Nation, Cherokee to Naturata

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

Nation, Cherokee, n. (2)

    LVB 11.91 14 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
    LVB 11.94 11 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.

nation, n. (196)

    Nat 1.30 14 Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation who...believe...that they see and utter truths...
    AmS 1.91 6 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me witness.
    AmS 1.97 8 ...nation and world, must also soar and sing.
    AmS 1.115 25 A nation of men will for the first time exist...
    DSA 1.143 19 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
    DSA 1.145 7 None assayeth the stern ambition to be the Self of the nation and of nature...
    YA 1.387 9 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying, the leaven of his nation.
    YA 1.387 19 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation...
    YA 1.387 25 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity... Which should be that nation but these States?
    Hist 2.12 4 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type, and the decoration of it as the wealth of the nation increased;...
    Hist 2.22 4 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle, in the nation and in the individual.
    SR 2.66 15 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
    SR 2.87 15 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    Comp 2.109 3 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
    Prd1 2.228 20 ...the discomfort of...inattention to the wants of to-morrow, is of no nation.
    Art1 2.352 16 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation...
    Art1 2.364 11 ...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual nation.
    Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    Chr1 3.114 9 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who was hanged at the Tyburn of his nation...
    Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    Pol1 3.207 8 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    Pol1 3.209 24 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.210 27 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    Pol1 3.220 4 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?
    NR 3.229 26 There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens...
    NR 3.230 20 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...
    UGM 4.30 21 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...look at his whole nation of Paddies.
    PPh 4.45 20 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    PPh 4.46 22 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    SwM 4.98 3 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, though a nation is perishing for a leader?
    GoW 4.280 20 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    GoW 4.282 25 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects...
    GoW 4.283 14 ...Goethe, the head and body of the German nation, does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    ET3 5.35 24 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET3 5.40 12 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a shop word, has a good stand.
    ET3 5.42 20 [England] is a nation conveniently small.
    ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
    ET3 5.43 21 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.
    ET4 5.62 25 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature...
    ET4 5.63 5 The English uncultured are a brutal nation.
    ET4 5.73 15 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET5 5.83 11 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility.
    ET5 5.88 2 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.
    ET5 5.89 17 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail...
    ET5 5.90 23 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET5 5.92 1 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded...
    ET5 5.93 1 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
    ET5 5.98 10 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;...
    ET5 5.98 23 The nation [England] is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth.
    ET5 5.99 7 Every nation has yielded some good wit...
    ET6 5.102 12 ...the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is unanimous.
    ET6 5.109 4 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET7 5.116 19 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET7 5.117 21 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    ET7 5.118 17 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
    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 2 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    ET8 5.128 19 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    ET8 5.131 18 Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples [than England].
    ET8 5.133 8 There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...
    ET8 5.138 15 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...
    ET8 5.139 14 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...
    ET8 5.141 11 The [English] nation always resist the immoral action of their government.
    ET8 5.142 24 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET9 5.144 1 The English are a nation of humorists.
    ET9 5.144 23 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET9 5.145 5 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation...
    ET9 5.146 13 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET9 5.151 13 Coarse local distinctions, as those of nation, province or town, are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    ET10 5.167 5 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating. A man should not be a silk-worm, nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
    ET11 5.174 13 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
    ET11 5.179 5 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    ET11 5.192 12 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET12 5.209 5 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons. No other nation produces the stock.
    ET13 5.214 17 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported;...
    ET13 5.219 12 ...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of the nation [England].
    ET13 5.219 19 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    ET13 5.220 11 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England], when the nation was full of genius and piety.
    ET14 5.237 22 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.
    ET14 5.243 4 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    ET14 5.259 20 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    ET15 5.272 6 [The English press] has an imperial tone, as of a powerful and independent nation.
    ET16 5.282 24 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    ET18 5.302 1 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us.
    ET18 5.302 12 What we must say about a nation is a superficial dealing with symptoms.
    ET18 5.307 6 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    Wth 6.105 3 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime, one of the principal charges of every nation, is so far stopped.
    Wsp 6.222 5 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost.
    CbW 6.254 9 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.
    CbW 6.266 27 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for?...
    Civ 7.19 14 A nation that has no clothing...we call barbarous.
    Civ 7.19 21 Each nation grows after its own genius...
    Boks 7.207 3 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind, with the chief men of action and of thought which that nation has produced...
    Boks 7.218 11 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation...
    Clbs 7.235 24 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue...
    Cour 7.255 15 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation;...
    Cour 7.256 14 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Cour 7.271 26 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader...if their nation and circumstance did not keep them apart, would run into each other's arms.
    OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Archimedes, holding Syracuse against the Romans by his wit, and himself better than all their nation;...
    OA 7.332 16 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    OA 7.332 18 [John Adams]...said: I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy.
    PI 8.26 21 You must go through a city or a nation...to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.46 25 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind.
    PI 8.66 23 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    SA 8.87 17 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours.
    SA 8.91 21 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting; then he strides out and the nation is relieved.
    SA 8.99 26 In a whole nation of Hottentots there shall not be one valuable man...
    Elo2 8.125 25 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
    Res 8.140 14 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.142 15 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    Res 8.143 20 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers...
    Comc 8.173 7 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism, which would find brothers in a whole nation?
    PC 8.213 13 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    PC 8.213 20 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    PC 8.215 18 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    PC 8.217 6 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds, say to a nation of minds...
    PC 8.217 20 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him;...
    PPo 8.243 23 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.245 9 After the manner of his nation, [Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences...
    Imtl 8.324 1 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Aris 10.42 7 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
    Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole nation of underlings.
    Chr2 10.104 10 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity.
    Chr2 10.111 5 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    Chr2 10.111 7 A true nation loves its vernacular tongue.
    Chr2 10.111 8 A completed nation will not import its religion.
    Edc1 10.151 5 What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation with his charity?
    SovE 10.210 10 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    Prch 10.219 22 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon.
    Prch 10.219 23 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon.
    Prch 10.223 13 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity, since it seeks to find in every nation and creed the imperishable doctrines.
    MoL 10.244 3 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
    Plu 10.302 7 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation...
    LLNE 10.326 10 The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual...
    MMEm 10.430 17 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    GSt 10.506 5 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    LS 11.6 16 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind, as they should come, nation after nation, within the influence of the Christian religion, would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.7 9 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation.
    LS 11.7 24 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation, beyond the abolition of the festival he was celebrating, and the scattering of the nation...
    HDC 11.31 15 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    HDC 11.49 27 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the English nation...
    HDC 11.72 2 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    HDC 11.77 5 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament, and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues.
    LVB 11.91 6 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
    LVB 11.91 8 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
    LVB 11.92 19 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards...
    LVB 11.93 15 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation...will stink to the world.
    EWI 11.101 8 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 11.109 20 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes. But the nation was aroused to enthusiasm.
    EWI 11.122 7 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
    EWI 11.123 7 [Our civility] is that of a trading nation;...
    EWI 11.147 17 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    War 11.162 3 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    War 11.162 18 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd for one nation to attempt it alone.
    War 11.164 3 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    War 11.168 23 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.168 27 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.169 2 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;...
    War 11.169 11 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
    FSLC 11.186 3 In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.
    FSLC 11.206 25 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do? 1. What in our federal capacity is our relation to the nation? 2. And what as citizens of a state?
    FSLC 11.208 20 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves.
    FSLC 11.209 15 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do.
    FSLC 11.213 8 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    FSLN 11.229 15 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains...
    JBB 11.269 6 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him.
    EPro 11.320 1 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats. Our hurts are healed; the health of the nation is repaired.
    EPro 11.321 5 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    EPro 11.321 8 In times like these, when the nation is imperilled, what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets; the nation has been in such ferment, such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.
    HCom 11.342 3 Every nation punishes the General who is not victorious.
    HCom 11.342 14 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.
    SMC 11.352 20 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
    EdAd 11.388 21 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Humb 11.458 12 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    ChiE 11.472 1 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation...
    ChiE 11.473 11 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
    CPL 11.502 8 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.
    FRep 11.529 24 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.538 11 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be the new nation...
    FRep 11.541 20 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make to every nation...
    FRep 11.541 27 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.
    II 12.83 5 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    CInt 12.127 7 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    Bost 12.210 3 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    Milt1 12.271 19 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.
    Milt1 12.272 18 [Milton's] opinions on all subjects are formed for man as he ought to be, for a nation of Miltons.
    Milt1 12.277 20 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./
    ACri 12.284 5 There is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete...
    ACri 12.289 8 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...
    ACri 12.295 11 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.
    MLit 12.312 7 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
    Pray 12.351 6 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
    PPr 12.381 7 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted...

