Naturlangsamkeit to Negligently

PI 8.20 20 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;--that he was necessitated so to see.

FSLC 11.194 8 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart.

necessitates, v. (2)

ET10 5.168 7 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...

PC 8.228 14 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.

necessitating, v. (2)

Con 1.302 15 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?

Tran 1.334 6 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...

necessite, n. (1)

ET16 5.288 1 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.

necessities, n. (34)

LE 1.185 3 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in...working off a stint of mechanical day-labor which your necessities or the necessities of others impose.

MR 1.240 10 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities...

SR 2.81 4 ...when [the wise man's] necessities...call him from his house... he is at home still...

Pol1 3.206 10 [A cent's] value is in the necessities of the animal man.

ShP 4.190 10 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.

ET10 5.162 8 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.

ET14 5.250 4 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...

ET18 5.304 1 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.

Pow 6.56 9 ...health...runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Wth 6.91 14 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...

Wsp 6.239 24 Men are too often unfit to live, from their obvious inequality to their own necessities;...

CbW 6.268 21 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities.

Bty 6.294 8 Beauty rests on necessities.

Art2 7.43 20 ...being applied primarily to the common necessities of man, [language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.

Art2 7.55 10 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world... the origin in quite simple local necessities.

Farm 7.138 20 [The farmer] represents the necessities.

Clbs 7.242 24 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.

PI 8.52 12 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose;...

PC 8.232 1 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Imtl 8.344 12 The doctrine [of immortality]...is grounded in the necessities and forces we possess.

Edc1 10.127 26 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...

Edc1 10.128 17 Here [in the household] is poverty and all the wisdom its hated necessities can teach...

HDC 11.42 24 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.

War 11.152 5 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...

FSLN 11.231 21 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...the material necessities, on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.

FSLN 11.231 24 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.

FSLN 11.231 27 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities...

FSLN 11.232 10 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities.

EPro 11.324 8 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.

SMC 11.352 8 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they overlooked the moral law...

SMC 11.360 16 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.

PLT 12.35 19 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...

II 12.68 17 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...

MLit 12.334 13 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.

Necessity, Beautiful, n. (3)

F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.

F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...

F 6.49 16 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity...

necessity, n. (161)

Nat 1.34 20 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;...

AmS 1.100 4 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.

MN 1.208 25 Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.

MR 1.236 3 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...

LT 1.260 20 A necessity not yet commanded...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.

LT 1.272 1 Is there a necessity that the works of man should be sordid?

Con 1.298 6 ...conservatism...is always...pleading a necessity, pleading that to change would be to deteriorate...

Con 1.304 11 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages, which is a homage to the element of necessity and divinity which is in them.

Con 1.305 7 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...

Con 1.313 11 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...

Con 1.317 16 I want the necessity of supplying my own wants.

Con 1.319 10 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity...

Con 1.322 12 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...

Tran 1.355 6 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the beneficiary.

YA 1.377 9 The luxury and necessity of the noble fostered [Trade].

SR 2.75 5 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

SR 2.88 9 ...that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire;...

Comp 2.102 21 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.

Comp 2.124 22 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...

SL 2.155 26 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.

OS 2.281 17 By the necessity of our constitution a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].

Int 2.346 6 ...persuasion is in soul, but necessity is in intellect.

Art1 2.353 23 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols]...were not fantastic, but sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.

Art1 2.360 2 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of poverty and necessity and hope and fear.

Art1 2.360 8 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands...

Pt1 3.5 19 Notwithstanding this necessity to be published, adequate expression is rare.

Pt1 3.40 5 Hence the necessity of speech and song;...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.

Exp 3.47 27 There are even few opinions, and these...do not disturb the universal necessity.

Exp 3.54 17 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.

Exp 3.55 4 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.

Exp 3.81 4 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...

Chr1 3.96 3 An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity...are left at large no longer.

Chr1 3.112 14 Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...

Gts 3.160 14 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...

Gts 3.160 22 Necessity does everything well.

Gts 3.160 25 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...

Gts 3.161 3 Next to things of necessity, the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...

Nat2 3.176 18 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.

Nat2 3.177 2 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...

Nat2 3.182 14 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.

Pol1 3.207 4 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...

Pol1 3.208 9 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.

Pol1 3.212 15 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.

NER 3.271 6 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity...

PPh 4.42 26 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...

PPh 4.48 18 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...

PPh 4.51 16 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...necessity; the other, freedom...

PPh 4.75 10 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.

NMW 4.232 16 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one. I should have done no good if I had been under the necessity of conforming to the notions of another person.

NMW 4.243 8 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent...

NMW 4.248 11 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.

GoW 4.269 17 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.

GoW 4.273 10 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity...

ET1 5.20 1 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.

