Nothing to Nymphs

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

nothing, n. (626)

    Nat 1.10 3 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
    Nat 1.10 9 I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing;...
    Nat 1.23 5 Nothing divine dies.
    Nat 1.24 3 Nothing is quite beautiful alone;...
    Nat 1.24 3 ...nothing but is beautiful in the whole.
    Nat 1.27 19 ...there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
    Nat 1.41 11 Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use.
    Nat 1.68 25 Nothing hath got so far/ But man hath caught and kept it as his prey;/...
    Nat 1.69 6 Nothing we see, but means our good/...
    AmS 1.83 23 [The planter] sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond...
    AmS 1.86 7 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
    AmS 1.89 27 [Books] are for nothing but to inspire.
    AmS 1.93 27 Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing.
    AmS 1.94 11 The so-called practical men sneer at speculative men, as if, because they speculate or see, they could do nothing.
    AmS 1.114 1 If there be one lesson...which should pierce [the scholar's] ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all;...
    DSA 1.127 6 ...on [another soul's] word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
    DSA 1.142 6 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    DSA 1.146 9 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...
    DSA 1.148 19 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit, that has nothing to do with opinion...
    LE 1.165 2 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization...
    LE 1.165 20 Nothing is more simple than greatness;...
    LE 1.166 1 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in.
    LE 1.167 18 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing...of an of these fine things;...
    LE 1.167 21 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...and of their essence, or of their history, knowing nothing.
    LE 1.168 18 Whilst I read the poets, I think that nothing new can be said about morning and evening.
    LE 1.171 1 As yet we have nothing but tendency and indication.
    LE 1.171 11 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain...
    LE 1.171 21 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
    LE 1.172 26 ...nothing is great...beside the infinite Reason.
    LE 1.179 12 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    MN 1.193 4 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall I admire a million units?
    MN 1.193 26 Nothing solid is secure;...
    MN 1.204 27 ...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us but praise and wonder.
    MN 1.211 26 There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached from [this divine method's] universal relations.
    MN 1.223 23 Nothing can bar [these qualities] out, or shut them in...
    MN 1.224 2 Nothing can be greater than [the soul].
    MR 1.231 11 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew...
    MR 1.248 18 Let [a man]...do nothing for which he has not the whole world for his reason.
    MR 1.254 22 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its... gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    MR 1.256 24 ...the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back...
    LT 1.261 3 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day...and leaves it nothing but silence and possession.
    LT 1.262 21 I count myself nothing before [persons].
    LT 1.266 2 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.
    LT 1.274 23 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant. There shall be nothing brutal in it...
    LT 1.275 7 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights. Is all this for nothing?
    LT 1.279 26 ...the man of ideas, accounting the circumstance nothing, judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    LT 1.282 19 [The men of other periods] planted their foot strong, and doubted nothing.
    LT 1.288 11 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves... But what know they more than we? They also found themselves on this wondrous sea. No; from the older sailors, nothing.
    Con 1.296 10 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he made nothing more...
    Con 1.302 27 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and disproportioned to its powers...
    Con 1.303 1 ...Wisdom attempts...nothing which it cannot perform or nearly perform.
    Con 1.304 1 ...nothing but God will expel God.
    Con 1.310 22 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    Con 1.317 23 ...nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as [man];...
    Tran 1.331 14 The materialist...believes...that he at least takes nothing for granted...
    Tran 1.340 2 ...the skeptical philosophy of Locke...insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses...
    Tran 1.344 22 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    Tran 1.349 20 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
    YA 1.373 10 [Destiny's] law is, you shall have everything as a member, nothing to yourself.
    YA 1.391 11 ...nothing is so weak as an egotist.
    YA 1.391 12 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
    Hist 2.3 14 Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.
    Hist 2.5 9 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
    Hist 2.10 15 History must be [universal and subjective] or it is nothing.
    Hist 2.13 27 Nothing is so fleeting as form;...
    Hist 2.14 8 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Hist 2.17 18 There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us...
    SR 2.43 4 Nothing to [man] falls early or too late./
    SR 2.46 21 Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on [a man], and another none.
    SR 2.50 10 Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
    SR 2.57 20 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    SR 2.59 11 Your conformity explains nothing.
    SR 2.61 3 Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else;...
    SR 2.64 26 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves...
    SR 2.69 4 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude...
    SR 2.70 25 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
    SR 2.89 6 Ask nothing of men...
    SR 2.90 3 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
    SR 2.90 4 Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
    Comp 2.100 12 If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
    Comp 2.107 15 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
    Comp 2.108 10 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...
    Comp 2.109 19 Nothing venture, nothing have.
    Comp 2.112 4 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing.
    Comp 2.116 28 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Comp 2.123 13 ...Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
    Comp 2.126 15 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    SL 2.131 18 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.146 1 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be understood.
    SL 2.150 7 We can love nothing but nature.
    SL 2.151 12 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
    SL 2.156 6 You think because you have spoken nothing when others spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.159 5 Concealment avails [a man] nothing, boasting nothing.
    SL 2.164 19 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant.
    Lov1 2.173 8 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.
    Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Lov1 2.183 16 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...
    Fdsp 2.193 22 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Fdsp 2.201 9 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer, and nothing is so much divine.
    Fdsp 2.204 7 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Prd1 2.232 4 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
    Prd1 2.234 12 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing...
    Prd1 2.238 17 It is a proverb that courtesy costs nothing;...
    Hsm1 2.247 18 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./
    Hsm1 2.253 26 Nothing of the kind have I seen in any other country.
    OS 2.270 27 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
    OS 2.273 16 The emphasis of facts and persons in my thought has nothing to do with time.
    OS 2.276 5 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    OS 2.276 24 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can.
    OS 2.279 8 In my dealing with my child...my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing;...
    OS 2.291 8 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but the casting aside your trappings...
    Cir 2.315 23 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Cir 2.317 15 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration...
    Cir 2.319 14 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...counts itself nothing...
    Cir 2.319 27 Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
    Cir 2.321 25 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    Int 2.328 8 What has my will done to make me that I am? Nothing.
    Int 2.331 20 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
    Int 2.334 15 ...we have nothing to write, nothing to infer.
    Int 2.334 21 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Int 2.338 10 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Int 2.340 25 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird...have nothing of them;...
    Int 2.344 22 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years. He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also. If he cannot do that, all his fame shall avail him nothing with me.
    Art1 2.355 19 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens.
    Art1 2.361 15 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place...
    Art1 2.362 4 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Art1 2.363 19 Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is [art's] end.
    Pt1 3.10 17 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed...
    Pt1 3.19 10 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    Pt1 3.32 8 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
    Pt1 3.35 14 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
    Pt1 3.39 18 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful. That charms him. He would say nothing else but such things.
    Pt1 3.40 17 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Exp 3.49 10 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing...
    Exp 3.49 16 Nothing is left us now but death.
    Exp 3.62 3 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    Exp 3.63 3 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street...
    Exp 3.63 9 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet...
    Exp 3.69 8 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
    Exp 3.69 16 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    Exp 3.80 24 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete, but magnitude adds nothing.
    Chr1 3.95 4 Is there nothing but rope and iron?
    Chr1 3.100 5 There is nothing real or useful that is not a seat of war.
    Chr1 3.101 7 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only.
    Chr1 3.104 24 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so. Nothing but itself can copy it.
    Chr1 3.109 19 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    Chr1 3.111 9 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Chr1 3.114 7 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
    Mrs1 3.119 8 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Mrs1 3.119 13 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can pass through the roof, and there is no door, for there is no want of one, as there is nothing to lose.
    Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    Mrs1 3.127 9 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by...leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
    Mrs1 3.131 7 ...[fashion]...hates nothing so much as pretenders;...
    Mrs1 3.131 24 ...there is nothing settled in manners...
    Mrs1 3.132 16 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content. ... If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.
    Mrs1 3.132 23 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility. He is an underling: I have nothing to do with him;...
    Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
    Mrs1 3.136 10 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
    Mrs1 3.142 10 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show.
    Mrs1 3.153 5 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they go for nothing;...