national, adj. (112)

    Nat 1.31 23 Long hereafter, amidst agitation and terror in national councils...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Con 1.295 12 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only...in national councils and ecclesiastical synods...
    Con 1.311 10 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    YA 1.364 2 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    YA 1.370 3 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    YA 1.385 19 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    YA 1.388 10 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling...
    YA 1.389 4 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
    YA 1.391 26 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.4 24 ...the crises of [a man's] life refer to national crises.
    Hist 2.14 22 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature...
    Hist 2.22 17 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Hist 2.38 4 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
    Hsm1 2.258 13 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    Pt1 3.16 21 See the power of national emblems.
    Pt1 3.38 17 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism...
    Exp 3.73 4 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...and the metaphor of each has become a national religion.
    Mrs1 3.154 11 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
    ShP 4.191 7 Choose any other thing...out of the national feeling and history, and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
    ShP 4.192 6 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...
    ShP 4.200 24 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    NMW 4.235 23 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    GoW 4.272 3 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    ET3 5.35 12 If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success;...
    ET3 5.41 19 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...enriched with every seed of national power...
    ET4 5.48 6 The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
    ET4 5.49 14 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
    ET4 5.67 19 This union of qualities is fabled in [the Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
    ET4 5.69 14 Good feeding is a chief point of national pride among the vulgar [in England]...
    ET5 5.97 25 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt...
    ET5 5.99 12 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...
    ET5 5.99 27 The difference of rank [in England] does not divide the national heart.
    ET6 5.107 22 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET7 5.116 1 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart...
    ET7 5.116 23 [Englishmen's] practical power rests on their national sincerity.
    ET8 5.130 6 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities...
    ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET8 5.140 16 The national temper [of England], in the civil history, is not flashy or whiffling.
    ET9 5.151 17 Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.
    ET9 5.151 27 Nature trips us up when we strut; and there are curious examples in history on this very point of national pride.
    ET10 5.155 15 To pay their debts is [the Englishmen's] national point of honor.
    ET10 5.155 20 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.
    ET10 5.164 9 [English property] is felt and treated as the national life-blood.
    ET10 5.169 1 In the culmination of national prosperity...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.173 20 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET11 5.177 16 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier...
    ET12 5.201 20 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.
    ET12 5.208 18 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET12 5.210 3 ...I found here [at Oxford]...proof of the national fidelity and thoroughness.
    ET13 5.214 2 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion.
    ET13 5.214 6 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET13 5.218 18 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride.
    ET13 5.219 13 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    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...
    ET13 5.228 8 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    ET14 5.234 13 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
    ET14 5.249 17 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET14 5.251 20 The bias of Englishmen to practical skill has reacted on the national mind.
    ET15 5.269 3 [The London Times] has the national courage...
    ET17 5.295 15 We [Emerson and Wordsworth] talked of English national character.
    ET18 5.306 27 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament...
    ET19 5.311 13 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which is a national [English] characteristic.
    Pow 6.62 5 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the national orators, in their turn;...
    Wsp 6.216 12 ...when great national movements began...the human soul was in earnest...
    CbW 6.262 6 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    Art2 7.45 19 ...how much is there that is not original...in every tune, painting, poem or harangue!--whatever is national or usual;...
    Art2 7.57 6 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Suc 7.289 20 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss.
    PI 8.34 2 No matter what [your subject] is, grand or gay, national or private, if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    Res 8.140 6 See...how every traveller, every laborer...improves the national tongue.
    QO 8.193 16 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style of pictures...on us.
    PC 8.210 20 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions, all on a national scale too, have evoked!...
    PC 8.233 17 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...and a consequent national decline;...
    Grts 8.303 27 ...don't inculpate yourself in the local, social or national crime...
    Aris 10.43 7 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    Chr2 10.106 1 ...before [Christianity] was yet a national religion it was alloyed...
    Chr2 10.106 5 In Holland, in England, in Scotland, [Christianity] felt the national narrowness.
    Chr2 10.119 21 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    SovE 10.203 8 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.
    LLNE 10.326 13 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.335 16 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution.
    Carl 10.490 15 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure...
    Carl 10.491 15 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    GSt 10.501 22 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    LS 11.7 3 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover].
    LS 11.7 14 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.9 27 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols. It was the national way of teaching...
    HDC 11.49 24 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    LVB 11.93 22 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    EWI 11.123 15 The national aim and employment streams into our ways of thinking...
    EWI 11.129 5 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    War 11.163 18 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this waving of national flags...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.208 4 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design...the national domain...all join to demand it.
    FSLN 11.224 20 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right. Whether the defect be national or not, it is the defect and calamity of Mr. Webster...
    FSLN 11.239 17 The national spirit in this country is so drowsy...
    AKan 11.257 3 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...on the scale of a national action.
    AKan 11.257 20 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    ACiv 11.302 6 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want...
    ACiv 11.310 13 In the recent series of national successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the best.
    EPro 11.321 15 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    EPro 11.321 16 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor, this heavy load lifted off the national heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    ALin 11.334 1 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    EdAd 11.385 4 Where [in America] are the works of the imagination,-the surest test of a national genius?
    EdAd 11.388 1 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.
    SHC 11.433 12 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    ChiE 11.471 17 ...by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.525 2 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity... mortified by the national disgrace...
    FRep 11.530 27 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    FRep 11.543 12 No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is the seed of vice, war and national disorganization.
    CL 12.145 6 The apple is our national fruit.
    Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines, inextricably national;...

