Nature (continued)

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

    Bty 6.296 4 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Bty 6.296 16 Nature wishes that woman should attract man...
    Bty 6.297 25 Women stand related to beautiful nature around us...
    Bty 6.298 11 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
    Bty 6.302 7 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.302 11 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.303 24 Every natural feature...speaks of that central benefit which is the soul of nature...
    Bty 6.304 12 All the facts in nature are nouns of the intellect...
    Ill 6.310 5 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    Ill 6.311 3 Our conversation with nature is not just what it seems.
    Ill 6.319 21 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
    Ill 6.321 2 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    Ill 6.323 21 The permanent interest of every man is...to have the weight of nature to back him in all that he does.
    Ill 6.324 3 We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of nature.
    SS 7.6 1 Few substances are found pure in nature.
    SS 7.6 10 Nature protects her own work.
    SS 7.7 27 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.
    SS 7.10 9 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    SS 7.13 23 ...[men] adjust themselves by their demerits,--by their love of gossip, or by sheer tolerance and animal good nature.
    SS 7.15 11 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms...
    Art2 7.51 19 Proceeding from absolute mind, whose nature is goodness as much as truth, the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Art2 7.51 21 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Elo1 7.59 6 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/...
    Elo1 7.97 19 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them, armed as he is with the reason and love which are also the core of their nature.
    DL 7.103 20 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.
    DL 7.115 10 If [man]...is mean-spirited and odious, it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    DL 7.126 7 Every individual nature has its own beauty.
    DL 7.131 22 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
    Farm 7.147 9 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    WD 7.162 11 Nature loves to cross her stocks...
    WD 7.166 16 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature.
    WD 7.171 17 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit. Nature could no farther go.
    Boks 7.195 1 Nature is much our friend in this matter [of reading].
    Boks 7.195 2 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine.
    Clbs 7.230 11 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Clbs 7.233 18 Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
    Cour 7.260 20 Nature has charged every one with his own defence...
    Suc 7.308 5 A man is a man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.
    Suc 7.308 23 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches. Nature does not invite such exhibition.
    Suc 7.308 24 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...
    OA 7.316 11 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time]...
    OA 7.316 24 Nature is full of freaks...
    OA 7.321 20 Nature, in the main, vindicates her law [of time].
    PI 8.6 2 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature...
    PI 8.9 14 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    PI 8.20 15 The very design of imagination is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature.
    PI 8.26 7 Nature is the true idealist.
    PI 8.44 1 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
    PI 8.66 4 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us, and this exists as a second nature...
    PI 8.69 19 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe...
    PI 8.71 19 The nature of things is flowing...
    PI 8.73 20 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor,--that is, to godlike nature.
    SA 8.78 2 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.80 23 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature.
    SA 8.82 5 Nature is the best posture-master.
    SA 8.83 15 Nature made us all intelligent of these signs, for our safety and our happiness.
    SA 8.87 4 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.87 13 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.89 22 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    Elo2 8.112 17 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Elo2 8.120 15 The voice...betrays the nature and disposition...
    Comc 8.157 6 ...the lower nature does not jest...
    Comc 8.158 23 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Comc 8.159 5 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
    Comc 8.164 10 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Comc 8.164 19 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    QO 8.190 9 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends. Nay, it is an inevitable fruit of our social nature.
    PC 8.209 22 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of good nature... proposed by statesmen...
    PPo 8.247 4 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz...
    PPo 8.253 14 Only he despises the verse of Hafiz who is not himself by nature noble.
    Grts 8.312 1 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's, though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn.
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...
    Imtl 8.327 17 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream. All nature will accompany us there.
    Imtl 8.333 8 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
    Imtl 8.336 10 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Imtl 8.338 25 ...it is the nature of intelligent beings to be forever new to life.
    Imtl 8.350 2 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature.
    Dem1 10.7 22 [Dreams'] extravagance from nature is yet within a higher nature.
    Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
    Dem1 10.17 10 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    Dem1 10.26 4 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Aris 10.35 8 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that this is...a distinction in the nature of things;...
    Aris 10.35 15 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    Aris 10.39 9 I wish...men...who know the beauty of animals and the laws of their nature...
    Aris 10.44 5 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Aris 10.45 9 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
    Aris 10.54 23 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
    Aris 10.54 27 ...the two poles of nature are Beauty and Meanness...
    Aris 10.61 27 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    PerF 10.72 13 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind...
    PerF 10.72 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.83 8 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.84 13 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property, but for use, use according to the noble nature of the gifts; and...not for self-indulgence.
    Chr2 10.93 10 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.94 1 The antagonist nature is the individual...
    Chr2 10.94 25 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Chr2 10.95 1 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    Chr2 10.98 8 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
    Edc1 10.134 26 We do not give [boys] a training as if we believed in their noble nature.
    Edc1 10.135 10 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to inspire the youthful man...with a curiosity touching his own nature;...
    Edc1 10.135 21 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Edc1 10.138 5 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil, the unknown possibilities of his nature, to a neat and safe uniformity...
    Edc1 10.141 6 ...from [friendship's] revelations we come more worthily into nature.
    Edc1 10.141 10 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires of each only the flower of his nature and experience;...
    Edc1 10.143 22 Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.
    Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature?
    Edc1 10.144 15 The two points in a boy's training are...to...keep his nature and arm it with knowledge in the very direction in which it points.
    Edc1 10.144 20 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child, the new perception he has of nature.
    Edc1 10.148 14 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature...
    Edc1 10.149 7 Nature provided for the communication of thought...
    Edc1 10.150 4 ...every young man is born with some determination in his nature...
    Edc1 10.151 15 Is it not manifest...that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room...