ET4 5.44 6 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law, disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity;...

ET5 5.79 25 There is a necessity on [the English people] to be logical.

ET8 5.142 23 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day, nor need so much as others the constraint of a necessity.

ET10 5.157 18 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes, the consequent necessity of the reform of the calendar;...

ET11 5.183 11 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...

ET16 5.274 19 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...

F 6.4 17 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...

F 6.19 26 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.

F 6.20 16 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.

F 6.27 13 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity...

F 6.48 11 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies;...

F 6.48 20 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...

Pow 6.63 8 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...

Pow 6.74 26 The poet Campbell said...that, for himself, necessity, not inspiration, was the prompter of his muse.

Wth 6.88 1 Wealth begins with these articles of necessity.

Wth 6.113 9 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.

Wth 6.113 12 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries,--the daily inculcated necessity of pleasing all...

Ctr 6.134 5 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...

Ctr 6.134 7 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...

Ctr 6.134 11 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.

Bhr 6.186 14 Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Wsp 6.232 16 Life is hardly respectable...if it has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.

CbW 6.251 22 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.

Bty 6.288 13 ...the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.

SS 7.6 16 [Archimedes and Newton] had that necessity of isolation which genius feels.

SS 7.8 5 ...the necessity of solitude is deeper than we have said...

SS 7.9 21 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...

Art2 7.37 16 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends, by an equal necessity, to the publication and embodiment of its thought...

Art2 7.42 4 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best...

Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.

Art2 7.52 21 Herein we have an explanation of the necessity that reigns in all the kingdom of Art. Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.

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 25 ...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...

Art2 7.55 22 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature, this adamantine necessity which underlies it, has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.

Elo1 7.68 11 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.

Elo1 7.69 22 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.

Elo1 7.83 9 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...

DL 7.121 4 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of necessity...

Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated...in poverty, necessity and darkness.

Clbs 7.225 13 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.

Clbs 7.226 1 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of daily necessity, to the last results of science...

Clbs 7.247 24 ...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner. I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...

PI 8.3 6 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity...

PI 8.3 10 The intellect...cannot supersede this tyrannic necessity [common sense].

PI 8.17 8 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists.

SA 8.101 20 In America, the necessity of clearing the forest...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...

SA 8.101 25 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.

SA 8.106 20 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.

Res 8.149 1 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.

QO 8.178 23 By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote.

PC 8.214 26 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...

Insp 8.281 18 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...

Insp 8.297 10 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.

Grts 8.308 17 This necessity of resting on the real...few young men apprehend.

Grts 8.309 5 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...

Edc1 10.127 3 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.

Supl 10.163 3 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform, but one of great necessity...

SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...

SovE 10.201 26 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.

Schr 10.264 11 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity...

Schr 10.275 21 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs. The same necessity then that would create him reappears in his splendid gifts.

Schr 10.284 5 ...[the scholar] must have the resource of resources, and be planted on necessity.

Plu 10.302 15 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity, sometimes makes a necessity, to read them.

Plu 10.304 1 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.

LLNE 10.359 8 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...

LLNE 10.366 8 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not...

MMEm 10.402 3 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.

MMEm 10.409 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...

MMEm 10.409 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity...

MMEm 10.411 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...

MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?

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...

HDC 11.44 1 The necessity of the colonists wrote the law.

HDC 11.44 11 Instructed by necessity, each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...

HDC 11.45 1 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.

HDC 11.71 24 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition, that those who are unable to purchase them themselves, may have the advantage of them, if necessity calls for it.

EWI 11.140 22 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?

EWI 11.147 12 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;...

FSLC 11.207 4 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.

FSLN 11.226 2 In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?

FSLN 11.232 2 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good, the Mays. But each of these parties must of necessity take in, in some measure, the principles of the other.

FSLN 11.243 13 ...though I [Robert Winthrop] am now to deny and condemn you, you see it is not my will but the party necessity.

ACiv 11.302 20 [Government] has, of necessity, in any crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.

ACiv 11.307 9 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;...because Slavery will again speak through [sensible Southerners] its harsh necessity.

HCom 11.342 3 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.

FRO1 11.477 18 ...I think the necessity [of the Free Religious Association] very great...

FRO1 11.478 24 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...

PLT 12.30 25 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

PLT 12.40 16 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 12.41 16 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun and moon...

PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.

PLT 12.57 22 There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.

PLT 12.61 18 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.

II 12.79 17 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.

CInt 12.124 18 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied.

CInt 12.124 26 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...

CL 12.136 5 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...

CL 12.136 16 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...

Bost 12.196 25 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...

ACri 12.295 27 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite...

ACri 12.303 15 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity;...

ACri 12.304 2 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.