National Anthem, n. (1)

    Bost 12.204 7 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no National Anthem have we yet contributed.

nationalities, n. (6)

    ET4 5.52 12 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET9 5.146 26 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...trample down all nationalities with his taxed boots.
    ET14 5.254 18 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    EPro 11.316 26 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward, every one a representative of mankind, standing for all nationalities.
    Koss 11.399 9 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...crossing parties, nationalities, private interests and self-esteems;...
    FRep 11.531 12 I wish to see America...legislating for all nationalities.

nationality, n. (15)

    ET3 5.43 9 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.
    ET4 5.49 13 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.53 7 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English and not American, no, nor Scotch, nor Irish: but 't is a very restricted nationality.
    ET7 5.120 24 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET9 5.147 12 ...beyond this nationality, it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    ET9 5.150 15 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET15 5.268 25 ...[the English] like [the London Times]...above all, for the nationality and confidence of its tone.
    ET16 5.279 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    ET18 5.302 10 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.
    SA 8.94 5 ...[Madame de Stael] said, with characteristic nationality, Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    ACiv 11.302 16 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    ACiv 11.303 8 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.
    FRep 11.537 3 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    FRep 11.543 9 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in, no weak party or nationality sacrificed...
    WSL 12.344 5 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality...

nationally, adv. (2)

    ET17 5.294 19 [Wordsworth] was nationally bitter on the French;...
    Wom 11.414 12 ...in the East, where Woman occupies, nationally, a lower sphere...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...

Nations, Congress of, n. (1)

    War 11.175 15 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.

nations, n. (210)