    Edc1 10.154 11 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Edc1 10.159 3 The beautiful nature of the world has here blended your happiness with your power.
    Supl 10.172 18 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    Supl 10.174 15 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature...
    SovE 10.185 13 The high intellect is absolutely at one with moral nature.
    SovE 10.188 7 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine...
    SovE 10.191 12 Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every crime.
    SovE 10.212 23 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.
    Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human nature...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.219 7 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.
    Prch 10.222 24 We are in transition...to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...its equal energy in what is called brute nature as in what is called sacred.
    Prch 10.223 6 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
    Prch 10.225 27 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    MoL 10.247 24 Nature is rich, exuberant...
    Schr 10.262 1 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the spiritual nature is too strong for us;...
    Schr 10.264 1 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he is...an organic agent in nature.
    Schr 10.268 8 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...
    Schr 10.272 12 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    Schr 10.282 14 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Plu 10.300 24 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    Plu 10.305 5 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    Plu 10.311 1 ...though curious in the questions of the schools on the nature and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is a friend given by nature...
    LLNE 10.336 23 ...the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
    LLNE 10.337 13 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
    LLNE 10.338 27 Every immorality is a departure from nature...
    LLNE 10.349 11 [Brisbane's plan]...strode about nature with a giant's step...
    LLNE 10.354 12 [Fourier] labored under a misapprehension of the nature of women.
    LLNE 10.354 18 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is;...
    LLNE 10.357 23 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society; one which the tendencies of nature lead unto...
    EzRy 10.390 16 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited; his nature social...
    EzRy 10.394 26 [Ezra Ripley] was eminently loyal in his nature...
    MMEm 10.398 12 ...[Lucy Percy's] nature values fortunate persons.
    MMEm 10.413 18 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station; though after all it must depend on the nature of the heart.
    MMEm 10.424 25 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement.
    MMEm 10.427 16 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    SlHr 10.446 4 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable, as every work of nature is...
    Thor 10.455 25 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature...
    Thor 10.459 25 What [Thoreau] sought was the most energetic nature;...
    Carl 10.494 18 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
    Carl 10.494 20 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle]...
    Carl 10.494 24 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature was made by God...
    Carl 10.495 14 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    Carl 10.495 17 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...
    GSt 10.501 3 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    LS 11.3 6 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been any unanimity in the understanding of its nature...
    LS 11.4 4 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature.
    LS 11.17 27 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    HDC 11.43 25 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.51 1 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    LVB 11.89 9 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
    LVB 11.92 24 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
    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.
    LVB 11.96 1 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    EWI 11.101 24 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.125 3 Unhappily...for the planter, the laws of nature are in harmony with each other...
    EWI 11.129 8 ...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].
    EWI 11.140 13 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
    EWI 11.141 17 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    War 11.154 11 Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
    War 11.154 18 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    War 11.155 3 Nature implants with life the instinct of self-help...
    War 11.155 27 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
    War 11.160 6 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...
    War 11.167 5 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
    FSLC 11.185 24 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.
    FSLC 11.186 19 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
    FSLC 11.203 26 [Webster] obeys his powerful animal nature;...
    FSLC 11.207 27 Is it impossible to speak of [abolition] with reason and good nature?
    FSLN 11.223 21 It is a law of our nature that great thoughts come from the heart.
    FSLN 11.231 12 I know how deeply founded [conservatism] is in our nature...
    FSLN 11.232 9 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science...
    FSLN 11.236 5 ...we are in this world...to be instructed...in the laws of moral and intelligent nature;...
    FSLN 11.236 16 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    FSLN 11.238 7 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    TPar 11.292 3 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him; and history, nature and all souls testify to the same.
    TPar 11.292 8 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    ACiv 11.298 8 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise, the constitution of human nature, and calls labor vile...
    EPro 11.318 25 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by the good nature in the people...
    ALin 11.332 11 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...
    ALin 11.332 17 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    ALin 11.337 3 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic...
    SMC 11.349 19 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.351 21 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    SMC 11.352 12 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law, the nature of things, did not wink at it...
    SMC 11.354 15 ...opposition to [justice] is against the nature of things;...
    Wom 11.405 12 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
    Wom 11.409 25 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...
    Wom 11.414 1 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    Wom 11.415 11 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century,-when her religious nature gave her, of course, new importance,-the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.415 27 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought.
    Wom 11.417 6 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais, in whom it is...not borne out by anything in nature...
    Wom 11.425 25 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never not of his counsel, if she has really something to urge that is good in itself and agreeable to nature.
    SHC 11.430 21 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    Scot 11.465 18 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    FRO2 11.489 4 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim takes his teachings out of logic and out of nature...
    FRO2 11.489 19 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.
    FRep 11.513 6 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power...
    FRep 11.516 16 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us...
    FRep 11.540 18 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall... repel the enemy as by force of nature.
    PLT 12.5 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.10 4 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... which is a perfection of their nature...
    PLT 12.10 12 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things against the sanitary and legitimate inspirations of the intellectual nature.
    PLT 12.15 19 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force, creating nature...is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.17 12 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...
    PLT 12.33 14 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    PLT 12.35 11 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    PLT 12.36 24 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature...
    PLT 12.40 5 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    PLT 12.41 2 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.41 18 It is [a perception's] nature to rush to expression...
    PLT 12.47 27 The various talents are...each related to that part of nature it is to explore and utilize.
    PLT 12.60 24 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will. One is the man, the other the woman in spiritual nature.
    PLT 12.62 9 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    II 12.65 6 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
    II 12.75 15 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    II 12.76 4 Nature is forever over education;...