MLit 12.334 26 From the necessity of loving none are exempt...

AgMs 12.361 25 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.

EurB 12.371 6 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity...

PPr 12.383 22 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts. Hence that necessity of isolation which genius has always felt.

Necessity, n. (9)

LT 1.282 7 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity...is fair and beneficent.

Con 1.301 3 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.

Art1 2.352 27 No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his labor.

Art1 2.366 2 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

F 6.49 19 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...

Art2 7.37 7 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...

SovE 10.190 20 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...

Schr 10.287 2 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron...

AgMs 12.361 24 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring. And thus Necessity farms it;...

Necessity, Philosophical, n. (1)

Trag 12.408 2 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...

neck, n. (18)

AmS 1.83 17 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...

Comp 2.97 23 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.

Comp 2.109 25 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

SL 2.136 5 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck.

Pt1 3.27 12 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...

MoS 4.153 25 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending. For his part, he says, he puts his down his neck and gets the good of it.

GoW 4.263 20 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.

ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain...

ET8 5.131 10 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.

ET11 5.191 22 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and but three bands to his neck...

Pow 6.57 15 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Supl 10.179 12 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.

MoL 10.255 26 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul.

LLNE 10.327 6 [The new race] have a neck of unspeakable tenderness;...

FSLC 11.201 12 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...

CL 12.155 25 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.

Bost 12.202 3 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.

neckcloth, n. (1)

F 6.8 15 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt and white neckcloth...

Necker, Jacques, n. (2)

NMW 4.228 10 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;--Necker is an ideologist...

QO 8.190 22 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.

necks, n. (2)

DL 7.104 21 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.

EWI 11.111 11 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...

nectar, n. (7)

Pt1 3.27 10 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.

Pt1 3.28 4 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar...

Pt1 3.28 15 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence; all but the few who received the true nectar;...

F 6.20 25 Neither brandy, nor nectar...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].

Insp 8.272 13 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern, but the poet does not know the pitcher that holds his nectar.

EdAd 11.382 23 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./

II 12.69 10 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius. We ought to know the way to our nectar.

need, n. (73)

Nat 1.14 12 ...there is no need of specifying particulars in this class of uses [of the useful arts].

Nat 1.64 11 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...draws at his need inexhaustible power.

DSA 1.134 15 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.

DSA 1.135 19 ...the need was never greater of new revelation than now.

LE 1.175 27 ...we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...

LE 1.186 5 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...

MN 1.207 14 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...

MR 1.240 15 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...

MR 1.243 1 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax. Let him be...a pauper, and if need be, celibate also.

LT 1.282 18 The men [of other periods] did not see beyond the need of the hour.

LT 1.285 16 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the need of harmony...

LT 1.286 15 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.

Con 1.301 23 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...

YA 1.389 17 The more need of a withdrawal from the crowd...by the brave.

SR 2.52 13 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be;...

SR 2.75 9 If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.

SL 2.135 9 ...there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs...

SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.

SL 2.141 23 By doing his work [a man] makes the need felt which he can supply...

SL 2.162 17 I see action to be good, when the need is...

SL 2.163 3 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here.

Hsm1 2.262 25 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor, if need be in the tumult...

Cir 2.313 5 We have the same need to command a view of the religion of the world.

Cir 2.319 11 We grizzle every day. I see no need of it.

Art1 2.363 15 Art is the need to create;...

Pt1 3.5 15 ...all men...stand in need of expression.

Exp 3.81 7 That need [of seeing things under private aspect] makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust.

Chr1 3.110 14 ...there is no need to seek remote examples [of character].

Mrs1 3.149 22 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be...

NR 3.240 9 As long as any man exists, there is some need of him;...

PPh 4.59 18 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...

GoW 4.265 6 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side...need enough of his gift.

F 6.17 19 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is.

F 6.39 4 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...

F 6.48 15 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...

Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in hunger and need...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...

Civ 7.31 4 What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!

Elo1 7.86 12 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.

DL 7.111 27 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous. We need all the force of an idea to lift this load...

Clbs 7.247 10 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.

Suc 7.301 5 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas, and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need;...

PI 8.59 13 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities.

Comc 8.165 27 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/...

PC 8.223 26 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!

PPo 8.254 4 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./

PPo 8.263 8 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?

PPo 8.263 9 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry? What need even of a bed?

Insp 8.269 23 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...

Dem1 10.23 9 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is.

Aris 10.46 25 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that...

Aris 10.65 8 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...

Edc1 10.134 12 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...prophet, diviner,-society has need of all these.

Edc1 10.137 5 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. Let us wait and see...of what new organ the great Spirit had need when it incarnated this new Will.

SovE 10.201 3 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to...leave you no need of hunting here or there for any particular exhibitions of power.