    Nat 1.14 8 [The private poor man] goes...to the court-house, and nations repair his wrongs.
    Nat 1.33 14 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.73 3 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations;...
    AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now...inviting nations to the harvest.
    DSA 1.145 1 See how nations and races flit by on the sea of time...
    LE 1.156 7 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    LE 1.161 13 I console myself...in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    MN 1.202 18 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.206 21 The sleepy nations are occupied with their political routine.
    MR 1.229 14 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
    LT 1.259 16 The Times-the nations, manners, institutions, opinions, votes, are to be studied as omens...
    LT 1.268 1 Let us not see the foundations of nations...with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.269 21 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by all the Christian nations, without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.270 15 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Con 1.304 20 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
    Hist 2.9 12 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Hist 2.23 6 The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...
    SR 2.63 10 The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations.
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...nations...who are not.
    SR 2.76 22 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man is...born to shed healing to the nations;...
    Comp 2.100 5 This law [Compensation] writes the laws of cities and nations.
    Comp 2.108 27 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    SL 2.165 25 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his, and by the power of these he rouses the nations.
    Hsm1 2.256 18 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations...
    Cir 2.305 12 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave...all the literatures of the nations...
    Cir 2.309 2 The very hopes of man...the religion of nations...are...at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Pt1 3.8 14 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts...become the songs of the nations.
    Pt1 3.33 2 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear...
    Exp 3.64 15 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed too from the consciences of other nations.
    Exp 3.67 11 ...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!
    Chr1 3.113 20 ...our nations have been mobs;...
    Mrs1 3.120 13 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Nat2 3.192 2 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations.
    Pol1 3.212 18 ...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience.
    Pol1 3.220 22 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    NR 3.230 18 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    NR 3.231 23 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been in nations...
    NR 3.231 26 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...
    PPh 4.39 5 [Plato's] sentences contain the culture of nations;...
    PPh 4.40 13 ...the thinkers of all civilized nations are [Plato's] posterity...
    PPh 4.42 13 ...this grasping inventor [Plato] puts all nations under contribution.
    PPh 4.44 21 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    PPh 4.49 6 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    PPh 4.52 10 To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations corresponded.
    SwM 4.134 27 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
    ShP 4.200 6 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...
    NMW 4.254 19 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation] continues...
    GoW 4.269 12 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls. Every word was true, and woke the nations to new life.
    ET3 5.35 11 What are the elements of that power which the English hold over other nations?
    ET3 5.35 17 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
    ET3 5.36 25 England has inoculated all nations with her civilization, intelligence and tastes;...
    ET3 5.41 9 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.44 3 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are pliant political constructions...
    ET4 5.49 27 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...
    ET4 5.50 17 The best nations are those most widely related;...
    ET4 5.50 19 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.
    ET4 5.50 24 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations...
    ET4 5.50 25 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations,--three languages, three or four nations;...
    ET4 5.64 13 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    ET6 5.114 20 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET7 5.119 11 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    ET7 5.123 25 ...suspicion will make fools of nations as of citizens.
    ET8 5.127 5 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations...
    ET8 5.134 4 ...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are written...
    ET8 5.137 4 [The English] subsidize other nations, and are not subsidized.
    ET8 5.138 12 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations.
    ET9 5.145 1 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET10 5.159 27 Eight hundred years ago...it was recorded, England is the richest of all the northern nations.
    ET10 5.161 17 Nations have lost their old omnipotence;...
    ET10 5.161 18 Nations are getting obsolete...
    ET10 5.169 19 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond, namely to the wise use, in view of the supreme wealth of nations?
    ET10 5.169 19 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    ET11 5.175 27 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET12 5.205 23 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
    ET13 5.229 4 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
    ET14 5.235 14 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET14 5.243 18 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England], and his understanding the measure, in all nations, of the English intellect.
    ET14 5.259 26 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England;...
    ET14 5.260 12 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET18 5.299 1 England is the best of actual nations.
    ET18 5.301 19 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations.
    ET18 5.304 27 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    ET19 5.313 21 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations, mother of heroes...
    F 6.5 5 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...
    F 6.14 1 The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations...
    F 6.34 9 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing nations...
    Pow 6.53 5 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...
    Wth 6.105 1 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched;...
    Wsp 6.207 18 ...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.207 19 ...the old faiths which comforted nations, and not only so but made nations, seem to have spent their force.
    CbW 6.243 21 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    CbW 6.249 1 'T is pedantry to estimate nations by the census...
    CbW 6.250 16 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.250 17 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.251 19 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared.
    CbW 6.253 4 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Rabelais, with his satire rending the nations.
    CbW 6.254 5 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... and united hostile nations under one government.
    CbW 6.256 23 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    CbW 6.257 4 What happens thus to nations befalls every day in private houses.
    CbW 6.265 4 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    Bty 6.295 3 The fine arts...spring from the instincts of the nations that created them.
    Ill 6.324 25 ...on a stage of nations...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    Civ 7.19 19 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    Civ 7.21 4 The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
    Civ 7.32 1 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Art2 7.55 8 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world,--in the customs of nations...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    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 7.98 9 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address nations.
    DL 7.131 10 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Farm 7.145 17 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...
    WD 7.162 11 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder...when the nations are in exodus and flux?
    WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...that educator of nations...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    Boks 7.194 11 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
    Boks 7.199 17 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations?
    Boks 7.218 24 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations.
    Clbs 7.242 16 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Cour 7.253 16 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West, who have led the religion of great nations.
    Cour 7.256 20 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    Suc 7.292 11 ...we import the religion of other nations;...
    PI 8.19 4 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind...
    PI 8.20 9 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
    PI 8.34 17 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.38 11 Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles of the nations...these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PI 8.53 27 The prayers of nations are rhythmic...
    PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
    Res 8.143 13 See how nations of customers are formed.
    QO 8.187 13 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations descended from the Aryan race...
    QO 8.187 17 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    PC 8.207 19 Men come hither by nations.
    PC 8.209 9 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all... teaching nations the taking of government into their own hands...
    PC 8.214 11 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures, only recently known to Western nations, of the Indian Vedas...
    PC 8.215 27 The founders of nations...were probably martyrs in their own time.
    PC 8.220 11 The importance of the one person who has the truth over nations who have it not, is because power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    PC 8.220 14 How much more are men than nations!...
    PPo 8.238 1 Oriental life and society, especially in the Southern nations, stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    PPo 8.238 4 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the vast average of comfort of the Western nations.
    PPo 8.239 7 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    PPo 8.251 24 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations.
    Insp 8.294 1 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Imtl 8.328 13 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    Dem1 10.21 27 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
    Aris 10.32 22 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Aris 10.62 15 ...[the gentleman] will find...in the civility of whole nations, vulgarity of sentiment.
    PerF 10.88 20 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    Chr2 10.119 17 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Edc1 10.127 4 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Supl 10.176 15 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak...
    Supl 10.178 3 ...the European nations, and, in general, all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.
    SovE 10.188 5 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence over nations, intelligent beings...
    SovE 10.189 27 Nations come and go...
    SovE 10.212 4 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    Prch 10.237 24 The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
    MoL 10.243 13 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity...
    MoL 10.246 23 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide.
    MoL 10.255 3 Neither...the laws, the customs or dogmas of nations...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    MoL 10.255 5 ...it is not nations, nor even masters...but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Plu 10.294 19 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    MMEm 10.413 27 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.422 3 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    SlHr 10.437 16 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    Carl 10.495 3 Nor can that decorum...in attaining which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.
    HDC 11.50 2 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    EWI 11.102 7 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
    EWI 11.122 21 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments.
    EWI 11.123 6 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations...
    EWI 11.124 14 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the brandy made nations happy;...
    EWI 11.126 17 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    War 11.153 22 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    War 11.154 4 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...united hostile nations under one code.
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    FSLC 11.206 4 Under the Union I suppose the fact to be that there are really two nations, the North and the South.
    FSLC 11.210 1 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work...
    FSLN 11.229 19 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    FSLN 11.238 26 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
    TPar 11.290 2 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...the robbery of frontier nations...it is a hypocrisy...
    ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
    ACiv 11.301 21 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.308 20 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations.
    EPro 11.318 5 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.320 24 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    EPro 11.326 19 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    ALin 11.329 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...
    ALin 11.336 27 Nations, like kings, are not good by facility and complaisance.
    ALin 11.337 10 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
    ALin 11.337 17 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...
    EdAd 11.385 15 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
    EdAd 11.386 24 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    Wom 11.414 23 In barbarous society the position of women is always low-in the Eastern nations lower than in the West.
    ChiE 11.471 8 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    ChiE 11.472 13 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...its tea, the cordial of nations.
    ChiE 11.472 17 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.
    CPL 11.508 17 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    FRep 11.512 18 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.
    FRep 11.516 1 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations...
    FRep 11.516 3 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country from all the nations of Western and Central Europe.
    FRep 11.531 11 I wish to see America...hospitable to all nations...
    FRep 11.531 12 Nations were made to help each other as much as families were;...
    FRep 11.538 12 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations...
    PLT 12.18 24 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...ships and cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...
    CL 12.151 14 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the nations out of doors./
    CL 12.154 13 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface, the Exodus of nations.
    Bost 12.188 24 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.210 5 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.
    Milt1 12.253 25 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
    Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
    ACri 12.299 12 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
    Trag 12.406 5 It is usually agreed that some nations have a more sombre temperament...
    Trag 12.411 2 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

nation's, n. (4)

    ET13 5.218 1 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.
    Civ 7.24 18 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    DL 7.102 2 Thou shalt make thy house/ The temple of a nation's vows./
    SA 8.91 16 To trespass on a public servant is to trespass on a nation's time.

Nations, Six, n. (1)

    WD 7.178 9 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.