    II 12.85 18 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
    II 12.88 18 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.
    Mem 12.90 14 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    Mem 12.97 2 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...
    CInt 12.111 4 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    CInt 12.120 18 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.
    CL 12.167 4 Nature is vast and strong...
    Bost 12.184 18 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?
    Bost 12.192 11 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice. Nature has never again indulged in these exasperations.
    Bost 12.196 18 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.208 21 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature hostile to oppression.
    MAng1 12.217 17 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    MAng1 12.222 7 ...no degrading views of human nature...can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.222 26 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    MAng1 12.241 4 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well...that [Michelangelo's] own nature is a stranger to depravity.
    Milt1 12.254 22 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.
    Milt1 12.264 1 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.268 20 Thus chosen, by the felicity of his nature and of his breeding, for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    Milt1 12.274 6 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    ACri 12.289 23 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    MLit 12.309 7 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    MLit 12.313 9 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects...
    MLit 12.326 2 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal];...
    MLit 12.327 10 ...we claim for [Goethe] the praise...of fidelity to his intellectual nature.
    WSL 12.341 16 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    WSL 12.344 15 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
    WSL 12.345 10 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
    AgMs 12.360 9 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman.
    EurB 12.365 6 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...
    EurB 12.374 12 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.
    Let 12.401 8 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...
    Let 12.401 22 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...
    Trag 12.406 21 What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?
    Trag 12.407 23 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.
    Trag 12.408 19 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...
    Trag 12.412 15 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering. This was true to human nature.
    Trag 12.416 19 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.

Nature, n. (606)

    Nat 1.4 24 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
    Nat 1.5 2 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.16 27 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness...
    Nat 1.17 11 How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!
    Nat 1.19 8 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.
    Nat 1.24 12 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man...
    Nat 1.24 26 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.25 1 Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man.
    Nat 1.35 14 A life in harmony with Nature...will purge the eyes to understand her text.
    Nat 1.38 22 ...what good heed Nature forms in us!
    Nat 1.41 3 Therefore is Nature ever the ally of Religion...
    Nat 1.43 4 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature...
    Nat 1.44 17 So intimate is this Unity, that...it lies under the undermost garment of Nature...
    Nat 1.50 13 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.
    Nat 1.61 16 The aspect of Nature is devout.
    AmS 1.84 11 [The scholar] Nature solicits with all her placid...pictures;...
    AmS 1.85 14 ...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    LE 1.187 14 By virtue of the laws of that Nature which is one and perfect, [Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar...
    MN 1.195 11 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    MN 1.197 5 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MN 1.202 1 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.202 26 To questions of this sort, Nature replies, I grow.
    MN 1.203 18 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MN 1.207 5 When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
    MN 1.216 22 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence, besides Nature and the conscience.
    MR 1.248 12 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all...
    YA 1.373 11 ...Nature is the noblest engineer...
    YA 1.373 16 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    Comp 2.92 11 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Comp 2.98 17 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...
    Comp 2.98 19 Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
    Comp 2.99 3 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Comp 2.105 6 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
    SL 2.163 26 The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Fdsp 2.194 10 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Prd1 2.234 3 Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
    Hsm1 2.263 13 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    OS 2.273 19 Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space and Nature shrink away.
    Int 2.341 1 ...the poet...is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
    Exp 3.43 17 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/ Him by the hand dear Nature took;/...
    Exp 3.43 18 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Chr1 3.88 4 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Chr1 3.107 15 ...Nature keeps these sovereignties in her own hands...
    Nat2 3.170 3 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance...
    Nat2 3.185 18 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms...with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.194 13 We cannot bandy words with Nature...
    Pol1 3.216 4 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    NR 3.236 16 You are one thing, but Nature is one thing and the other thing, in the same moment.
    NR 3.237 8 ...it is not the intention of Nature that we should live by general views.
    NR 3.239 8 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    NER 3.252 20 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine;...
    UGM 4.28 22 ...whilst every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other.
    PPh 4.40 14 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.67 23 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature; and he failed not to add, There is also the divine.
    SwM 4.107 8 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature iterates her means perpetually on successive planes.
    SwM 4.108 2 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.112 9 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    ET3 5.34 3 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former because there Nature vindicates her rights...
    ET3 5.42 25 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET13 5.228 20 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete. Nature, to be sure, had her remedy.
    ET13 5.228 23 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check. Nature has sharper remedies, also
    ET13 5.229 15 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.
    ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
    ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.
    F 6.6 22 ...Nature is no sentimentalist...
    F 6.14 27 The Circumstance is Nature.
    F 6.14 27 Nature is what you may do.
    F 6.15 13 The book of Nature is the book of Fate.
    F 6.23 20 Look not on Nature, for her name is fatal, said the oracle.
    F 6.25 26 ...we speak for Nature;...
    F 6.26 14 Where [the mind] shines, Nature is no longer intrusive...
    F 6.43 6 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought;...
    F 6.48 22 ...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of Nature to be harmony and joy.
    F 6.49 12 Why should we be afraid of Nature...
    Pow 6.69 25 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which...is still in reception of the milk from the teats of Nature.
    Pow 6.78 22 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Pow 6.80 16 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.84 22 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./
    Ctr 6.165 10 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Bhr 6.175 13 ...Nature and Destiny are honest...
    Ill 6.321 15 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided, and that the threads were Time and Nature.
    Ill 6.325 2 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.
    Art2 7.39 13 ...recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature, Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.39 14 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.40 22 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature;...
    Art2 7.40 23 Nature is the representative of the universal mind...
    Art2 7.40 25 ...Art must be a complement to Nature...
