too much compromise.
    Mem 12.95 17 We estimate a man by how much he remembers.
    Mem 12.98 17 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along,-much of it professedly for the future...
    Mem 12.98 27 Only so much iron will the loadstone draw;...
    Mem 12.99 17 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.
    CInt 12.118 20 We should not think it much to beat Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
    CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
    CL 12.140 23 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...
    CL 12.142 12 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    CL 12.146 2 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CL 12.148 9 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.
    CL 12.158 22 [Taking a walk] is a fine art, requiring rare gifts and much experience.
    CW 12.172 14 Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...
    CW 12.176 18 There is so much...which a book cannot teach that an old friend can.
    Bost 12.186 17 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much;...
    Bost 12.194 6 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture- not so much a culture as a higher life-they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.197 2 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Bost 12.206 8 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    Bost 12.210 15 This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.
    MAng1 12.221 20 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MAng1 12.229 23 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.
    Milt1 12.268 6 ...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a Latin dictionary.
    ACri 12.285 21 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...
    ACri 12.287 19 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the expression, as no music or fiddle was so much as thought of.
    MLit 12.310 23 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year with as much solemnity as a new revelation.
    MLit 12.319 20 ...much more, [Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...
    MLit 12.322 21 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all. Had there been twice so much, he could have used it as well.
    MLit 12.333 7 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself. Being so much, we cannot forgive him for not being more.
    WSL 12.339 14 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.
    AgMs 12.359 24 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of much reading...
    AgMs 12.361 13 ...our [New England] people...do not wish to spend too much on their buildings.
    AgMs 12.364 3 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.
    PPr 12.385 27 [Carlyle's] humors are expressed with so much force of constitution that his fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    PPr 12.386 5 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture.
    Let 12.395 4 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
    Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
    Let 12.399 17 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...so much power without equal applicability, as our young men pretend to.
    Let 12.402 19 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.
    Let 12.404 14 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

much, adv. (433)

    Nat 1.7 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
    Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
    Nat 1.18 11 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.
    Nat 1.33 10 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.49 2 The broker...the tollman, are much displeased at the intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].
    Nat 1.60 13 [The soul] respects the end too much to immerse itself in the means.
    AmS 1.97 16 I will not...exhaust one vein of thought, much like those Savoyards...
    AmS 1.109 8 ...I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    DSA 1.126 21 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    DSA 1.141 11 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers...
    DSA 1.142 6 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    LE 1.161 6 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.161 10 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...and cause them not to be. See you not how much less the power of man would be?
    LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.165 18 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts. All men... embrace the deed, with the heart, for it is verily theirs as much as his;...
    LE 1.184 13 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
    MN 1.198 10 In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.202 17 ...we feel not much otherwise if...we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MR 1.232 18 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity, much less by the sentiments of love and heroism...
    MR 1.244 26 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...which none but a Spartan may enter or so much as behold.
    LT 1.263 14 A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth considering.
    LT 1.266 12 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest...
    LT 1.274 17 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder, not much noticed at first, every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    LT 1.274 25 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman, as much as the most diffusive and universal action.
    LT 1.280 25 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too.
    LT 1.288 25 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
    Con 1.307 12 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    YA 1.364 14 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size, by bringing people so much nearer...
    YA 1.368 23 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
    YA 1.370 4 How much better when the whole land is a garden...
    YA 1.373 24 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    Hist 2.28 7 How easily these old worships of Moses...of Socrates, domesticate themselves in the mind. I cannot find any antiquity in them. They are mine as much as theirs.
    Hist 2.33 20 Much revolving [his figures Goethe] writes out freely his humor...
    Hist 2.33 24 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    SR 2.48 24 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.52 25 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine...
    SR 2.53 5 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air, much like a gay equipage...
    SR 2.65 15 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily;...
    SR 2.65 22 ...my perception of [a trait] is as much a fact as the sun.
    SR 2.66 9 All things are made sacred by relation to [divine wisdom]-one as much as another.
    SR 2.83 21 ...you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
    SR 2.83 22 ...you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
    Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
    SL 2.135 6 ...our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    SL 2.135 20 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
    SL 2.155 2 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    Lov1 2.172 4 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...are these fine inward irradiations.
    Fdsp 2.201 8 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer...
    Fdsp 2.201 9 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer, and nothing is so much divine.