    Gts 3.162 14 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    Gts 3.162 15 We ask the whole. Nothing less will content us.
    Nat2 3.169 7 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    Nat2 3.176 17 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.
    Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing rightly, for want of perspective.
    Nat2 3.182 17 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.
    Nat2 3.186 3 The child...individualizing everything, generalizing nothing... lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Nat2 3.191 25 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere; when all is done, it is for nothing.
    Nat2 3.195 20 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol... of our condensation and acceleration of objects;--but nothing is gained;...
    Pol1 3.208 15 [Parties] have nothing perverse in their origin...
    Pol1 3.217 9 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it; and yet it is never nothing.
    Pol1 3.218 21 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    NR 3.232 1 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out.
    NR 3.234 18 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.
    NR 3.243 14 ...nothing is impassable to the soul...
    NR 3.244 6 Nothing is dead...
    NR 3.246 17 There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
    NR 3.248 12 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    NER 3.251 19 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    NER 3.256 27 I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society;...
    NER 3.257 23 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    NER 3.261 14 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...
    NER 3.278 14 Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth.
    UGM 4.5 4 Man can paint, or make, or think, nothing but man.
    UGM 4.5 17 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
    UGM 4.7 23 ...the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his own shoes.
    UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back.
    UGM 4.21 18 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation. But it comes to mind that a day is gone, and I have got this precious nothing done.
    UGM 4.23 18 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing.
    UGM 4.28 24 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    PPh 4.41 27 [The great man] can spare nothing;...
    PPh 4.43 12 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
    PPh 4.43 19 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.
    PPh 4.59 7 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head...
    PPh 4.63 27 ...courage is nothing else than knowledge;...
    PPh 4.71 17 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    PPh 4.73 4 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation;...
    PPh 4.73 6 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    PPh 4.73 18 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant, who knows nothing, but the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached;...
    PPh 4.74 25 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice.
    PPh 4.77 7 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less.
    PNR 4.86 27 ...[to Plato] there is nothing casual in the action of the human mind.
    SwM 4.93 4 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their hands;...
    SwM 4.96 8 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.96 13 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.104 24 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
    SwM 4.109 5 We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
    SwM 4.111 23 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg]...leave me nothing to say on their proper grounds.
    SwM 4.112 3 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states...
    SwM 4.134 22 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom...
    SwM 4.135 24 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? Good for Orientals, these are nothing to me.
    SwM 4.136 2 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    SwM 4.137 24 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity. But nothing is added.
    SwM 4.145 7 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only...
    MoS 4.149 5 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals]...
    MoS 4.151 25 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    MoS 4.154 10 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    MoS 4.154 14 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him; he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.
    MoS 4.158 17 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...nothing else is safe.
    MoS 4.170 17 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a calamity out of nothing...dispirits us.
    MoS 4.179 7 ...readings, writings, are nothing to the purpose;...
    ShP 4.189 16 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production...
    ShP 4.193 25 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried. Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.
    ShP 4.208 6 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us...
    ShP 4.216 14 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
    NMW 4.231 19 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...
    NMW 4.235 17 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing...
    NMW 4.239 19 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
    NMW 4.239 20 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
    NMW 4.247 20 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...
    NMW 4.247 21 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    NMW 4.248 21 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches...
    NMW 4.251 10 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
    NMW 4.255 9 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    GoW 4.263 2 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    GoW 4.267 22 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.284 22 There is nothing [Goethe] had not right to know...
    GoW 4.285 1 From [Goethe] nothing was hid, nothing withholden.
    GoW 4.285 2 From [Goethe] nothing was hid, nothing withholden.
    GoW 4.286 22 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    ET1 5.5 9 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    ET1 5.21 9 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration.
    ET2 5.32 7 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man. A college examination is nothing to it.
    ET3 5.34 12 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made.
    ET4 5.51 7 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions...
    ET4 5.51 8 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.
    ET4 5.63 6 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    ET5 5.79 16 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains.
    ET5 5.85 11 In trade, the Englishman believes...that if he do not make trade everything, it will make him nothing;...
    ET5 5.88 8 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET5 5.90 18 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET6 5.104 2 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
    ET6 5.108 14 Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical...than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET6 5.108 15 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET6 5.109 7 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    ET6 5.112 10 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET6 5.113 26 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
    ET7 5.118 16 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
    ET7 5.124 16 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know, with the best faith in the world that nothing else exists.
    ET8 5.138 12 Nothing savage, nothing mean resides in the English heart.
    ET8 5.138 13 ...nothing mean resides in the English heart.
    ET9 5.148 4 ...nature makes nothing in vain...
    ET10 5.156 11 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.
    ET10 5.164 14 The rights of property [in England] nothing but felony and treason can override.
    ET11 5.177 12 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing;...
    ET11 5.192 21 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to retrieve.
    ET12 5.208 21 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET13 5.217 24 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
    ET13 5.228 13 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    ET13 5.230 4 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied. She has nothing left but possession.
    ET13 5.230 12 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET14 5.238 22 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.239 18 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power, and nothing original or beautiful will be produced by him.
    ET14 5.252 7 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
    ET14 5.252 16 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
    ET15 5.268 18 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET16 5.274 14 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
    ET16 5.274 17 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence, and thinks a sincere man will see something and say nothing.
    ET16 5.276 11 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    F 6.3 24 ...the boys and girls are not docile; we can make nothing of them.
    F 6.9 17 ...ask Quetelet if temperaments decide nothing?...
    F 6.12 25 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.15 10 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    F 6.23 10 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...
    F 6.33 14 There's nothing [man] will not make his carrier.
    Pow 6.54 12 ...belief in compensation, or that nothing is got for nothing,-- characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.59 18 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark...
    Pow 6.70 18 Physical force has no value where there is nothing else.
    Pow 6.72 19 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco, of which art he knew nothing, he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Wth 6.90 12 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence...
    Wth 6.108 24 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear...
    Wth 6.112 20 Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life;...
    Wth 6.112 21 ...nothing is great or desirable if it is off from [the direction of your life].
    Wth 6.114 12 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last;...
    Wth 6.120 17 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass.
    Wth 6.124 26 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the world which is not repeated in [a man's] body...
    Wth 6.125 2 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in [a man' s] body which is not repeated as in a celestial sphere in his mind;...
    Wth 6.125 4 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Ctr 6.133 17 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them and seeing it bravely for the nothing it is.
    Ctr 6.134 23 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
    Ctr 6.145 5 ...men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
    Ctr 6.160 25 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and though he will say nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Ctr 6.166 7 Man's culture can spare nothing...
    Ctr 6.166 16 ...there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.176 22 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Bhr 6.180 15 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
    Bhr 6.185 18 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...
    Bhr 6.187 13 ...nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Bhr 6.188 7 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    Bhr 6.191 11 ...poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.
    Wsp 6.203 23 Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our skies.
    Wsp 6.208 6 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    Wsp 6.222 19 ...reaction, or nothing for nothing...is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    Wsp 6.234 11 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    Wsp 6.234 16 [Benedict] had hoarded nothing from the past...
    Wsp 6.236 9 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship or favor. When I come to my own, we shall both know it. Nothing will be to be asked or to be granted.
    Wsp 6.241 4 Let us have nothing now which is not its own evidence.
    CbW 6.248 4 You must say of nothing, That is beneath me [said Mirabeau]...
    CbW 6.248 6 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will.
    CbW 6.260 3 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    CbW 6.264 8 Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches...
    CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
    CbW 6.277 22 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not. As he has not a law within him, there's nothing to tie him to.
    Bty 6.291 5 ...our taste in building...refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing...
    Bty 6.292 3 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded...
    Bty 6.295 2 The fine arts have nothing casual...
    Bty 6.299 24 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
    Ill 6.321 19 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility? Yet they differ as all and nothing.
    Ill 6.322 16 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted from bed to bed, from the nothing of life to the nothing of death.
    Ill 6.322 17 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted from bed to bed, from the nothing of life to the nothing of death.
    Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Civ 7.28 6 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message? Just as lief as not; had nothing else to do;...
    Civ 7.29 2 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
    Art2 7.41 16 Nothing droll, nothing whimsical will endure.
    Art2 7.52 7 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition, as they speak of nothing around you...
    Art2 7.52 25 Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty.
    Elo1 7.61 13 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than the grandeur of absolute ideas...
    Elo1 7.74 14 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.82 21 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Elo1 7.88 10 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    Elo1 7.90 3 ...nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    Elo1 7.95 1 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...made nothing of their antagonists...
    Elo1 7.96 12 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.
    Elo1 7.97 8 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he has not done nothing...
    DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can withstand...
    DL 7.109 9 There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy...
    DL 7.110 15 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    DL 7.122 8 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything, yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    WD 7.165 14 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 pull up the handles or mind the water-tank. But when the engine breaks, they can do nothing.
    WD 7.168 14 ...[the days] say nothing...
    WD 7.172 5 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
    WD 7.173 18 Who is he that does not always find himself doing something less than his best task? What are you doing? O, nothing; I have been doing thus, or I shall do so or so, but not I am only--
    WD 7.182 1 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing.
    Boks 7.189 5 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us. Plato's, n Boks 7.189 6 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Boks 7.193 18 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic...
    Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books. Nothing can be preserved which is not good;...
    Boks 7.197 14 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece, and occupies that place as history which nothing can supply.
    Boks 7.198 23 Nothing has escaped [Plato].
    Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.
    Boks 7.221 4 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind, adding nothing, keeping nothing back.
    Clbs 7.226 10 Unless there be an argument, [some men] think nothing is doing.
    Clbs 7.226 27 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation. How often to say nothing,--and yet must go;...
    Clbs 7.230 16 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Clbs 7.230 17 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Suc 7.284 15 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands.
    Suc 7.292 2 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    Suc 7.292 4 ...nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own.
    Suc 7.299 12 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    Suc 7.299 27 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? a little more or less signifies nothing.
    Suc 7.302 18 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Suc 7.305 18 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    Suc 7.307 25 We know the answer that leaves nothing to ask.
    Suc 7.309 18 Set down nothing that will not help somebody;...
    Suc 7.311 19 ...[the inner live] loves right, it knows nothing else;...
    Suc 7.312 5 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    OA 7.317 23 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic.
    OA 7.320 13 We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.
    OA 7.325 13 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    OA 7.328 24 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it...
    OA 7.330 5 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren. Well, there is nothing for all this but patience and time.
    OA 7.330 22 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    OA 7.332 4 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch, and nothing important passed in the conversation;...
    PI 8.1 14 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    PI 8.4 12 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.5 17 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
    PI 8.12 3 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.12 10 Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions.
    PI 8.12 22 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    PI 8.20 5 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.21 9 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream, from which nothing is exempt.
    PI 8.23 14 ...there is nothing to which man is not related;...
    PI 8.37 17 ...the poet says nothing but what helps somebody;...
    PI 8.49 9 ...there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
    PI 8.49 10 ...there is...nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.
    PI 8.54 7 [Poetry] must be its own end, or it is nothing.
    PI 8.55 22 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./ Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy./
    PI 8.60 13 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    PI 8.60 22 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke...
    SA 8.94 6 Madame de Stael valued nothing but conversation.
    SA 8.94 25 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...
    SA 8.95 15 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king. There is nothing that does not pass into lever or weapon.
    SA 8.95 25 The great gain is...not to conquer your companion,--then you learn nothing but conceit...
    SA 8.107 1 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those who...forgive nothing to each other;...
    Elo2 8.114 26 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...
    Elo2 8.121 21 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all.
    Res 8.139 18 Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature.
    Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Comc 8.164 16 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
    Comc 8.168 26 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    Comc 8.170 13 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes in nothing but hunger...
    Comc 8.173 16 We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our spontaneous sentiment.
    QO 8.184 18 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.188 23 Admirable mimics have nothing of their own.
    PC 8.213 5 Nothing is old but the mind.
    PPo 8.238 10 All or nothing is the genius of Oriental life.
    PPo 8.249 2 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence;...
    PPo 8.249 10 Nothing is too high, nothing too low for [Hafiz's] occasion.
    PPo 8.249 11 [Hafiz] fears nothing, he stops for nothing.
    PPo 8.249 12 [Hafiz] fears nothing, he stops for nothing.
    PPo 8.259 20 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    PPo 8.262 6 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Insp 8.271 11 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except by inspiration...
    Insp 8.287 27 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
    Grts 8.310 27 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
    Imtl 8.325 22 Nothing can excel the beauty of [the Greek's] sarcophagus.
    Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.
    Imtl 8.333 1 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
    Imtl 8.335 11 We...really are interested in nothing that ends.
    Imtl 8.336 23 ...there is nothing in Nature capricious...
    Imtl 8.342 23 Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
    Imtl 8.344 13 Nothing will hold but that which we must be and must do...
    Imtl 8.347 23 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    Dem1 10.12 10 ...I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour.
    Dem1 10.12 24 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Dem1 10.14 25 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
    Dem1 10.18 21 All united moral powers avail nothing against [demonic individuals].
    Dem1 10.27 5 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection, no police, no foot-rule, no sanity,-nothing but whim and whim creative.
    Aris 10.53 20 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse, nothing beyond perhaps a surly nod in passing.
    Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
    PerF 10.86 9 ...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    PerF 10.87 10 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    Chr2 10.94 18 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own...
    Chr2 10.106 22 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But why not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing but ministers and ministers.
    Chr2 10.122 7 Having nothing, this spirit [character] hath all.
    Edc1 10.131 18 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself, or out of that quarry leave nothing unrepresented.
    Edc1 10.132 14 We learn nothing rightly until we learn the symbolical character of life.
    Edc1 10.142 13 ...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 10.146 26 Always genius...desires nothing so much as to be a pupil...
    Edc1 10.151 21 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires...a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of the soul can give.
    Supl 10.174 16 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being. Nothing is for the most part less esteemed.
    Supl 10.176 7 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground on which nothing is assumed...
    SovE 10.192 18 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest;...
    SovE 10.197 20 How came this creation so magically woven that nothing can do me mischief but myself...
    SovE 10.201 22 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but they are not nothing to us...
    SovE 10.206 25 We in America are charged...that...we look at and will bear nothing above us in the state...
    Prch 10.219 12 We never do quite nothing, or never need.
    Prch 10.229 13 Nothing is more rare, in any man, than an act of his own.
    MoL 10.242 17 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    MoL 10.255 23 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; nothing frivolous...
    MoL 10.255 23 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;... nothing that he might do or not do...
    Schr 10.276 6 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.279 15 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Schr 10.284 7 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
    Schr 10.285 12 The gun [men of talent] have pointed can defend nothing but itself...
    Plu 10.299 8 Nothing touches man but [Plutarch] feels to be his;...
    Plu 10.309 18 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that he who ran in debt yesterday owes nothing to-day, as being another man;...
    Plu 10.312 19 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:...The good man differs from God in nothing but duration.
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply;...
    Plu 10.316 15 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire.
    LLNE 10.325 9 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.
    LLNE 10.325 10 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.
    LLNE 10.330 22 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
    LLNE 10.332 9 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.333 25 [Everett] had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity...