    Art2 7.41 1 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.41 5 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
    Art2 7.41 13 ...Nature tyrannizes over our works.
    Art2 7.41 17 Nature is ever interfering with Art.
    Art2 7.42 5 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best...
    Art2 7.42 9 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
    Art2 7.42 14 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
    Art2 7.44 7 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure, as so much deduction from the merit of Art, and is the attribute of Nature.
    Art2 7.44 21 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Art2 7.44 23 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.
    Art2 7.47 20 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.47 22 Nature paints the best part of the picture...
    Art2 7.48 4 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
    Art2 7.48 10 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Art2 7.48 11 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become...in no wise a contradiction of Nature;...
    Art2 7.51 6 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Art2 7.51 8 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive.
    Art2 7.51 14 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    Art2 7.53 9 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...had a necessity, in Nature, for being;...
    Art2 7.53 27 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature.
    Art2 7.55 22 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Elo1 7.66 3 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man, such as Nature rarely organizes;...
    Elo1 7.69 20 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature;...
    Elo1 7.79 4 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    Elo1 7.93 1 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    Elo1 7.95 25 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    Elo1 7.98 14 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    DL 7.106 2 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    DL 7.106 9 The street is old as Nature;...
    DL 7.107 2 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.121 10 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man!...
    DL 7.126 2 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    DL 7.126 9 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature...
    DL 7.126 13 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    DL 7.127 20 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    DL 7.128 25 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    DL 7.129 9 ...when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    DL 7.132 12 Will not man one day open his eyes and see how dear he is to the soul of Nature...
    Farm 7.137 4 [The farmer] stands close to Nature;...
    Farm 7.137 20 ...the beauty of Nature...all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.138 3 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.138 26 [The farmer] is a slow person, timed to Nature...
    Farm 7.139 1 Nature never hurries...
    Farm 7.139 4 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Farm 7.139 10 The farmer times himself to Nature...
    Farm 7.140 13 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...
    Farm 7.143 6 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    Farm 7.143 10 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all.
    Farm 7.143 19 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
    Farm 7.145 3 ...Nature is as subtle as she is strong.
    Farm 7.145 16 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
    Farm 7.147 12 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    Farm 7.148 23 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
    Farm 7.153 2 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    Farm 7.153 23 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    Farm 7.153 25 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood; because he is, as all natural persons are, representative of Nature as much as these.
    Farm 7.154 3 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Farm 7.154 10 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
    WD 7.161 26 ...every chance is timed, as if Nature, who made the lock, knew where to find the key.
    WD 7.163 12 Man flatters himself that his command over Nature must increase.
    WD 7.170 26 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.172 12 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    WD 7.172 24 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
    WD 7.174 13 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature...
    WD 7.176 8 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts;...
    Boks 7.194 6 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature...
    Boks 7.213 11 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    Boks 7.216 12 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes...
    Boks 7.217 16 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature.
    Boks 7.220 4 ...Nature is always equal to herself...
    Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.
    Clbs 7.227 17 See how Nature has secured the communication of knowledge.
    Clbs 7.233 12 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    Clbs 7.244 9 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.
    Clbs 7.250 11 ...Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Cour 7.259 27 Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
    Cour 7.276 13 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature...
    Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
    Suc 7.289 15 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
    Suc 7.289 27 Nature knows how to convert evil to good;...
    Suc 7.290 1 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
    Suc 7.291 16 Do your work. I have to say this often, but Nature says it oftener.
    Suc 7.297 11 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?
    Suc 7.298 9 In Nature all is large massive repose.
    Suc 7.299 2 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature...
    Suc 7.300 12 [Color] is the last stroke of Nature;...
    Suc 7.300 26 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature;...
    OA 7.313 22 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
    OA 7.316 6 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time, and in which Nature delights.
    OA 7.317 2 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
    OA 7.318 20 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    OA 7.319 4 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
    OA 7.321 15 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life, which is the verdict of Nature...
    OA 7.322 19 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...
    OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
    OA 7.325 22 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    OA 7.328 4 The compensations of Nature play in age as in youth.
    OA 7.329 6 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    PI 8.3 6 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity, and first in the order of Nature.
    PI 8.4 10 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    PI 8.4 12 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.5 7 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PI 8.7 24 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    PI 8.8 8 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist.
    PI 8.9 7 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.11 8 ...Nature was called a kind of adulterated reason.
    PI 8.11 19 ...the facility with which Nature lends itself to the thoughts of man...is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    PI 8.12 17 Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from one part of Nature to a remote part...
    PI 8.14 25 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.15 10 ...Nature itself is a vast trope...
    PI 8.15 21 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
    PI 8.17 2 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.17 21 A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
    PI 8.18 23 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.
    PI 8.19 8 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.20 17 This power is in the image because this power is in Nature.
    PI 8.22 2 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.23 5 The poet discovers...that Nature is the immense shadow of man.
    PI 8.23 13 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature...
    PI 8.28 9 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say.
    PI 8.31 7 ...high poetry exceeds the fact, or Nature itself...
    PI 8.38 7 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws...
    PI 8.38 13 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    PI 8.40 5 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.43 3 All the parts and forms of Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties...
    PI 8.49 1 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PI 8.53 18 Poetry being an attempt to express...the beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    PI 8.64 15 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
    PI 8.65 1 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
    PI 8.65 7 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature...
    PI 8.65 9 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    PI 8.66 19 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back to Nature...
    PI 8.66 20 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind...
    PI 8.66 22 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which...Nature had been suspected and pagan.
    PI 8.67 18 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to the face of Nature...
    PI 8.68 23 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted.
    PI 8.70 4 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    PI 8.72 1 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
    PI 8.74 16 I doubt never the riches of Nature...