    Fdsp 2.205 19 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Fdsp 2.207 2 Do not mix waters too much.
    Fdsp 2.215 2 I cannot afford to speak much with my friend.
    Prd1 2.235 5 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Prd1 2.239 19 The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
    Hsm1 2.262 21 ...let [a man] go home much...
    OS 2.278 1 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
    Cir 2.303 3 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.
    Cir 2.303 14 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    Cir 2.305 14 Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be.
    Cir 2.306 8 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Cir 2.310 3 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Cir 2.321 9 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success.
    Int 2.328 21 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.338 21 ...the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...
    Int 2.347 4 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...
    Art1 2.356 4 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen, as much as an epic has done before.
    Art1 2.362 5 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Pt1 3.3 22 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former.
    Pt1 3.4 12 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.6 7 Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
    Pt1 3.8 16 ...nature...must as much appear as it must be done, or known.
    Pt1 3.10 11 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 3.10 23 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before, or was much farther than that.
    Pt1 3.11 9 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet, and no one knows how much it may concern him.
    Pt1 3.30 15 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
    Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Pt1 3.37 19 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Exp 3.45 15 Our life is not so much threatened as our perception.
    Exp 3.69 27 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
    Exp 3.73 21 Our life seems not present so much as prospective;...
    Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
    Chr1 3.91 9 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Chr1 3.92 20 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
    Mrs1 3.131 7 ...[fashion]...hates nothing so much as pretenders;...
    Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
    Mrs1 3.137 2 Let us not be too much acquainted.
    Mrs1 3.137 15 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    Mrs1 3.150 12 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    Mrs1 3.155 21 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    Nat2 3.182 25 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...
    Nat2 3.192 15 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.
    Nat2 3.194 25 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.
    Pol1 3.214 10 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    Pol1 3.214 24 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    NR 3.232 17 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
    NR 3.234 9 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
    NR 3.236 10 It is all idle talking: as much as a man is a whole, so is he also a part;...
    NR 3.239 10 ...it is so much easier to do what one has done before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    NR 3.240 21 Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
    NER 3.255 21 ...The world is governed too much.
    NER 3.280 15 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    NER 3.280 18 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.
    NER 3.281 17 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
    UGM 4.8 5 ...in strictness, we are not much cognizant of direct serving.
    UGM 4.13 4 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    UGM 4.13 16 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    UGM 4.15 21 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    UGM 4.22 15 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land; and if I have so much more, every other must have so much less.
    UGM 4.22 16 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land; and if I have so much more, every other must have so much less.
    UGM 4.29 2 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...
    PPh 4.56 26 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
    SwM 4.96 21 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all. How much more, if he that inquires be a holy and godlike soul!
    SwM 4.98 8 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    SwM 4.100 15 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored.
    SwM 4.127 22 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    SwM 4.131 5 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire...
    SwM 4.136 1 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    MoS 4.153 1 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    MoS 4.154 17 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.159 12 If [men] keep too much at home, they pine.
    MoS 4.168 21 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence, and...will pun, and refine too much...
    ShP 4.196 14 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was not so much pressed.
    ShP 4.211 24 Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.
    ShP 4.216 9 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    NMW 4.227 1 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity...
    NMW 4.227 3 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity and to much more than his predominance in France.
    NMW 4.230 8 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.232 25 [Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be pitied...
    NMW 4.244 17 In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.283 4 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    ET1 5.3 19 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET1 5.8 19 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    ET1 5.12 27 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
    ET1 5.20 6 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth];...
    ET1 5.22 5 [Wordsworth's] eyes are much inflamed.
    ET1 5.23 8 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    ET2 5.25 4 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which separately are organized much in the same way as our New England Lyceums...
    ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000, and usually it is much longer.
    ET2 5.30 26 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain.
    ET3 5.37 4 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard;...
    ET4 5.47 24 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
    ET4 5.54 21 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less marked and their thought much less bound.
    ET4 5.54 22 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less marked and their thought much less bound.
    ET4 5.58 7 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
    ET5 5.95 9 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET6 5.105 6 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience, as much as a solitary pioneer in Wisconsin.
    ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET6 5.109 7 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    ET7 5.120 8 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.
    ET8 5.128 9 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are much more prone to melancholy.
    ET8 5.130 9 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament...
    ET8 5.142 23 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day, nor need so much as others the constraint of a necessity.