Prch 10.227 16 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches. They answered to their times the same need as your rejection of them does to ours.

MoL 10.242 25 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers; still the need was more.

Schr 10.268 10 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...

Schr 10.269 22 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ. What need has he to cross the sill of his door?

Schr 10.281 23 Have you a thought in your heart? There was never such need of it as now.

Plu 10.293 16 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece. He was a man whose real superiority had no need of these flatteries.

GSt 10.502 8 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men, at times of the greatest need.

EWI 11.100 19 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!

EWI 11.119 3 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.

ALin 11.334 15 This man [Lincoln] grew according to the need.

SMC 11.360 2 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown,-an integrity incorruptible, and an ability that always rose to the need.

FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.

PLT 12.48 9 ...in the last results, the man with the talent is the need of mankind;...

II 12.72 18 It is this employment of new means-of means spontaneously appearing for the new need...that denotes the inspired man.

CInt 12.120 26 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge;...

Bost 12.209 26 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...she will furnish what is wanted in the hour of need;...

MLit 12.313 8 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects...

MLit 12.334 15 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need?

Pray 12.351 27 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest, if there be need of attestation, the eternity of the sentiment...

need, v. (169)

Nat 1.32 10 Did it need such noble races of creatures...to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?

Nat 1.74 24 It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects.

DSA 1.128 14 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words...you need not that I should speak.

DSA 1.140 2 We need not chide the negligent servant.

MN 1.208 3 [A man] need not study where to stand...

MN 1.216 15 You need not speak to me...that you should exert magnetism on me.

MN 1.216 15 ...I need not go where you are, that you should exert magnetism on me.

MN 1.221 20 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact...

MR 1.246 14 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need...

Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;...

Con 1.317 19 All this costly culture of yours is not necessary. Greatness does not need it.

Tran 1.331 18 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.

Tran 1.334 14 ...the deity of man is...to need no gift...

Tran 1.344 6 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face... then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.

Tran 1.351 18 If I cannot work, at least I need not lie.

YA 1.389 3 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.

YA 1.394 12 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...

Hist 2.37 8 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.

SR 2.53 9 I wish [my life]...not to need diet and bleeding.

SR 2.53 17 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

SR 2.78 24 Our love goes out to [the self-helping man] and embraces him because he did not need it.

SR 2.82 22 ...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?

SL 2.132 6 No man need be perplexed in his speculations.

SL 2.139 11 We need only obey.

SL 2.139 13 Why need you choose so painfully your place...

SL 2.156 21 No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression.

SL 2.158 14 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings.

SL 2.160 18 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him...

SL 2.160 22 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?

SL 2.164 6 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?

Lov1 2.188 22 ...we need not fear that we can lose anything by the progress of the soul.

Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...

Hsm1 2.255 16 [Greatness] does not need plenty...

Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...

Hsm1 2.260 23 A simple manly character need never make an apology...

Hsm1 2.261 21 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...

OS 2.293 16 You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Cir 2.314 15 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?

Cir 2.314 18 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...

Art1 2.360 12 [The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional nature and culture...

Pt1 3.5 21 I know not how it is that we need an interpreter...

Pt1 3.18 13 It does not need that a poem should be long.

Exp 3.55 13 We need change of objects.

Exp 3.55 18 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book;...

Chr1 3.90 6 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men...if they chance to be social, do not need society...

Chr1 3.91 8 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.

Chr1 3.91 20 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...

Chr1 3.112 8 Need we be so eager to seek [our friend]?

Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

Mrs1 3.149 16 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...

Gts 3.165 10 I find that I am not much to you; you do not need me;...

Nat2 3.171 18 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

Nat2 3.182 26 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...

NER 3.259 23 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.

NER 3.284 7 ...the good globe...carries us securely through the celestial spaces anxious or resigned, we need not interfere to help it on;...

NER 3.284 10 ...we need not assist the administration of the universe.

UGM 4.29 15 We need not fear excessive influence.

PNR 4.84 22 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

MoS 4.167 14 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.

MoS 4.175 22 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...

ShP 4.203 5 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.

ET1 5.15 6 Carlyle was...an author who did not need to hide from his readers...

ET4 5.50 3 It need not puzzle us that Malay and Papuan...should mix...

ET5 5.88 16 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.

ET8 5.142 22 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day, nor need so much as others the constraint of a necessity.

ET10 5.157 24 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them.

ET11 5.184 6 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...

ET16 5.286 5 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.

ET16 5.287 18 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.

F 6.8 18 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day?

Wth 6.97 4 Whilst it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere, it need not be in his hands.

Wth 6.104 9 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, which all need;...

Wth 6.105 26 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.

Wth 6.118 17 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out.

Wth 6.121 1 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law. Nobody need stir hand or foot.