    LLNE 10.335 6 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...
    LLNE 10.336 25 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    LLNE 10.338 15 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
    LLNE 10.343 17 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter it flowed. Nothing could be less formal...
    LLNE 10.343 22 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing more serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...
    LLNE 10.356 1 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    LLNE 10.367 14 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?
    EzRy 10.389 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    MMEm 10.416 26 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.421 11 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
    MMEm 10.421 12 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, done nothing;...
    MMEm 10.421 13 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, done nothing; doing nothing, never expect to;...
    MMEm 10.422 7 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery. Yet it is nothing.
    MMEm 10.429 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous;...
    MMEm 10.429 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing...
    MMEm 10.430 16 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    MMEm 10.432 21 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.
    SlHr 10.446 23 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness; he had nothing to repent of...
    SlHr 10.447 19 ...[Samuel Hoar] had nothing to say about himself;...
    Thor 10.456 4 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No;...
    Thor 10.464 21 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;... my jack-knife will cut nothing else;...
    Thor 10.465 6 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.465 17 There was nothing so important to [Thoreau] as his walk;...
    Thor 10.465 24 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    Thor 10.469 3 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    Thor 10.470 27 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    Thor 10.478 12 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
    Thor 10.483 21 Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
    Carl 10.492 26 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    Carl 10.493 14 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character. Nothing will pass with them but what is real and sound.
    Carl 10.494 16 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington... and on Philsophy of History, [Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    Carl 10.495 15 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution than his humor...
    Carl 10.497 24 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit...
    LS 11.11 1 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    LS 11.12 22 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately remembered by them;...
    LS 11.24 9 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
    HDC 11.35 23 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...to an Indian town in the wilderness that had nothing, must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.52 5 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    HDC 11.63 21 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords...
    EWI 11.116 26 ...for the most part, throughout the [West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.
    EWI 11.117 24 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this assembly.
    EWI 11.118 26 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    EWI 11.123 27 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    EWI 11.144 26 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.
    War 11.156 23 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.
    War 11.165 4 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    War 11.172 1 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should ask nothing of the state;...
    War 11.172 4 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;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.184 20 Nothing proves the want of all thought...more than the dominion of party.
    FSLC 11.185 4 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.197 12 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    FSLC 11.209 15 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do.
    FSLN 11.219 20 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a repute for honesty, all count for nothing.
    FSLN 11.220 10 I saw plainly that the great show their legitimate power in nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
    FSLN 11.221 20 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.226 17 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.237 14 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons...to say, Nothing is good but stealing.
    FSLN 11.240 21 [The free man] is a finished man;...the sun does not see anything nobler, and has nothing to teach him.
    JBB 11.269 18 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown...
    JBS 11.278 10 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life...
    JBS 11.281 8 Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy [with John Brown]...
    TPar 11.289 23 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals; it is there for use, or it is nothing;...
    TPar 11.290 18 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back.
    ALin 11.328 22 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    ALin 11.332 9 ...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for labor, and liked nothing so well.
    SMC 11.367 23 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations; on one day nothing but liver, blackberries, and pennyroyal tea.
    EdAd 11.385 8 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities;...
    EdAd 11.393 11 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...
    Koss 11.399 2 We [people of Concord] have seen...that there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
    Wom 11.416 13 There was nothing [antagonism to Slavery] did not pry into...
    Wom 11.422 11 ...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is pleased with nothing;...
    Wom 11.422 12 ...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is pleased with nothing;...
    RBur 11.441 8 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
    ChiE 11.472 23 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    FRO2 11.487 5 Nothing really is so self-publishing, so divulgatory, as thought.
    CPL 11.496 19 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    CPL 11.506 5 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me. Nothing holds me.
    FRep 11.519 13 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
    FRep 11.543 5 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction. Nothing less large than justice can keep them in good temper.
    NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    NHI 12.1 3 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.10 1 ...there is a certain beatitude,-I can call it nothing less,-to which all men are entitled...
    PLT 12.26 1 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures, and that nothing grows well on the crab-stock...
    PLT 12.26 8 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.
    PLT 12.28 26 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word; if he blunders and starves she says nothing.
    PLT 12.30 12 Echo the leaders and they will fast enough see that you have nothing for them.
    PLT 12.40 13 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.43 8 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    PLT 12.56 17 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...consent to be nothing for eternity...
    PLT 12.58 4 [People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.
    II 12.65 14 [Instinct] is that which never pretends: nothing seems less, nothing is more.
    II 12.65 15 [Instinct] is that which never pretends: nothing seems less, nothing is more.
    II 12.76 9 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.
    II 12.78 17 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody...
    II 12.80 17 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. The whole world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle, which distributes men.
    II 12.82 21 [A man] has a facility, which costs him nothing, to do somewhat admirable to all men.
    Mem 12.96 13 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary.
    CInt 12.125 16 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but inspired with an enthusiasm which finds nothing there to feed it, it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CInt 12.130 20 Power costs nothing to the powerful.
    CL 12.142 12 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    CL 12.142 19 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.
    CL 12.144 16 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that...the traveller had nothing for it but to wade in the streams.
    CL 12.151 24 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    CL 12.152 12 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.
    CL 12.161 1 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry...which perfectly answers its end, and has nothing to spare.
    CW 12.173 13 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    CW 12.178 18 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    Bost 12.199 11 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation...
    Bost 12.206 14 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing.
    MAng1 12.216 1 [Michelangelo] nothing common did, or mean...
    MAng1 12.219 8 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
    MAng1 12.232 2 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.
    MAng1 12.234 16 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    MAng1 12.242 7 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael, it is nothing;...
    Milt1 12.255 19 Franklin's man...savors of nothing heroic.
    Milt1 12.273 16 [Milton] thought nothing honest was low.
    ACri 12.283 13 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated,- nothing that does not go to his costly equipment...
    ACri 12.288 6 I envy the boys the force of the double negative (no shoes, no money, no nothing)...
    ACri 12.289 15 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation, falsehood, nothing;...
    ACri 12.291 12 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
    ACri 12.292 19 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...nothing would answer but;...
    ACri 12.294 24 Shakspeare is nothing but a large utterance.
    ACri 12.296 16 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that his subject cost him nothing...
    ACri 12.299 20 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    MLit 12.314 5 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and nothing else.
    MLit 12.315 21 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.
    MLit 12.319 10 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.322 5 Of Thomas Carlyle...we shall say nothing at this time...
    MLit 12.326 4 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition, whereof they saw nothing, still better.
    MLit 12.334 6 There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.
    WSL 12.340 21 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an experience to which nothing has occurred in vain...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Pray 12.350 7 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..
    AgMs 12.362 24 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by getting their labor for nothing...
    EurB 12.365 16 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised. Nothing of Milton, nothing of Marvell...could be.
    EurB 12.377 21 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...
    PPr 12.379 6 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it.
    PPr 12.388 5 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    Let 12.396 6 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...
    Let 12.397 9 ...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.
    Let 12.400 13 There is nothing holy which is not desecrated...among this people [the Germans].
    Let 12.401 5 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...
    Let 12.401 6 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave...nothing holy which they do not defile with their fumbling hands;...
    Let 12.401 7 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...
    Trag 12.413 12 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who fears nothing, and even hopes nothing...
    Trag 12.413 13 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who fears nothing, and even hopes nothing...