Nations, Wealth of [Adam S (1)

    Bost 12.204 6 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no Wealth of Nations;...have we yet contributed.

native, adj. (84)

    Nat 1.18 21 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    LE 1.169 13 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller, amid the repulsive plants that are native in the swamp, thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.224 4 The soul is in her native realm...
    Tran 1.330 14 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...
    YA 1.365 20 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    YA 1.369 13 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
    YA 1.377 15 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.385 4 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    YA 1.394 24 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
    SR 2.65 11 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.
    SR 2.71 13 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    SL 2.134 4 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.
    OS 2.278 25 In their habitual and mean service to the world, for which they forsake their native nobleness, [men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Int 2.328 1 ...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to reflection or conscious thought.
    Art1 2.355 24 ...it is the right and property...of all native properties whatsoever, to be for their moment the top of the world.
    Exp 3.59 27 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Mrs1 3.120 21 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
    Mrs1 3.132 14 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.147 21 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native;...
    Nat2 3.171 3 These enchantments [of nature]...sober and heal us. These are plain pleasures, kindly and native to us.
    NR 3.228 6 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NER 3.283 7 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall use his native but forgotten methods...
    PPh 4.58 9 [Plato] has a probity, a native reverence for justice and honor...
    SwM 4.106 9 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    ShP 4.205 7 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    NMW 4.229 3 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.
    NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.
    ET1 5.3 18 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET5 5.95 1 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
    ET5 5.96 13 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products...
    ET10 5.160 5 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET14 5.250 15 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
    Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
    Wth 6.109 1 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    Wth 6.112 7 ...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his spending.
    Ctr 6.129 9 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    Bhr 6.187 2 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Wsp 6.221 24 ...the colors are fast, because they are the native colors of the fleece;...
    Wsp 6.222 3 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    CbW 6.271 13 ...if one comes who can...show [men] their native riches...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    CbW 6.272 13 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...
    CbW 6.274 17 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    Elo1 7.67 5 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    WD 7.177 4 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone.
    Boks 7.194 8 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim...
    Clbs 7.225 7 ...thought is the native air of the mind...
    Clbs 7.226 24 ...opinion native to the speaker is sweet and refreshing...
    QO 8.180 17 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    Grts 8.310 21 ...if the first rule is to obey your native bias...the second rule is concentration...
    Chr2 10.117 7 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born,-men and women of native integrity...
    Edc1 10.130 23 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Schr 10.289 6 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history...
    Plu 10.294 2 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city, Chaeronea;...
    Plu 10.301 18 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.
    LLNE 10.326 26 People grow philosophical about native land and parents and relations.
    MMEm 10.411 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument...from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.
    SlHr 10.446 13 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence and a native temperance...
    SlHr 10.447 18 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is...always a few young men to whom these manners are native.
    Thor 10.458 2 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit for him.
    Thor 10.466 7 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Thor 10.473 10 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
    HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
    EWI 11.142 26 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments.
    FSLC 11.185 6 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity, and the health and honor of their native State, but canting fanaticism...
    ALin 11.330 11 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a quite native, aboriginal man...
    SHC 11.433 19 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...
    CPL 11.495 6 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
    CPL 11.499 7 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
    FRep 11.522 10 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...
    II 12.76 8 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CInt 12.120 2 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...subject to the total and native sentiment of the man...
    CL 12.135 15 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    CL 12.146 16 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...
    Bost 12.186 9 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generates by the air of that place...whereby...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find no less stimulus in our native air;...
    Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    Milt1 12.260 8 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    Milt1 12.260 24 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other;...
    Milt1 12.265 10 [Milton's] native honor never forsook him.
    Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.
    MLit 12.318 23 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    WSL 12.337 6 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native country...

native, n. (3)

    SL 2.151 3 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul [which]...native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
    Hsm1 2.264 7 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
    Exp 3.81 7 ...yet is the God the native of these bleak rocks.

natively, adv. (1)

    ET6 5.103 1 ...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively and with spirit.

natives, n. (8)

    PPh 4.73 8 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens, whether natives or strangers from Asia Minor and the islands.
    ET4 5.65 1 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
    ET9 5.146 4 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    HDC 11.38 21 Natives of another hemisphere, [the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
    HDC 11.50 18 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
    EWI 11.130 25 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has...rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    RBur 11.442 13 [Burns] grew up in a rural district, speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives...
    Bost 12.198 4 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.

natum, v. (1)

    PC 8.208 8 Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum/ Gratulor./

natura, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.176 24 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    Nat2 3.179 10 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature, natura naturans...
    SwM 4.104 21 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts,--tota in minimis existit natura.

natura, v. (1)

    WD 7.172 4 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...

natural, adj. (343)