Wth 6.123 21 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are matters on which I neither know nor need to know anything.

Bhr 6.167 7 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./

Bhr 6.169 8 Good tableaux do not need declamation.

Bhr 6.174 7 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...

Bhr 6.181 13 A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Bhr 6.183 12 Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Bhr 6.192 27 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...

Bhr 6.193 1 It is sublime to feel and say of another...we need not reinforce ourselves...

Wsp 6.204 10 The decline of the influence...of Wesley, or Channing, need give us no uneasiness.

Wsp 6.228 21 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what they must say;...

CbW 6.249 7 Masses...need not to be flattered but to be schooled.

CbW 6.263 26 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company...

Bty 6.293 16 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges...

Bty 6.297 19 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...

Ill 6.314 22 Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort which the rest of us find in them?

Ill 6.324 23 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise. There need never be any confusion in these.

SS 7.15 19 These wonderful horses [independence and sympathy] need to be driven by fine hands.

DL 7.118 18 ...only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Farm 7.151 15 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear; they need drainage, which he cannot attempt.

WD 7.159 7 Why need I speak of steam...

WD 7.183 26 There are people who do not need much experimenting;...

Boks 7.198 2 ...in these days, when it is found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull, [Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.

Boks 7.217 10 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...

Clbs 7.225 3 We need tonics...

Clbs 7.233 17 How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful wit of--one whom I need not name...

Clbs 7.240 25 These masters [eloquent men]...need no patron.

Clbs 7.248 27 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...

Clbs 7.249 24 We need range and alternation of topics and variety of minds.

Cour 7.255 27 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed...

PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...

SA 8.86 15 Why need you, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip...

SA 8.87 27 ...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress in general, that some people need it and others need it not.

SA 8.88 1 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat...

SA 8.92 4 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...

SA 8.100 13 Every one must seek to secure his independence; but he need not be rich.

QO 8.203 1 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding; but to the crowd they need interpreters.

PC 8.215 4 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do, nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer;...

PC 8.216 23 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...

Insp 8.291 17 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!

Grts 8.307 26 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man]...need never be at a loss.

Grts 8.312 15 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me. Surely, then, I need not fret myself to guard my own dignity.

Dem1 10.12 17 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

Aris 10.43 27 ...when the well-mixed man is born...then no gift need be bestowed on him...

Aris 10.45 8 ...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 10.65 3 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...

Chr2 10.90 1 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...

Chr2 10.111 10 Duty grows everywhere...and we need not go to Europe or to Asia to learn it.

Edc1 10.142 14 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he blush so...

Edc1 10.153 17 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it;...

Edc1 10.156 21 See what [your pupils] need, and that the right thing is done.

SovE 10.195 14 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

Prch 10.219 13 We never do quite nothing, or never need.

Prch 10.234 14 The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist only to feeble wills. They need not consider them.

MoL 10.249 1 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought.

MoL 10.250 4 [Nature says to the American] I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.

MoL 10.258 2 The times develop the strength they need.

Schr 10.269 23 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought...is told already in the Senate.

HDC 11.82 27 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine.

HDC 11.85 22 Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?

EWI 11.124 5 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who...need not trouble our ears with the disagreeable particulars.

FSLC 11.202 15 I need not say how much I have enjoyed [Webster's] fame.

AKan 11.261 14 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.

JBS 11.277 4 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquence in the country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.

JBS 11.281 18 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace...

SMC 11.375 9 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].

EdAd 11.388 18 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

EdAd 11.392 13 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

Wom 11.420 3 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies...

Wom 11.420 19 We may ask, to be sure,-Why need you [women] vote?

Wom 11.425 6 I need not repeat to you...that a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.

Wom 11.425 13 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write stipulations...

SHC 11.432 23 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead;...

Shak1 11.448 1 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary].

ChiE 11.472 10 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...

CPL 11.507 17 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do. Yet the strong character does not need this sameness of culture.

FRep 11.537 18 The new times need a new man...

PLT 12.6 22 When [the student] has once known the oracle he will need no priest.

PLT 12.24 2 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...

PLT 12.33 23 It does not need to pump your brains and force thought to think rightly.

PLT 12.63 10 We need all our resources to live in the world which is to be used and decorated by us.

II 12.72 10 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.

II 12.85 13 Each must have all, but by no means need he have it in your form.

Mem 12.100 8 ...men of great presence of mind...do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...

Mem 12.103 27 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither.

CInt 12.116 16 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.

CL 12.148 9 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.

CL 12.159 26 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad,-I need not say it now in the crash of bankruptcy;...

CL 12.160 13 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...

Milt1 12.277 17 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...

MLit 12.309 1 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.

MLit 12.314 17 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.