Nothing, n. (2)

    Comp 2.121 7 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    Comp 2.122 7 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing...

nothingness, n. (1)

    SL 2.160 13 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

nothings, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.173 20 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...when the singing-school would begin, and other nothings concerning which the parties cooed.
    Ill 6.308 4 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...

notice, n. (27)

    Nat 1.13 6 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Nat 1.69 17 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    LT 1.268 22 Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    Tran 1.357 7 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion...quite withdraws them from all notice of these carping critics;...
    SR 2.45 22 ...[a man] dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
    SR 2.62 8 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...suitors for his notice...
    OS 2.270 13 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Exp 3.78 20 ...[murder] does not unsettle [the murderer] or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles;...
    Chr1 3.102 14 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.
    Pol1 3.218 2 ...[what we do] does not satisfy us, whilst we thrust it on the notice of our companions.
    ShP 4.211 21 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    ET8 5.133 2 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    Bhr 6.180 25 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...take all too much notice...
    CbW 6.257 6 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    Ill 6.310 8 ...I...took notice and still chiefly remember that the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Boks 7.205 6 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down--with notice of all remarkable objects on the way--through fourteen hundred years of time.
    SA 8.95 4 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather...
    SA 8.104 4 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
    Comc 8.168 4 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    QO 8.198 6 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.
    Dem1 10.3 4 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.24 7 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    MMEm 10.413 22 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    LS 11.5 21 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John...this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    LS 11.6 4 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    War 11.173 22 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad... takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    ACri 12.299 14 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it in any newspaper or journal...

notice, v. (12)

    NER 3.268 17 I notice...that the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    ET5 5.84 23 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
    ET16 5.281 1 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    Bhr 6.193 5 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness...
    Clbs 7.248 22 ...I notice that it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Dem1 10.10 16 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become crescents...
    Aris 10.33 25 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
    Chr2 10.101 20 I am in the habit of thinking...confirmed by what I notice in many lives-that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Plu 10.321 23 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which, although the translator has justified his rendering in a note, the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
    EzRy 10.382 5 Always inclined to notice ministers...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    MMEm 10.403 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    Bost 12.187 1 I notice that they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...

noticed, v. (16)

    LT 1.274 17 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder, not much noticed at first, every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    Exp 3.70 12 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...
    ET4 5.57 14 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons...
    ET5 5.85 22 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET7 5.123 20 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country which I have noticed to be shared by men sane on other points, that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    F 6.42 5 ...I have noticed a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on his merits.
    Wth 6.113 26 ...next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband.
    Ctr 6.140 17 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
    Ctr 6.160 4 It is noticed that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Bty 6.295 5 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    QO 8.199 1 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    MoL 10.248 1 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage, though noticed in an orchard or a village, is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.
    CSC 10.374 17 A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    Thor 10.468 11 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
    EWI 11.118 22 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...
    CL 12.153 9 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.

notices, n. (4)

    GoW 4.287 4 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler, Roger Bacon...
    ET17 5.291 8 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    Wsp 6.217 6 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...they hear notices...where others are vacant.
    Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...

notices, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.10 13 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Bost 12.190 2 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river...

noticing, v. (1)

    Exp 3.52 22 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life, but must not leave it without noticing the capital exception.

noting, v. (2)

    WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...
    Grts 8.317 11 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.

notion, n. (16)

    AmS 1.94 6 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse...
    AmS 1.105 4 It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature;...
    SR 2.65 16 ...[thoughtless people] do not distinguish between perception and notion.
    OS 2.283 1 The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes.
    Mrs1 3.123 4 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    PPh 4.62 26 ...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it.
    PPh 4.64 5 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    SwM 4.121 3 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...
    ET12 5.210 9 ...education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    Wth 6.95 11 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
    Ctr 6.141 21 Books...must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Wsp 6.203 19 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Suc 7.308 7 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    SovE 10.193 24 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...
    Plu 10.313 4 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.

notions, n. (8)

    Exp 3.53 14 What notions do [physicians] attach to love!...
    PPh 4.47 8 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    PNR 4.86 1 [Plato's] definition of ideas...forever discriminating them from the notions of the understanding, marks an era in the world.
    NMW 4.232 17 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.
    Ill 6.324 12 The notions, I am, and This is mine, which influence mankind, are but delusions of the mother of the world...
    QO 8.200 15 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...
    MMEm 10.422 4 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.
    Bost 12.184 7 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.

Not-me, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.8 2 My dreams are not me; they are not Nature, or the Not-me: they are both.

notoriety, n. (5)

    LE 1.176 19 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons, the fool of society, the fool of notoriety...
    SwM 4.103 15 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    Boks 7.196 4 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    LLNE 10.343 20 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...
    FRep 11.527 14 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.

notorious, adj. (5)

    EWI 11.138 9 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    FSLN 11.219 8 I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
    AsSu 11.249 2 It is notorious that, in the long time when [Charles Sumner' s] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    AKan 11.259 9 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...until it is notorious that all promotion, power and policy are dictated from one source...
    JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...

notoriously, adv. (2)

    Chr2 10.114 20 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long... notoriously hostile to the Abolitionist, wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    EWI 11.139 1 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

Notre-Dame de Paris [Victo (1)

    Bhr 6.183 7 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.

Nottingham, England, n. (3)

    ET17 5.294 1 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...in Leicester, in Nottingham...
    Cour 7.273 22 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Wom 11.407 19 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...

notwithstanding, adv. (2)

    HDC 11.81 24 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State? The town answered No. The General Court, notwithstanding, draughted a constitution, sent it here...
    LVB 11.90 15 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...

nought, n. (5)

    MoS 4.175 16 There is the power of moods, each setting at nought all but its own tissue of facts and beliefs.
    Schr 10.276 14 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.
    Thor 10.484 5 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them. To nought else can they be tender.
    Wom 11.413 17 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./
    Pray 12.355 2 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost make thyself known to me...

noun, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
    PI 8.9 14 Every noun is an image.

nouns, n. (7)

    Nat 1.26 6 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things...
    NER 3.282 26 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns...
    Bty 6.304 12 All the facts in nature are nouns of the intellect...
    WD 7.180 25 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
    PI 8.15 21 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
    PLT 12.37 19 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek. His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
    CL 12.164 4 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...

nourish, v. (10)

    Nat 1.13 16 ...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.
    SR 2.73 3 I shall endeavor to nourish my parents...
    Exp 3.73 7 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    Exp 3.73 12 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    ET10 5.168 1 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish, nor sugar sweeten...
    Pow 6.62 5 The huge animals nourish huge parasites...
    Wth 6.106 19 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Insp 8.274 26 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light...will on a sudden be enkindled in the soul, and will then itself nourish itself.
    Schr 10.285 8 ...[men of talent] nourish a small difference into a loud quarrel.
    CInt 12.121 14 Do you imagine that a lie will nourish and work like a truth?

nourished, v. (13)

    Nat 1.31 18 The poet...bred in the woods, whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.64 10 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...is nourished by unfailing fountains...
    AmS 1.92 19 ...the human body can be nourished on any food...
    Con 1.313 19 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast...
    Con 1.313 21 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a poet...
    ShP 4.202 18 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished...
    ET1 5.15 5 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar [Carlyle] nourished his mighty heart.
    ET14 5.241 10 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
    CbW 6.264 12 Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
    Edc1 10.136 5 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought. It is not less necessary that the intellectual and the active faculties should be nourished and matured.
    Plu 10.316 16 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself...
    PLT 12.18 18 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls; so nourished, so enlarged.
    MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life nourished on absolute beatitudes...

nourishes, v. (2)

    SL 2.163 11 The good soul nourishes me...
    Bost 12.197 21 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante...

nourishing, adj. (1)

    SR 2.46 16 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...

nourishment, n. (12)

    Lov1 2.171 14 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
    NR 3.244 2 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    MoS 4.159 11 Men...like trees, receive a great part of their nourishment from the air.
    NMW 4.242 4 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates...
    Farm 7.147 23 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    PC 8.229 18 ...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of character, height of genius, can only find nourishment in this soil.
    Edc1 10.149 18 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts, is insatiable for this nourishment...
    Plu 10.316 25 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given...
    CPL 11.494 6 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
    PLT 12.24 25 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground...
    CL 12.145 26 [The pear] accepts every species of nourishment...
    MAng1 12.228 8 A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's] nourishment;...

Nous, n. (1)

    Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaxagoras by (Nous) thought...