    Nat 1.7 21 ...all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
    Nat 1.8 11 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.
    Nat 1.13 18 The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
    Nat 1.16 13 ...the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.
    Nat 1.19 26 Every natural action is graceful.
    Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.
    Nat 1.23 27 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
    Nat 1.25 5 Words are signs of natural facts.
    Nat 1.25 6 Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.
    Nat 1.25 9 Words are signs of natural facts.
    Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
    Nat 1.26 13 Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
    Nat 1.26 17 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
    Nat 1.28 1 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value...
    Nat 1.28 16 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Nat 1.29 9 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when...all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.
    Nat 1.30 17 Hundreds of writers may be found...who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment...
    Nat 1.32 7 We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings.
    Nat 1.33 15 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.39 19 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.41 25 ...every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
    Nat 1.48 24 It is a natural consequence of this structure [of man], that...we resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.49 5 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.67 22 In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    AmS 1.86 24 ...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.113 15 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual, - to surround him with barriers of natural respect...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.133 6 ...the gift of God to the soul is...a sweet, natural goodness...
    DSA 1.146 1 The inventor did it because it was natural to him...
    DSA 1.146 2 In the imitator something else is natural...
    DSA 1.148 26 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    LE 1.166 14 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    MN 1.199 17 Every natural fact is an emanation...
    MN 1.201 23 Read alternately in natural and in civil history...
    MN 1.210 23 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    MN 1.218 15 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions, and yet each is natural and familiar as household words.
    MN 1.219 23 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
    MN 1.223 12 We cannot describe the natural history of the soul...
    MN 1.223 17 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame...have before had a natural history like that of this body you see before you;...
    MR 1.239 4 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full,-not to use these things, but to...defend them from their natural enemies.
    LT 1.270 25 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
    LT 1.271 7 Seen in this their natural connection, [reforms] are sublime.
    LT 1.271 26 Why should [the manner of life we lead] contrast thus with all natural beauty?
    LT 1.282 17 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods; no, but in other men a natural firmness.
    Con 1.301 2 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.304 8 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor of age...
    Tran 1.330 3 These two modes of thinking [Materialism and Idealism] are both natural...
    YA 1.364 18 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the working of mines, and other natural advantages.
    YA 1.366 6 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    YA 1.385 13 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    YA 1.389 17 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Hist 2.17 15 Civil and natural history...must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    SR 2.58 27 There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour.
    SR 2.77 14 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.
    Comp 2.124 18 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit. Such also is the natural history of calamity.
    SL 2.133 11 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    SL 2.136 6 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
    SL 2.136 17 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...
    SL 2.155 10 ...[what the great man did] was the most natural thing in the world...
    Lov1 2.169 19 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.177 15 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
    Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
    Prd1 2.225 9 Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Prd1 2.226 27 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...
    Prd1 2.227 4 Some wisdom comes out of every natural and innocent action.
    Prd1 2.239 18 The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
    Hsm1 2.248 1 Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.249 6 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...
    Hsm1 2.254 25 ...without railing or precision [the great man's] living is natural and poetic.
    Hsm1 2.264 1 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    OS 2.267 19 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written...
    OS 2.272 25 We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth.
    OS 2.275 20 To the well-born child all the virtues are natural...
    Cir 2.306 23 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world;...
    Cir 2.313 26 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    Int 2.325 12 Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect...
    Int 2.330 11 What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
    Int 2.330 14 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Int 2.334 6 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Int 2.337 7 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean;...
    Int 2.339 8 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Int 2.341 10 ...the truth was in us before it was reflected to us from natural objects;...
    Int 2.343 3 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
    Int 2.345 12 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Int 2.346 26 Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most natural thing in the world, [the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
    Art1 2.355 23 ...it is the right and property of all natural objects...to be for their moment the top of the world.
    Art1 2.358 15 Since what skill is...shown [in a work of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...it should produce a similar impression to that made by natural objects.
    Pt1 3.7 18 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers...
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Chr1 3.92 19 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant...
    Chr1 3.92 21 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...
    Chr1 3.92 26 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
    Chr1 3.95 10 [Character] is a natural power...
    Chr1 3.95 19 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
    Chr1 3.95 21 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
    Chr1 3.96 24 The natural measure of this power [of character] is the resistance of circumstances.
    Chr1 3.97 9 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north.
    Chr1 3.97 27 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Chr1 3.107 9 ...forgive the counsels; they are very natural.
    Mrs1 3.123 5 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    Mrs1 3.123 16 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality...rise to their natural place.
    Mrs1 3.130 24 [Fashion's] doors unbar instantaneously to a natural claim of their own kind.
    Mrs1 3.130 25 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    Mrs1 3.134 18 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.138 4 Every natural function can be dignified by deliberation and privacy.
    Mrs1 3.139 5 [The spirit of the energetic class] entertains every natural gift.
    Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for the time;...
    Mrs1 3.146 21 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
    Nat2 3.171 19 There are all degrees of natural influence...
    Nat2 3.172 9 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    Nat2 3.182 18 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
    Nat2 3.182 19 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
    Nat2 3.183 4 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
    Nat2 3.183 19 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
    Nat2 3.196 15 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects...
    Pol1 3.204 18 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    Pol1 3.208 23 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
    NR 3.239 18 ...[each man] would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence.
    NER 3.262 16 ...you must make me feel that you...by your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the institution]...
    NER 3.265 3 [One man]...in his natural and momentary associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
    UGM 4.3 1 It is natural to believe in great men.
    PPh 4.47 9 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    PPh 4.54 6 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe;...
    PPh 4.56 18 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PNR 4.82 12 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    SwM 4.103 13 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bonmots, and not parts of natural discourse;...
    SwM 4.116 8 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.121 3 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...
    SwM 4.122 24 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning...
    SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    MoS 4.154 23 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.
    MoS 4.170 8 We are natural believers.
    MoS 4.170 23 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    MoS 4.171 17 ...we are natural conservers and causationists...
    MoS 4.171 24 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
    MoS 4.175 11 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
    MoS 4.175 13 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    ShP 4.213 15 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...
    ShP 4.217 5 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    NMW 4.229 3 [Napoleon]...acts with the solidity and the precision of natural agents.
    NMW 4.229 5 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things. Men give way before such a man, as before natural events.
    NMW 4.229 15 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power...
    NMW 4.230 20 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.243 2 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...defended him as its natural patron.
    NMW 4.243 7 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs. Napoleon met this natural expectation.
    NMW 4.245 2 Natural power was sure to be well received at [Napoleon's] court.
    NMW 4.245 10 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
    ET1 5.18 8 ...[Carlyle] had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls...
    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.
    ET3 5.36 7 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.49 23 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history...has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET5 5.96 7 Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the natural resources.
    ET6 5.110 2 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English].
    ET8 5.127 22 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    ET9 5.145 25 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
    ET9 5.149 5 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.
    ET10 5.154 17 A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy.
    ET11 5.174 22 All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
    ET13 5.226 11 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    ET14 5.241 7 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius.
    ET14 5.243 25 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.254 1 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
    ET15 5.272 18 [If the London Times would cleave to the right] It would be the natural leader of British reform;...
    ET16 5.274 2 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
    ET16 5.275 24 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
    F 6.21 21 ...we must...show the natural bounds or essential distinctions...
    F 6.22 8 We must respect Fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.
    Pow 6.69 23 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Wth 6.90 1 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the museum of natural history;...
    Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
    Bhr 6.179 8 The glance is natural magic.
    Bhr 6.189 4 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Bhr 6.194 23 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve.
    Wsp 6.218 21 Our recent culture has been in natural science.
    Wsp 6.229 8 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions, whether touching natural facts, or religion, or persons.
    CbW 6.254 23 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    Bty 6.294 15 There is not a particle to spare in natural structures.
    Bty 6.303 21 Every natural feature...has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Ill 6.310 2 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    SS 7.16 4 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied.