EurB 12.374 4 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Trag 12.406 2 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.

needed, adj. (3)

Prch 10.234 19 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman] except as furnishing a needed stimulus.

GSt 10.502 18 Mr. [George] Stearns...had the magnanimity to trust [John Brown] entirely, and to arm his hands with all needed help.

CPL 11.496 8 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now; and whilst it secures a new and needed culture to our citizens...

needed, v. (26)

Nat 1.37 22 Debt...is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

MR 1.251 15 [The Arabs] were Temperance troops. There was neither brandy nor flesh needed to feed them.

LT 1.276 23 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed...

Hist 2.29 14 [Each considerate person] learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.

Int 2.331 25 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.

ShP 4.190 16 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.

NMW 4.237 1 ...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.

ET1 5.13 18 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...

ET1 5.19 27 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.

ET10 5.153 5 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology.

CbW 6.272 27 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what an understanding we have! how few words are needed!

Insp 8.297 2 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who needed only a little wealth.

Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...in one word, in Hope.

Edc1 10.154 1 ...the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.

LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...

GSt 10.503 17 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach, to suggest and urge the measures needed for the hour.

HDC 11.46 7 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.

EWI 11.125 14 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.

JBS 11.277 24 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...

SHC 11.432 7 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...

CInt 12.116 20 These are giddy times, and, you say, the college will be deserted. No, never was it so much needed.

MAng1 12.227 15 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

MAng1 12.228 17 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.

MAng1 12.228 22 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.

Milt1 12.264 9 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

EurB 12.365 7 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...

needful, adj. (20)

Nat 1.16 15 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.

Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.

Exp 3.74 10 The spirit is not helpless or needful of mediate organs.

MoS 4.164 1 Other coincidences, not needful to be mentioned here, concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.

ShP 4.189 10 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...

ET1 5.5 13 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.

Ctr 6.156 22 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.

SS 7.11 8 [The scholar's] products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver.

Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.

Boks 7.212 3 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age...

Res 8.149 13 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...

Res 8.150 20 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?

PPo 8.248 24 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].

Schr 10.285 7 [Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men.

PLT 12.37 1 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.

Mem 12.91 2 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction...

Bost 12.194 27 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.

Milt1 12.277 1 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life...

Pray 12.355 4 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost... teach that which is needful for me...

PPr 12.389 14 ...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

needing, v. (2)

Edc1 10.154 5 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy application, needing no sage or poet...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.

Prch 10.223 1 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age...needing no voucher, no prophet and no miracle besides their own irresistibility...

Needle, Gammer Gurton's [W (1)

ShP 4.201 20 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...from Ferrex and Porrex, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

needle, n. (9)

Nat 1.72 18 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...the mariner's needle;...

MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?

Comp 2.96 26 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.

Comp 2.97 14 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman, in a single needle of the pine...

F 6.45 1 [The great man's] mind is righter than others because he yields to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.

Civ 7.28 15 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his, never wrought by needle and thread...

PI 8.13 7 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings and take up a needle;...

Grts 8.307 17 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle...

CInt 12.129 11 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?

needles, n. (2)

NR 3.229 1 Let us go for universals; for the magnetism, not for the needles.

ET10 5.167 8 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner,--far on the way to be spiders and needles.

needless, adj. (12)

Con 1.307 12 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.

SwM 4.136 11 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.

Bhr 6.174 15 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.

CbW 6.251 18 ...this spawning productivity is not noxious or needless.

Farm 7.148 25 The chemist...now affirms that this dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...

Supl 10.166 5 All this overstatement is needless.

SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.

Thor 10.460 9 ...idealist as he was...it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.

LVB 11.92 11 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature, and will turn out to be a needless act of terror.

SMC 11.373 13 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...

SMC 11.373 14 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty,-needless to a conscience so faithful and unspotted.

CInt 12.121 3 ...I wish this were a needless task, to urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.

needlessly, adv. (2)

Tran 1.350 14 Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Hsm1 2.258 11 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...

needle-women, n. (1)

FSLC 11.209 10 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women will give;...

needs, adv. (8)

AmS 1.109 15 Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must that needs be evil?

Con 1.306 7 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.

Con 1.318 8 These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.

SL 2.135 27 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way...

Fdsp 2.209 17 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person.

MoS 4.181 7 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...

QO 8.203 7 He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.

FRep 11.538 7 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana... must needs be ordinary.

needs, n. (17)

LE 1.177 22 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.

LE 1.181 12 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be learned...

MN 1.208 15 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom, biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all.

MR 1.247 5 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...

Con 1.305 16 You [reformers] are not only identical with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and aims.

Hist 2.24 26 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.

Comp 2.103 22 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.

SL 2.163 9 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...and that the soul did not know its own needs?