Novalis [Friedrich von Hard (2)

    GoW 4.280 7 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    GoW 4.280 15 ...Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...

novel, adj. (7)

    LE 1.168 16 The man who...rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove, his sensations and his world are so novel and strange.
    MN 1.199 25 Not the cause, but an ever novel effect, nature descends always from above.
    NR 3.223 9 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake,/ And each with novel life his sphere/ Fills for his proper sake./
    OA 7.323 27 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that though the acute degree was novel, there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    PC 8.210 16 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies...have evoked!...
    Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    MMEm 10.413 11 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T. My mind expanded with novel and innocent pleasure.

novel, n. (27)

    Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Art1 2.365 25 A popular novel...makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
    UGM 4.12 19 Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
    GoW 4.277 20 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...
    DL 7.120 3 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    Boks 7.200 27 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as... entertaining as a French novel.
    Boks 7.212 23 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
    Boks 7.213 12 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds.
    Boks 7.214 14 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination...
    Boks 7.214 16 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    Boks 7.214 22 ...the novel will find the way to our interiors one day...
    Boks 7.214 23 ...the novel...will not always be the novel of costume merely.
    Boks 7.215 7 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    Suc 7.286 7 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    PI 8.66 9 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.73 27 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper...are hosts of ideals...
    MMEm 10.402 25 What a subject is [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind and life for the finest novel!
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem, or a novel like Corinne, so, by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    MMEm 10.411 21 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    CPL 11.496 24 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    PLT 12.57 12 All is condoned if I can write a good song or novel.
    ACri 12.304 14 [The classic] does not make a novel to establish a principle of political economy.
    MLit 12.329 11 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.
    EurB 12.373 27 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.
    EurB 12.376 3 ...there is but one standard English novel...
    EurB 12.376 6 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...

novelist, n. (7)

    ET4 5.67 24 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    Bhr 6.191 23 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.
    Boks 7.216 15 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures...
    Aris 10.52 20 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    PLT 12.54 6 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others.
    CInt 12.119 16 I value dearly...the novelist with his romance...
    EurB 12.373 13 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.

novelists, n. (2)

    ET14 5.246 26 [English] novelists despair of the heart.
    LLNE 10.358 26 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.

novelist's, n. (1)

    Boks 7.216 12 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread. I fear 't is so with the novelist's prosperities.

Novella, Santa Maria, Flor (1)

    MAng1 12.243 16 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.

novel-reading, n. (2)

    Boks 7.214 25 So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched;...
    Boks 7.216 3 For the most part, our novel-reading is a passion for results.

novels, n. (33)

    LE 1.172 26 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...
    Lov1 2.172 7 How we glow over these novels of passion...
    Mrs1 3.120 25 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    GoW 4.269 25 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels...
    GoW 4.277 23 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET10 5.154 6 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET13 5.229 13 Dickens writes novels on Exeter-Hall humanity.
    Pow 6.68 13 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot read novels and play whist;...
    Bhr 6.191 20 Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature.
    Bhr 6.191 20 Novels are the journal or record of manners...
    Bhr 6.191 25 The novels used to be all alike...
    Bhr 6.191 26 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    Bhr 6.192 15 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
    Bhr 6.192 23 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Boks 7.215 11 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Boks 7.215 16 In novels the most serious questions are beginning to be discussed.
    OA 7.335 3 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...with praise...
    SA 8.80 9 The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb...
    Insp 8.295 10 You shall not read newspapers, nor politics, nor novels...
    Edc1 10.142 26 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    LLNE 10.363 15 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare, and in modern novels and romances of merit.
    Scot 11.463 21 In the face of the later novels, we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys.
    Scot 11.465 8 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.
    CPL 11.496 6 ...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;...
    WSL 12.346 3 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    EurB 12.372 25 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...
    EurB 12.373 20 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked with great energy...
    EurB 12.374 24 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    EurB 12.375 2 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance...
    EurB 12.375 10 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels...
    EurB 12.376 1 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of costume are all one...
    EurB 12.377 8 The novels of Fashion...belong to the class of novels of costume...
    EurB 12.377 9 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...

novelties, n. (5)

    NMW 4.248 6 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...
    ET12 5.202 9 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    Plu 10.322 19 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace, and to-day's novelties are sought for variety, [Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    HDC 11.31 6 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    CInt 12.126 12 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be a fountain of novelties out of heaven...that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.

novelty, n. (19)

    LE 1.166 13 ...once having overcome the novelty of the situation, [the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    Con 1.314 16 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    PPh 4.53 11 Art was in its splendid novelty [in Greece].
    GoW 4.285 24 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...
    Bty 6.294 17 There is a compelling reason in the uses of the plant for every novelty of color or form;...
    Civ 7.20 20 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
    Art2 7.55 19 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.
    Cour 7.270 2 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book;...
    PI 8.48 13 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.228 12 [The moral sentiment]...draws its own rent out of every novelty in science.
    Insp 8.289 4 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
    Imtl 8.338 20 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Plu 10.295 13 [Henry IV wrote] Plutarch always delights me with a fresh novelty.
    LLNE 10.330 22 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
    SMC 11.356 24 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous type of New Englander, with his appetite for novelty and travel;...
    FRep 11.527 23 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty...
    II 12.71 11 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    Bost 12.206 20 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...

November, n. (13)

    GoW 4.266 17 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    ET3 5.38 18 Here [in England] is no winter, but such days as we have in Massachusetts in November...
    ET19 5.309 2 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
    Res 8.151 22 [The art of taking a walk] will draw the...dreariness out of November and March...
    CSC 10.373 1 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
    CSC 10.373 16 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
    EzRy 10.383 1 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of Concord November 7, 1778.
    EzRy 10.383 1 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
    EPro 11.319 6 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
    CL 12.158 6 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture! It changes the landscape from November into June.
    CW 12.175 2 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come...
    Bost 12.189 6 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.
    AgMs 12.361 21 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...

novice, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.12 21 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
    Exp 3.83 12 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor yet seven years ago.
    Nat2 3.181 24 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.
    Ctr 6.141 6 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Wsp 6.227 27 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.
    CInt 12.125 19 Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the abbess.

novices, n. (4)

    Tran 1.357 17 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak are not proficients; they are novices;...
    Art1 2.361 7 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers...
    Insp 8.278 8 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are...

noviciate, n. (1)

    II 12.77 21 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true; and by faithful serving, we shall complete our noviciate to this subtle art.

novitiate, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 4 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

Novum Organon [Francis Bac (1)

    Bost 12.204 4 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...have we yet contributed.

Novum Organum [Organon] [F (1)

    Boks 7.207 12 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...the Novum Organum...

Now, n. (3)

    LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...but ask it of the enveloping Now;...
    Hist 2.11 10 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then, and introduce in its place the Here and the Now.
    WD 7.174 13 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature...

nowadays, adv. (2)

    Carl 10.496 19 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    LS 11.14 4 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...

nowhere, adv. (22)

    MN 1.203 6 We can point nowhere to anything final;...
    LT 1.272 17 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded power.
    Prd1 2.231 16 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired; but now it is not to be predicted of any child, and nowhere is it pure.
    Cir 2.301 7 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Exp 3.58 3 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Chr1 3.91 23 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them;...
    Chr1 3.91 24 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
    Nat2 3.190 2 ...there is throughout nature...something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere;...
    Nat2 3.190 6 Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.
    Nat2 3.191 24 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    ET4 5.51 21 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me, himself very well marked and nowhere else to be found,--I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
    ET11 5.186 18 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners:-- nowhere and never so much as in England.
    ET17 5.291 14 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    Wth 6.114 13 ...vanity...[is] a long way leading nowhere.
    PC 8.221 21 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth, whose centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere...
    Imtl 8.344 19 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    SovE 10.199 22 God is one and omnipresent; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
    LS 11.17 12 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    CInt 12.126 24 ...here [in the college], if nowhere else in the world, genius should find its home;...
    EurB 12.376 15 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a cultivated society which we found nowhere else.
    EurB 12.377 20 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...
    EurB 12.377 21 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...