    ET9 5.145 2 Swedenborg, who lived much in England, notes the similitude of minds among the English...
    ET9 5.145 9 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET10 5.166 2 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET11 5.186 19 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners:-- nowhere and never so much as in England.
    ET11 5.195 24 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary. At the same time, the fees they have to pay for matriculation, and on all other occasions, are much higher.
    ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    ET13 5.224 11 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...
    ET13 5.230 3 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied.
    ET14 5.251 2 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
    ET15 5.270 27 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch, astonish those whom they succor as much as those whom they desert...
    ET16 5.279 23 The old times of England impress Carlyle much...
    ET17 5.291 2 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    F 6.11 17 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker.
    F 6.23 23 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    F 6.25 20 [This beatitude] is not in us so much as we are in it.
    F 6.26 2 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe...against ourselves as much as others.
    F 6.26 24 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence...we forget very fast what he says, much more interested in the new play of our own thought than in any thought of his.
    F 6.27 4 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much of the point we have left...as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.34 6 It has not fared much otherwise with higher kinds of steam.
    F 6.43 2 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you not so much men as walking cities...
    Pow 6.63 15 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.72 27 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.
    Pow 6.81 14 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Wth 6.86 7 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving...
    Wth 6.91 26 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning;...
    Wth 6.98 20 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wth 6.104 21 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar, which is not much stupider than an apple-tree, presently find it out?
    Wth 6.105 1 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity.
    Wth 6.105 11 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.106 17 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
    Wth 6.116 21 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.131 19 Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Ctr 6.141 18 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that it has availed much...
    Ctr 6.143 6 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ctr 6.144 1 ...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
    Ctr 6.151 23 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble...
    Ctr 6.157 26 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Ctr 6.161 10 ...much more a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Ctr 6.164 19 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...
    Bhr 6.167 19 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    Bhr 6.171 18 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our manners that associate us.
    Bhr 6.172 23 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
    Bhr 6.179 26 The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues...
    Wsp 6.214 21 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds, much less by theologic discipline.
    Wsp 6.215 9 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.228 21 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what they must say;...
    Wsp 6.237 4 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    CbW 6.245 20 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
    CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much underestimated.
    CbW 6.264 3 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest, and sometimes much more frivolous.
    CbW 6.274 8 ...it counts much whether we have had good companions in that time [the past five years]...
    CbW 6.274 10 ...it counts much whether we have had good companions in that time [the past five years],--almost as much as what we have been doing.
    Bty 6.305 6 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Ill 6.316 5 We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages.
    Ill 6.322 14 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such castaways...
    SS 7.5 17 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
    SS 7.12 22 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur-de-Lion...
    Civ 7.32 17 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person...lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.44 2 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Art2 7.44 16 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.44 18 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.46 11 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
    Art2 7.46 23 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.50 14 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
    Art2 7.51 20 Proceeding from absolute mind, whose nature is goodness as much as truth, the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Elo1 7.61 17 ...because every man is an orator...an assembly of men is so much more susceptible.
    Elo1 7.62 5 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    Elo1 7.66 24 [Every audience] know so much more than the orator...
    Elo1 7.71 2 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.72 26 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the Trojans], beholding, wondered not afterwards so much at his aspect.
    Elo1 7.81 10 ...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man' s] own, and who sees much farther on his own way than he?
    Elo1 7.84 5 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    Elo1 7.86 12 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    DL 7.118 22 Let a man...say...an eating-house and sleeping-house for travellers [my house] shall be, but it shall be much more.
    DL 7.128 28 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Farm 7.153 25 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood; because he is, as all natural persons are, representative of Nature as much as these.
    WD 7.182 23 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    WD 7.184 3 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others...
    Boks 7.191 24 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and I think no chair is so much wanted.
    Boks 7.196 11 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for though they cost more, they do not cost much more...
    Boks 7.197 19 English history is best known through Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish ballads!...
    Boks 7.208 1 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.217 10 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Clbs 7.244 26 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.248 14 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    Clbs 7.250 11 ...Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Cour 7.255 27 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed...
    Cour 7.261 1 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Cour 7.262 20 The child is as much in danger from a staircase...as the soldier from a cannon...
    Suc 7.285 22 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they...would be obliged to go on a voyage of discovery as much as if they had never been there before.