Fdsp 2.206 6 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...

Mrs1 3.137 24 Not less I dislike a low sympathy of each with his neighbor' s needs.

MoS 4.161 16 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...

CbW 6.252 5 Nature provided for real needs.

SA 8.101 26 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.

PPo 8.247 22 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...

Aris 10.43 4 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...

CInt 12.124 21 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed, not according to the secret needs of each mind but by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...

ACri 12.302 4 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

needs, v. (84)

Nat 1.7 1 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.

Nat 1.50 22 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.

AmS 1.92 24 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.

DSA 1.149 2 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune. One needs not praise their courage...

LE 1.166 17 ...it needs not to do, but to suffer;...

MN 1.221 23 The sanity of man needs the poise of this immanent force.

MN 1.221 24 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power.

MR 1.243 8 ...he who can create works of art needs not collect them.

MR 1.244 8 Why needs any man be rich?

Tran 1.330 16 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which it only needs a retirement from the senses to discern.

Hist 2.7 16 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.

Hist 2.37 7 Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.

SR 2.56 20 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.

Comp 2.117 9 Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

SL 2.153 26 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.

Fdsp 2.196 22 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.

Int 2.335 16 ...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.

Art1 2.354 6 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.

Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...

Art1 2.369 2 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.

Exp 3.57 18 Of course it needs the whole society to give the symmetry we seek.

Chr1 3.108 17 [Character] needs perspective...

Pol1 3.216 9 [The wise man] needs no army, fort, or navy,--he loves men too well;...

Pol1 3.216 13 [The wise man] needs no library, for he has not done thinking;...

Pol1 3.216 21 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.

NR 3.235 26 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that...it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

NR 3.243 26 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it...

NER 3.280 3 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.

UGM 4.25 10 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...

PPh 4.47 17 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...

PPh 4.59 14 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.

ShP 4.194 2 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...

ET3 5.38 3 ...to see England well needs a hundred years;...

ET4 5.52 12 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.

Pow 6.55 15 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.

Pow 6.56 27 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.

Wth 6.85 16 [A man] is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Wth 6.116 22 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!

Ctr 6.165 20 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

Bhr 6.169 7 A statue has no tongue, and needs none.

Bhr 6.180 1 ...the ocular dialect needs no dictionary...

Wsp 6.241 26 [Man] needs only his own verdict.

CbW 6.269 12 ...when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...

SS 7.8 10 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.

SS 7.13 7 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...

Elo1 7.61 11 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a third needs an antagonist, or a hot indignation;...

Elo1 7.61 12 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a fourth needs a revolution;...

Elo1 7.69 6 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.

Elo1 7.69 27 The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together...

DL 7.113 20 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.

DL 7.114 25 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and reform.

DL 7.130 20 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...

Farm 7.145 25 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...

Farm 7.152 14 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands,

WD 7.161 23 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.

WD 7.165 11 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...

WD 7.175 1 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.

Clbs 7.247 19 The use of the hospitality of the club hardly needs explanation.

Cour 7.255 9 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame...

PI 8.40 11 [The writer's] work needs a frolic health;...

Elo2 8.119 3 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...

QO 8.189 22 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!

QO 8.193 2 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

PC 8.226 2 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.

Insp 8.287 18 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;...

Grts 8.303 23 There is something...in Samuel Johnson that needs no protection.

Aris 10.40 16 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.

Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...

Edc1 10.152 2 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...

Schr 10.274 15 ...the thoughtful man needs no armor but this- concentration.

Carl 10.491 7 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].

War 11.172 8 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...because he...never needs to ask another what in any crisis it behooves him to do.

FSLC 11.190 19 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...

FSLN 11.234 24 To interpret Christ it needs Christ in the heart.

JBS 11.281 4 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.

EdAd 11.389 9 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its delirium at once.

CPL 11.500 7 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.

PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.

II 12.79 14 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence. He needs all his health and the flower of his faculties for that.

CL 12.139 25 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...

MAng1 12.221 25 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...

Milt1 12.247 20 [The fame of a great man] needs time to give it due perspective.

Milt1 12.258 13 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history;...

AgMs 12.358 11 ...[Edmund Hosmer] always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.

needy, adj. (6)

Hist 2.23 6 The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...

CbW 6.255 19 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was a rush and a scramble of needy adventurers...

MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.

MMEm 10.419 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy...

War 11.151 22 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.

JBB 11.270 9 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.

ne'er-setting, adj. (1)

SHC 11.428 20 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...

negation, n. (7)

Comp 2.121 4 Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation...

MoS 4.176 18 [The power of moods] is the second negation;...

GoW 4.267 22 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

Wsp 6.209 24 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.

Comc 8.161 5 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...

PC 8.233 16 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...