nowise, adv. (21)

    LE 1.183 12 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...nowise emitting a continuous stream of light...
    Hist 2.15 20 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses...
    Exp 3.56 9 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion...is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing.
    Exp 3.78 14 ...every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another.
    Pol1 3.207 8 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...and nowise transferable to other states of society.
    Pol1 3.207 24 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy...
    Pol1 3.208 26 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    Pol1 3.209 22 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure, nowise useful to the commonwealth.
    GoW 4.286 12 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise the external importance of events...
    F 6.12 3 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...
    Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk nowise affected...
    Boks 7.203 22 ...Pythagoras was...nowise a man of abstract studies alone.
    Cour 7.268 15 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.
    Suc 7.304 17 ...in complacencies nowise so strict as this of the passion [of love], the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child's voice fully addressed to him...
    PerF 10.82 26 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind. But they are nowise impoverished for any other mind...
    MMEm 10.402 20 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards.
    EdAd 11.388 6 ...we believe politics to be nowise accidental or exceptional...
    WSL 12.337 5 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native country...
    Trag 12.407 22 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.
    Trag 12.411 12 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.
    Trag 12.413 12 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge, who has nowise made up his opinion...

noxious, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.16 19 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    AmS 1.89 1 Instantly the book becomes noxious...
    DSA 1.130 17 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    MN 1.211 26 There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached from [this divine method's] universal relations.
    Con 1.319 8 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Exp 3.66 1 ...every good quality is noxious if unmixed...
    CbW 6.251 18 ...this spawning productivity is not noxious or needless.
    Dem1 10.20 20 All that frees talent without increasing self-command is noxious.
    Edc1 10.127 19 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their slave.
    SovE 10.190 7 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them...hinder none, help all, and these are honored and perpetuated. Others are noxious.
    Prch 10.229 20 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.229 24 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
    LLNE 10.350 8 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system, as now it yields noxious fluids.
    Thor 10.455 15 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious.
    CL 12.137 27 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].

Nubian Egyptian, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.19 25 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.

nudge, n. (1)

    Wom 11.423 11 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to be understood only by wink and nudge;...

nudity, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.234 11 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.

nuisance, n. (7)

    DSA 1.127 15 Once man was all; now he is an appendage, a nuisance.
    Clbs 7.245 21 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    Insp 8.290 8 Even a steel pen is a nuisance to some writers.
    Chr2 10.103 16 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to abate some nuisance...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    EWI 11.128 15 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    JBB 11.272 26 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...
    ACiv 11.308 19 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...

nuisances, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 20 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which were now nuisances, but, if explored, and turned to account, were capable of yielding immense benefit.

null, adj. (1)

    Con 1.314 1 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

nulla, adj. (1)

    PC 8.225 23 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

nullifiers, n. (1)

    NER 3.255 23 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...

number, n. (94)

    Nat 1.47 12 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...
    Nat 1.47 23 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    LE 1.179 27 ...whilst he believed in number and weight, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
    MN 1.204 2 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.205 7 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    MR 1.234 14 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money, which is the selling [oneself] for a number of years...
    Tran 1.350 21 It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, of events, or of actors, that imports.
    SR 2.79 17 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought] touches...is [the pupil's] complacency.
    SR 2.85 18 ...the insurance-office increases the number of accidents;...
    SL 2.158 4 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Hsm1 2.253 22 Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in whatever number;...
    Hsm1 2.257 12 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations...with number and size.
    Hsm1 2.263 8 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    Pt1 3.28 11 ...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;...
    Exp 3.60 7 ...to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
    Pol1 3.221 21 ...there are now men,--if indeed I can speak in the plural number...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.228 21 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...
    NR 3.230 5 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    NER 3.279 7 ...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    SwM 4.110 25 ...[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number;...
    SwM 4.116 18 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    NMW 4.225 22 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...dress, dinners, servants without number...
    GoW 4.270 24 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    GoW 4.271 1 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no learned man, but...reading-rooms and book-clubs without number.
    ET3 5.37 21 The innumerable details [in England]...the number and power of the trades and guilds...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.45 18 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by the number of individuals among them of personal ability.
    ET7 5.124 24 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET7 5.125 9 Any number of delightful examples of this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
    ET10 5.168 15 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET12 5.205 10 The number of students and of residents [at English universities]...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET12 5.205 26 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.206 13 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.209 4 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET12 5.212 8 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET15 5.265 24 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    ET15 5.268 11 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors;...
    Wth 6.89 9 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Wth 6.99 22 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.104 12 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    Wth 6.108 15 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling represents the number of enemies the pear has...
    Wsp 6.220 17 ...all things go by number, rule and weight.
    CbW 6.247 13 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    Ill 6.316 24 I, who have all my life heard any number of orations and debates...am still the victim of any new page;...
    SS 7.4 20 ...[my new friend] consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
    Civ 7.34 24 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Farm 7.140 16 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Boks 7.193 11 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
    Boks 7.193 13 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Boks 7.193 14 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Boks 7.220 13 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Suc 7.298 24 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...
    OA 7.323 16 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    PI 8.72 6 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Res 8.142 5 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn...for a vast number of years.
    QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    Insp 8.269 14 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Aris 10.49 8 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...
    Aris 10.56 24 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    Chr2 10.91 20 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.120 21 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    Edc1 10.152 18 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Prch 10.232 13 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain;...
    MoL 10.245 27 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    MoL 10.246 3 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
    CSC 10.376 10 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    EzRy 10.382 20 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
    MMEm 10.422 10 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration by the number of our thoughts...
    Thor 10.459 6 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
    HDC 11.31 25 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.32 12 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.35 19 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.40 8 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    HDC 11.57 1 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.57 3 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.74 6 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
    HDC 11.78 7 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great.
    EWI 11.128 18 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...
    War 11.161 6 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    War 11.163 11 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    AsSu 11.248 8 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    EPro 11.318 2 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...
    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    Humb 11.458 21 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...
    Scot 11.466 20 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare.
    CPL 11.498 9 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...
    FRep 11.528 4 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict...of the greatest number.
    CL 12.137 18 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year.
    Bost 12.195 16 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.195 19 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    MAng1 12.233 3 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
    ACri 12.292 2 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...quite a number;...

Number, n. (1)

    II 12.76 23 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

number, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 16 Number the waste places of the journey...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.

numbered [short-numbered], adj (1)

    Nat 1.53 11 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that heretic,/ That works on leases of short numbered hours/...

numbered, v. (4)

    YA 1.363 19 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    PPh 4.61 23 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...
    PLT 12.4 6 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and recorded...
    WSL 12.343 21 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.

numberless, adj. (6)

    MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless benefit;...
    ET5 5.96 10 Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in the cities [of England].
    WD 7.173 2 ...I will not begin to name those [illusions] of the youth and adult, for they are numberless.
    Dem1 10.27 16 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    FRO2 11.487 1 ...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    MAng1 12.236 14 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

numbers, n. (66)