    SA 8.81 9 Nature values manners.
    SA 8.96 9 Let Nature bear the expense.
    SA 8.100 9 It is the sense of every human being that man should have this dominion of Nature...
    SA 8.102 23 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation; but, though some of us have seen such, I doubt they are all gone. But Nature is not poorer to-day.
    SA 8.105 15 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature;...
    Elo2 8.114 1 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...
    Res 8.137 16 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...
    Res 8.137 22 We like to see the inexhaustible riches of Nature...
    Res 8.138 19 ...if you tell me...that every man is provided, in the new bias of his faculty, with a key to Nature...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.139 19 Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature.
    Res 8.140 7 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    Res 8.141 3 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    Res 8.144 24 Nature herself gives the hint and the example, if we have wit to take it.
    Res 8.144 25 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...
    Res 8.151 18 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature...
    Res 8.154 4 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    Comc 8.157 2 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species, which is the only joker in Nature.
    Comc 8.158 5 ...there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
    Comc 8.158 10 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...
    Comc 8.158 18 The whole of Nature is agreeable to the whole of thought, or to the Reason;...
    Comc 8.158 20 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
    Comc 8.166 29 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Comc 8.170 6 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    Comc 8.173 23 ...explore the whole of Nature...
    QO 8.175 1 Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature.
    QO 8.188 8 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that multitudes of men do not live with Nature...
    QO 8.188 25 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    QO 8.200 25 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
    QO 8.204 19 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    PC 8.205 1 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    PC 8.211 12 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.
    PC 8.217 19 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him;...
    PC 8.220 25 ...the next step in the series is the equivalence of the soul to Nature.
    PC 8.221 9 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers.
    PC 8.222 23 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...that atom draws to atom throughout Nature...
    PC 8.222 26 Every law in Nature...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    PC 8.223 4 Nature is a fable whose moral blazes through it.
    PC 8.223 14 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it;...
    PC 8.223 15 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the effect, mind the flowing cause.
    PC 8.223 16 Nature...is ever as is our sensibility;...
    PC 8.223 24 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    PC 8.223 27 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    PC 8.224 6 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...
    PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom.
    PC 8.224 23 Nature is sanative, refining, elevating.
    PC 8.225 21 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    PC 8.227 6 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things, and in new parts of Nature.
    PPo 8.236 12 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    PPo 8.244 15 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
    PPo 8.245 20 Good is what goes on the road of Nature.
    Insp 8.274 13 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...and make the world transparent, so that they can read the symbols of Nature?
    Insp 8.278 6 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...
    Insp 8.287 3 Solitary converse with Nature;...
    Insp 8.287 20 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has the sadness of Nature...
    Insp 8.288 9 ...the solitude of Nature is not so essential as solitude of habit.
    Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says Fourier.
    Insp 8.290 1 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Grts 8.305 2 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men...
    Grts 8.305 22 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
    Grts 8.308 5 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    Grts 8.308 6 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    Grts 8.312 1 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
    Imtl 8.336 23 ...there is nothing in Nature capricious...
    Imtl 8.336 25 Nature never moves by jumps...
    Imtl 8.342 7 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Imtl 8.343 1 Nature never spares the individual;...
    Imtl 8.344 2 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill...a longer term than Nature here allows him.
    Imtl 8.344 25 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Dem1 10.4 4 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual Nature...
    Dem1 10.5 15 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    Dem1 10.6 10 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature.
    Dem1 10.8 1 My dreams are not me; they are not Nature, or the Not-me: they are both.
    Dem1 10.11 6 Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...
    Dem1 10.12 27 Nature never works like a conjuror...
    Dem1 10.20 15 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
    Dem1 10.23 13 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
    Dem1 10.25 18 ...Nature can never be outwitted...
    Dem1 10.27 21 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
    Aris 10.33 9 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature.
    Aris 10.33 21 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities. It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.
    Aris 10.33 27 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them...
    Aris 10.35 18 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    Aris 10.36 9 The English government and people...may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles]; but Nature makes none.
    Aris 10.41 5 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Aris 10.43 7 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    Aris 10.51 2 More than taste and talent must go to the Will. That must also be a gift of Nature.
    PerF 10.69 5 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    PerF 10.69 16 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.
    PerF 10.74 7 ...[man] seems to have as many talents as there are qualities in Nature.
    PerF 10.79 26 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature...
    PerF 10.82 18 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...
    PerF 10.86 9 ...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    Chr2 10.91 24 [The man] has his life in Nature...
    Chr2 10.95 19 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...
    Chr2 10.96 17 ...under the action of this sentiment of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature.
    Chr2 10.100 4 ...there is degree and gradation throughout Nature;...
    Chr2 10.100 17 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born... which comes down into Nature as if only for the benefit of souls...
    Chr2 10.104 4 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all...
    Chr2 10.106 17 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    Chr2 10.107 1 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon: Nature was a pulpit;...
    Chr2 10.109 14 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Chr2 10.112 5 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted...to repel every enemy as by force of Nature.
    Chr2 10.112 26 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Chr2 10.116 14 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.127 23 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body, whose organs ask all the elements and all the functions of Nature for their satisfaction, educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Edc1 10.129 9 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...
    Edc1 10.129 19 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    Edc1 10.130 20 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...
    Edc1 10.131 11 By the permanence of Nature, minds are trained alike...
    Edc1 10.134 15 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature...
    Edc1 10.136 27 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    Edc1 10.143 22 Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature.
    Edc1 10.148 6 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind...is not to be trusted to any skill less large than Nature itself.
    Edc1 10.155 6 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature.