    Suc 7.289 15 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
    Suc 7.292 3 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    Suc 7.293 8 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    OA 7.325 19 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    OA 7.331 12 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    OA 7.333 8 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know; it has been very much on the stretch, ever since he was born.
    PI 8.15 23 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.37 7 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...
    SA 8.79 19 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.79 24 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force,--behavior, and not performance...or much less, wealth.
    SA 8.86 12 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
    SA 8.96 21 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    Elo2 8.121 13 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Elo2 8.123 21 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends, which showed how much it had stung him...
    Elo2 8.126 12 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much considered and practised as preparation...
    Elo2 8.126 17 Men differ so much in control of their faculties!
    Elo2 8.127 18 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed...
    Res 8.151 6 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Comc 8.161 13 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it amuses another spectator.
    Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
    Comc 8.170 27 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
    QO 8.191 1 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.194 12 We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
    PC 8.220 13 How much more are men than nations!...
    PC 8.229 2 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry; they are so much the less poets.
    PPo 8.243 14 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
    PPo 8.249 18 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
    PPo 8.255 1 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs, not so much for the thought as for their joyful temper and tone;...
    PPo 8.259 3 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Insp 8.277 3 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
    Insp 8.282 4 Another consideration, though it will not so much interest young men, will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Insp 8.294 3 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Grts 8.301 3 There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim.
    Grts 8.307 12 A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Grts 8.316 7 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys...as in more orderly examples.
    Grts 8.317 7 It is noted of some scholars...that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    Imtl 8.325 27 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.335 9 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.
    Imtl 8.339 1 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Imtl 8.339 12 Every really able man...considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.340 1 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts, in which we were too much immersed.
    Imtl 8.345 26 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.
    Dem1 10.15 11 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
    Dem1 10.17 8 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound. Goethe has said in his Autobiography what is much to the purpose...
    Dem1 10.17 13 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word.
    Dem1 10.23 13 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
    Aris 10.35 14 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are not superficial...
    Aris 10.37 12 We like cool people, who neither hope nor fear too much...
    Aris 10.60 2 We...see that if the ignorant are around us, the great are much more near;...
    Aris 10.64 17 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering...things in masses, and not too much in detail.
    Aris 10.64 22 ...a good head soon grows wise, and does not govern too much.
    PerF 10.72 10 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements, the sources of them, and much more rapid and strong;...
    PerF 10.87 10 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    Chr2 10.101 25 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these not so much give particular knowledge...
    Chr2 10.107 13 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    Chr2 10.113 12 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    Edc1 10.133 20 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    Edc1 10.139 7 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    Edc1 10.143 19 By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing [the pupil] may be hindered from his end...
    Edc1 10.143 23 Respect the child. Be not too much his parent.
    Edc1 10.146 26 Always genius...desires nothing so much as to be a pupil...
    Edc1 10.153 20 [An automaton] facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools...to govern by steam.
    Edc1 10.157 22 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    Supl 10.166 18 I am very much indebted to my eyes...
    Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in hurricanes...
    Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    SovE 10.186 11 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SovE 10.192 22 Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
    Prch 10.233 14 ...power is not so much shown in talent as in tone.
    Prch 10.235 16 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the enjoining of this or that cure...
    MoL 10.249 1 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought.
    Schr 10.263 8 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    Schr 10.266 22 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us.
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Schr 10.288 15 ...the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
    Plu 10.310 24 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    Plu 10.316 12 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb, whilst it much exceeds him.
    LLNE 10.328 17 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    LLNE 10.330 6 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then I should say much later from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
    LLNE 10.334 5 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice. This influence went much farther...
    LLNE 10.362 26 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    LLNE 10.367 10 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    LLNE 10.367 17 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
    EzRy 10.382 17 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town. The studies were much broken up.
    EzRy 10.384 18 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    EzRy 10.388 23 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    EzRy 10.389 8 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of years, was much addicted to kissing;...
    MMEm 10.407 9 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
    MMEm 10.418 23 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed.
    MMEm 10.422 22 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    MMEm 10.423 2 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!
    MMEm 10.431 20 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson] trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events from the pressure of wants.
    Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    Thor 10.454 17 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...
    Thor 10.454 26 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He much preferred a good Indian...
    Thor 10.456 5 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes.
    Thor 10.480 16 ...I so much regret the loss of [Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
    Thor 10.483 21 Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
    GSt 10.507 21 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.