    AmS 1.97 22 Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein...
    DSA 1.135 23 ...you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe, with numbers, of the universal decay...of faith in society.
    DSA 1.141 2 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    MN 1.193 8 Men...are continually yielding to this dazzling result of numbers, that which they would never yield to the solitary example of any one.
    LT 1.276 25 I think that the soul of reform;...not reliance on numbers, but, contrariwise, distrust of numbers...
    LT 1.276 26 I think that the soul of reform;...not reliance on numbers, but, contrariwise, distrust of numbers...
    Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers, or extent of space...
    SR 2.61 8 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    SR 2.88 18 Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
    Lov1 2.184 2 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    OS 2.294 27 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.
    OS 2.295 2 Whenever the appeal is made...to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.
    OS 2.295 11 It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one.
    Pt1 3.23 25 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...
    Chr1 3.91 2 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun, numbers and quantities.
    Nat2 3.183 24 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    Pol1 3.213 25 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers...
    Pol1 3.214 18 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world. It is the same thing in numbers, as in a pair, only not quite so intelligible.
    NER 3.263 24 ...to do battle against numbers [individuals] armed themselves with numbers...
    NER 3.263 25 ...to do battle against numbers [individuals] armed themselves with numbers...
    UGM 4.10 23 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
    MoS 4.157 26 ...great numbers dislike [the State]...
    ShP 4.193 16 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.224 7 The first [conservative] class is...continually losing numbers by death.
    NMW 4.224 10 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class] and recruiting its numbers every hour by births.
    NMW 4.236 7 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    ET5 5.81 13 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion...
    ET8 5.139 11 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    ET11 5.181 6 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    F 6.37 19 [The animal] is not allowed to diminish in numbers...
    Wth 6.98 21 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wsp 6.225 21 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task perfunctorily...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    CbW 6.253 7 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm; aye, but the but the fools have the advantage of numbers...
    Elo1 7.84 26 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    Farm 7.152 14 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    Elo2 8.123 6 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    PC 8.214 20 ...[The Middle Ages'] Magna Charta, decimal numbers...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    PC 8.217 21 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know the power of numbers...
    PC 8.225 6 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
    Imtl 8.335 16 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers...
    Aris 10.65 9 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;...
    Chr2 10.109 17 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding no magic, no mystic numbers, no fatalities...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.135 3 We exercise [boys'] understandings...to a skill in numbers, in words;...
    Edc1 10.150 11 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college...
    MoL 10.249 26 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    LLNE 10.344 5 ...some numbers [of The Dial] had an instant exhausting sale, because of papers by Theodore Parker.
    LLNE 10.360 13 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    MMEm 10.424 14 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...
    HDC 11.47 2 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers.
    HDC 11.79 7 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large...
    HDC 11.79 12 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
    EWI 11.143 22 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers...
    War 11.153 7 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues...
    War 11.161 23 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
    War 11.161 24 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men; should appear laughable even, to numbers;...is very natural.
    AKan 11.257 23 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then... pillaged, and numbers of them killed and scalped...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    ACiv 11.304 26 ...the South, with its inferior numbers, is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.
    EdAd 11.384 6 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region, obscure from their numbers and the extent of the domain.
    FRep 11.515 1 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished not by the numbers of the combatants nor the numbers of the slain, but by the motive.
    FRep 11.515 2 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished not by the numbers of the combatants nor the numbers of the slain, but by the motive.
    Bost 12.209 13 [Boston] is very willing to be outrun in numbers, and in wealth;...
    Bost 12.209 16 You cannot conquer [Boston] by numbers...
    Milt1 12.275 10 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.
    MLit 12.313 21 ...the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...

numbers, v. (1)

    Wom 11.422 23 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...

numerical, adj. (4)

    Int 2.339 23 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    NR 3.229 27 There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens...
    SwM 4.109 23 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    ET4 5.56 16 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. For if they have not numerical superiority where they anchor, they have only to sail a mile or two to find it.

numerous, adj. (14)

    MR 1.233 18 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
    SR 2.88 19 The political parties meet in numerous conventions;...
    GoW 4.277 15 I have no design to enter into any analysis of [Goethe's] numerous works.
    ET12 5.205 19 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm;...
    Wsp 6.222 15 ...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland;...
    LS 11.23 17 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    HDC 11.36 8 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced.
    HDC 11.46 3 ...[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.
    HDC 11.55 5 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    HDC 11.63 1 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    EWI 11.121 20 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    PLT 12.21 5 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...
    EurB 12.375 3 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance, which is...vastly the most numerous.

nun, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.228 4 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
    Wsp 6.228 9 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
    Wsp 6.228 10 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay. The nun was sent for...
    Wsp 6.228 13 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...drew back with anger...

nuns, n. (2)

    ET4 5.48 21 The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face.
    Wsp 6.227 23 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...

Nuova, Vita, La [Dante Al (1)

    Boks 7.205 24 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...

nuptial, adj. (5)

    Lov1 2.187 25 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Lov1 2.188 2 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
    Mrs1 3.153 7 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the nuptial society...
    SwM 4.127 19 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    SwM 4.128 15 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber;...

Nuremberg, Germany, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.385 1 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys.

nurse, n. (2)

    Cour 7.257 9 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...
    Edc1 10.150 2 The college was to be the nurse and home of genius;...

nurse, v. (2)

    Aris 10.42 25 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper...
    Edc1 10.150 27 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character? What abiding Hope can it inspire? What Reformer will it nurse?

nursed, v. (1)

    Farm 7.149 6 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.

nurseries, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 7 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...

nursery, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.106 9 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...

nursery, n. (16)

    LT 1.284 16 Old age begins in the nursery...
    YA 1.384 3 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to...a common nursery, etc....will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    ET4 5.65 22 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people.
    CbW 6.251 1 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for nursery and hospital...
    Elo1 7.95 18 The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful nursery of orators.
    DL 7.106 19 The first ride into the country...the books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    Farm 7.148 9 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens.
    Suc 7.286 12 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    PI 8.53 22 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
    PI 8.68 8 How fast we outgrow the books of the nursery...
    SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    Prch 10.231 11 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day; 't is the cry and the babble of the nursery...
    LLNE 10.365 9 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    FSLN 11.232 18 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
    Mem 12.91 27 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    MLit 12.318 14 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...

nursery-books, n. (1)

    Cour 7.256 8 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...may testify.

nursery-floor, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...

nursery-tales, n. (1)

    QO 8.187 10 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...

nurses, n. (5)

    Lov1 2.183 24 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on nurses and domestics...
    UGM 4.24 12 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
    Cour 7.272 6 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.
    QO 8.187 15 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
    Chr2 10.118 10 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created... the nurses and teachers at Washington.

nurse's, n. (3)

    PI 8.46 13 The babe is lulled to sleep by the nurse's song.
    Chr2 10.99 10 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...a nurse's or a governess's care;...
    Edc1 10.148 19 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.

nursing, n. (2)

    ET4 5.47 6 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...what nursing, school, and exercises they had...
    War 11.165 3 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.

nursury, n. (1)

    Farm 7.138 15 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land, to be recruited and cured by that which should have been my nursury...

nurture, n. (3)

    DSA 1.128 8 In [the Christian church], all of us have had our birth and nurture.
    ET4 5.67 13 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for...civility, marriage, the nurture of children...
    ET11 5.175 16 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...

nut, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.201 20 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    PPh 4.76 25 Here is the world, sound as a nut...

nutation, n. (1)

    SA 8.96 26 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...

Nute, Rev. Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 18 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned? Rev. Mr. Nute of Sringfield seized...

Nut-Meadow, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.482 20 Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook.

nutriment, n. (6)

    Nat 1.36 13 The understanding...finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.
    DSA 1.139 13 There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
    Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of...nutriment...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
    ET14 5.250 2 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    Wth 6.93 10 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    Insp 8.281 11 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses. So of all the particulars of health and exercise and fit nutriment and tonics.

nutritious, adj. (2)

    UGM 4.3 12 They who lived with [good men] found life glad and nutritious.
    ET4 5.69 10 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet.

nuts, n. (7)

    Tran 1.338 20 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    Art1 2.364 12 Under an oak-tree loaded with leaves and nuts...I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Pow 6.68 12 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...
    WD 7.168 24 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of nuts and cakes...
    Thor 10.467 25 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
    CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
    EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with nuts and berries...

nymphs, n. (3)

    Nat 1.11 11 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear ancient...
    Imtl 8.350 19 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots...

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