    Edc1 10.156 5 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity? Can you not wait for him, as Nature and Providence do?
    Edc1 10.156 18 Your teaching and discipline must have the reserve and taciturnity of Nature.
    Supl 10.174 20 ...Nature measures her greatness by what she can spare...
    Supl 10.174 23 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock...
    Supl 10.175 7 ...Nature encourages no looseness...
    Supl 10.175 20 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us.
    Supl 10.176 4 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men, who have held themselves hard to the poverty of Nature.
    Supl 10.176 17 ...Nature delights in showing us that in the East [the superlative] is animated...
    Supl 10.176 25 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    Supl 10.178 24 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.183 6 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    SovE 10.184 18 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature;...
    SovE 10.184 20 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties.
    SovE 10.184 24 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    SovE 10.185 2 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
    SovE 10.186 18 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...
    SovE 10.188 4 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SovE 10.189 10 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.191 15 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    SovE 10.191 19 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
    SovE 10.192 1 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SovE 10.192 15 The idea of right...lays itself out in the equilibrium of Nature...
    SovE 10.197 7 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
    SovE 10.197 10 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    SovE 10.199 24 The one miracle which God works evermore is in Nature...
    Prch 10.226 16 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Prch 10.230 23 Let [the young preacher] value his talent as a door into Nature.
    MoL 10.242 12 [The inviolate soul] is a learner of the laws of Nature...
    MoL 10.247 23 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    MoL 10.248 4 There is no unemployed force in Nature.
    MoL 10.248 15 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...
    MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    MoL 10.250 19 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas, the subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
    MoL 10.254 16 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    MoL 10.255 15 God and Nature are altogether sincere...
    Schr 10.262 5 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the face of Nature remains irresistibly alluring.
    Schr 10.266 3 ...Nature is too strong for us;...
    Schr 10.270 14 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.
    Schr 10.272 16 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any object of Nature, or in any handiwork of man;...
    Schr 10.275 18 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder.
    Schr 10.285 21 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature...
    Schr 10.289 7 ...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...
    LLNE 10.325 21 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature...
    LLNE 10.336 13 Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature;
    LLNE 10.344 22 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
    MMEm 10.397 12 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    MMEm 10.401 24 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...her joys and raptures of religion and Nature, interest like a romance...
    MMEm 10.402 23 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind!
    MMEm 10.411 14 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.411 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths, when Nature looked like a pulpit.
    MMEm 10.412 11 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.414 22 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...
    MMEm 10.429 16 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.
    Thor 10.449 2 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    Thor 10.452 6 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies, making every day some new acquaintance with Nature...
    Thor 10.453 24 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds, and helped his studies of Nature.
    Thor 10.454 13 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.
    Thor 10.463 15 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to...
    Thor 10.471 6 [Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the bird...was connected with Nature...
    Thor 10.471 7 ...the meaning of Nature was never attempted to be defined by [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.474 12 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    Thor 10.479 18 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Thor 10.480 27 [Thoreau's] study of Nature was a perpetual ornament to him...
    Thor 10.481 25 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well...that he became very jealous of cities...
    Thor 10.483 10 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
    Thor 10.485 2 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.
    HDC 11.29 14 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear!
    EWI 11.143 8 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    EWI 11.143 13 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature;...
    War 11.155 1 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle, which Nature had deeply at heart?
    War 11.169 27 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event. Nature and God will instruct him in that hour.
    FSLC 11.190 25 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
    FSLC 11.191 24 No engagement (to a sovereign) can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the laws of Nature.
    FSLC 11.201 26 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
    FSLC 11.202 19 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
    FSLC 11.212 12 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    FSLN 11.231 17 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...
    FSLN 11.238 21 ...Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong.
    FSLN 11.238 23 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...
    FSLN 11.240 19 [The free man] is a finished man;...at home in Nature and dignifying that;...
    ACiv 11.302 8 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature is its ally...
    ACiv 11.310 4 Nature works through her appointed elements;...
    EPro 11.318 22 The virtues of a good magistrate...because Nature works with rectitude, seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    EPro 11.320 12 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature...
    EPro 11.325 13 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart.
    ALin 11.328 1 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...
    SMC 11.351 1 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.
    EdAd 11.385 19 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.
    EdAd 11.389 16 Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny are logical.
    EdAd 11.390 2 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...
    EdAd 11.392 3 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Wom 11.412 7 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback.
    SHC 11.430 19 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...
    SHC 11.433 1 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    SHC 11.434 27 ...every part of Nature is handsome when not deformed by bad Art.
    SHC 11.435 4 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    RBur 11.441 22 What a love of Nature [in Burns]...
    RBur 11.441 23 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature.
    Shak1 11.448 18 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
    FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature...
    FRO2 11.488 18 [Miraculous dispensation] is something not in Nature...
    FRO2 11.488 19 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize;...
    CPL 11.502 26 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    CPL 11.503 4 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.
    FRep 11.513 3 There is not a property in Nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
    FRep 11.525 19 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    FRep 11.525 23 Nature works in immense time...
    FRep 11.530 4 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    FRep 11.530 12 The revolution [in America] is...the eternal effervescence of Nature.
    FRep 11.538 3 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
    PLT 12.4 9 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    PLT 12.4 19 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.5 20 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind.
    PLT 12.6 7 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is.
    PLT 12.8 15 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature;...
    PLT 12.16 6 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature.
    PLT 12.16 11 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    PLT 12.16 11 Who are we, and what is Nature, have one answer in the life that rushes into us.
    PLT 12.19 25 There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
    PLT 12.20 13 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant;...
    PLT 12.20 19 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...
    PLT 12.22 15 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...