ACri 12.289 14 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...

negations, n. (5)

Tran 1.354 11 When we pass...into some new infinitude, out of this Iceland of negations, it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...

Int 2.342 8 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.

MoS 4.173 12 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.

Civ 7.19 14 In the hesitation to define what [Civilization] is, we usually suggest it by negations.

SovE 10.204 19 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.

negative, adj. (19)

LT 1.282 8 Our Religion assumes the negative form of rejection.

Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;...

Con 1.299 10 Conservatism...believes in a negative fate;...

SL 2.155 24 Our philosophy...readily accepts the testimony of negative facts...

Prd1 2.221 3 What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little, and that of the negative sort?

Chr1 3.97 4 Everything in nature...has a positive and a negative pole.

Chr1 3.97 7 Spirit is the positive [pole], the event is the negative.

Chr1 3.97 11 The feeble souls are drawn to the south or negative pole.

SwM 4.140 1 The teachings of the high Spirit are...in regard to particulars, negative.

ET14 5.239 23 The Platonic is the poetic tendency; the so-called scientific is the negative and poisonous.

ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...

F 6.15 4 Now we learn that negative power, or circumstance, is half.

Ctr 6.144 7 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts.

Bhr 6.197 9 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.

Suc 7.309 13 Omit the negative propositions.

SA 8.98 14 Shun the negative side.

Imtl 8.332 16 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.

HDC 11.48 2 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

PLT 12.36 22 The action of the Instinct is for the most part negative...

negative, n. (3)

LT 1.260 20 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.

Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.

ACri 12.288 6 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...

negatively, adv. (1)

Int 2.325 1 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables...

negatives, n. (2)

Res 8.138 13 ...if instead of these negatives you give me affirmatives;...I am invigorated...

Prch 10.219 1 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...

neglect, n. (18)

AmS 1.103 1 ...let [the scholar]...add observation to observation, patient of neglect...

LE 1.186 14 ...let us seek the shade, and find wisdom in neglect.

MN 1.191 11 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.

MN 1.198 15 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.

LT 1.278 22 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.

Comp 2.127 2 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...

SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...

SL 2.165 5 ...this under-estimate of our own [possibilities], comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.

Prd1 2.228 5 ...nature punishes any neglect of prudence.

ET6 5.104 13 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.

ET6 5.104 24 This vigor [of the Englishman] appears in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other.

ET14 5.243 23 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved; the powers of thought fell into neglect.

Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite...of pruning, or neglect...

SovE 10.186 13 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).

Plu 10.294 17 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.

Plu 10.302 13 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians.

Mem 12.92 13 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.

Milt1 12.278 27 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...

neglect, v. (9)

Tran 1.336 10 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.

SR 2.74 18 ...I may also neglect this reflex standard...

ET6 5.105 2 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his own affair and does not think of them.

ET11 5.183 22 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?

ET14 5.240 11 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...he never spares rebukes for such as neglect it;...

Comc 8.169 9 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.

Aris 10.53 10 [The eloquent man] is entitled to neglect trifles.

Edc1 10.148 7 You must not neglect the form [in education], but you must secure the essentials.

CL 12.157 18 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.

neglected, adj. (2)

EWI 11.134 18 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

CL 12.146 11 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself...

neglected, v. (16)

LE 1.180 4 ...[Napoleon] neglected never the least particular of preparation...

Con 1.317 19 Yonder peasant, who sits neglected there in a corner, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...

SL 2.131 10 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...however neglected in the passing, have a grace in the past.

NER 3.253 4 Even the insect world was to be defended,--that had been too long neglected...

SwM 4.111 5 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744, and they remained from that time neglected;...

MoS 4.162 17 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected...

DL 7.112 20 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.

Boks 7.213 17 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.

Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...

Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...

EzRy 10.388 16 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done. You will not like to be excluded; I shall not like to be neglected.

MMEm 10.433 4 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?

Thor 10.480 1 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...

LS 11.11 7 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

Wom 11.422 21 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.

PLT 12.52 5 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...

neglecting, v. (2)

YA 1.393 23 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...

Elo2 8.128 13 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...neglecting to give [a youth] the rough training of a boy...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

neglects, v. (1)

Hist 2.12 19 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences.

negligence, n. (5)

Hist 2.28 12 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...

Int 2.328 22 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.

SovE 10.198 23 ...it is...our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.

Plu 10.320 22 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators, whether from negligence or freak.

AsSu 11.250 1 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...

negligency, n. (1)

OS 2.297 14 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...

negligent, adj. (5)

DSA 1.140 2 We need not chide the negligent servant.

Hsm1 2.251 6 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of expense...

NER 3.261 17 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest;...

Aris 10.50 12 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives.

Thor 10.475 2 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.

negligently, adv. (1)

AmS 1.110 24 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.

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