    LS 11.11 19 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
    LS 11.17 27 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    HDC 11.31 3 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had, though much against his will, was Archbishop Laud in England.
    HDC 11.45 22 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.
    HDC 11.45 25 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.
    HDC 11.53 6 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    HDC 11.55 18 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn;...and the crops suffered much from mice.
    HDC 11.77 15 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    EWI 11.131 7 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection, as much as within the arms of Cape Ann or Cape Cod.
    EWI 11.140 23 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt-though it shocks one very much-that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had b
    War 11.156 6 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
    War 11.161 9 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact. This having come, much more will follow.
    FSLC 11.202 15 I need not say how much I have enjoyed [Webster's] fame.
    FSLN 11.220 5 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    FSLN 11.243 17 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.
    AsSu 11.248 18 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    JBS 11.278 12 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    ACiv 11.299 21 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    ACiv 11.306 15 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    SMC 11.348 10 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/
    SMC 11.355 9 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...
    SMC 11.359 3 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less of recklessness...
    SMC 11.363 7 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to?...
    SMC 11.363 9 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to? and I looked at him as much as to say, Yes, I do.
    SMC 11.364 6 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.365 12 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    SMC 11.374 26 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    EdAd 11.387 1 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism...
    EdAd 11.393 21 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth...
    Wom 11.406 13 [Women]...pass with us not so much by what they say or do, as by their presence.
    Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...much more true is it of woman.
    Wom 11.410 12 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.410 16 [Man] is as much raised above the beast by this creative faculty [taste] as by any other.
    SHC 11.432 6 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...
    RBur 11.440 10 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world.
    Shak1 11.452 25 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before...
    CPL 11.498 13 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things...
    CPL 11.499 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] was much addicted to journeying...
    CPL 11.499 25 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
    FRep 11.531 13 Nations were made to help each other as much as families were;...
    FRep 11.537 22 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's, who, we see, is much imprisoned in his backbone.
    PLT 12.16 16 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass...
    PLT 12.23 26 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
    PLT 12.25 15 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me, not so much by adding to my knowledge as by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be turned.
    PLT 12.39 21 ...[an intellectual man's] defects and delusions interest him as much as his successes.
    PLT 12.41 15 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
    PLT 12.43 9 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    PLT 12.45 9 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them; not as much as other men of the same natural probity, without intellect;...
    PLT 12.58 1 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries...
    II 12.73 2 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.
    II 12.74 11 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this? I ought rather to ask you, who are young, and can enter much better into that feeling.
    Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.
    CInt 12.116 19 These are giddy times, and, you say, the college will be deserted. No, never was it so much needed.
    CInt 12.130 26 Our colleges may differ much in the scale of requirements... but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CL 12.161 14 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
    CL 12.166 3 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.
    CW 12.172 17 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box. I much prefer to have the freedom of a garden presented me.
    CW 12.173 7 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
    CW 12.176 15 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
    Bost 12.194 18 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    Bost 12.196 22 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    MAng1 12.219 9 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric;...
    MAng1 12.237 6 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    MAng1 12.237 14 ...[Michelangelo] had a passion for the country...so much so that he says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    Milt1 12.248 9 ...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it, as much as him who receives it...
    Milt1 12.264 27 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier...
    ACri 12.292 2 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...considerable as an adverb for much;...
    ACri 12.298 27 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...
    MLit 12.310 3 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    MLit 12.316 27 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.322 27 Of all the men of this time, not one has seemed so much at home in it as [Goethe].
    MLit 12.333 1 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    WSL 12.343 8 If rhyme rejoices us, there should be rhyme, as much as if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
    WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    WSL 12.345 12 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the most spiritual ties?
    Pray 12.353 6 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].
    AgMs 12.360 7 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...
    EurB 12.371 3 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...
    PPr 12.379 14 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics...
    Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with their company. They...will not bear it much longer.
    Let 12.403 14 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...
    Trag 12.411 21 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands...

much, n. (87)

    Nat 1.66 12 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    AmS 1.112 20 There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life...I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    LT 1.265 20 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    LT 1.285 14 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    Tran 1.353 12 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting;...
    Tran 1.356 21 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to assert his rights...
    Cir 2.321 6 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    Exp 3.46 12 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.
    Exp 3.65 1 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides...