    PLT 12.23 3 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.
    PLT 12.25 27 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
    PLT 12.28 14 Each man is a new power in Nature.
    PLT 12.28 18 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.
    PLT 12.28 26 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.
    PLT 12.33 17 The healthy mind lies parallel to the currents of Nature...
    PLT 12.35 9 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal, old as Nature...
    PLT 12.35 23 The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
    PLT 12.36 11 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics. Yet was he in the secret of Nature...
    PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct, or Nature when it first becomes intelligent.
    PLT 12.37 15 We find ourselves expressed in Nature, but we cannot translate it into words.
    PLT 12.38 7 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we... pass into the council-chamber and government of Nature.
    PLT 12.49 13 The pace of Nature is so slow.
    PLT 12.49 16 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation-as if Nature had sprained her foot...
    PLT 12.51 9 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.51 17 Immense is the patience of Nature.
    PLT 12.51 19 Nature is immortal, and can wait.
    PLT 12.51 19 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop... she husbands and hives...
    PLT 12.52 12 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you. But Nature can;...
    PLT 12.54 14 What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.
    PLT 12.59 2 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    PLT 12.59 25 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature...
    II 12.69 16 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself...
    II 12.69 27 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
    II 12.70 23 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you...
    II 12.71 2 In the healthy mind, the thought...expands, varies, recruits itself with relations to all Nature...
    II 12.72 14 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world. They are all alike. For [Inspiration] is a power to convert all Nature to his use.
    II 12.75 13 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
    II 12.76 23 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.82 10 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias...
    II 12.83 16 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt. I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.
    II 12.83 19 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend...
    II 12.85 21 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.
    II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head. Nature deals with all her children so.
    Mem 12.93 6 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
    Mem 12.101 13 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Mem 12.101 16 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Mem 12.102 21 The memory is one of the compensations which Nature grants to those who have used their days well;...
    Mem 12.106 1 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.
    CInt 12.128 2 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.
    CInt 12.128 16 I would have you rely on Nature ever...
    CInt 12.128 17 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...
    CInt 12.130 4 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CInt 12.130 5 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of Nature is less...
    CL 12.135 17 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature...
    CL 12.135 20 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...
    CL 12.136 12 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
    CL 12.136 17 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was inexhaustibly rich...
    CL 12.139 8 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.140 3 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...an eye for Nature, good humor, vast curiosity...
    CL 12.142 13 If a man tells me that he has an intense love of Nature, I know, of course, that he has none.
    CL 12.145 10 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves, the social fruit, in which Nature has deposited every possible flavor;...
    CL 12.147 18 ...Nature makes a like impression on age as on youth.
    CL 12.152 10 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and that Nature has played out her summer score.
    CL 12.154 22 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care.
    CL 12.159 10 Nature kills egotism and conceit;...
    CL 12.160 9 Nature tells everything once.
    CL 12.163 9 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CL 12.163 13 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know.
    CL 12.163 16 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    CL 12.163 26 Nature speaks to the imagination;...
    CL 12.164 7 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    CL 12.164 13 'T is not easy to say again what Nature says to us.
    CL 12.164 24 ...as man is the object of Nature, what we study in Nature is man.
    CL 12.165 9 ...Nature is only a mirror in which man is reflected colossally.
    CL 12.165 18 If we believed that Nature was foreign and unrelated...we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    CL 12.166 19 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature...
    CL 12.166 22 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons must have had the influence of Nature...
    CL 12.167 6 ...as soon as man...knows that Nature and he are from one source...then Nature has a lord.
    CL 12.167 10 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then Nature has a lord.
    CW 12.176 20 A man should carry Nature in his head...
    CW 12.178 22 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    CW 12.179 4 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each... and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to guard.
    CW 12.179 6 The man finds himself expressed in Nature.
    Bost 12.184 26 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...through the ravishing beauties of Nature, were preferred before others.
    Bost 12.204 8 Nature is a frugal mother...
    Bost 12.205 2 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
    Bost 12.208 22 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature hostile to oppression. It is a good city as cities go; Nature is good.
    Bost 12.210 23 ...in Boston, Nature is more indulgent, and has given good sons to good sires...
    MAng1 12.215 11 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.217 27 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 2 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    MAng1 12.218 12 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.
    MAng1 12.218 14 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
    MAng1 12.218 17 Every great work of art seems...to present, as it were, a miniature of Nature.
    MAng1 12.218 22 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    MAng1 12.218 25 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.219 5 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature...
    MAng1 12.220 13 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature.
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    MAng1 12.244 22 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...
    Milt1 12.251 23 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Milt1 12.254 19 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man...
    Milt1 12.257 25 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received a love of Nature...
    Milt1 12.258 10 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    Milt1 12.274 4 By his sympathy with all Nature;...[Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    ACri 12.294 15 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.
    ACri 12.300 6 The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature...as a fluent symbol...
    ACri 12.300 10 The world, history, the powers of Nature,-[the poet] can make them speak what sense he will.
    ACri 12.302 14 [Channing] complains of Nature...
    MLit 12.314 23 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition; namely, whether it leads us to Nature, or to the person of the writer.
    MLit 12.315 2 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...
    MLit 12.315 15 The great lead us to Nature...
    MLit 12.315 16 The great lead us to Nature, and in our age to metaphysical Nature...
    MLit 12.315 17 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river...
    MLit 12.315 19 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river, or a coal-mine,- nay, they are far more Nature,-but its essence and soul.
    MLit 12.315 23 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.
    MLit 12.316 1 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love?
    MLit 12.318 1 There are...sentiments...which are soothed...by the pale stars, and the presence of Nature.