    Civ 7.23 16 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Civ 7.32 11 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Demades the natural orator...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.95 19 The natural connection by which [the resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral reforms...reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    DL 7.104 10 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered...by the extent of natural objects...
    DL 7.107 25 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your natural history;...
    Farm 7.153 24 [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.
    Boks 7.193 20 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic, where none but a natural method is really pertinent.
    Boks 7.202 12 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Clbs 7.230 9 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Clbs 7.232 7 ...it is only on natural ground that conversation can be rich.
    Cour 7.260 25 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    Cour 7.261 27 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.
    Suc 7.297 23 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
    PI 8.4 18 Faraday, the most exact of natural philosophers, taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.8 19 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...
    PI 8.11 18 ...the saint [sees] an argument for devotion in every natural process;...
    PI 8.16 7 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.
    PI 8.20 7 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.34 2 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    PI 8.68 20 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    PI 8.68 21 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily expresses his meaning by natural symbols...
    Elo2 8.117 14 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your thought in natural images;...
    Elo2 8.119 2 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming...
    Elo2 8.121 27 ...there are persons of natural fascination...
    Elo2 8.127 26 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men...
    Res 8.147 23 The natural offset of terror is ridicule.
    Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most attractive;...
    QO 8.203 2 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.
    PC 8.213 11 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    PC 8.220 27 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the natural topics and language of his wit and perception.
    Insp 8.271 3 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    Insp 8.271 7 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
    Insp 8.290 16 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine...are excitants of the muse.
    Insp 8.290 24 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
    Insp 8.295 25 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Grts 8.301 11 [Greatness] is the fulfilment of a natural tendency in each man.
    Grts 8.305 7 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
    Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull people.
    Grts 8.316 5 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power.
    Grts 8.316 19 We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power...
    Grts 8.316 21 ...natural is really allied to moral power...
    Imtl 8.328 15 Death is seen as a natural event...
    Imtl 8.333 25 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.337 10 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us, and we are the natural depositaries of these gifts.
    Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies, natural and moral, which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.24 27 Men...who had thought it the most natural thing in the world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world, have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    Aris 10.29 14 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
    Aris 10.49 14 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.
    PerF 10.71 16 The earliest hymns of the world were hymns to these natural forces.
    Edc1 10.128 4 Here is a world pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Edc1 10.138 10 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Edc1 10.148 11 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Edc1 10.148 17 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...
    Edc1 10.149 22 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...
    Edc1 10.149 23 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...
    Edc1 10.149 27 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind.
    SovE 10.208 12 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    SovE 10.210 14 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of its natural current is to lose at once all its power.
    Prch 10.223 3 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Schr 10.263 6 Every natural power exhilarates;...
    Schr 10.264 6 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    Schr 10.271 24 This reverence [for genius and virtue] is the reestablishment of natural order;...
    Schr 10.275 25 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.
    Schr 10.287 20 I invite you [scholars]...to true and natural supremacy...
    Plu 10.297 10 Whatever is eminent...in institutions, in science,-natural, moral, or metaphysical...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.312 10 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
    LLNE 10.326 25 ...veneration is low; the natural affections feebler than they were.
    LLNE 10.330 18 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    LLNE 10.338 20 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...
    LLNE 10.338 27 Every immorality...is punished by natural loss and deformity.
    LLNE 10.351 7 ...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural capital of the globe.
    EzRy 10.385 23 Trained in this [New England] church, and very well qualified by his natural talent to work in it, it was never out of [Ezra Ripley' s] mind.
    EzRy 10.390 15 [Ezra Ripley] was a natural gentleman...
    EzRy 10.392 2 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable; so neat, so natural, so terse, his words fell like stones;...
    MMEm 10.409 8 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy...
    SlHr 10.439 6 [Samuel Hoar] was a very natural, but a very high character;...
    SlHr 10.439 18 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...
    SlHr 10.439 21 [Samuel Hoar] combined a uniform self-respect with a natural reverence for every other man;...
    SlHr 10.440 23 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind...
    SlHr 10.446 2 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...
    Thor 10.452 8 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.
    Thor 10.452 17 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.453 13 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.467 21 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.
    Thor 10.474 10 [Thoreau] was equally interested in every natural fact.
    Carl 10.494 6 A natural defender of anything...[Carlyle] respects;...
    GSt 10.505 5 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    LS 11.7 15 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
    LS 11.12 19 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols. I look upon this fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church.
    LS 11.12 23 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately remembered by them;...
    LS 11.14 21 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    HDC 11.31 13 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    HDC 11.45 5 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights...were united by personal affection.
    HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people.
    HDC 11.84 27 ...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    LVB 11.89 3 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position, every citizen is your friend.
    EWI 11.107 2 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).
    EWI 11.139 12 What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    EWI 11.146 18 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect, his own natural allies and champions...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    War 11.161 27 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
    FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.188 11 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.191 6 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law or else we must offend both the natural and divine.
    FSLC 11.195 2 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FSLC 11.199 26 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has...made every citizen a student of natural law.
    FSLC 11.203 23 I suppose [Webster's] pledges were not quite natural to him.
    FSLN 11.217 15 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...
    FSLN 11.221 2 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    AKan 11.256 3 ...all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts;...
    JBB 11.272 27 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself, and the natural assistance of his friends and fellow citizens...
    JBS 11.281 13 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.297 15 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    ACiv 11.304 8 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North...
    ACiv 11.309 26 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    ALin 11.333 7 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...
    ALin 11.336 21 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that the rebellion had touched its natural conclusion, and what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...
    EdAd 11.389 14 The facility of majorities is no protection from the natural sequence of their own acts.
    SHC 11.431 24 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to... bring out the natural advantages.
    Humb 11.457 9 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    FRO1 11.478 16 The child, the young student, finds scope in his...natural history, because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    FRO2 11.485 5 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet the natural demands of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
    FRO2 11.487 13 We are all believers in natural religion;...
    FRO2 11.487 15 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is...a regard to natural conscience.
    FRO2 11.488 7 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code, that is, to natural religion, of somewhat positive and historical.
    PLT 12.11 18 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...
    PLT 12.12 21 ...the natural direction of the intellectual powers is from within outward...
    PLT 12.12 25 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects, as...natural history, ships, animals, chemistry,-in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.13 12 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    PLT 12.14 22 The poet is in the natural attitude;...
    PLT 12.41 8 Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.
    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 12.45 10 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 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    PLT 12.52 18 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
    PLT 12.55 1 The natural remedy against this miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    PLT 12.56 12 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
    Mem 12.109 15 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see the natural helps of it in the mind...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.137 6 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...with loads of natural productions collected on the way.
    CL 12.139 7 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.150 1 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...
    CL 12.152 21 We must remember that man is a natural nomad...
    CL 12.157 27 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close beside the disclosures of natural history.
    CL 12.160 23 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    CL 12.164 15 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
    Bost 12.197 20 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
    Bost 12.209 15 ...[Boston] is very jealous of any superiority in these, its natural instinct and privilege.
    MAng1 12.216 21 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the indescribable charm of the natural world...want observers.
    MAng1 12.217 11 In considering a life dedicated to the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
    MAng1 12.236 27 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante...
    Milt1 12.264 15 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    ACri 12.289 19 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades;...
    ACri 12.304 26 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    MLit 12.316 14 The water we wash with never speaks of itself, nor does fire or wind or tree. Neither does the noble natural man...
    MLit 12.324 26 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...
    MLit 12.325 6 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...
    EurB 12.371 18 [Jonson's beauty] is a natural manly grace of a robust workman.
    EurB 12.374 2 We read Zanoni with pleasure, because the magic is natural.
    EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
    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...