    Exp 3.69 19 The years teach much which the days never know.
    Exp 3.85 1 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
    Mrs1 3.139 16 Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts...
    Mrs1 3.143 4 Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.
    Mrs1 3.155 5 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion...has much that is necessary, and much that is absurd.
    Mrs1 3.155 6 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion...has much that is necessary, and much that is absurd.
    Gts 3.165 10 I find that I am not much to you;...
    Nat2 3.184 21 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
    Pol1 3.219 11 Much has been blind and discreditable, but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
    NR 3.226 10 ...no one of [the speakers in a debate] hears much that another says, such is the preoccupation of mind of each;...
    NER 3.260 25 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
    UGM 4.32 22 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    PPh 4.79 1 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better.
    MoS 4.157 12 [The skeptic says] Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping? There is much to say on all sides.
    MoS 4.158 11 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius? There is much to say on both sides.
    MoS 4.174 2 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect; as if it were fatal to earnestness to know much.
    GoW 4.266 23 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    ET1 5.19 14 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America...
    ET6 5.103 27 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England...
    ET11 5.173 5 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are. The people of England knew as much.
    ET13 5.214 14 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open...
    ET16 5.273 23 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
    ET16 5.275 9 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture, who really have much to teach them.
    F 6.15 1 There is much you may not [do].
    Pow 6.77 6 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases where little can be said, and much must be done.
    Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map blank.
    Ctr 6.141 12 ...much of our training fails of effect;...
    Ctr 6.142 14 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ctr 6.143 17 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    Ctr 6.150 20 ...[the man of the world]...performs much...
    CbW 6.262 25 You buy much that is not rendered in the bill.
    Bty 6.286 19 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Art2 7.45 24 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    Elo1 7.68 13 Climate has much to do with [eloquence],--climate and race.
    WD 7.163 11 Much will have more.
    Cour 7.274 15 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors. There is much of fable, but a broad basis of fact.
    Suc 7.288 14 The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
    PI 8.73 4 Much that we call poetry is but polite verse.
    SA 8.89 1 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime;...
    SA 8.93 9 No one can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women;...
    SA 8.107 10 We have much to regret, much to mend, in our society;...
    SA 8.107 11 We have much to regret, much to mend, in our society;...
    Res 8.136 1 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    QO 8.203 2 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.
    PC 8.230 8 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak. Yours is the part of those who have received much.
    Grts 8.320 11 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Aris 10.31 18 [The best young men] do not yet covet...any exuberance of wealth, wealth that costs too much;...
    Aris 10.37 8 Whatever happens is too much for [the common man]...
    Aris 10.47 12 There are men who may dare much and will be justified in their daring.
    Aris 10.51 10 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    Supl 10.165 18 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    SovE 10.201 24 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
    MoL 10.257 17 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men [in the war] has taught us much.
    Schr 10.286 21 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    Plu 10.301 25 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    LLNE 10.340 1 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public, not so much as the reading a lesson in Scripture...
    LLNE 10.369 24 If I have owed much to the special influences I have indicated, I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    EzRy 10.388 27 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us. With the Doctor's views it was a matter of religion to say thus much.
    MMEm 10.411 11 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.417 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think...
    MMEm 10.431 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    HDC 11.35 22 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not much to spare...must be laborious to all...
    EWI 11.128 25 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    FSLN 11.220 26 ...all men like to be made much of.
    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...
    JBS 11.278 12 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life, whilst he himself was petted and made much of;...
    EPro 11.318 20 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
    SMC 11.369 1 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared...
    Wom 11.414 1 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    Wom 11.414 5 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.
    FRep 11.530 22 We have much to learn, much to correct...
    FRep 11.533 12 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men;...
    PLT 12.10 18 By how much we know, so much we are.
    Mem 12.94 1 We can tell much about [memory], but you must not ask us what it is.
    CL 12.166 12 ...of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half.
    Milt1 12.255 3 Lord Bacon, who has written much and with prodigious ability on this science [of human nature], shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
    ACri 12.303 14 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm...
    AgMs 12.361 1 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too, and we have much that is like it in Thomas's Almanack.

Much, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.359 17 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./

much-injured, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.326 10 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...

much-reading, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.298 17 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

much-travelled, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.486 27 ...a man of religious susceptibility, and one at the same time conversant with many men,-say a much-travelled man,-can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.

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