    MLit 12.318 7 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature...
    MLit 12.319 6 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life...descending into Nature to behold itself reflected there.
    MLit 12.319 9 ...[Byron's] praise of Nature is thieving and selfish.
    MLit 12.320 21 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling.
    MLit 12.320 25 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was nearer to Nature than anything we had before.
    MLit 12.321 1 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
    MLit 12.323 17 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    MLit 12.323 25 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    MLit 12.328 7 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    MLit 12.330 2 ...because Nature is moral, that mind only can see, in which the same order entirely obtains.
    MLit 12.331 17 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature.
    MLit 12.333 9 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    MLit 12.334 24 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her beauty...
    WSL 12.338 2 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.
    WSL 12.342 12 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...
    WSL 12.342 21 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.
    WSL 12.342 23 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this;...
    WSL 12.344 22 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune.
    Pray 12.352 27 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
    EurB 12.370 12 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
    EurB 12.377 23 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm...
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.
    Let 12.404 23 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature is never forborne.
    Trag 12.406 24 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...
    Trag 12.413 9 We must walk as guests in Nature;...
    Trag 12.413 14 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits...
    Trag 12.414 25 Nature will not sit still;...
    Trag 12.415 2 Nature proportions her defence to the assault.
    Trag 12.416 13 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

naturel, n. (6)

    ET18 5.306 3 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...
    Farm 7.154 6 What possesses interest for us is the naturel of each [man]...
    Edc1 10.144 13 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    Edc1 10.144 14 The two points in a boy's training are...to keep his naturel but stop off his uproar, fooling and horse-play;...
    CL 12.163 19 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man.
    CW 12.178 26 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...

natures, n. (60)

    Nat 1.27 6 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    Nat 1.56 17 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...
    Nat 1.57 8 ...no man touches these divine natures [ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
    Nat 1.64 14 ...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    AmS 1.86 22 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.93 26 Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing.
    AmS 1.108 2 ...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.
    DSA 1.125 8 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    LE 1.167 24 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    LT 1.264 3 ...I find the Age walking about in happy and hopeful natures...
    Tran 1.333 11 Mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors.
    Hist 2.36 14 [A man's] faculties refer to natures out of him...
    SR 2.75 16 ...we see that most natures are insolvent...
    Fdsp 2.199 18 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
    Fdsp 2.206 12 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...
    OS 2.272 5 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above...
    Pt1 3.14 25 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    Pt1 3.18 20 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Chr1 3.94 2 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Chr1 3.95 15 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Chr1 3.95 18 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures...
    Chr1 3.106 25 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise...
    Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves creole natures...
    Gts 3.159 17 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    SwM 4.109 9 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
    ET4 5.47 13 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures?...
    ET14 5.241 1 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
    ET14 5.242 2 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    F 6.13 22 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots...
    Pow 6.64 15 ...natures with great impulses have great resources...
    Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say...
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Bty 6.306 5 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...
    SS 7.12 18 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits.
    WD 7.171 3 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the surrounding plastic natures;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Boks 7.213 5 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it do not find vent.
    PI 8.15 11 ...all particular natures are tropes.
    PI 8.19 21 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures...
    PI 8.20 1 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen: these, then, are apparent copies of unapparent natures.
    PI 8.21 6 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    SA 8.80 3 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold...
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    Imtl 8.333 27 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence...
    Aris 10.35 25 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.60 21 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    Chr2 10.104 24 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Edc1 10.154 5 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it is so energetic on slow and on bad natures...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Prch 10.225 10 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being in all sound natures...we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.
    Schr 10.262 10 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which forms itself in tender natures...
    Schr 10.283 23 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit] becomes active and salient...
    SHC 11.436 11 All great natures delight in stability;...
    PLT 12.16 16 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures;...
    PLT 12.40 18 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.
    PLT 12.45 5 Artist natures do not weep.
    Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...
    Trag 12.409 16 ...it is natures not clear...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
    Trag 12.409 25 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
    Trag 12.410 24 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.
    Trag 12.410 25 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.

nature's, n. (15)

    Comp 2.122 27 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for in nature's lawful coin...
    Lov1 2.172 19 The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
    Prd1 2.224 10 [The spurious prudence, making the senses final] is nature's joke, and therefore literature's.
    Art1 2.352 6 What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?
    Art1 2.352 8 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures,--nature's eclecticism?...
    Exp 3.66 6 [Scholars] are nature's victims of expression.
    Chr1 3.105 18 This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
    Nat2 3.182 26 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...
    UGM 4.27 17 ...it is human nature's indispensable defence. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite...
    MoS 4.167 26 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.
    ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will bear the scrutiny of the solar microscope.
    ET13 5.226 21 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious,--and driven to other churches; which is nature's vis medicatrix.
    Wth 6.85 23 The forces and the resistances are nature's...
    Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Wom 11.418 10 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...

Nature's, n. (19)

    Nat 1.38 27 ...Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Exp 3.63 3 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street...
    Nat2 3.167 5 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    ET10 5.154 19 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    Cour 7.276 15 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men...
    PI 8.43 6 ...the fascination of genius for us is this awful nearness to Nature' s creations.
    Dem1 10.20 5 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual, whom it is Nature's settled purpose to postpone.
    Edc1 10.151 2 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    SovE 10.190 24 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe? These threads are Nature's pernicious elements...
    MMEm 10.397 20 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.421 2 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.
    Thor 10.472 20 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    ALin 11.328 25 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    SHC 11.434 10 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley, as in the palm of Nature's hand, we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    PLT 12.28 16 No quality in Nature's vast magazines [each man] cannot touch...
    II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.

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