natural, adv. (1)

    Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

Natural History, Academies (1)

    Wth 6.96 15 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Philadelphia Academies of Natural History...

Natural History, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.222 15 [Prudence] is legitimate when it is the Natural History of the soul incarnate...
    Plu 10.310 16 [Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet...
    Thor 10.471 23 [Thoreau's] determination on Natural History was organic.
    PLT 12.4 5 These [higher] powers and laws are also facts in a Natural History.
    CL 12.161 7 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.

Natural History of Intellec (1)

    PLT 12.15 1 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.

Natural History Society, n. (2)

    Comc 8.168 6 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Thor 10.471 9 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society.

natural, n. (3)

    LT 1.272 14 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man, which, amidst the natural, ever contains the supernatural for men.
    Hist 2.25 25 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
    ET14 5.255 20 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...

Natural Science, n. (4)

    LT 1.259 3 ...the present aspects of our social state...Natural Science, Agriculture...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    PI 8.7 16 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PC 8.211 10 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    EdAd 11.391 12 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...

Natural Theology, System of (1)

    MMEm 10.425 8 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.

naturalist, n. (31)

    Nat 1.66 10 ...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...
    Nat 1.67 4 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    Nat 1.68 6 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    Nat 1.74 3 [Man] cannot be a naturalist until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit.
    LE 1.167 17 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing...of an of these fine things;...
    Comp 2.101 5 ...the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis...
    Prd1 2.222 24 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science.
    Cir 2.314 8 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    UGM 4.16 15 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions...
    UGM 4.29 26 Be another:...not a naturalist, but a Cartesian;...
    PNR 4.81 24 The naturalist would never help us to [the expansions of facts] by any discoveries of the extent of the universe...
    ET2 5.31 11 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET14 5.253 8 The eye of the naturalist must have a scope like nature itself...
    Bty 6.282 1 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
    DL 7.122 17 I honor that man whose ambition it is...not to be a jurist or a naturalist...but to be a master of living well...
    PI 8.10 25 Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty [of imagination].
    PI 8.56 14 I honor the naturalist;...
    Imtl 8.334 19 ...the naturalist works not for himself, but for the believing mind...
    Aris 10.54 4 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to their neighbors by interest in the same things. This was a naturalist.
    Edc1 10.155 7 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest...
    Plu 10.297 23 [Plutarch] is...not a naturalist, like Pliny or Linnaeus;...
    Plu 10.299 14 [Plutarch] is...a naturalist with naturalists...
    Thor 10.454 11 ...though a naturalist, [Thoreau] used neither trap nor gun.
    Thor 10.472 9 Our naturalist [Thoreau] had perfect magnanimity;...
    PLT 12.3 9 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    CL 12.162 13 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    CL 12.162 20 My naturalist knew what was on [the sparrows' and tortoises'] land, and the farmers did not...
    CW 12.176 14 The other [desirable companion for a tramp] is a naturalist...
    CW 12.177 19 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night...
    Bost 12.188 9 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.
    MLit 12.322 13 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.

naturalists, n. (6)

    Nat 1.74 13 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    Pow 6.58 16 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...
    Ctr 6.146 6 Naturalists, discoverers and sailors are born.
    MoL 10.241 6 You go to be teachers, to become...statesmen, naturalists, philanthropists;...
    Plu 10.299 15 [Plutarch] is...a naturalist with naturalists...
    CW 12.177 17 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...

naturalization, n. (1)

    ET13 5.224 23 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...

naturalized, v. (1)

    ET5 5.77 16 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane, and such of these French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense.

naturally, adv. (42)

    AmS 1.107 12 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...
    LT 1.281 3 What are no trifles to [our young people], they naturally think are no trifles to Pompey.
    YA 1.366 9 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    Hist 2.19 24 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    Hsm1 2.245 18 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Pt1 3.34 26 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Gts 3.163 25 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
    Nat2 3.177 10 Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft...
    PPh 4.65 15 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that having thus learned, and being naturally possessed of a correct reasoning faculty, we might...set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    NMW 4.240 16 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor, and threw himself naturally on that side.
    ET3 5.35 16 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
    ET3 5.39 4 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game;...
    ET10 5.154 12 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET16 5.282 22 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    Wsp 6.203 3 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.
    Bty 6.293 24 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach, and all the most naturally in the world, if only it come by degrees.
    Art2 7.54 16 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    Clbs 7.229 1 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...conversation naturally flowed...
    Insp 8.284 6 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction...
    Imtl 8.341 25 Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of facing labor and danger...
    Edc1 10.138 19 I like...boys...quite unsuspected, coming in as naturally as the janitor...
    Plu 10.307 21 [Plutarch] thinks that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction;...
    Plu 10.311 8 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.
    LLNE 10.367 2 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    LS 11.15 18 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    LVB 11.90 2 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population-an interest naturally growing as that decays,-has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    LVB 11.94 25 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    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 11.167 15 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    War 11.170 1 The question naturally arises, How is this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real?
    FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...
    AKan 11.262 19 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
    EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
    ALin 11.331 5 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable.
    SMC 11.357 25 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.358 15 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...
    PLT 12.48 27 Webster naturally and always grasps...
    CL 12.141 7 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    Bost 12.206 12 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...quite naturally house-rents rose in Boston.
    Milt1 12.257 24 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received a love of Nature...
    AgMs 12.360 2 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
    EurB 12.374 10 ...[the complete man] would be obeyed as naturally as the rain and the sunshine are.

naturans, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.179 11 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature, natura naturans...

naturata, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 24 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.

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